Can anyone tell me where "aliens registration papers" would be held? The information I've read says "county record offices". For the (now) London Borough of Camden, where would that be? I also wondered if my Great Grandmother (who had British nationality) would've needed a passport to travel to Italy with her husband in the early 1900s? Any help would be gratefully received (as always!). Best wishes Sarah Lucia RAPETTI researching RAPETTI and MEANI

Hello Sarah Lucia The County Record Office for Camden is the London Metropolitan Archives. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/lma/ What dates are you interested in? If it is for the late 19th/early 20th C, registration had to be with the local police; for London that would be the Metropolitan Police, whose records are held by TNA at Kew. Apparently the Metropolitan Police kept only a sample set of a few hundred registration cards of the many hundreds of thousands, they can be found in class MEPO 35. Normally the cards were destroyed 10 years after the alien was naturalised, died, or left the UK. For more information see Immigrants and Aliens, by Kershaw and Pearsall. Some records were kept by the local Boards of Guardians, those that survive for Greater London are held at London Metropolitan Archives. Kershaw and Pearsall list the following: Poplar, Shoreditch, Marylebone, Wandsworth and Woolwich, not Camden, I'm afraid. Passports The TNO information leaflet on passports states: "Before the First World War it was rare for someone travelling abroad to apply for a passport ... Possession was largely confined to merchants and diplomats, and the vast majority of those travelling overseas had no formal document." For the full text of the leaflet go to the TNA website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchourcollections/ and search for "passport". I hope that helps, Colin Moretti I'm a member of the Anglo-Italian Family History Society http://www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk Looking for MORETTI, PAGLIANO, BARGMAN, in London TYAS, IVESON, WOOD, ABBOTT in Yorkshire ----- Original Message ----- From: <RAPETTISL@aol.com> To: <ANGLO-ITALIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: [Anglo-Italian] (no subject) > Can anyone tell me where "aliens registration papers" would be held? The > information I've read says "county record offices". For the (now) London > Borough of Camden, where would that be? > > I also wondered if my Great Grandmother (who had British nationality) > would've needed a passport to travel to Italy with her husband in the early 1900s? > > Any help would be gratefully received (as always!). > > Best wishes > > Sarah Lucia RAPETTI > researching RAPETTI and MEANI > > > > > ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== > Search Archives http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=ANGLO-ITALIAN > Browse Archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ANGLO-ITALIAN/ > > Anglo Italian Family History Society > http://www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >