References in Biographical and Claim Notes

When using the biographical entries in this website you may come across references to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Ancestry.co.uk (or Ancestry.com), Find My Past or ScotlandsPeople. These sites require subscriptions or payment so clicking on links to them usually produce a page restricting access unless you log in.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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When using the notes on compensation claims there are numerous references to Parliamentary Papers and to T71/....

Parliamentary Papers refers to the list of compensation claims published in British Parliamentary Papers: Accounts of slave compensation claims... PP1837-38 (215) XLVIII.

T71 refers to the Office of Registry of Colonial Slavery and Slave Compensation Commission Records held in the UK National Archives at Kew, London. The records include, for example, T71/852-915: Registers of claims.