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141. IOR/R/15/2/1862

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1862
Title:
‘File B/6 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Political Agent, Muscat’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the settlement of various civil claims referred to the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, chiefly by Omani subjects in disputes over money with relatives or associates currently living and working in Bahrain and Sharjah. There are also attempts by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1931-29 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (143 folios)

142. IOR/R/15/2/1860

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1860
Title:
File B/3 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh, the Notables and the Political Agent, Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to several complaint cases investigated by the Political Agent, Bahrain. They include: the desertion of his wife by a Kuwaiti subject in 1930; the recovery of money owing to a divorced wife by her ex-husband in 1931; the alleged seizure of goods from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Apr 1930-8 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

143. IOR/R/15/2/1868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1868
Title:
‘File B/10.II (General) MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS AND COMPLAINTS ON THE TRUCIAL COAST OF OMAN. (General File)’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with an exchange of letters in 1938 between the British Legation, Tehran and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, about policy on foreign subjects seeking British assistance to recover debts owed to them by subjects of the Trucial Coast Shaikhs, in the light of an appeal ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1938-13 Jan 1951
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

144. IOR/R/15/2/1946

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1946
Title:
File No. G/9 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE WIVES OF POLITICAL AGENTS WITH SHAIKHA? WIFE OF H. H. THE SHAIKH.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence in the form of personal letters sent between the wives of the Political Agents in Bahrain, Mrs Loch and Mrs Weightman respectively, and Shaikha Aisha bint Rashid Al-Khalifa, wife of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, the Ruler of Bahrain. The letters are about excha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1934-3 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

145. IOR/R/15/2/1881

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1881
Title:
‘File B/13 Papers about an Indian who was murdered by a Shihuhi cameleer’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the reporting and investigation of the murder of a Mohammedan and British Indian subject at Al Shagi in the territory of Ras al Khaimah, on 6 January 1936. The murder victim, who was never identified, had travelled to the Trucial Coast from Karachi via...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1936-21 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

146. IOR/R/15/2/1883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1883
Title:
‘File B/16 IMPERIAL AIRWAYS REST HOUSE AT SHARJAH’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to three reported incidents at Sharjah Aerodrome, involving the servants, staff and property of Imperial Airways and its successor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The three cases are: the investigation and conviction of refuelling clerk Muham...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Mar 1935-24 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

147. IOR/R/15/2/1894

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1894
Title:
File D/3 Correspondence with Aden regarding Miscellaneous Matters
Scope & Content:
This file concerns an Aden-born twenty-five year old woman, Mariam bint Ahmed, and requests – made both by her brothers in Aden and by her Bahraini husband's son in Bahrain – for her to be repatriated to Aden. Mariam bint Ahmed's divorce, her former husband's death, and her unwillingness to retu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 May 1933-16 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

148. IOR/R/15/2/1898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1898
Title:
File No. E/4 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Director of Customs.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the distribution of fines by officials who detect offences at the customs in Bahrain. It also contains an investigation regarding kegs of mineral oil which bear the RAF mark and were said to be jettisoned, and whether they were permitted to be imported ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1932-8 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

149. IOR/R/15/2/1867

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1867
Title:
‘File B/10-I CLAIM OF THE RULER OF DUBAI AGAINST MESPERS’
Scope & Content:
The file contains enquiry correspondence relating to a claim made in 1935 by Shaikh Said bin Maktum [Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm] the Ruler of Dibai [Dubai], principally against the shipping agents Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (also referred to as the Mesopotamia Iran ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1935-18 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

150. IOR/R/15/2/1880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1880
Title:
‘File B/12 SEIZURE OF A RAS-AL-KHAIMAH BOAT AT SIRRI ISLAND’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with correspondence in 1935 reporting the seizure of a dhow belonging to nakuda Salim bin Abdullah, a subject of Ras al Khaimah, by a large group of Arab inhabitants of Sirri Island, led by Ubaid bin Khalfan al Aqrubi. As a result of their enquiries, the British authorities in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1935-7 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)