I have various ancestors from Yorkshire who travelled to places such as India and Russia during the 1840s, 1850s Did these people require passports? If so, are passport applications from that era available, and where would one look? Thanks, Marina Canada

Hi Marina There's excellent information on Wikipaedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport#History See this page for details of accessing them http://www.findmypast.com/helpadvice/knowledge-base/migration/#passport Sorry, I don't have a subscription for this site. Kate -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of beacock Sent: 27 November 2009 17:55 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [WRY] Passports I have various ancestors from Yorkshire who travelled to places such as India and Russia during the 1840s, 1850s Did these people require passports? If so, are passport applications from that era available, and where would one look? Thanks, Marina Canada Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message