Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CO 441

Title: Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission

Date(s): 1770 - 1893

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 25 box(es)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission, 1854-1886

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This series contains records of the West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission. It comprises journals, entry and other books, accounts and vouchers, correspondence, plans, deeds and papers of the Commission.

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System of arrangement: The surname of the owner given in the piece description represents the short title of each case. It is followed by the name of the estate.

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Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT)

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Specific group:

Subjects

Estate management

Right to property

Private ownership

Personal/Corporate names

West Indian Incumbered Estates Commission, 1854-1886

Places

Virgin Islands

Montserrat

Anguilla

Turks and Caicos Islands

Cayman Islands

Barbados

Trinidad and Tobago

Windward Islands

Leeward Islands

Lesser Antilles

Puerto Rico

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

Cuba

Greater Antilles

Bahamas