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IOR/L/AG/21/7
- Record Id:
- 037-000969280
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000969206
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000026.0x0001d4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/AG/21/7
- Title:
- Poplar Fund Pensions
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000944532
036-000969206
037-000969280 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/AG : Accountant General's Records
IOR/L/AG/21 : Issue of pensions and annuities
IOR/L/AG/21/7 : Poplar Fund Pensions - Contains:
- IOR/L/AG/21/7/5 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/6 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/7 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/8 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/9 : Poplar Fund Pension: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/10 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/11 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/12 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/13 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Payment books
IOR/L/AG/21/7/14 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Books of Receipts
IOR/L/AG/21/7/15 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Books of Receipts
IOR/L/AG/21/7/16 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Books of Receipts
IOR/L/AG/21/7/17 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Books of Receipts
IOR/L/AG/21/7/18 : Poplar Fund Pensions: Books of Receipts
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/AG/21/7 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000944532[0021]/036-000969206[0007]/037-000969280
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/AG
- Record Type (Level):
- SubSeries
- Extent:
- 14 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1830
- End Date:
- 1893
- Date Range:
- 1830-1893
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Arrangement:
- For IOR/L/AG/21/7/1-4 see IOR/L/AG/9/4/1-4
- Administrative Context:
- In 1627 the East India Company established a hospital-cum-almshouse at Poplar in East London for the relief of their indigent sailors and in 1654 a chapel was built adjacent to the hospital. The first Poplar pensioners 'lived in' but within a comparatively short period these in-pensioners were out-numbered by out-pensioners who eventually constituted the great majority of recipients. Poplar pensions were awarded to sailors (officers and seamen) of the East India Company Mercantile Marine, their widows and children. The pension fund was financed from a variety of sources - these included a levy of 1.25% on the wages of the Company's seamen, deducted at the end of each voyage, a duty of two shillings per ton upon ships taken into service, and occasional fines imposed on ships' captains for infractions of the Company's rules. For further information on the history and administration of the Fund see the article by I. A. Baxter in the IOLR Newsletter of April 1984, reprinted in 'East London Record', No 8, 1985. Pensioners were required to attend personally at East India House, if it was possible, to receive payment.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- The main series of 19th century Poplar Fund registers (as opposed to payment books) are to be found in the Marine Miscellaneous Series, 1809-1838 [IOR/L/MAR/C/789-840. Indexed at IOR/L/MAR/C/785-86]. Records of the award of pensions before c.1800 must be sought in Court Minutes [IOR/B]. List of authorities sent to the Accountant General for payment of pensions during the period 1838 to 1858 will be found in Marine Miscellaneous Volumes 851-854 [IOR/L/MAR/C/851-4].