IOR/R/15/2/1401

The file contains the annual death returns for British Indian, British Pakistani and European British subjects, who died in Bahrain in 1947. This information was compiled by the Political Agent, Bahrain in his capacity as Registrar and sent to both the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain and the Registrar General for Births, Marriages and Deaths at Somerset House, London. There is also correspondence clarifying the nationality of two British subjects who died in 1946.

The file also contains: a marriage notice issued by the Political Agent, Bahrain in his capacity as local Registrar; copy of a letter written by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf regarding an amendment to regulations made under the Indian Christian Marriage Act 1872; a solicitor’s request for a copy certificate of a marriage which took place in Bahrain.

On the original file cover (folio 10) is a note indicating that papers relating to regulations, instructions and procedures for births, deaths and marriages and the appointment of marriage officers, were removed from the file in 1951 and transferred to three other office files at the Bahrain Agency, with the references: 1832/51, 1833/51 and 1834/51.

Contrary to the original file title (folio10), there are no papers about the supply of Consular forms.