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passport applications
« on: Wednesday 02 January 13 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone know if people who immigrated to the US or Canada from Ireland via Liverpool would have to apply for a passport in Ireland or England. This would be around 1849-1850. I have found someone on a passenger list who may be my ancestor but it only says from Ireland and does not name a county so I would like to find out more info. I also found some passport application records at Find my Past but they only started at 1849. Does anyone know if there are more recent records on line. Thanks, Roberta
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Re: passport applications
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 02 January 13 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Passports as we know them today only came into use around 1914. So someone emigrating in the 1840s and 1850s would not normally have possessed a passport.

There’s a bit about more recent UK passport records on this site, but with a few exceptions most records have been destroyed.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/passport.htm?WT.lp=rg-22875
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