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What might OFC stand for, please?
« on: Monday 18 June 18 09:22 BST (UK) »
I've been looking at a passenger list for a vessel that sailed from Southampton in 1933, and a couple of family units have "OFC" annotated again them.  Any ideas what it might signify, please?

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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 18 June 18 09:46 BST (UK) »
I’ve no idea but
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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 18 June 18 10:05 BST (UK) »
FC = Foreign Country, so OFC could be Other Foreign Country ... so NOT a British Subject ... 

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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 18 June 18 12:14 BST (UK) »
Many thanks

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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 18 June 18 13:54 BST (UK) »
Something first class?

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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 June 18 14:35 BST (UK) »
Good afternoon,

Maybe "outside first class" ie, a cabin on the outer side with an entrance or window looking outwards. Rather than an "inner first class" opening onto the interior of the ship only.

If you give us the ships name then we may be able to find deck plans.

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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 18 June 18 14:36 BST (UK) »
Does the heading of that column give any clues?
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 18 June 18 15:21 BST (UK) »
I agree with Other Foreign Country - There is  also OBC - Other British Country. The numbers of each category are pencilled in at the bottom of the page. Looking at various lists it seems that they sometimes used a symbol instead of the letters. Either way the information is in the section headed " Country of Last Permanent Residence "
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Re: What might OFC stand for, please?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 18 June 18 15:37 BST (UK) »
It is definitely Other Foreign Country, as majm has said. There is also OBC = Other British Country.

It relates not to the nationality of the passengers (the list is in any case headed British passengers), but to the country in which they have contracted to land. Those who are destined for Hong-Kong are annotated OFC, while those destined for Gibraltar and Tangier are OBC.

(I don't think the column heading is relevant, as these additional annotations in pencil were probably just written in wherever there was space to do so.)