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521. IOR/R/15/2/1367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1367
Title:
File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION
Scope & Content:
The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency in the Persian Gulf. The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

522. IOR/R/15/2/1391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1391
Title:
‘13/1 Registration of British subjects etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains applications made to the Political Agent, Bahrain, by local British and British Indian subjects, who were required by law to register as temporary or permanent residents of Bahrain. The file includes correspondence with individuals; businesses, such as the Bahrain Petroleum Com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 May 1926-16 Sep 1933
Extent:
1 file (196 folios)

523. IOR/R/15/2/1504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1504
Title:
‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-16 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

524. IOR/R/15/2/1523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1523
Title:
‘File 16/26 Miscellaneous. Purchase of stores through the Indian Stores Department’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers received from the Chief Controller of the Indian Stores Department of the Government of India. These include: a copy of a brochure entitled ‘Indian Stores Department. Its Organisation and Functions’ which includes lists of the classes of stores supplied by the Indian Sto...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1930-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

525. IOR/R/15/2/1539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1539
Title:
‘File 16/34-II Letters of guarantee. Issue of:–’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the principal shipping agents at Bahrain: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, and Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. The correspondence is routine, and relates to the exchange of bills of lading and redemption of let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-11 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

526. IOR/R/15/2/1570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1570
Title:
‘16/58 Contributions for the sufferers of Bombay fire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence received by the Political Agency relating to a donation of five hundred Indian rupees from the Bahrain merchant Rao Sahib Jashanmal, and the institution of a relief fund in Bombay [Mumbai], for the benefit of people suffering in the wake of the Bombay dockyard explosion and subseq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1944-29 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

527. IOR/R/15/2/1585

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1585
Title:
‘File No. 16/74 Death of Father Gabriel Fleming in Motor Accident’
Scope & Content:
Telegraphic correspondence, letters and other papers relating to the death in a road accident in Bahrain, of the Catholic Priest Father Gabriel Fleming, in June 1947. The correspondence covers: the reporting of the death to Fleming’s sister in England; expressions of condolences; burial arrangeme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1947-5 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

528. IOR/R/15/2/1586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1586
Title:
‘File No. 16/76 United Nations Appeal for Children’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to collections made in Bahrain (and Qatar) for the United Nations (UN) Appeal for Children. The papers include multiple copies (approximately sixty-eight) of a circular letter from the Political Agent (Cornelius James Pelly), that includes a quote from a speech...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1948-5 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (211 folios)

529. IOR/R/15/2/1594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1594
Title:
‘16/86 Correspondence regarding the Regular Army Reserve of Officers’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning recruitment to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. The file was instigated by an enquiry from employees of the Bahrain office of Gray, Mackenzie & Company, about joining the Reserve of Officers. The file contains correspondence exchanged between the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1950-19 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (43 folios)

530. IOR/R/15/2/1687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1687
Title:
File 21/36 Miscellaneous correspondence with British Overseas Airways Corporation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation in Bahrain. Additional correspondence is from the Foreign Office and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain. The papers cover a range of matters, mostly of an o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1947-18 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (356 folios)