IOR/R/15/5/321

The file contains details of four births and one death among British and former British Indian subjects in Kuwait, as registered by the Political Agent for Kuwait and included in his 1947 annual return of births, deaths and Christian marriages among British and other European, Indian and Pakistani (former British Indian) subjects resident in Kuwait. There are also nil returns submitted in 1947 with regard to births and deaths among Pakistani subjects and marriages among British and European subjects. A draft registration entry and a certificate issued by the American Mission Hospital, Kuwait relate to the birth of a British subject in 1949.

The file also contains: revised British Consular instructions about submitting the annual returns of British registration of foreign births, deaths and marriages in Kuwait, to Government in New Delhi and Karachi as well as London, following Indian Independence in 1947; notes about the powers of the Political Agent at Kuwait to solemnize marriages in his district under The Indian Christian Marriage Act of 1872; and correspondence between the Political Agent and the Government of Pakistan about the home address of a deceased Pakistani employee of the Kuwait Oil Company.