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WIVES - General :
1955   Life expectancy tables: mortality according to marital status   ACT 1/1278
1911   National Health Insurance Act 1911: insurance of married women   ACT 1/1296
1959   Population projections: N Ireland: projection by married and allied status   ACT 1/1355
1933   Local government officers superannuation: proposal to divide superannuation allowances between husband and wife   ACT 1/495
1944-1948   Beveridge Report: position of married women: Social Insurance   ACT 1/702
1953-1958   Population statistics: married women   ACT 1/836
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1939-1940   Wives and families of Admiralty officers and workmen: removal of embargo on free passages overseas   ADM 1/10828
1943   Hardship suffered by wives of naval personnel resident in United States with regard to medical expenses   ADM 1/14721
WIVES - General :
1943   Resignation of Sir Sidney and Lady Freemantle from Navy League Seafarers' comforts supply   ADM 1/14888
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1944   Non payment of dependant's allowance to officers with unmarried wives   ADM 1/16620
1941-1942   Provision of welfare and recreational facilities in housing schemes for married people employed by the Admiralty in Scotland   ADM 1/16708
1945   Re-introduction of family passage scheme: date of re-introduction, elgibility, priority and allowances payable   ADM 1/17913
1946-1948   Medical and dental treatment for wives and families of naval personnel serving abroad   ADM 1/19959
1945-1956   Family passages to overseas stations: Admiralty Administrative Whitley Council interest   ADM 1/20084
1948   Report on maintenance of wives by naval officers   ADM 1/21038
1950-1951   Naval ratings married to Australian nationals resident in Australia: proposals to release   ADM 1/22590
1960-1966   Provision of shops and family centre at St Budeaux married quarters, Plymouth   ADM 1/28548
1963-1964   Naval Wives Voluntary Service: organisation and aims   ADM 1/28805
1791   Petition of Mary Quick for release of her husband impressed   ADM 1/5119/16
1917   Wives to visit British prisoners of war released to live in Holland   ADM 1/8499/214
1919   Stoker Petty Officer W Checketts. Request by wife for his return to England   ADM 1/8563/198
1924   Lady Grover's Hospital Fund for Offers' Families   ADM 1/8670/198
1944   Rationing of concession travel by wives and dependants of service personnel   ADM 116/5089
1942-1945   Families of naval and civil personnel: restrictions on overseas travel   ADM 116/5360
1946-1949   Supplementary payments for wives and dependants of service personnel   ADM 116/5712
1947-1952   Ratings below Petty Officer: length of foreign service commission: consideration of proposals to improve morale by reducing period of time married men serve away from their families: working party report   ADM 116/5842
1899   Decision as to payment of the Money Allowance of 1/- p.w. to wives of pensioners who, being insane, have been maintained temporarily in Naval Hospitals other than Yarmouth   ADM 169/232
1942-1943   Incitement by Naval officers for wives to desert from WRNS: not punishable by Naval Discipline   ADM 178/296
1899-1948   Greenwich Hospital: registers of allowances paid to wives or guardians of children of men in receipt of Naval Pensions, admitted to Public Lunatic Asylums: indexed   ADM 73/458-459
WIVES - FORCES : General
1948-1960   Provision of SSAFA nurses for married families overseas policy   AIR 2/10542
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1953-1962   RAF: provision of hospital facilities for service personnel serving at SHAPE and Fontainbleau, and their families   AIR 2/11959
WIVES - FORCES : General
1953-1962   Provision of hospital facilities for service personnel serving at SHAPE and Fontainbleau, and their families   AIR 2/11959
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1939-1956   RAF maternity homes for wives of officers   AIR 2/11980
1945-1965   RAF: local release overseas: obtaining wife's consent   AIR 2/12991
1925-1930   Report of Interdepartmental Committee on Dependants' Allowances in future emergencies   AIR 2/289/S24717
1924-1958   Proposed re-drafting of circular to the police dealing with Marriage Allowances to wives of service personnel   AIR 2/317/795843/27
1928-1932   Necessity for wives of Civilian Officials to be medically examined before going overseas   AIR 2/326/819771/28
1938-1939   Dependants allowance in emergency: administration   AIR 2/3541
1934-1939   Dependance allowance in future emergencies: War Office report   AIR 2/3542
1930   Marriage allowance for children adopted by airmen or their wives: questions arising on exceptional cases   AIR 2/366/7148/30
1940-1943   American fund raised for wounded RAF personnel and dependants (to be incorporated in RAF Benevolent Fund)   AIR 2/5492
1939-1942   Employment of officers' wives on code and cipher duties   AIR 2/6062
1944-1945   RAF: question of wives of officers overseas joining their husbands: Principal Administrative Officers Committee   AIR 2/8635
1944-1945   Principal Administrative Officers Committee: question of wives of officers overseas joining their husbands   AIR 2/8635
WIVES - FORCES : General
1944-1946   Principal Personnel Officers Committee: proposed establishment of a postwar maternity hospital for wives of junior officers in the three services   AIR 2/8642
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1972-1973   Appointments policy: nationality of officers' wives   AIR 20/12516
1951-1952   Leave and travel: passages for families and evacuation of families from Middle East in 1952; paper held by Air Member for Personnel   AIR 20/9065
WIVES - FORCES : General
1951   Effect of marriage on service and efficiency   AIR 8/1691
1951-1953   Evacuation and return of RAF families from Egypt (Canal Zone): arrangements etc.   AIR 8/1705
WIVES - General :
1991   Law Commission: Rape within Marriage (HC 167) (open)   BC 1/208
1992   Law Commission: Domestic Violence and Occupation of the Family Home (HC 1) (open)   BC 1/21
1969   Law Commission: proposal for the abolition of the matrimonial remedy of restitution of conjugal rights (open)   BC 1/25
1989   Law Commission: Domestic Violence and Occupation of the Family Home (open)   BC 2/116
1990   Law Commission: Rape within Marriage (open)   BC 2/119
1969   Working Papers: restitution of conjugal rights (open)   BC 2/22
1985   Law Commission: Transfer of Money between Spouses: The Married Women's Property Act 1964 (open)   BC 2/93
1966-1969   Wales: Ministry of Labour study into employment of married women: HMCs' policies   BD 18/1084
1973-1975   Correspondence with Lord Gardiner concerning complaints regarding Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunal's cohabitation rule and a report on cohabitation, 'As Man and Wife' by Child Poverty Action Group   BL 8/161
1990   Living together as husband and wife: assessment form (open)   BN 18/102
1949-1952   Weights and Measures Committee: evidence submitted by Housewives' Organisations   BT 101/1226
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1878   As to arrangements for Royal Naval Reserve man to reserve part of pension to wife   BT 15/14/F6868/78
WIVES - General :
1883   As to payment of seaman's Savings Bank deposits standing in wife's name towards cost of her maintenance in an asylum   BT 15/21/F1862/83
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1887   Seamen's Savings Bank account: Court Order insufficient authority for payment of claim for maintenance of seaman's wife   BT 15/27/F6328/87
WIVES - General :
1912   Northern Lighthouse Board: payment of expenses of Lightkeeper's wife travelling to husband's station   BT 15/62/F19366/12
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1926   Insane seaman: wages and effects handed to wife against indemnity   BT 15/82
1928   Mercantile Marine Office, Southampton: seamn admitted to mental hospital: payment of balance of wages to wife against an indemnity   BT 15/84/F1342/28
1928   Mercantile Marine Office, Poplar: seamn admitted to mental hospital: balance of wages paid to wife against an indemnity   BT 15/84/F985/28
1929   Seaman detained in mental hospital: payment of balance of wages to wife against an indemnity   BT 15/86/F1979/29
1929   Seaman detained in hospital in Naples: payment of balance of wages to wife against indemnity   BT 15/86/F2248/29
1930   Mentally unfit seaman: payment of balance of wages to wife against an indemnity   BT 15/87/F1014/30
WIVES - General :
1963-1965   Marine crews: difficulties arising from the practice of carrying wives of masters and senior officers on voyages: proposals for a solution   BT 238/115
1968   Committee on Consumer Credit: evidence submitted: Scottish Housewives' Association   BT 250/51
1950   Property of British born wives of Germans: advice on possible treatment under Austria treaty   BT 271/288
1965-1966   Liability in respect of injuries to wives accompanying officers on official visits   BT 296/226
1942   Check Trading. Appeal by housewife in connection with Order prohibiting poundage charges by Check Traders   BT 64/85
1956-1961   British Council: 1958 tours by specialists: H-Q: Lord and Lady Harewood   BW 83/38
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1946   Despatch of Families to British Army of Occupation on the Rhine (BAOR): meetings, papers GEN136   CAB 130/11
WIVES - General :
1967   Lord Longford's Youth Enquiry: Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (open)   CAB 153/107
1967   Lord Longford's Youth Enquiry: youth counselling and marriage guidance (open)   CAB 153/189-190
1967   Lord Longford's Youth Enquiry: Community services and the young married (open)   CAB 153/207
1966-1968   Lord Longford's Youth Enquiry: National Marriage Guidance Council (open)   CAB 153/73
1943-1946   Nationality of married women: amendment of law 32/250   CAB 21/2257
1919   Supplementary Separation Allowance to unmarried wives WC 532,1   CAB 23/9
1925   Married Women (Torts) Bill   CAB 26/7
1935   Committee on the Nationality of Married Women   CAB 32/125
1969-1971   Crown Agents: service overseas: officers accompanied by wives   CAOG 16/502
1959-1960   Publications by Governors' wives   CO 1017/509
1952   West Indies: refusal to allow Dr and Mrs Cheddi Jagan to remain in Trinidad in spite of opposition questions in Parliament suggesting intervention by HMG   CO 1031/13
1953-1956   Trinidad: prohibited immigration of Captain and Mrs M R Musson   CO 1031/1634
1954-1956   Trinidad: prohibited immigration of Captain and Mrs M R Musson   CO 1031/1634
1938   Hong Kong: Mr & Mrs A P Soohorukoff: applications for visas   CO 129/566/17
1939   Mauritius: petition by Mrs R E Michel, wife of former distillery inspector, customs department: pension   CO 167/903/4
1739   Bahamas: John Fernandes de Cordova to his wife at Havana (f 324)   CO 23/14
1938-1939   Bahamas: A Richardson: request for repatriation for himself and wife   CO 23/630
1927   Straits Settlements: visit of Dr and Frau Von Miller to Ceylon: embarrassment to the Ceylonese government caused by his activities   CO 273/538/7
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1928   Iraq: pension of Mrs M Newman CO 730 Straits Settlements: estate of Mrs Ita Marcus, alias Schneeweis   CO 273/550/10
WIVES - General :
1931   Straits Settlements: wife of E T Jenkins requesting information about reported death or whereabouts of her husband   CO 273/573/8
1937   Straits Settlements: petition: Madam Tan Yeoh seeks reconsideration of an order of banishment against her husband   CO 273/623/10
1940   Straits Settlements: exit permits for passages to Malaya for European women and children   CO 273/664/1
1940s   Defence heading: evacuation from colonies: see list   CO 323
1928   C E Anderson, assistant district officer, Tanganyika: charges of misconduct concubinage with native women; notes of proceedings   CO 323/1018/1
1928   Married women: conditions of employment   CO 323/1020/15
1928-1929   Married women: conditions of employment   CO 323/1020/15
1933-1934   Nationality: married women   CO 323/1213/13
1933   Deportation of the wives of British protected persons   CO 323/1216/6
1934   Nationality: married women   CO 323/1262/5
1935   Nationality of married women   CO 323/1322/18
1936   West Indies: messages of congratulation from the King: Mr & Mrs Nugent   CO 323/1382/10
1937   Coronation: Mrs Baldwin's garden party   CO 323/1479/8
1938   Expedition of Heinrich Tupke, artist-painter, with his wife to make films in Tanganyika Territory   CO 323/1534/12
1939   Status of the second wife of T Hector Milton-Gorgia   CO 323/1626/11
1939   Nationality: married women   CO 323/1626/5
1939-1940   Hong Kong: Mr & Mrs Avraam Iakovlev Laihovetsky alias Alexander Laihovetsky: naturalisation   CO 323/1628/4
1939-1940   Nationality of British women married to Spanish men   CO 323/1719/4
1940-1941   Women and children proceeding to the colonies (with enclosures)   CO 323/1812/7
1941   Restrictions on the admission of wives and children to the colonies   CO 323/1867/7
1950   Zanzibar: naturalisation: Mr & Mrs Karimjee   CO 323/1911/2
1951   Zanzibar: naturalisation: Mr & Mrs Tayabali Karimjee   CO 323/1930/11
1930   Bermuda: The Married Women's Conveyancing Act, 1930   CO 37/276/12
1932-1933   Charles Lewis Sealy and wife: application for permission to settle in Bermuda   CO 37/278/23
1934   Bermuda: permission to reside in Bermuda: case of Mr & Mrs Ward   CO 37/280/1
1950   Seychelles: Summary Jurisdiction (Wives and Children) (Amendment) Ordinance No 11 of 1950   CO 530/741
1928-1929   Kenya: admission of women to the permanent and pensionable staff: question of resignation on marriage   CO 533/381/9
1929-1930   Kenya: employment regulations: junior officers' wives   CO 533/393/7
1931   Kenya: Mr & Mrs G Searle: request to include daughter on passports   CO 533/417/3
1946   Revision of British Nationality & Status of Aliens Act: married women   CO 537/1210
1890   Cape Colony: presentations to Governors and their wives   CO 537/534
1947   Ceylon: Jaffna Matrimonial Rights and Inheritance Amendment Ordinance, 1947   CO 54/1002/3
1931   Ceylon: Mrs B N Wikramanayake: petition about pension for husband   CO 54/904/3
1935   Ceylon: D Kreltszheim: request from wife in England for help towards his passage home   CO 54/927/5
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1935-1936   Ceylon: Ceylon Defence Force: liability of Ceylon Government for medical treatment to officers' wives   CO 54/931/14
WIVES - General :
1937   Ceylon: Mrs R A M Nona: petition for release of husband serving a life sentence   CO 54/941/3
1938   Ceylon: Mrs M Deen: request for assistance in tracing husband   CO 54/951/2
1938   Ceylon: Mrs B N Wikramanayake memorial about pension for husband, former clerk on Government service   CO 54/952/15
1938   Ceylon: Mrs V Panniah, wife of the former Government apothecary: memorial requesting that husband be retired rather than dismissed   CO 54/952/6
1940   Ceylon: A T Cathcart: request on behalf of his wife for assistance in obtaining share of deceased brother's estate in Ceylon   CO 54/972/2
1936   West Africa: passports: Mr Oladele Adebayo Ajose and his wife Beatrice   CO 554/103/3
1936   West Africa: passports: Herbert Helden and wife (Italian), from Barcelona to Gold Coast   CO 554/103/8
1936-1939   West Africa: white wives of West African natives: entry into West African dependencies   CO 554/105/6
1954-1956   Gold Coast: activities of J E Appiah, married to Peggy, daughter of Sir Stafford Cripps   CO 554/1062
1938-1939   West Africa: passports: Mr & Mrs Idowu   CO 554/118/3
1942   West Africa: evacuation of women and children from West Africa to South Africa: proposed legislation for the maintenance of evacuated wives and families   CO 554/130/28
1960   Nigeria: visit of Prime Minister and Lady Macmillan to Federation of Nigeria   CO 554/2533
1927   West Africa: passages for officers' wives   CO 554/75/2
1928   West Africa: passages for officers' wives   CO 554/79/1
1928-1929   West Africa: allowances and passages of officers' wives   CO 554/80/3
1931   West Africa: allowances and passages of officers' wives   CO 554/88/14
1932-1933   West Africa: allowances and passages of officers' wives   CO 554/89/13
1933   West Africa: repatriation of destitute natives to West Africa: M B Egali; passport facilities for Mrs Egali   CO 554/93/1
1934-1935   West Africa: allowances and passage of officers' wives   CO 554/96/12
1934   Zanzibar: 'Report by Mr & Mrs G B Johns on a visit to USA to study Organisation, Aims and Methods of Rural Schools for Negroes, 1934' Printed   CO 618/62/2
1934   Cyprus: divorce and other matrimonial cases: powers exercised by religious courts   CO 67/257/6
1937   Cyprus: application from Mr & Mrs David Hall for a certificate of immigration   CO 67/281/6
1939   Cyprus: refusal of entry into Cyprus to Mr & Mrs Friedrich Burstein   CO 67/293/4
1939   Cyprus: request for Mr & Mrs R Herzberg, Jewish refugees, to land in Cyprus   CO 67/303/1
1942-1944   Cyprus: maintenance of Mr & Mrs Henry Fischer and Mrs Emilie Hart   CO 67/311/5
1943   Cyprus: evacuation of the wife of Sir Panayiotis Cacoyannis   CO 67/316/24
1927-1928   Malay States, Federated: female officers in government service: retirement on marriage   CO 717/57/4
WIVES - FORCES : General
1935   Aden: Italian-Ethiopian dispute: evacuation of women and children of service and civil officials   CO 725/31/8
WIVES - General :
1935   Aden: Italian-Ethiopian dispute: evacuation of women and children of service and civil officials   CO 725/31/8
1935   Aden: passages for wives of officials on tour   CO 725/33/19
1940   Aden: emergency: return of wives and families   CO 725/74/4
1926   Iraq: overpayment made to Captain R B L Garbett in respect of cost of wife's passage to Basra in 1921   CO 730/106/7
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
raq   claim of Mrs M E Cowley (property)   CO 730/132/17
WIVES - General :
1930-1931   Iraq: petition of Iraqi wife of P Brady for Government assistance to join her husband in England   CO 730/159/4
1933-1934   Palestine: medical and dental treatment for wives and children of constables in British section of police force, especially costs in relation to maternity cases   CO 733/249/3
1938   Palestine: police: medical and dental treatment for wives and children   CO 733/358/9
1938   Palestine: petition: Mrs Feiga Sara Ferleger of Poland: request for permission to join her husband in Jerusalem   CO 733/360/2
1938   Palestine: petition: policy re petitions from aliens to the King. Applications from Mrs Dino Schabanzade, Poland, to join her husband in Palestine: policy re supposed 'marriages of convenience'   CO 733/360/7
1940   Palestine: restrictions on entry of women and children into Palestine and Trans-Jordan   CO 733/432/13
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1940   Palestine: admission of wives of Polish Brigade into Palestine   CO 733/432/18
WIVES - General :
1947   Palestine: British women and children evacuated to Britain from Palestine; arrangements for return; relaxation of ban involving the return of children over seven   CO 733/493/5
1926-1933   Empire Marketing Board: Housewife's Handbook of Fruits and Vegetables   CO 758/104/5-6
1929-1930   Falkland Islands: retirement of Mr and Mrs O'Sullivan: pension and travel arrangements   CO 78/185/16
1939   Falkland Islands: Mr and Mrs O'Sullivan: documents issued to enable them to proceed to the UK from South Georgia   CO 78/211/7
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1933-1935   King's African Rifles: permission to accompany officers   CO 820/15-15
1935   King's African Rifles: permission for wives to accompany warrant officers and non-commissioned officers   CO 820/20/1
1928   King's African Rifles: married officers: permission to be accompanied by wives   CO 820/3/18
WIVES - General :
1928   King's African Rifles: married officers: permission to be accompanied by wives   CO 820/3/18
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1940   African Colonial Force and other armed forces with British personnel: permission for wives to proceed to West Africa   CO 820/42/20
1940-1941   African Colonial Force and other armed forces with British personnel: leave and passages for commissioned and non-commissioned officers and wives   CO 820/42/21
1940   Royal West African Frontier Force: permission for wives to proceed from West to East Africa   CO 820/42/9
1941-1942   Royal West African Frontier Force: leave and passages; commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers and wives   CO 820/46/21
WIVES - General :
1928   East Africa: medical attendance for wives and families of officers   CO 822/10/12
1928   East Africa: suppression of adultery and bigamy   CO 822/12/11
WIVES - FORCES : General
1960   Kenya: treatment of wives of British servicemen stationed in Kenya   CO 822/1995
WIVES - General :
1933-1934   East Africa: medical attendance on officers and their wives and families   CO 822/53/9
1943   Far East: medical treatment for dependents of Malay civil servants   CO 825/38/2
1944   Far East: lists of evacuees from the Far East in the dominions and India   CO 825/44/8
1930   Fiji: grant of passage allowances to wives of officers who marry while on leave   CO 83/190/7
1940   Africa: evacuation of women and children   CO 847/20/11
1940   Africa: wives and families of officials proceeding to tropical Africa   CO 847/20/16-17
1937   Medical examination for wives of officials   CO 850/108/23
1939   Return of wives and families in event of war   CO 850/150/8
1940   British Guiana: Colonial Nursing Service: revised form of agreement: strict interpretation of passage clause by British Guiana in event of officers resigning for marriage   CO 850/169/16
1940   Passages for wives and children of colonial officials   CO 850/180/3
1943   Married women: conditions of service   CO 850/192/12
1942-1943   Liability to income tax of allowances to wives of missing colonial officials   CO 850/194/11
1944-1947   Far East: payment of pension: dependants of officers killed or missing   CO 850/214/1-3
1933   Medical examination of the wives of officers   CO 850/33/18
1934   Gold Coast: personnel: discipline: cohabitation   CO 850/43/4
1934   Medical attendance for wives and families of officers   CO 850/45/5
1934   Personnel: concubinage with native women   CO 850/47/4
1936   Employment of married women whose husbands are in government service   CO 850/83/2
1937-1938   Passage privileges for wives and children of officers on first appointment   CO 850/98/7
WIVES - FORCES : General
1879   Malta: precedence: wives of Naval, Military and Civil Officers   CO 851/12
WIVES - General :
1879   Malta: precedence: wives of Naval, Military and Civil Officers   CO 851/12
1951   Training and employment of social welfare workers: wives of administrative officers   CO 859/223/3
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1956   Malaya: traffic in women and children: activities of wives of UK soldiers in Malaya   CO 859/548
1954-1955   Singapore: traffic in women and children: alleged activities of Service wives in Singapore   CO 859/550
WIVES - General :
1939   Gambia, The: position of wives and families of government officers in the event of war   CO 87/249/14
1893-1898   British North Borneo Company: diary: Mrs W B Pryer, wife of Resident Sandakan   CO 874/77
1949-1951   Wives of students   CO 876/115-116
1935   Gibraltar: Ramchand Tarachand imprisoned for murder: petition by wife for remission of sentence   CO 91/498/24
1939   Gibraltar: evacuation of wives and families in the event of war   CO 91/511/11
1958-1959   Cyprus: safety and evacuation of UK families   CO 926/1095/1096
1946-1948   Experiments with permanent grass seed (sorghums) by Mr and Mrs Ledesma in Argentina   CO 927/103/7
1947-1948   'Anthropometry of African Tribes' by P A Talbot: request by Mrs M Talbot to have book published with assistance from Government funds   CO 927/46/1
1938-1939   West India Royal Commission: memorandum of evidence: Trinidad: Dr and Mrs V M Metivier   CO 950/769
1927-1933   Empire Marketing Board: poster: 'The wise shopkeeper and the good housewife'   CO 956/136
1939   Gold Coast: emergency: position of wives and families of officials   CO 96/762/9
1945   Netherlands East Indies and French Indo-China: evacuation and repatriation of women, children, aged and sick persons   CO 968/107/3
1944-1945   Dependents and special dependents' allowances: unmarried wives and children   CO 968/133/8
WIVES - FORCES : General
1941   West Indies: immigration: laws amended to allow entry to civilian employees and wives of US servicemen   CO 971/14/5
WIVES - General :
1969   Diplomatic Service: eligibility of married women: revision of wording used in competition regulations   CSC 5/1511
1969   Diplomatic Service; suitability of married officer wives for life overseas   CSC 5/1538
WIVES - FORCES : General
1948-1951   NHS: medical provision for forces and families overseas   DEFE 7/309
1948-1950   Provision of district nursing service for service families   DEFE 7/311
WIVES - General :
1948-1952   Marriage of Seretse Khama to an English woman and related dispute   DO 119/1279-1322
1900   Intercepted letter from Mr B Campbell, a clerk in the Natal Bank, to his mother, the wife of Inspector Campbell of the Natal Police   DO 119/667
1900   Investigation of quarrel between Chief Sebele and his wife Macholoheto for having disregarded tribal custom on cohabitation   DO 119/683
1957-1960   Formalities connected with entry of wives and children of Indians resident in Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland   DO 35/10402
1930-1936   Nationality of married women   DO 35/106/4 - 107/2
1943-1946   Visit to Queensland Australia by the High Commissioner and Lady Cross, Sept 1943 579/1/2   DO 35/1119
1943-1946   Death of Mrs Fraser (wife of New Zealand Prime Minister) G 616/2/2   DO 35/1120
1943-1946   Australia: Diamond Wedding of Mr and Mrs Pfunder of New South wales H 586/4/4   DO 35/1131
1943-1946   Congratulatory messages to couples in Eire celebrating the 60th anniversaries of their weddings H 586/4/1   DO 35/1131
1943-1946   Assistance for Mrs E Thome, Italian wife of a Newfoundland Seaman N 621/65   DO 35/1154
1943-1946   Income Tax of wives of Governors-General and Governors and their Staffs in Australia O 503/29   DO 35/1157
1943-1946   British Nationality of Polish and Soviet wives of released South African war prisoners P 213/19   DO 35/1160
1943-1946   Visit of Mr and Mrs O'Keefe to Southern Rhodesia (High Commissioner) R 204/1   DO 35/1161
1943-1946   Sir Arthur and Lady Harris, official visit, 1945, to Southern Rhodesia R 342/8   DO 35/1168
1943-1946   Mrs Posnett, request for husband's return to Canada Z 477/1/191   DO 35/1194
1943-1946   Mrs J Collins of Dunsville Ontario, estranged relations with her husband and desires to return to England Z 477/1/204   DO 35/1195
1943-1946   Mrs J R Roberts (or Whyte) of Forfar wishes to join her husband in Canada Z 477/1/245   DO 35/1195
WIVES - FORCES : General
1943-1946   Maintenance in an Institute in Eire of wives of men in HM Forces Z477/5/54   DO 35/1196
WIVES - General :
1943-1946   Richard O'Neill, claim by wife in USA Z 477/5/125   DO 35/1196
1943-1946   Mrs R Cohn, enquiry as to her whereabouts by husband Z 482/151   DO 35/1197
1943-1946   Mr L G Sandison, enquiries by wife as to his whereabouts Z 482/97   DO 35/1197
1943-1946   Mr A Silcock, enquiries by wife as to his whereabouts Z 482/100   DO 35/1197
WIVES - FORCES : General
1943-1946   British women married to Australian ex-servicemen; life on HMT Stirling Castle Z484/1/2   DO 35/1198
WIVES - General :
1943-1946   Arrangements for wives of Dominion representatives to view victory march on 8 June 1946 and entertainment for Dominion and Colonial forces in London for the march   DO 35/1310
1930-1936   Visits by Sir Edward and Lady Harding to Imperial Agriculture Bureaux   DO 35/211/3-5
1948-1952   Marriage of Seretse Khama, Chief of Bamangwato Tribes of Bechuanaland, to an English woman, Ruth Khama, and the effect on the tribes and the world   DO 35/4113-4153
WIVES - FORCES : General
1947-1948   Maintenance orders: GI brides and dependents of Canadian ex-servicemen   DO 35/4203
WIVES - General :
1955   Bechuanaland Protectorate: reviews of book 'Ruth and Seretse' (Khama); translations of Afrikaans comments   DO 35/4339
1937-1941   Nationality of married women   DO 35/814/4-5
1939-1942   Nationality of married women: individual cases   DO 35/814/6
1956-1958   Request from High Commissioner for Ceylon in London for literature on marriage guidance and conciliation as set out in report of Royal Commission on Divorce   DO 35/9075
1964-1969   Allowance for married women returners (teachers)   ED 108/213
1936-1942   Married women teachers   ED 11/243
1919-1930   Teachers: definition of 'in consequence of marriage'. Cessation of, and return to, service. Substitutes during confinement   ED 131/51
1923   Audit reference about married couples teaching in small schools; payment of salary of spouse at uncertificated teacher scale; rate of contributions   ED 131/9
1966-1971   Enquiry into married women returners and part-time teachers   ED 192/27
1966-1970   Married women teachers: recruitment back to profession   ED 192/63
1967-1971   Married women teachers: effect of nursery provision on returners   ED 192/64
1916   Grants for instructions of housewives in economical cookery Circular 352   ED 22/59
1937-1943   Committee on women's questions: operation of the marriage bar   ED 23/671
1936   Appointment of married women to posts of junior assistant in the library of the Science Museum   ED 23/741
1945-1946   Women inspectors: retention after marriage   ED 23/847
1919-1935   Employment of married women teachers: papers   ED 24/1744
1909-1911   Memoranda on the Employment of Married Women as Teachers in Public Elementary Schools. Minutes regarding dismissal of teacher by Walsall Local Education Authority on the ground that she was married   ED 24/418
1927-1930   Married Women (Employment) Bill 1927. Married Women Teachers' (Employment) Bill 1930   ED 31/255
1956-1958   National Marriage Guidance Council   ED 80/69
1960   Teaching: married women returnees: reparations for the year of intermission 1962/3   ED 86/346
1968   Immigration/UK: wives of UK citizens   FCO 50/108
1932-1953   Dr and Mrs Ewing's research on hearing at Manchster University: reports 1932, 1934, 1951   FD 1/2295-2297
1943   Hearing Aids: report from MRC Hearing Aids Conference, memorandum from Dr and Mrs Ewing and Dr T S Littler   FD 1/2315
1928-1930   Teeth: Mrs Mellanby's research in India   FD 1/2362
1937-1949   Biochemistry: research by Dr E Stedman and Mrs Eileen Stedman, University of Edinburgh   FD 1/3619
1952-1953   International Labour Office (ILO): the employment of married women in industry   FD 1/4911
1953-1954   Joint Human Relations Committee: Subcommittee on the employment of special groups in industry including older men and women; married women   FD 1/7663
1935-1936   Mickle Fellowship: awarded to Sir Edward and Lady Mellanby; Canadian Red Cross publications   FD 1;3578
1974-1975   MRC: grantholders: Professor J F Tait, Mrs S A S Tait, Mr R P Gould: identification and control of steroids produced by zona reticularis cells of the adrenal cortex   FD 10/514
1965-1975   Newspaper cuttings on family problems from 1965; details of a conference on marriage breakdown held on 1 May 1975   FD 23/135
1944-1945   Austria: nationality of Austrian wives of German citizens   FO 1020/2085
1942   Germany: SHAEF: Political Office Berlin: visit to zone by Mr and Mrs Devedas Ghandi   FO 1049/1531
1946-1947   Germany: SHAEF: Political Office Lubbecke: Soviet born wives of displaced persons   FO 1049/659
1946   Germany: SHAEF: Political Office Lubbecke: UNRRA file of applications for Polish nationality including Soviet women married to Poles   FO 1049/684
1947   Germany: SHAEF: Political Office Berlin: repatriation of British born wives and their baggage   FO 1049/811
1935-1937   Dominican Republic: assault by soldiers on Cyril and Maria Griffin   FO 140/27
1919-1923   Egypt: Riza Yeghen Bey, Ali, and wife   FO 141/686/8765
1936   Egypt: Lloyd, Captain, and Mrs Charles: flight of   FO 141/762/529
1945   Russia: Soviet wives   FO 181/1082-1083
WIVES - FORCES : General
1945   Russia: marriages: wives of British prisoners of war   FO 181/1087
WIVES - General :
1913   Turkey: (1832) wife of Abdul Hamid takes refuge at British Embassy   FO 195/2452
1898   China: wives of six Representatives of Foreign Powers: audience on 64th birthday of Empress   FO 233/122/38
1916-1918   Greece: (541) Mrs C Michalopoulos: request for news of her husband   FO 286/672
1917-1918   Greece: (642) Mrs M Slade: request for aid and communication with her husband   FO 286/677
1919   Greece: (382) Mrs N de Kaczvinsky: request for release of husband and son, prisoners of war   FO 286/715
1919   Greece: (528) Wife of Munirbey Potemi Alizade, suspected spy: return to Cypress   FO 286/717
1923   Research on 'spermine' extracted from the pancreas: Dr and Mrs Rosenheim's research at National Institute of Medical Research FD 1/1720 1923 Panama: (16) status of married women in USA   FO 288/202
1939   Foreign Office: retention of married women   FO 366/1075/5286
1946   Conditions of service of married women employed in the Civil Service   FO 366/1613
1965   Official visits abroad: status of wives travelling with their husbands (Diplomatic Service)   FO 366/3514
1965   Status of women in diplomatic service who choose to marry   FO 366/3550
1939   Roumania: position of the wife of Arram Herscovici   FO 369/2541/5231
1941   Passages for wives of consular officials returning to the Far East   FO 369/2682
1943   Soviet Union: wives of British subjects: release from Soviet citizenship   FO 369/2903
1944   China: proposal that consular officers in China should be accompanied by their wives   FO 369/2942
1945   Japan: assistance for British born women resident in Japan who have acquired enemy nationality by marriage   FO 369/3228
1945   Soviet wives of British subjects   FO 369/3296-3301
1946   Egypt: return to Egypt of wives or families of local origin who are dissatisfied with conditions in the UK   FO 369/3475
1946   France: payments to P G Wodehouse by Germany and payments to Mrs Ethel Wodehouse   FO 369/3509
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   Reception in the UK of foreign-born wives of British service personnel and withdrawal of military facilities from British civilians abroad   FO 369/3556-3557
WIVES - General :
1946   Soviet-born wives of British subjects: difficulties of reunion with husbands   FO 369/3701-3705
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1946   Yugoslavia: disappearance of Mrs Friederike Carr, formerly Countess Schoenborn, wife of Rifleman A M Carr   FO 369/3750
WIVES - General :
1947   Baltic States: enquiry by Mrs Lily Anna Smits re missing husband   FO 369/3762
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1947   Egypt: return of Egyptian-born wives of demobilised soldiers who are dissatisfied with conditions in the UK   FO 369/3783
WIVES - General :
1947   Soviet-born wives of British subjects   FO 369/3827-3833
1948   Soviet-born wives of British subjects   FO 369/4031-4039
WIVES - FORCES : General
1948   USA: advice and assistance to deserted GI brides and in respect of children of their marriages   FO 369/4051A-C
WIVES - General :
1949   Soviet-born wives of British subjects   FO 369/4273-4276
1950   Argentina: repatriation of Mr & Mrs Charles F J Ewart   FO 369/4405
1950   Soviet-born wives of British subjects   FO 369/4609-4611
WIVES - FORCES : General
1951   Argentina: relief for British born wives of Polish ex-servicemen   FO 369/4694
WIVES - General :
1951   Soviet Union: welfare of Soviet-born wives of British subjects   FO 369/4771-4774
1954   Soviet wives of British subjects prevented from leaving Russia to join their husbands   FO 369/5046-5047
1955   British-born wives in Iron Curtain countries   FO 369/5135
1955   British-born wives in Iron Curtain countries; questions relating to repatriation and wellbeing   FO 369/5145-5152
1955   Roumania: assistance for British-born wives in Roumania and for other British subjects   FO 369/5180-5181
1955   British-born wives in Poland   FO 369/5205-5215
1956   Exit visas for British-born wives in countries in Eastern Europe   FO 369/5270
1956   Czechoslovakia: repatriation of British-born wives in Czechoslovakia   FO 369/5275-5279
1956   British-born wives in Poland   FO 369/5303-5312
1957   British-born wives in Poland: exit permits for repatriation and visits to UK   FO 369/5361
1958   British-born wives in Poland: exit permits for repatriation and visits to UK   FO 369/5406-5410
1959   Difficulties in Soviet Union for wives of British subjects   FO 369/5455
1960   British-born wives of Polish citizens   FO 369/5496-5499
1950   Copy of letter from Ribbentrop's wife to Professor Carr complaining at the injustice of her husband's trial quoting Hand Grimm, a postwar writer, showing sympathy with Ribbentrop   FO 370/2102
1939   Exhumation and transportation of the bodies of Andreas Kelvos and his wife   FO 370/583/1165
1952   Request for visas for relatives to visit British-born wives of Poles and Czechs in their husband's country of origin   FO 371/100348
1952   Hungary: wives of two American Legation employees under arrest, deprival of all their furniture and either deported or arrested   FO 371/100598
1952   Soviet Union: desire of Ukrainian refugee for news of his wife last heard of in 1942   FO 371/100914
1953   Nicaragua: book on Nicaragua written by wife of HM Ambassador, Mrs Evans   FO 371/103438
1953   USA: reaction to the trial and conviction of Mr and Mrs Rosenburg in USA on charges of espionage   FO 371/103563
WIVES - FORCES : General
1953   USA: GI Brides: screening of British girls intending to marry American servicemen; political aspects of such marriages   FO 371/103569
1953   USA: GI Brides: enforcement of affiliation orders in paternity cases   FO 371/103569
WIVES - General :
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Dr Josef Kreuzer: letter from Office of Legal Adviser, Wahnerheide, enclosing letter from Apostolic Nuncio, stating that Mrs Kreuzer has appealed to the Pope on her husband's behalf and requesting that his case be reviewed 1661/93   FO 371/104146
1953   Roumania: official approach to Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on behalf of a Madame Placa, of British origin but wife of a Roumanian, concerning the nature of the charge for her conviction and imprisonment   FO 371/106476
1953   UN Commission on the Status of Women: draft convention on nationality of married women   FO 371/107134-107135
1954   Germany: defection to GDR of Christian Democrat Bundstag member for Hamburg, Herr Schmidt-Wittmack, with his wife and children   FO 371/109326
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Ludwig Lang: request by UK High Commission, Bonn, for his case record to obtain pension for his wife 1661/115   FO 371/109726
1954   Poland: case of Mrs Murawska, British subject married to Polish emigré, persuaded to go to Poland and not allowed to return to UK   FO 371/111582
1954   Roumania: conviction and imprisonment of Mrs Sylvia Placa, British subject married to a Roumanian   FO 371/111647
1954   Soviet Union: case of Mrs Khokhlova, wife of defector to the US, who wishes to leave Russia to join her husband: UK representations to Soviet authorities   FO 371/111780
1954   UN Commission on the Status of Women: Secretary-General's report on 'Matrimonial Regimes': statutory and constitutional provisions for the nationality of married women: memorandum on Soviet wives of British subjects   FO 371/112496
1956   Tour of Latin America by Lord and Lady Davidson   FO 371/119797
1956   Visit to Panama by Viscount and Viscountess Davidson   FO 371/120211
1956   Visits by Lord and Lady Davidson to Uruguay   FO 371/120428
1956   Soviet Union: visit to UK by Mr Bulganin and Mr Khrushchev: request by Mrs Skvar, Australian citizen, to Soviet authorities for release of her husband in Poland: Soviet reply 1052/624   FO 371/122835
1957   Egypt: request to Swiss government to approach Mrs Zarb, the wife of UK subject detained in Egypt on espionage charge, with proposal that she should come to UK: FO letter to UK Embassy, Berne, 15 Jan 1957 1691/8   FO 371/125612
1957   Egypt: letter from UK Embassy, Berne, to Swiss Legation, Cairo, 16 Jan 1957, requesting approach to Mrs Zarb with offer to arrange her departure from Egypt, with assurances that her expenses incurred will be met bu UK government 1691/14   FO 371/125612
1957   Egypt: request by wife of John Stanley (UK subject detained in Egypt on espionage charge) to the Swiss to forward parcel to him, 24 April 1957 1691/119   FO 371/125616
1957   Egypt: Mrs Zarb: FO letter to BOAC forwarding a TWA air bill concerning her property, and asking for it to be forwarded to Turin, 26 March 1957 1691/110   FO 371/125616
1957   Egypt: request by Surrey constituent to FO to forward letter to Mrs Zarb, 21 June 1957 1691/169   FO 371/125618
1957   Egypt: letter for onward transmission to wife of James Swinburn (UK subject detained in Egypt on espionage charge): letter from UK Embassy, Berne, 10 July 1957 1691/200   FO 371/125619
1957   Egypt: letter from Lord Killearn to Lord Gosford, enclosing letter from wife of James Swinburn requesting aid, 26 July 1957 1691/211   FO 371/125619
1957   Egypt: despatch of James Zarb's letter to his wife: letter from UK Embassy, Berne, 22 Aug 1957 1691/225   FO 371/125620
1957   Egypt: gift of a pipe to James Zarb from his wife, 10 Sept 1957 1691/230A   FO 371/125620
1957   Cuba: political relations between Cuba and UK: visit to Cuba of Lord and Lady Reading, March 1957   FO 371/126469
1957   Panama: visit to Panama by Sir Anthony and Lady Eden, Feb 1957   FO 371/126575
1957   Private visit to Curacao by Sir Anthony and Lady Eden   FO 371/130959
1958   Portugal: death of president's wife   FO 371/136570
1958   Vatican: visit of Sir Charles and Lady Lambe, Naval C-in-C, Mediterranean to Vatican   FO 371/136793
1959   Brazil: visit to UK by wife of President of Brazil   FO 371/139082
1960   State visit of President de Gaulle to UK: Mme de Gaulle's desire to visit children's hospitals: request from Mrs Crozier of National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children 1051/32   FO 371/153906
1960   State visit of President de Gaulle to UK: non-attendance of Mme de Gaulle at reception in House of Lords and review of Household Troops 1051/67   FO 371/153908
1962   Cuba: visit by Lord and Lady Boyd Orr   FO 371/162423
1962   USA: visit to UK by Colonel and Mrs John Glenn   FO 371/162634
1965   USA: proposal to invite Mrs Johnson, President's wife, to meeting on state of the countryside in 1970   FO 371/179622
1966   South America: Colonel and Mrs Gray case   FO 371/185309
1966   Council of Europe: nationality of married women   FO 371/190577
1939   Egypt and Sudan: death of Madame Nashat, wife of Egyptian Ambassador in London 3206   FO 371/23368
1939   China: evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong 11041   FO 371/23537
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1942   Netherlands: visas for wives of Netherlands recruits in the Union of South Africa   FO 371/31025
WIVES - General :
1942   Soviet Union: question of Mrs Churchill and Mrs Eden attending a luncheon organised by the Women's Anglo-Soviet Committee   FO 371/32938
1943   French Africa: re-arming of French forces in North Africa: evacuation of women and children from Tunisia   FO 371/36194-36196
1944   USA: death of Mrs Hoover: condolences   FO 371/38603
1944   Netherlands: Countess d'Ansembourg, Netherlands diplomat's wife   FO 371/39341B
WIVES - FORCES : General
1945   USA: British wives of American servicemen   FO 371/44657
WIVES - General :
1945   Visit of Mr Hore-Belisha and his wife to South America   FO 371/45063
1945   Germany: request for civil servants working with the Control Commission to have their wives with them   FO 371/46980
1945   Czechoslovakia: bag facilities requested by a Mr Rudolf Sigmund to communicate with his wife in Czechoslovakia   FO 371/47218
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1945   Position of the wife of General Isycki, head of the Polish Air Force in the UK   FO 371/47779
WIVES - General :
1945   Poland: arrest in Poland of Madam Freyd, wife of a former member of the Polish Government in London   FO 371/47805
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1945   Poland: activities of Princess Maria Sapeiha, wife of Polish Air Force Officer   FO 371/47827
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1945   Bulgaria: repatriation of Mme Zalenska, wife of a Polish officer   FO 371/48175
WIVES - General :
1945   Roumania: assistance rendered by Mr and Mrs Schmidt (alias Strehl)   FO 371/48657
1945   Netherlands: position of Mr and Mrs S J Jansz who wish to remain in the UK after the war   FO 371/49434
1945   Application for visa for Mrs Goldstein, wife of Mr Alfred Goldstein of the Polish Ministry of the Interior   FO 371/51170
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   USA: travel facilities to UK for US husbands of British girls: problems relating to GI brides and illegitimate children: desertion of GI brides by US servicemen: provision of legal and financial aid to GI brides   FO 371/51617-51623
WIVES - General :
1946   Visit of wife of Salvadorean President to Honduras   FO 371/51983
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   Germany: arrangements for despatch of wives and families of British civil and military personnel to Germany   FO 371/55478-55479
WIVES - General :
1946   Germany: arrangements for despatch of wives and families of British civil and military personnel to Germany   FO 371/55478-55479
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1946   Soviet Union: shooting of Jr Lt Buzin and Madam Buzanova in Berlin   FO 371/56917
WIVES - General :
1946   Enquiry from Mrs Garlinska regarding her husband   FO 371/57793
1946   Repatriation of Mrs Theresia Henon, wife of a Belgian citizen in Sierra Leone   FO 371/57860
1946   M and Mme Schudel: application to return to Nigeria   FO 371/57893
1946   Request by Mr A Bloch to be allowed to send food parcels to wife in Germany   FO 371/57900
1946   Greece: death of Madam Sophoulis, Prime Minister's wife   FO 371/58853
1946   Greece: nationality problems relating to foreign-born wives of Greek citizens   FO 371/58904
1946   Hungary: release of Mr and Mrs Galacz by Government of India   FO 371/59083
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1946   Spain: payment of allowances to wives of Spaniards serving in the British Army   FO 371/60433
WIVES - FORCES : General
1947   USA: scheme to provide legal aid for British-born wives of US service or ex-service men who are involved on matrimonial proceedings   FO 371/61016-61021
WIVES - General :
1947   Lebanon: possible visit to UK of wife of Lebanese President   FO 371/61734
1947   Germany: conditions of imprisonment in Spandau: appeal by Baroness von Neurath on behalf of her husband   FO 371/64710
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1947   Poland: Polish troops in Italy: position of Polish soldiers married to Italian women   FO 371/66083-66088
WIVES - General :
1947   Poland: British-born wives of Poles   FO 371/66177
1947   Arrival in the UK of the Polish Ambassador's wife, Madam Michalowska   FO 371/66260
1947   Holland: visit of the Prime Minister and Mrs Attlee to the island of Walcheren   FO 371/67850
WIVES - FORCES : General
1948   USA: legal aid to GI brides and to UK women married to Canadian servicemen   FO 371/68045B
WIVES - General :
1948   Soviet Union: detention in USSR of Soviet wives of British subjects   FO 371/71691-71692
WIVES - FORCES : General
1949   USA: accommodation for families of US servicemen at Burton Wood, Lancashire   FO 371/74236
1949   USA: repatriation to the UK of divorced GI brides   FO 371/74269
WIVES - General :
1949   Iraq: report of danger to life of young King Feisal from the wife of Emir Abdul Ilah   FO 371/75188
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1949   Burma: correspondence to Captain Vivian, imprisoned in Rangoon, from his wife   FO 371/75730
WIVES - General :
1949   Belgium and Luxemburg: convention between Belgium and France concerning Married Women's nationality   FO 371/79034
1949   Switzerland: trial and subsequent deportation of Solven Vitianu and his wife, Rumanian nationals   FO 371/79864
WIVES - FORCES : General
1950   USA: GI brides: suggestion that the legal aid scheme for British wives of American servicemen should be discontinued   FO 371/81774
1950   USA: transfer of responsibility for work in connection with GI brides from the Home Office to the Foreign Office   FO 371/81775
WIVES - General :
1950   Australian acceptance of Mrs Gwiazdzinski as immigrant but refusal of her husband   FO 371/87428
1950   Hungary: disappearance of Mr C W T Lamerton, arrested by Hungarians and eventually deported along with his wife   FO 371/87828
1950   Roumania: Parliamentary Question about the disappearance of Mrs Constantine Librarian at the British Legation, Bucharest; reply confirmed disappearance of her and her husband, both of whom were Roumanian citizens   FO 371/88043
1950   Roumania: arrest and eventual deportation to Istanbul of Mrs Frosell a Roumanian subject married to a British subject   FO 371/88044
WIVES - FORCES : General
1950   Roumania: request by Ferdinand Stuiber and others that their wives be allowed entry to UK; the husbands were former members of the German Armed Forces and are ex-POWs   FO 371/88115
1950   Roumania: request for advice and help about visiting Roumania from the girl-friend of a Roumanian ex-POW: negative advice from the Foreign Office   FO 371/88119
WIVES - General :
1950   UN: nationality laws affecting married women   FO 371/88837
1950   Visits of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, Lady Cripps and their daughter to Switzerland, France and Italy   FO 371/88944
1950   Netherlands: invitation to the British Foreign Secretary and Mrs Bevin to attend the 400th anniversary celebrations of the Netherlands Protestant Church in London   FO 371/89404
WIVES - FORCES : General
1951   USA: question of legal aid for British wives of US servicemen   FO 371/91009
WIVES - General :
1951   Nepal: comment on visit of Dorothy Woodman, wife of editor of 'New Statesman' and request for copies of her articles appearing in the 'New Statesman' and 'Asian World'   FO 371/92921
1951   Czechoslovakia: temporary disappearance of a British couple called Turner, both members of the British Communist Party   FO 371/94497
WIVES - FORCES : General
1951   Roumania: Roumanian Government refusal to allow British Legation to intervene on behalf of Roumanian wives of former British POWs wishing to join their husbands in the UK   FO 371/95377
WIVES - General :
1949   Introduction of newly assigned officers and their wives to the Diplomatic or Consular Corps   FO 372/6776
1946   The Vatican: intercession on behalf of the Argentine born wives of the crew of 'Graf Spee'   FO 380/102
1855   Private letters from Lord Hammond to his wife, from Vienna   FO 391/30
1940   Russia: Moscow: evacuation of British born women in Baltic States married to aliens   FO 447/43
1948   Russia: Moscow: British born wives and widows   FO 447/66
1948   Russia: Moscow: Soviet wives: Mrs W T Greenhalgh   FO 447/70-71
1948   Russia: Moscow: Soviet wives: general   FO 447/72
WIVES - FORCES : General
1953   USA: San Francisco: case of war bride Mrs Alice White, charged with murdering her husband, but acquitted   FO 600/42
WIVES - General :
1938   Belgium: Antwerp: nationality of children: Mrs M Marshall   FO 606/34
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1930-1934   Airmen's wives travelling overseas at their own expense to join their husbands: condition of Air Force HQ approval   FO 612/132
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1932-1938   Passport for wives and families of soldiers serving in Gibraltar   FO 612/154
1935-1936   Malta: passport facilities for wives of army officers and other ranks travelling to Malta   FO 612/155
WIVES - General :
1934-1938   Passports: Home Office notifications of wives of British subjects who have made a declaration of British nationality   FO 612/172
1937-1942   Issue of joint passports to Indians with more than one wife   FO 612/212
1934-1948   Passports: women of British nationality married to aliens who have not acquired husband's nationality   FO 612/238
WIVES - FORCES : General
1942-1946   Passports: women marrying members of the American Armed Forces in the UK who desire to travel to the USA   FO 612/241
WIVES - General :
1946-1947   Passports: suggested application from for males and unmarried women born in HM Dominions, and married women born in the Dominions married to men born in the Dominions   FO 612/256
1940   Spain: nationality of British women married to Spaniards   FO 637/62
1940   Spain: Barcelona: Mr & Mrs Hubert Simmonds: loss of British nationality   FO 637/64
1948   Spain: Barcelona: British nationality: retention by women married to Spanish nationals   FO 637/80
1937-1941   China: Shanghai: evacuation of British women and children to Hong Kong: general correspondence and directives   FO 671/561-562
1945   Visit to Poland by Sir Adair and Lady Janette Hore   FO 688/31/35
1945-1954   France: Marseilles: Mr & Mrs Arthur Darling: war damage claim   FO 698/46 and 49
1947-1949   USA: Jacksonville: shooting of Sargeant Graydon Emery Poland by his wife Margaret Irene Poland following his kidnapping their son: wife acquitted of murder; attempts to regain custody of child   FO 700/109
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   USA: Kansas: British Community: legal matters re British war brides divorces   FO 700/75
WIVES - General :
1944   Sweden: Stockholm: naturalisation of Mr and Mrs Morton   FO 748/92
1856   Turkey: Istanbul: receipt for £50 on account of family remittance from wife of Bimbashi   FO 781/65/1
1945   Italy: Milan: British passport application: Mr & Mrs C H Jones   FO 795/12
1912   Thailand (Siam): Mohammedans: status of wives   FO 821/71
1862-1874   Jackson Papers: recovery from Lady Jackson: correspondence   FO 83/460
1881-1887   Mr Jenner's marriage and presentation of his wife at court   FO 83/980
1927   Morocco: Marrakesh: claim of wife of Nicholas H Anton to British nationality   FO 836/4
1943   Lord and Lady Halifax and party: air passage for   FO 850/92
1935   Colombia: Bogota: nationality of married women   FO 854/2
1945   British women resident in Italy and married to foreigners: relief   FO 916/1261
1941   Internment: Belgian women married to British subjects   FO 916/129
1944   Free passages for wives of British Council officials posted overseas   FO 924/16
1946   Passages for wives and families of British Council officials serving overseas   FO 924/249
1950   A British Council Mr Lee's departure from Bulgaria without his Bulgarian wife   FO 924/780-781
1957   Convention: Nationality of Married Women   FO 93/1/572
WIVES - FORCES : General
1949   Operation Union (Germany): evacuationof sick wives and children   FO 936/1220
WIVES - General :
1949   Operation Union (Germany): evacuation of sick wives and children   FO 936/1220
1946   R R Stokes: requisitioning to make room for wives of Control Commission Germany staff   FO 938/113
1947-1948   J D Mack MP: Mr H Davis and wife to visit Germany to investigate circumstances of daughter's death   FO 938/150
1948   Quintin Hogg MP: Mrs H Fleischer; property in Germany, permit for husband to visit UK   FO 938/154
1946-1947   Germany: C E Davis: request for German wife and child to come to UK   FO 940/63
1947-1949   Germany: Miss Loth, fiancée of H E Brooks, missing in Russian Zone   FO 940/72
1947-1948   Germany: child of wife to UK: Mr Foster   FO 940/75
1947   Philippines: claim in respect of the presumed deaths of Mr and Mrs F T Garrido at the hands of the Japanese   FO 950/257
1937   Mrs Beck's impressions of visit with M.Beck to Poland f377-382   FO 954/19B
1945   Lady Cranborne to accompany Lord Cranborne to America f219   FO 954/2
1937   From Mr Mack, Vienna: should Mrs Mack accompany him to the station when meeting the Duke and Duchess (of Windsor)? f139-140   FO 954/33A
1941   Egypt: Cairo: question of evacuation of women and children f75   FO 954/5A
1944   Foreign Office: personal thanks to Mr Duff and Lady Diana Cooper   FO 954/9B
1959   Kuwait: Mrs Hilda Tellis (missing husband)   FO 955/500
1866   Netherlands: Flushing: 'Peace' of Padstow, cutter: instructions for medicine for dysentry provided for wife of master, Robert Neal   FO 956/134
1866   Netherlands: Flushing: 'Sarah' of Yarmouth, schooner: correspondence with master, Captain William Balls, about ill treatment of wife   FO 956/135
1855   Netherlands: Flushing: 'Empress': request on behalf of Mrs Keetje Koppenjan whose husband was on board   FO 956/35
1943   Soviet wives of British subjects f209   FO954/26A
1943   Draft message from Secretary of State to Molotov about Soviet wives f206-207   FO954/26A
1885-1948   Heart and Hand Married Females' Friendly Society: 890, Worcestershire: Removed from Register   FS 15/1579
1871-1949   Miners Wife's Friendly Society: 2004 Staffordshire: removed from register   FS 15/1703
1865-1949   Tradesmans Wife's Friendly Society: 640 Worcester: removed from register   FS 15/1898
1861-1949   Tradesmans Wife's Friendly Society: 1074 Worcester: removed from register   FS 15/1899
1871-1949   Tradesmen's Wife's Friendly Society: 764 Worcester: removed from register   FS 15/1900
1930-1933   Assurances by husband on life of wife and vice versa   FS 23/246
1852   Marriage of convict's wife to another man would be null and void if convict still alive, though the wife might not be punishable for bigamy   HO 12/17/4621
1873-1900   Nationality: status of individuals; married, widowed, divorced, illegitimate see list   HO 144
1941-1943   Accommodation for married detainees under Defence Regulation 18B in Isle of Man and Holloway Prison including Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley   HO 144/22495
1898-1899   Continuation of allowance to wife made before becoming a criminal lunatic   HO 144/273/A60054
1889-1890   Position of a wife (Mrs Blumenthal) of a person naturalised under 1844 Act in respect of forfeiture by residence abroad L.O.O.895   HO 144/315/B7487
1892   Status of Mrs H E Duty (formerly Mrs Bryant née Reede) born in Barbados and twice married to British subjects   HO 144/341/B12826
1888-1895   Edward Pink: criminal lunatic conditionally discharged to the care of his daughter and subsequently transferred to the care of his wife   HO 144/475/X19427
1893   Joseph Conrad: claims compensation having been charged with attempting to murder his wife   HO 144/495/X42156
1894-1904   Statement the prisoner's wife was not party to his crime, furnished on request from Danish Minister   HO 144/495/X42156
1903   Wife of criminal lunatic claims support of child from Salvation Army, to whom her husband was discharged   HO 144/550/A57449
1906-1907   The Prerogative 1) Bastardy cases 2) cases of non-payment of wife's maintenance L.O.O.   HO 144/844/147516
1924-1928   Order revoking certificate of naturalisation: subsequent action against wife and children; Law Officers' Opinion (closed 100 years)   HO 144/8584/250621
1943   Exemption from fire prevention duties for women with family responsibilities   HO 186/1163
1940-1944   WVS Housewives Service: formation   HO 186/1657
1940-1945   Unmarried dependents living as wives of civil defence personnel killed or injured whilst on duty: compensation   HO 186/2089
1940   Information supplied by the Assistance Board concerning evacuated women and children   HO 199/315
1939-1945   WVS: housewives service   HO 207/164
1940-1945   Women, children and married couples interned on the Isle of Man: report by Inspector Cuthbert   HO 213/1053
1946-1947   Documentation for wives and families of officials of Central Commission for Germany and BAOR   HO 213/1090
1942-1943   Restriction on wives and families of civilians wishing to travel to India   HO 213/1096
1947   Poland: employment restriction on Poles married to British-born women   HO 213/1194
1945-1946   Workers from Eire: policy: wives and families to join workers   HO 213/1323
1945-1946   Return to Eire: position of conditionally landed women who have children after marriage to conditionally landed men and cease employment   HO 213/1328
1940-1943   Roumania: Article 7. Roumanian Nationality Law: effect on British- born wives   HO 213/141
1949-1956   Married women: status; including validity of divorces by foreign courts   HO 213/1676
1939-1948   Spain: status of British-born wives: decrees   HO 213/169-171
1942   British born wives of enemy aliens: special restrictions   HO 213/1816
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   British wives of US servicemen: travel documents   HO 213/1842
WIVES - General :
1942-1943   Status of women married to aliens   HO 213/186
1943   Status of women married to aliens: memorandum by Nationality of Married Women Committee   HO 213/187
1941   Internment: review of married couples' cases where husbands were sent to Australia and Canada   HO 213/2021
1945-1946   Workers from Eire: proposal to discontinue employment visas for married women HO 213/1336 1945-1948 Registration with police of British women married to aliens   HO 213/2086
1939-1943   Registration: position of British-born women married to enemy aliens   HO 213/221-222
1959-1971   Refusal of naturalisation to suitable husbands because of unsuitable wives [retained]   HO 213/2258
1968   Applications for UK citizenship by married women abroad: possible alteration of nationality laws   HO 213/2323
1967   Naturalisation: applications by wives of undischarged bankrupts   HO 213/2377
1953-1963   Naturalisation: married women living with husbands who remain aliens   HO 213/2383
1938   Domestics from abroad: married couples   HO 213/324
1938   Canadian nationality law: position of wives of naturalised subjects   HO 213/371
1938   Married women: nationality: enquiry as to retention upon marriage to foreigners   HO 213/378
1937-1949   Status of women married to foreigners   HO 213/378-399
1941   Married women: memorandum on position of women married to foreigners   HO 213/379
1941-1942   Married women: summary of foreign laws   HO 213/380
1947   Admittance of foreign husbands of wives of British birth and parentage   HO 213/576
1945-1948   Visas: proposal that grant be extended to wives of foreign students   HO 213/653
1946   Visas: wives and minor children of certain categories of US citizens   HO 213/658
1946   Visas: wives of officers of British and Dutch tankers   HO 213/662
1947   German nationals married to British born women: entry into UK   HO 213/683
1947   Entry into UK: foreign nationals with British-born wives   HO 213/700
1943   Registration: British women married to aliens of dual nationality: position under Aliens Act   HO 213/822
1942-1944   Eire: status of Eirean women married to aliens   HO 213/843
WIVES - FORCES : General
1948   British Service personnel married to ex-enemy aliens   HO 213/848
WIVES - General :
1948   Poland: British women married to Polish nationals: entry into UK   HO 213/848
WIVES - FORCES : General
1943-1945   Change of names of wives and children of members of HM and Allied Forces   HO 213/861
WIVES - General :
1944-1945   De La Torre, Antonio Castro: Spanish national, detained under article 12(5) of the Aliens Order; wife refused permission to visit him   HO 214/86
1941-1942   Internment for married couples   HO 215/358-363
1941-1943   Wives of Italian internees: voluntary internment   HO 215/367
1941   Jamaican camps for married couples (internees)   HO 215/368
1942-1943   Port St Mary, Isle of Man: accommodation for married couples   HO 215/500
1960-1961   Committee on Broadcasting 1960: evidence: Scottish Housewives' Association   HO 244/470
1977-1979   Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship: evidence: Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (open)   HO 265/3
1966   Inquiry into Prison Escapes and Security: evidence and papers: conjugal rights   HO 278/33
1952-1953   Relations between Catholic Marriage Advisory Council and Marriage Guidance Training Board   HO 313/1
1949-1960   Marriage Guidance Training Board: minutes of meetings nos 6-32   HO 313/2-5
1958-1961   Grants to marriage guidance organisations: estimates 1951-1954   HO 313/6
1959-1960   Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce: recommendations relating to Home Office involvement in marriage guidance   HO 313/7
1956-1961   Grants to marriage guidance organisations: discussion with Treasury: deputation from National Guidance Council   HO 313/8
1985-1986   Committee on financing the BBC: evidence: National Housewives' Register, Gravesend Branch (open)   HO 327/10
1957-1958   Committee on Children and Young Persons (Ingleby Committee): evidence submitted: National Marriage Guidance Council   HO 330/96
1949-1959   Admission of foreign husbands of British citizens resident in UK   HO 352/64
WIVES - FORCES : General
1951   Foreign wives of members of HM Forces serving abroad: admission of relatives into UK   HO 352/68
WIVES - General :
1952-1955   Foreign mistresses and prostitutes in UK   HO 352/73
1945-1949   English law as to property of married women LCO 2/3558 1945-1950 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) and Margaret Joyce, wife: personal files. (See also HO 45/22405, 22406, 25779 and 25780)   HO 382/1
1820   W Ogden to Mrs Ogden: in Horsemonger Lane Prison; describes his conditions and feelings especially concerning the Manchester gentry whom he blames for his present predicament   HO 44/1/103
1820   Lt General John Smith to Lord Sidmouth: wishes permission for his wife's carriage to pass occasionally through the park   HO 44/1/83-83a
1820   Mrs Jane Carlile to Lord Sidmouth: wishes to remain with her husband longer than at present allowed, when she visits him at Dorchester Jail   HO 44/1/85
1820   John Burkinshawe to his wife Margaret Burkinshawe; prisoner in York Castle; news of his health and not to give up hope: passes on several messages from other prisoners to their families   HO 44/2/125
1820   Mrs F P Barlee to Lord Sidmouth: how she was tricked into marriage, now her husband and trustees are stealing her inheritance and ill treating her; the courts do not help and she appeals to him   HO 44/2/5 and 2/7
1820   Anne Addy to Richard Addy: a prisoner in York Castle; she arrived home safely and his friends are doing all in their power to procure the favour requested   HO 44/2/60
1820   Mr Henry Seymour MP to Lord Sidmouth: further request for his wife's carriage to pass through St James Park; granted until end of parliamentary session   HO 44/2/79-79a
1897-1901   Isle of Man: Married Women's Protection Act 1897 and amendment 1905   HO 45/10159/B23317
1902   Title of Mayoress: enquiry whether Mayor can designate any lady not his wife as Mayoress   HO 45/10251/V42759
1902   Inebriate wives committed to Retreats   HO 45/10277/104705
1845   Wife asks for return of husband Richard Dean from Boulogne to Lichfield Asylum   HO 45/1084
1917   British women married to Germans: exemption from the Aliens Restriction Order   HO 45/10882/343995
1922-1927   Wife's responsibility for crimes committed under her husband's coercion   HO 45/12621/431865
1922-1928   Husband's non-entitlement to be registered as a local government elector if his wife is the owner of the house in which they reside   HO 45/12999/437369
1921-1929   Isle of Man: Married Women's Property, Dower and Widowright Act 1921 and Bill 1929   HO 45/13349/41/417982
1846   Plans to unite wives and families with exiled husbands in the Colonies   HO 45/1400
1935-1936   Isle of Man: The Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1936   HO 45/16734/687112
1936-1937   Summary Procedure (Domestic Proceedings) Bill 1937: use of Probation Officers in matrimonial disputes   HO 45/17152/695967
WIVES - FORCES : General
1946   Reception in the UK of foreign born wives of British service personnel   HO 45/20776/916768
WIVES - General :
1946-1947   Marriage between British subject and his divorced wife's sister not valid during wife's lifetime under Jersey and Guernsey Law or law of England   HO 45/21279/917714
1948   Detention of British husbands of Soviet born wives in the Soviet Union: termination of marriage only possible under English law through divorce of a Personal Bill   HO 45/22478/922196
1936-1949   Gwenllian Elizabeth Anne Williams: use of Arms of Williams by her two husbands   HO 45/23062/689265
1918-1951   May Peters, British born wife of Jacob Peters believed to be Peter the Painter: attempts to re-enter the UK from Russia   HO 45/24700/370420
WIVES - FORCES : General
1939-1944   Prosecutions against servicemen's wives: Children and Young Persons Act 1933; Poor Law Act 1930; care of children and importance of husband being notified   HO 45/25058/817205
WIVES - General :
1951-1952   Jersey: law extending the rights of married women: departmental memorandum   HO 45/25281/929660
1944-1947   Joyce, Margaret Cairns (wife of William Joyce), one-time member of the British Union and the National Socialist League; broadcast propaganda for German radio 865086 sub1   HO 45/25779
1849   Wives of convicts provided with passages to their husbands   HO 45/2932
1851   Instances where a wife may give evidence against her husband   HO 45/3648
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1854   Poor Law: no power to allow relief to families of soldiers serving abroad   HO 45/45/5479
WIVES - General :
1865   Prosecution of wife of British subject in Baden by her husband: government assistance refused   HO 45/7782
1855   Change of name: Breslin to Irwin. Petitioner's wife had eloped and he thought change would be beneficial to his daughter's interest: refusal   HO 45/8462
1862   Change of name: Henchley to Mason: petitioner to carry out a business in the name of his wife's first husband   HO 45/8475
1863   Change of name: Hanbury to de Hanbury; also to bear arms and supporters of his wife   HO 45/8477
1865   Arms of wife's family: application of Douglas Brown to bear arms and name of Maulever: refused   HO 45/8486
1842   Grant of denization: Mrs V A Atkinson (Paris), wife of a British subject said to be 'of King's county, Ireland'. Husband wished to settle landed property on her. Granted   HO 45/8943
1843   Grant of denization: S A E Konarski to take devise of landed property from wife. Usual for wife to join in prayer of petition. Granted   HO 45/8948
1848-1849   Grant of denization: Mr F A Le Fèvre (no permanent residence), who had just left Limeroy (France), and would eventually reside in UK. He wished to be enabled to take appointment of landed property from wife. Secretary of State (Sir G Grey) had doubts. Granted   HO 45/8963
1857   Petition of Right: Mehdee Ulee Khan Bahadoor claimed that his wife was entitled by right of inheritance to Jagheer of Rampoor, and the personal property, held by her father Ahmud Ulee Khan, which had been conferred by the East India Company on a collateral male relative   HO 45/9213
1897   Husband believes wife to have been buried in a state of coma. Request for exhumation refused   HO 45/9959/V25713
1887-1895   Police: deductions from pension of pensioner for support of wife and child   HO 45/9962/X13331
1887   Removal by husband of habitual drunkard from Retreat rendering him liable to prosecution   HO 45/9963/X14487
1962-1967   Control of expenditure: wives of official visitors TD 5/3A   INF 12/937
1944   Film fillers: Thank You Housewives   INF 6/1811
1949   Crown Film Unit Production: 'The Good Housewife in her Kitchen'   INF 6/32
1871-1877   Acknowledgement Office (where certificates of acknowledgement of deeds of married women were registered): letter book   J 141/410
1876-1925   Special commissions register (acknowledgement of deeds by married women taken abroad)   J 141/411
1883-1924   Register of application for appointment as perpetual commissions for taking acknowledgements of deeds by married women   J 141/420
WIVES - FORCES : General
1942   Principal Probate Registry: divorce proceedings instituted in the Middle East for HM Forces   J 86/126
1942-1944   Principal Probate Registry: prisoners of war: procedure for service of divorce petitions   J 86/134
1942-1948   Principal Probate Registry: divorce procedure in Middle East: appointment of Medical Inspectors for members of services abroad   J 86/151
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1944-1945   Principal Probate Registry: American soldiers: service of divorce petitions   J 86/175
WIVES - General :
1920   Principal Probate Registry: Poor Persons in a Matrimonial Cause: wife's 'first bills' not to be taxed by security orders   J 86/22
1943   Solicitor's opinion of obligation of an employer to pay his wife Trade Board rates when she works within the scope of the Laundry Trade Board   LAB 11/1492
1949-1961   Committee for Managers and Club Stewards in Licensed Non-residential Establishments: request made for investigation of the conditions of employment of club stewards and their wives   LAB 11/2443
1949-1950   Retail Distributive Trades Wages Councils: St Dunstan's Institute for the Blind request that shop managers of controlled shops and their wives be exempted from Wages Regulations Orders. Solicitor's opinion   LAB 11/2533
1949   Licensed Non-residential Establishment Wages Board: Ansells Brewery Ltd Birmingham; annual holidays for managers and their wives; question of enforcement action. Solicitor's opinion   LAB 11/2577
1949-1953   Licensed Non-residential Establishment Wages Board: Five Bells Inn, Lincs, report on terms of agreement with, and wages paid to, manager and wife. Solicitor's opinion   LAB 11/2587
1950-1951   Licensed Non-residential Establishment Wages Board: Lundin Golf Club, Fife: question of whether club steward's wife is required to assist in the work of the club. Solicitor's opinion   LAB 11/2614
1936   Payment of unemployment insurance benefit to married women: anomalies   LAB 12/110
1963-1964   National Insurance Acts: check on earnings of dependent wives   LAB 12/1104
1949-1952   National Insurance Act 1946: unemployment benefit for married women   LAB 12/575
1925   Opinion of Law Officers, Mr Travers Humphreys and Mr Percival Clarke concerning questioning of wife of a suspect and reading over to suspect of statement made by wife (224)   LAB 2/1126/SD1425/1925
1927   R B Tailoring Trade Board: London Employers' Association Ltd, 76 Well St, W1: Merchant Tailor employing journeyman homeworker who is assisted by wife: Solicitor's Opinion (251)   LAB 2/1248/TB105/114/1927
1920   Assessment of grant: children's allowance: question of wife's income   LAB 2/1511/AD3035/1920
1931   Bad insurance risks: married women and Short Time workers (94)   LAB 2/1597/1F3243/1931
1918   Permanent Women Officers re-engaged, after marriage, in temporary capacity. Treasury Sanction for re-employment and payment of War Bonus (72)   LAB 2/1723/EDS10315/80/18
1933   Advance of fares: recovery action in regard to married women: question of legal proceedings (76)   LAB 2/174/ET1777/33
1918   Discharged munition workers: letter to Treasury requesting sanction for the issue of free railway tickets to wives and families of workmen who have been employed in munition work   LAB 2/176/ED14077/116
1932   Standing Committee of Establishment Officers: Report of Temporary Staff Committee, arising out of report of Royal Commission on Civil Service. Position of married women (226)   LAB 2/1997/S&E1438/10/1932
1915   Office of Trade Boards: suggested proceedings against Mr & Mrs Tabb and/or Mrs Williams of London employed with the Tailoring Trade for alleged offences against the Trade Board Act (247)   LAB 2/635/TB32591/1915
1920   Employment of married women: note on policy of Department in regard to employment of above   LAB 2/751/ED3027/1920
1925   Retail Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board: Messrs Reynard & Sons, Nelson: enquiry as to legality of mother signing as guardian in lieu of father, an agreement of intended apprentice: Solicitor's Opinion (243)   LAB 2/991/TB105/13/1925
1967-1970   Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Office: employment services: employment of married women   LAB 21/228
1969-1970   Yorks and Humberside Regional Office: employment services: employment of married women   LAB 21/228
1952-1960   Enquiry into the social implications of the employment of married women   LAB 8/2379-2380
1961-1965   Employment of married women: policy questions   LAB 8/2651
1965-1967   Employment of Older Workers and Married Women: notes and papers   LAB 8/3113
1965-1966   GPO enquiry into possibilities of employing more married women and part-time workers   LAB 8/3224
1966-1967   Employment of married women: Departmental Working Group; notes and papers   LAB 8/3255
1966-1972   Employment of married women: taxation of earnings   LAB 8/3263
1939-1943   Labour Supply Board: conditions affecting ex-servicemen, married women and ex-civil servants under temporary employment in government departments   LAB 8/872
1944   Release of women with household responsibilities from essential work. Proposed function of National Service Officers and Women's Panels   LAB 8/920
1936   Married Women and Tortfeasors Act 1935 s.6   LCO 2 1820
1933   Enquiry as to whether it is proper for a solicitor to practice as an advocate before a Bench of Magistrates of which his wife is a member   LCO 2/1448
1935-1936   Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1935   LCO 2/1810
1934-1935   Liability of husband for wife's torts   LCO 2/1969
1935   Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Bill 1935   LCO 2/1978
1943-1946   Parliamentary Question: Dr Edith Summerskill, Mr Leach etc: as to wife's housekeeping allowances   LCO 2/2777
1946   National Insurance Bill 1945: position on evidence given by husband or wife against the other party to the marriage   LCO 2/3102
1947   Married Women Property Act 1882   LCO 2/3289
1949   Law Reform (Married Women and Tortfeasors) Act 1935   LCO 2/3601
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1943-1953   Soldiers wives taking legal proceedings against husbands   LCO 2/3908
WIVES - General :
1947-1949   Financial assistance to enable the Marriage Guidance Council to carry on their work   LCO 2/3963
1947-1948   Privilege for information acquired by welfare workers in matrimonial disputes   LCO 2/3965
1949-1953   Marriage Guidance Organisations: proposed grants for experimenta period   LCO 2/4643
1947-1955   Deed Poll: practice enabling a married woman who is not divorced to change her name by deed poll to the name of the person with whom she is living in adultery   LCO 2/5639
1892-1893   Married Women's Bill: comments on   LCO 2/57
1959-1963   Law Reform Committee: Sub-Committee K: Liability in Tort of One Spouse to Another: Husband and Wife Bill 1962: reports, correspondence, memoranda   LCO 2/7383-7388
1923-1925   Married Women (Torts) Bill 1925   LCO 2/777
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1935   Opinion: Naval Discipline Act (s.98 (a)); power of Admiralty to order deductions from pay of seamen for maintenance of wives and children   LO 3/1113
WIVES - General :
1942   Post-war income tax - credits of married women   LO 3/1279
1910   Education Act 1902: as to meaning of 'educational grounds' in s.7, with special reference to the employment of married women as teachers in voluntary schools   LO 3/307
1922   As to judgment and execution against a married woman   LO 3/568
1986-1987   Lands Tribunal: J G R Ingersoll (VO) v Mr & Mrs McSorley   LT 10/198-200
1940   Request by Lord Provost of Glasgow for introduction of housewives' broadcast on food supplies, marketing and prices   MAF 102/51
1955-1963   Promotion of ex-established married women   MAF 184/63
1964-1971   Statistics Division: life cycle of a housewife   MAF 300/80
1941-1944   Shopping difficulties of married women war workers   MAF 99/1094/1098
1923   Transfer of liquor licence to a married woman and the need to enquire into husband's character   MEPO 2/4515
1939-1941   Auxiliary canteen staff: objections to wives of officers above constable rank   MEPO 2/5588
1934-1952   Employment of married women in accordance with Treasury circulars   MEPO 2/6938
WIVES - FORCES : General
1941-1944   Conduct of wives of members of armed forces in receipt of separation allowance: policy on police enquiries   MEPO 2/6999
1943-1944   Accommodation for members of armed forces and wives and friends visiting London   MEPO 2/7000
WIVES - General :
1925-1948   Rent allowance: officers residing in houses owned by their wives   MEPO 2/7874
1946-1948   Retention of married women in the Service: amendments to Police Regulations and General Orders   MEPO 2/7949
1833   Correspondence relating to sale of a wife by a man in Portman Market on 4 July 1833   MEPO 2/9656
1940   Alleged attempt at communicating with the enemy by Mr and Mrs Henry Burns, nee Neumann: Director of Public Prosecutions enquiry   MEPO 3/1152
1935-1937   Jewellery believed stolen from His Excellency Dr Jaeger, Swiss Minister in Vienna, by Zygmund Jaruntowsky: claim by Madame Jaeger against Whistler & Co with whom it was pledged   MEPO 3/1417
1934   Mrs Adelaide Alice Killick, obtaining £23,000 by false pretence over a period of 10 years, husband Robert Edward Killick knowingly receiving   MEPO 3/1435
1945-1959   Applications for rent allowance in 'unmarried wife' cases: policy (police pensions)   MEPO 3/2156
1942   Exhumation of Freda Annie Davis, wife of Frederick Charles Davis at Piddletrendthide Churchyard, Dorset on 12 Nov 1942   MEPO 3/2239
1923-1925   Questioning of suspect's wife: Law Officer's opinion   MEPO 3/304
1849   Murder of Patrick O'Connor by George Frederick Manning and his wife   MEPO 3/54
1937   Percy and Lilian Mary Davis: manslaughter of their two sons through desertion   MEPO 3/841
1910-1956   Home Office: Children's Department: Policy Section: foster parents: see list   MH 102
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1918   19th general hospital: admissions: nursing sisters, soldiers' wives and women workers   MH 106/1280
WIVES - General :
1975-1976   Violence in marriage: application for research grants   MH 166/433-434
1915-1918   Blyth Rural District Council: Public Health Inspector: appointment as Registrar of marriages, and of wife as substitute   MH 48/522
1919-1920   Allowances to British born wives and dependants of interned and repatriated enemy aliens.....   MH 57/203
1967-1969   Kenya: European farms, Kenya: S Wingfield Digby MP on behalf of Mr and Mrs Rawson Smith   OD 26/233
1912-1913   Determination of Insurability: wife of Manager of Licensed Premises   PIN 13/156
1912-1913   Determination of Insurability: wife of branch manager   PIN 13/192
1913   Determinations under the NI Acts: published decisions: casual employment of wife of gardener   PIN 13/209
1912-1914   Determination of Insurability: caretaker's wife acting as cleaner   PIN 13/24
1936   Determinations under the NI Acts: published decisions: wife of steward- caretaker of club   PIN 13/446
1937-1939   Determinations under the NI Acts: published decisions: wives of undertakers' employees   PIN 13/476
1913-1915   Determination of Insurability: schoolkeepers' wives   PIN 13/904
1949-1951   Unemployment Insurance: shop assistant cohabiting with employer   PIN 13/955
WIVES - FORCES : General
1922-1924   War pensions: identification of pensioners: form of life certificate for wives and children chargeable to local authorities   PIN 15/1366
1922-1923   War Pensions: arrears of wife's allowance under Article 1(a) of Royal Warrant for three years   PIN 15/1473
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1920-1923   War pensions: unmarried wife of deceased soldier who rejoins her legal husband: allowances in respect of children   PIN 15/148
WIVES - FORCES : General
1921-1930   War Pensions: pensions to unmarried wives   PIN 15/149-150
1917-1925   War Pensions: widows' and dependants' pensions: procedure in respect of men reported missing   PIN 15/1530-1532
1917-1919   War Pensions: widows' and dependants' pensions: procedure in respect of officers reported missing   PIN 15/1533
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1917-1919   War Pensions: advances to wives and dependants of Mercantile Marine ratings serving under the Admiralty   PIN 15/1740
WIVES - FORCES : General
1921-1925   War Pensions: allowances for children of an unmarried wife: wrong awards   PIN 15/222
WIVES - General :
1940-1943   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: housewives injured in air raids   PIN 15/2274
1939-1940   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1939: application to wives sustaining war injuries   PIN 15/2275
1942-1943   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1941: award of injury pension to both husband and wife   PIN 15/2307
WIVES - FORCES : General
1940-1942   War Pensions: unmarried wives (Second World War): Articles 14, 43 and 58 of Royal Warrants 1939 and 1940; instructions re grant of allowance or continuation of pension   PIN 15/2421
1923-1925   War Pensions: removal from duty: marriage to unmarried wife after first removal   PIN 15/251
WIVES - General :
1923-1925   War Pensions: removal from duty: marriage to unmarried wife after first removal   PIN 15/251
1939-1941   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: injured housewives requiring substitute household help   PIN 15/2550
1939-1940   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1939: allowances to injured persons in respect of wife and/or children   PIN 15/2551
WIVES - FORCES : General
1921-1940   War pensions: separated or deserted wives: conflicting claims to pensions of separated legal wife and unmarried wife   PIN 15/2573
WIVES - General :
1921-1940   War Pensions: separated or deserted wives: conflicting claims to pensions of separated legal wife and unmarried wife   PIN 15/2573
WIVES - FORCES : General
1922-1942   War Pensions: separated or deserted wives: resumption of allowances where: (1) pensioner separates from wife and subsequently resumes cohabitation (2) pensioner marries unmarried wife, separates, and later resumes cohabitation   PIN 15/2574
WIVES - General :
1922-1942   War Pensions: separated or deserted wives: resumption of allowances where: (1) pensioner separates from wife and subsequently resumes cohabitation (2) pensioner marries unmarried wife, separates, and later resumes cohabitation   PIN 15/2574
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1923   War pensions: remarriage of widows and female dependants: question of gratuity to unmarried wives who were married previous to cohabiting with the deceased soldier and whose husband has disappeared   PIN 15/258
WIVES - General :
1940-1947   Personal Injuries (Civilians) Schemes 1939-1941: dependants living as wives   PIN 15/2798
WIVES - FORCES : General
1938-1966   War Pensions: dependants living as wives (Second World War): relative position of separated wives and unmarried dependants; position of unmarried dependant with eligible children in her care   PIN 15/2976-2977
WIVES - General :
1938-1966   War Pensions: dependants living as wives (Second World War): relative position of separated wives and unmarried dependants; position of unmarried dependant with eligible children in her care   PIN 15/2976-2977
WIVES - FORCES : General
1916   War Pensions: forfeiture of allowances and pensions   PIN 15/3304-3305
WIVES - General :
1954-1957   War Pensions Awards Manual 1953, chapter 14: allowances for husbands and children of disabled women pensioners   PIN 15/3854
WIVES - FORCES : General
1941-1945   War Pensions: War Service Grants: grants to working women: proposed scheme with differentiation between childless wives and those with families   PIN 15/3995-3997
WIVES - General :
1941-1945   War Pensions: War Service Grants: grants to working women: proposed scheme with differentiation between childless wives and those with families   PIN 15/3995-3997
1943-1945   War Pensions: War Service Grants: wives working during pregnancy: policy   PIN 15/3998
WIVES - FORCES : General
1941-1946   War Pensions: War Service Grants: young childless wives: policy   PIN 15/4000-4001
WIVES - General :
1941-1946   War pensions: War Service Grants: young childless wives: policy   PIN 15/4000-4001
WIVES - FORCES : General
1919-1929   Pensions and allowances of warrant officers, their wives and children   PIN 15/667-669
1920-1925   War Pensions: alternative pensions to officers and their wives and to nurses   PIN 15/83
1917-1930   War Pensions: treatment of lunacy (men): allowances payable to unmarried wives and dependants (not relatives)   PIN 15/907-908
WIVES - General :
1940   National Insurance: position of wives of claimants who normally take in boarders during the season at holiday resorts: eligibility for dependants' benefit   PIN 16/21
1953-1954   National Insurance: Exchequer and Audit departmental enquiry: payment of contributions due to the Ministry where the insured person has either reached pensionable age or become a married woman   PIN 18/245
1946   National Insurance Bill 1946: problems of married women   PIN 18/30
WIVES - FORCES : General
1957   War pensioners' unemployment supplement: additional allowance for wife   PIN 18/350
WIVES - General :
1957-1958   National Insurance: Evasion of Earnings Rule Working Party: check on earnings of dependant wives at 3 monthly intervals   PIN 18/366
1958-1978   National Insurance: Evasion of Earnings Rule Working Party: check on earnings of wives of claimants to sickness and unemployment benefit   PIN 18/367
1962   National Insurance: Mrs A Lomas: payment of pension following alleged misdirection about reduced rate of pension payable to married women (closed 50 years)   PIN 18/553
1963   National Insurance: Mrs L Lee: late claim to retirement pension by wife of late entrant; deficiency in official publications   PIN 18/565
1947-1949   National Insurance Act 1946: Married Women Regulations under section 59 (S.I. 1948 No 1470)   PIN 18/58
1945   National Insurance: allowances for wives and dependants: reduction on account of arrears of contributions   PIN 19/ 15
1943-1947   Married women: position under the National Insurance Act 1946; consideration of the Beveridge proposal of a 'Housewives' class of insurance; early policy decisions relating to the insurance of gainfully- occupied married women   PIN 19/144
1949-1962   National Insurance: married women: question of the right to pay Class 3 (non-employed) contributions; apparent conflict of statutory provisions   PIN 19/146
1949-1952   National Insurance: married women's contributions: proposals for simplification of provisions   PIN 19/160
1952-1954   National Insurance: Working Group on dependancy, widowhood and married women   PIN 19/184
1941-1943   National Health Insurance and Contributory Pensions (Married Women Emergency Provisions) Regulations 1942   PIN 19/27
1954-1955   National Insurance: Working Group on dependancy: widows, married women and children   PIN 19/279
1950-1966   National Insurance: married women: payment of contributions   PIN 19/306
1963-1970   National Insurance: married women's election not to pay contributions: backdating of both election not to pay and election to pay   PIN 19/396
1947-1948   Exception from liability to pay national insurance contributions on grounds of small income or as a married woman or widow: issue of certificates   PIN 19/91
1952   The Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1952: raising of wife allowance rate....   PIN 20/147
1948-1961   Interpretation of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 and Regulations: Section 88 (3): cohabitation   PIN 21/159
1951   Proposed Amendments to National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations 1948: Regulation 7 relating to earnings condition for wife of beneficiary who is incapable of self support   PIN 21/223
1960-1967   Working Party on War Pensions and Industrial Injuries: provisions for cohabiting widows   PIN 21/367-368
1934-1939   Ideal Benefit Society: agreements between the Society and Mr W H and Mrs C H Griggs, Deputy Secretary and Secretary: agreement on compensation for loss of office to be paid to Mr and Mrs Griggs   PIN 24/108
1947-1948   National Insurance: claims for increased pensions in respect of wives and/or children: agency arrangements with Assistance Board   PIN 32/38
1958-1961   Review of married women's rates of benefits   PIN 35/119
1962   Forward planning: benefits for older pensioners, widowed mothers and chronic sick; earnings limit for dependant wife   PIN 35/196
1949-1951   Sickness and unemployment benefits: questions affecting married women   PIN 35/23
1948-1958   Sickness and unemployment benefits: review of married women's rates of benefit   PIN 35/24
1951-1966   Insurance and benefit questions affecting the rights of married women   PIN 35/91
1972   Proposal for a new benefit for disabled housewives: proposal never enacted   PIN 42/83
1968-1972   Widow's benefit: cohabitation   PIN 46/123
1947-1948   Pensioner's wife under 60 at the appointed day (5 July 1948)   PIN 46/16
1949-1965   Pensions: dependant wife attaining age 60: procedure   PIN 46/26
1950-1963   Retirement of married women: contribution condition known as 'half test'   PIN 46/33
1951   Pensions: statistics: incidence of claims for dependant wife   PIN 46/41
1952-1968   Widows Benefit: cohabitation; policy and procedure   PIN 46/59
1954-1968   National Insurance Scheme Review: 'half test' contribution condition for married women   PIN 46/64
1948-1949   Determination of Insurability: married women supply teachers: proposal from NUT on payment of contributions in arrears   PIN 49/1
1957-1958   Determination of Insurability: wives of off-Licence Managers   PIN 49/197
1961-1962   Determination of Insurability: wives of public house managers   PIN 49/236
1949-1964   Determination of Insurability: wife working with husband: question of partnership or similar association   PIN 49/4
1957-1970   Refunds of class III stamps: overpayment by married women   PIN 54/17
1950-1966   Married women's class III contributions: refunds where persons were not eligible; case papers   PIN 54/22-23
1950   Married women's insurance: talk by Mr Oades to Northern Region Managers 23 October 1950 explaining the regulations   PIN 54/26
1950-1951   Determination of contributions: requalifying condition for sickness and unemployment benefit for married women   PIN 54/29
1950-1951   Requalifying condition for sickness and unemployment benefit for married women   PIN 54/29
1976-1978   Married women: failure to satisfy contribution conditions for retirement pension   PIN 54/46
1976-1977   Married women: retirement pension (category A) reduced rate   PIN 54/48
1976-1977   Married women's retirement pension   PIN 54/50
1960-1961   National Insurance (Married Women) Amendment Regulations 1960: requirement for married women to pay graduated contributions   PIN 54/55
1956-1966   Retirement pension: earnings of dependant wives   PIN 55/47
1969-1978   Married women: higher rate sickness and unemployment benefit (see also PIN 55/34)   PIN 55/52
1971   Jersey enquiry about policy on dependency benefit: wife's earnings rule   PIN 55/63
1953-1971   Overlapping benefits: check on payment of dependency benefit for wife in receipt of personal benefit   PIN 55/67
1964-1981   Review of earnings of dependent wives   PIN 55/68
WIVES - FORCES : General
1963-1972   War disablement pensioners in receipt of unemployability supplement: national insurance dependency positions of wives occasionally absent from work   PIN 55/69
1963-1970   War Pensions Policy: unemployability supplement: questions relating to Additional Wife's Allowance   PIN 59/114
1962-1963   War Pensions Policy: earnings limit for dependant wife: effect on War Pensions Scheme of proposed increase in National Insurance earnings limit   PIN 59/179
WIVES - General :
1930   Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance: Final Report: chapters 4 and 6: married women   PIN 6/63
1953-1954   National Insurance: married women amendment regulations 1954   PIN 60/100
1957   National Insurance: married women amendment regulations 1957   PIN 60/126
1947-1948   National Insurance: married women regulations 1948   PIN 60/26
1948-1961   Wives: see under heading Sickness Benefits: see list   PIN 62
1948-1949   Unemployment Benefits: absence from GB: claimant's wife visiting America   PIN 62/1581
1952   Claimant's wife's earnings in excess of 24/- per week   PIN 62/2006
1948-1949   Guardian's allowance: cohabitees' children who have been deserted   PIN 62/43
1948-1949   Maternity grant: uninsured divorced woman and cohabitee   PIN 62/47
1948-1949   Maternity grant: mother who was not resident in GB but became British on marriage   PIN 62/48
WIVES - FORCES : General
1924-1978   War Pensions: allowances for wives and children   PIN 67/35
1918-1963   War Pensions: institutionalised psychiatric cases: payment of allowances to wives and dependants   PIN 67/50-52
1962-1964   War Pensions: institutionalised psychiatric cases: payment arrangements for married pensioners   PIN 67/83
WIVES - General :
1964-1966   Graduated Pension Scheme: Flat Rate Abatement Plan: women, particularly contracted-out opted out married women   PIN 68/73
1935   Deputation from industrial women's organisations: anomalies regulations re married women   PIN 7/158
1918   Out of Work Donation: non-manual workers income limit, British born wives of aliens   PIN 7/17
1947-1952   Unemployment Insurance: Married Women's Anomalies Order 1945: report by Ministry of Labour   PIN 7/340
1950-1955   Married women's claims to unemployment benefit   PIN 7/378
1951-1961   Unemployment Benefit: proposed check on child and adult dependancy   PIN 7/396
1952-1954   Unemployment Benefit: married women; proposed amendment of contribution conditions   PIN 7/454
1954-1968   Married women: unemployment benefit statistics   PIN 7/466
1922   Unemployment Insurance Acts 1920-1930: umpires decision: part-time married women in textile industry   PIN 7/68
1965   Earnings-related short-term benefits: married women, and transitional arrangements   PIN 70/72
1963-1967   Earnings Related Supplement: special groups: married women   PIN 72/31
1944   Beveridge Committee: retirement pensions: married women's contributions   PIN 8/121
1944   Beveridge Committee: deputations to the Minister: married women's associations   PIN 8/66
1967   Russia: Mrs Tkchenko wrote to Prime Minister about alleged forced removal of her husband from Soviet aircraft at London Airport   PREM 13/1844
1964   Mrs Frank Cousins: alleged membership of Communist Party   PREM 13/90
1948-1949   Ministers' wives expenses a charge to public funds   PREM 8/1031
1949   Proposed Mountbatten Estate Bill: Married Women (Restraint upon Anticipation) Act 1949   PREM 8/1055
1780-1781   Rodney Papers: papers in case of James Rodney and his wife against Rev. Prince and others pp 123-198   PRO 30/20/26/6
1806   Hatton Papers. Jane Batchelor to Lord Spencer enclosing a petition in favour of her husband ff 32-33   PRO 30/45/1
1806   Hatton Papers. Enclosure: petition in favour of George Batchelor, surgeon f 34   PRO 30/45/1
1806   Hatton Papers. Jane Batchelor and Robert Menzies to Lord Spencer, complaining that she has had no acknowledgement of receipt of the petition ff 35-36   PRO 30/45/1
1806   Hatton Papers. C Hope, Lord Justice Clerk to Lord Spencer. Returns Batchelor's petition with comments. Recommends that sentence be remitted ff 37-42   PRO 30/45/1
1813   Hatton Papers. Lt Gen George Porter writes in favour of Mr Peterson, led into crime by his drunken wife ff 87-88   PRO 30/45/1
1814   Hatton Papers. J Selwyn requesting that William Blake be allowed to accompany his wife who has been sentenced to transportation ff 123-124   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. William Waldgrave writes on behalf of Sarah Boneham, inquiring whether her husband Joseph, a convict in New South Wales, is alive ff 165-166   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. Charles Frisby requests that his wife be allowed to accompany him on transportation ff 153-154   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. Col Davey to Gen Tench at the Admiralty forwarding Mrs Jemott's petition in favour of her husband, William, at present a convict in New South Wales ff 202-205   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers. Mr Marryat, Chairman of the Committee of Lloyds, forwards petition from Mrs Jemott in favour of her husband, William. He has received the recommendation of Governor Davey and seeks a pardon, providing he remain in New South Wales ff 288-291   PRO 30/45/1
1819   Hatton Papers. Edward Protheroe forwards the petition of James and Elizabeth Dorer in favour of their son James Dorer junior, sentenced to death for horse stealing ff 464-465   PRO 30/45/1
1819   Hatton Papers. Lady Granville writes on behalf of Mary Connor in favour of her husband William Connor ff 478-479 PRO 30/45/11819] Hatton Papers. Petition of James Jeffcott of Richmond, gardener, and Hannah his wife, in favour of their son Thomas Jeffcott ff 506-507   PRO 30/45/1
1911   Ramsay MacDonald Papers: Revd F B Meyer. Applauds courage of Mr and Mrs Harris's journey to the Congo ff 125-126   PRO 30/69/1154
1798-1805   The Queen to Lady Chatham warning her not to take notice of the wife of a brother of the Duke Wurttemberg who was accompanying her husband on a visit to England, she having been at one time an actress and kept by him before marrying her [Karoline Alexei]   PRO 30/70/4/213
1890   Ramsay MacDonald Papers: Edith Lees: situation of women in marriage ff 23-24   PRO 69/1135
1947   Enquiry into household distribution of a fuel economy leaflet, and the extent of meter reading among housewives...RG 23/126A Interviewers instructions and questionnaire   RG 23/126B
1942   Food: a survey of meals taken and attitudes towards wartime food amongst group of housewives....for Ministry of Food (Social Survey)   RG 23/15
1956   Enquiry into housewives' means of getting domestic supplies in five European countries, and their opinions on food distribution facilities, for the European Productivity Agency EPA   RG 23/247
1958   Enquiry into housewives' opinions and experiences of the Garchey refuse disposal system, for the DSIR   RG 23/264
1963-1966   Illegitimate children born to married women   RG 26/357
1950-1961   Publicity for Marriage Guidance Council, with circular GRO 1/1951, National Marriage Guidance Council Annual Reports 1949-1950 and 1950-1951, and leaflets 1956-1982   RG 48/2274
1966   Registration of children born to married women where husband is not the father   RG 48/2824
1927   Doctor issues wife's death certificate: case referred to Coroner   RG 48/395
1939   Registration during evacuation of mothers and babies   RG 48/758
1963-1975   Re-employment, re-engagement and re-instatement of married women officers   RG 55/5
WIVES - FORCES : General
1910   War Office and Admiralty. Payment of cost of nursing care of soldiers' and sailors' dependants in foreign stations (25506/09; 9027/09; 8722/09;6780/09; 124/09; 21498/08; 15790/07; 4134/07; 4881/06; 3088/06; 7844/03; 3829/03; 849/03; 18059/02; 21414/01; 9578/98)   T 1/11182/1438/10
WIVES - General :
1910   Board of Education. Employment of married women as teachers in voluntary schools: opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown (7458/10; 23283/09)   T 1/11202/8863/10
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1910   Admiralty. Award of pensions and compassionate allowances to dependants of officers retired for misconduct   T 1/11211/11407/10
1910   Admiralty. Rates of separation allowance payable in respect of wives and children of members of the Royal Marines (10797/10)   T 1/11219/13730/10
WIVES - General :
1911   J E Nash. Application for compensation in respect of losses incurred by himself and his wife (known as Miss Lil Hawthorne) in connection with the Crippen Case (2913/11) [They brought the disappearance of Bell Elmore to the attention of the police: 'these two people have rendered a very signal service to the cause of justice']   T 1/11282/6329/11
1911   Post Office. Certification as an official business of telegrams and letters sent in connection with the Women's National Health Association of Ireland [The lord lieutenant's wife, Lady Aberdeen, was the sponsor of the Association....]   T 1/11313/14979/11
1911   Inland Revenue Department. Liability of husbands to payment of income tax upon the separate incomes of wives: procedure when wives refuse to supply information (Case of Mark and Elizabeth Wilks, a suffragist and member of the Women's Tax Resistance League) (5428/11)   T 1/11319/1625/11
1911   Board of Education. E E Aquilar or Davis, formerly assistant clerk (abstractor), now an inmate of Branstead Asylum: payment of cost of care and maintenance; payment of gratuity to wife (23802/11; 22805/11; 22587/11; 20523/11)   T 1/11367/23908/11
1912   Paymaster General's Office. J F E Egbers, formerly minor staff clerk and now an inmate of a mental institution: superannuation; payment of pension and additional allowance to wife (1102/12)   T 1/11387/2962/12
1912   Customs & Excise Establishment. J G Lovell, formerly preventive man, Hull, now an inmate of Hull City Asylum: superannuation; payment of additional allowance for maintenance cost and support of his wife and children (5031/12; 19844/11)   T 1/11423/10325/12
1912   Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland. J Carroll, formerly resident magistrate, now insane: superannuation; payment of pension and additional allowance to wife (18291/12; 16630/12)   T 1/11469/19994/12
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1912   Admiralty. Grant of 3 days' leave with pay to married workmen returning with their families from service at HM dockyards abroad   T 1/11470/20207/12
WIVES - General :
1912   Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. I Hawkins, former draftsman, Ordnance Survey Department, Southampton, now an inmate of Graylingwell Mental Hospital, Chichester: superannuation; payment of proportion of pension and additional allowance to wife (19548/12)   T 1/11477/22119/12
1913   Office of Parliamentary Counsel. A P Bishop, formerly clerk, now of unsound mind: superannuation; payment of pension to wife; payment of additional allowance for care (25637/12)   T 1/11521/3312/13
1913   Foreign Office. Claim of Madame Romero, wife of the 1st Secretary, Mexican Legation, to exemption from payment of the poor rate on her residence at Great Ormesby, Norfolk (8844/13; 5687/13)   T 1/11544/11153/13
1913   Home Office. W and J Estrop and W Wilson, prisoners, HM Prison, Nottingham: release from custody, reduction of escheated recognizances and payment thereof by instalments (18892/13; 18524/13; 18340/13; 18170/13; 17972/13; 16579/13) [A complicated case: a false charge of paternity of an illegitimate child was laid against W Estrop, which he, his father and his father-in-law fought in court and lost; unable to pay costs, they were imprisoned, and their wives and children were thrown on the parish for relief]   T 1/11572/19360/13
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1913   War Office. Grant of separation allowances to soldiers for children in cases of wife's absence through illness for more than four months (22030/13)   T 1/11585/23309/13
1914   War Office. Treatment of wives of soldiers on the married roll during confinement (7187/14; 5870/14; 259/14; 18726/13; 17419/13; 16840/12; 15981/12; 1175/12; 100/12; 16824/11; 6038/11)   T 1/11642/12791/14
WIVES - General :
1914   Colonial Office. Revision of leave and passage rules for officers serving in East Africa, Uganda and Nyasaland....payment of cost of passages of wives and children (92/12; 12661/11; 11530/11; 10512/11; 9372/11; 6751/11; 2672/11; 1121/11)   T 1/11652/15069/14
1914   Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland. D McAuliffe, decd, formerly teacher, then an inmate of Enniscorthy District Lunatic Asylum: payment of pension to wife; conversion of pension into grant to widow (14647/14; 14352/14; 11987/14; 8022/14; 3689/14; 2559/14)   T 1/11656/15791/14
1914   National Health Insurance Joint Committee. Insurability of the wives of railway gatekeepers in Ireland (11993/14)   T 1/11657/15978/14
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1915   Admiralty. Position of wives and other dependants of naval pensioner lunatics confines in Royal Naval Hospital, Yarmouth (2879/15; 1170/13)   T 1/11756/6797/15
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1915   War Office. Allowances for families of married soldiers living at home who consequently do not receive separation allowances (10290/15)   T 1/11802/16215/15
WIVES - FORCES : General
1917   War Office and Admiralty. Payment of allowance and pensions both to wives and women who cohabit with soldiers and sailors (32043/16; 24928/16; 24913/16; 21785/16)   T 1/12027/1476/17
WIVES - General :
1917   Board of Education. Dr H H Hoffert, divisional inspector of technical institute and evening schools, now in a mental asylum: superannuation; payment of pension and additional allowance to wife (1271/17; 28526/16)   T 1/12032/4358/17
1918   Foreign Office. E W Fawcett, HM Vice Consul, Helsingfors: appointment to supervise transit of goods through Sweden and Finland to Russia; payment of salary in sterling; payment of salary to wife after capture by enemy forces (34181/17; 31084/17; 17497/17)   T 1/12152/16561/18
1918   Local Government Board. Increase of allowances to British born wives and children of interned and repatriated aliens (28395/18; 23904/18; 13027/17; 3099/17)   T 1/12188/32417/18
1918   Local Government Board. Requirement that established women employees resign from their posts upon marriage   T 1/12226/44498/18
1919   Ministry of Pensions. B Griffiths, formerly quasi-permanent clerk, National Health Insurance Commission (Wales) now mentally unfit in consequence of military service: write-off of over-issue of civil pay; allowance to wife (9674/19)   T 1/12311/16574/19
1919   Colonial Office. Mission of Lieut Col M C L S Amery, parliamentary under-secretary, to investigate financial and political conditions in Malta: payment of wife's travelling expenses (35723/19)   T 1/12368/35838/19
1920   Foreign Office. Repatriation at public expense of British-born wives of German subjects and their children (54651/19)   T 1/12567/21247/20
1920   War Office. Position upon marriage of former members of QMAAC and other women's organisations who are receiving compensation for injury under the Injuries in War (Compensation) Act 1914 (Session 2): audit query by the Exchequer Audit Department (15202/20)   T 1/12571/21632/20
1879   County Cork; Bridewell Keepers; gratuities to be given to wives for acting as attendants to female prisoners   T 1/17097
1746   Martha Wager to John Scrope, enclosing an account of money received and paid by her husband, Sir Charles Wager   T 1/321/58
1700s   Petition of Eleanor Minshull concerning her husband's lands   T 1/338/57
1700s   Petition of Elizabeth Connon concerning her husband   T 1/338/66
1751   Requesting the Instrument for granting Anne Finch (formerly Anne Palmer) and Edward her husband, a pension on Anne Finch's surrender of her previous Letters Patent   T 1/347/67
1754   Petition of Mrs Susanna Winnington to Newcastle for payment to her of the salary due to Winnington, annexing duplicate of case of Francis Winnington   T 1/357/17-18
1753-1754   Report of William Murray on the petition of Charles White, husband of Ann Stapleton, for a grant from money settled on Mary and Charlotte Stapleton, sisters to the above, forfeited by their living abroad as nuns, enclosing the said petition etc.   T 1/357/69-72
1756   Petition of Lady Cromerty for the rents and profits of the lands for her jointures as if her husband (found guilty of treason after the 1745 rebellion) were dead, since she and her family have no means of support. Also an earlier petition for similar grant [pre 1751?]   T 1/364/42-53
1756   Benjamin Martyn to Hardinge on the petition of Mrs Jane Clifton, wife of William Clifton, Attorney General of Georgia, that she has her husband's letter of attorney to receive his salaries etc, and protesting at her treatment by Martyn, who as agent received the money. Also state of the cash account on 17 Dec 1756   T 1/370/91-92
1756   Petition of Elizabeth Pendrell for a continuation of the pension of £100 payable to her husband as heir to Mary Pendrell to whom it was granted by letters patent of Charles II (24 July 1678)   T 1/370/96
1756   Memorial of Grace Wilkinson, wife of the former minister of the Savoy sentenced to transportation for solemnising marriages illegally, praying for relief for her and her son   T 1/374/1-2
1757   Report of Philip Cartaret Webb Solicitor to the Treasury, on the petition of Grace Wilkinson, wife of John Wilkinson, who prays for relief from her unfortunate situation, annexing the said petition (damaged)   T 1/375/9
1758   Petition of the wife of Samuel Gibbard for her husband's release from the Fleet Prison   T 1/388/117
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1765   Accounts for 36th Regiment at Spanish Town: money due to women and children   T 1/440/76-77
WIVES - General :
1765   Tripoli: attestation of Cosme Conty, Comte Palatin, that following the death of Robert White, Imperial Consul to Tripoli, his wife Jean acted as chargée des affaires at the British Consulate with the approval of the Bashaw   T 1/441/156-157
1765   Ireland: Lord Northumberland to Treasury requesting civil list pensions of £450 per annum for Mrs Elizabeth Mordaunt, wife of Hon. John Mordaunt and £400 per annum for William Baillie   T 1/443/19-20
WIVES - FORCES : General
1766   Lord Barrington, requesting an allowance for wives and children of subaltern officers and men stationed in Jamaica until it can be provided by the island's Assembly   T 1/446/43-44
WIVES - General :
1764   Report of Barons of Exchequer on the petition of James Campbell of Ardkinlass on behalf of his wife Katherine, daughter of a former Receiver General of Customs and Salt Duties for an allowance to be paid in recognition of his services and of the expense of passing the accounts following his death   T 1/448/302-303 and 448/27-30
1766   Dominica, Grenada and St Vincent: memorial of Elizabeth Young requesting that her husband William be allowed to return to England for health reasons and appoint a deputy commissioner   T 1/449/279-282
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1766   Jamaica and Mosquito Shore: Governor Elletson, advising that it will not be necessary to draw on Treasury for allowances for women and children of 36th Regiment as it has been voted by Assembly   T 1/453/148A-B
WIVES - General :
1770   Ireland: Lord Townshend, for civil pension of £100 p.a. each for Henry Munro, his wife and eldest son   T 1/477/107-108
1770   Treasury Solicitor: report on annexed petition of Norton Knatchbull and his wife Judith, re estate of her sister, Frances Long, died intestate   T 1/479/404-411
1772   Memorial of Edward Richardson asking for relief. He informed the government of sums due from the estate of the late Mr Manning, thereby incurring the displeasure of his wife and daughter in law, who have been harassing him ever since   T 1/494/209-212
1772   Petition of Emmerich asking for money due to him for [supplying the army]. Because of the debt he incurred his wife languishes in a Dutch dungeon. Copy of his wife's letter to him T 1/493/113-114 and   T 1/494/232-233
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1772   Application by Elizabeth Bryant, wife of a naval sailor, James Bryant, for half year's worth of his salary for support of herself and family   T 1/495/203-204
WIVES - General :
1772   Scotland: comment on enclosed memorial of James Mason, imprisoned for an Excise offence committed 12 years previously. Asks for amnesty, as if he has to remain in prison for failure to pay the fine, which he is unable to pay, his wife and children will starve   T 1/496/52-55
1774   J Robinson to T Nuthall. Refers enclosed petition of John Hudson, claiming to be lawful husband of Mary Kay, who died intestate in Gibraltar   T 1/507/322-327
1774   Petition of Henry Errington and Lady Broughton his wife for new lease of land adjoining Green Park, with related papers   T 1/508/74-86
1775   Memorial of Margaret Clements, wife of John Clements, Commander of East India ship 'Royal Charlotte': his innocence of smuggling charges   T 1/516/84-85
1775   Petition of William Mercer and his wife Margaret Murray, only child of the late William Murray, First Clerk of the Office of the Receiver General of Customs in Scotland: allowance for his faithful services   T 1/518/324-325
1776   Report on enclosed petition of William Mercer and Margaret Murray, wife, and only child of late William Murray, First Clerk in Office of Receiver General of Customs. Allowance for William Murray's 'faithful services'   T 1/524/43-53
1776   Report on enclosed petition of Nathaniel Beare: costs of his legal action taken against an attacker of his wife   T 1/527/475-480
WIVES - FORCES : General
1776   Report on a pension for Mrs Isabell Grant, wife of Lt John Grant   T 1/527/83-84
WIVES - General :
1777   W Chamberlayne: recommends granting Elizabeth Arnold the balance of sale of goods occasioned by her husband being convicted of theft; with related documents   T 1/537/292-297
1778   W Chamberlayne's report on petition of Elizabeth Arnold, asking for half the proceeds of sale of the family possessions, seized when her husband was convicted of stealing   T 1/543/105-108
WIVES - FORCES : General
1778   North America: receipts for rations for women and children in General Burgoyne's army 25 Dec 1777- 24 June 1778   T 1/545/63-69
1778   North America: Joseph Smith asks that a bill for £40 be paid to Captain May's wife, he having been a prisoner of war   T 1/547/80-81
WIVES - General :
1779   Lord Weymouth: asks that a pension be granted to the wife of Captain Daniel Houghton, formerly Pro Consul to the Emperor of Morocco   T 1/555/141-142
1780   Samuel Gree: asking for small post in a palace or public office for his wife; mentions that he rescued Lord North from assault   T 1/556/418-419
1780   Petition of John and Ann Rogers to have a legacy, they being the residuary legatees. Ask that the Crown renounce any claim upon the estate arising from other bequests to illegitimate children who have died   T 1/563/62-63
1781   King's Proctor's report on petition of John Rogers and his wife for entitlement to the estate of the late Pickering Robinson   T 1/566/39-44
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1782   North America: Mr Armstrong, Agent, on behalf of Captain Fenton, asking that his allowance should continue to be paid. Captain Fenton settled at Bunker's Hill, and lost his estate and his wife because of the war   T 1/578/21-22
1783   North America. Memorial of Cain O'Hara, late of Norfolk, Virginia, for a pension. This was withheld because of false accusations that he had helped American prisoners of war to escape. He fought for the British and lost his wife and property T 1/594/71-74   T 1/594/71-74
1785   North America. Memorial of Cornelia de Diemar, wife of Captain de Diemar, asks for compensation for losses suffered in America   T 1/624/421-422
WIVES - FORCES : General
1914-1944   Heading: Pensions: Dependants 14 pages see list   T 161
WIVES - General :
1914-1944   Heading: Pensions: Dependants 14 pages see list   T 161
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1921   Royal Naval and Marine Maternity Nursing Home, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham; loan-in-aid   T 161/116/S9290
WIVES - General :
1941-1945   Financial assistance to women of British birth married to foreigners whose nationality they acquired   T 161/1193/S45802/1
1940-1941   Wrongful arrest and detention by the military authorities of Mr & Mrs C W Loveridge & others   T 161/1413/S47599
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1922-1928   Payment for treatment of wives and families of naval ratings in Malta   T 161/164/S15171
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1922-1928   Payment for medical treatment of wives and families of naval ratings in Malta   T 161/164/S15171
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1922-1924   Method of issue and payment of marriage allowances and allotments to wives and dependants of airmen   T 161/171/S15979
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1924-1928   Charges paid by the Aldershot Command Officers' Benevolent Fund for accommodation at the Louise Margaret Hospital for wives and children of officers   T 161/228
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Navy
1920-1922   Overpayments of allotments to wives of Messrs Lynch and Sullivan to be borne on the Ministry of Shipping Vote   T 161/3/S221
WIVES - General :
1929-1931   Madame Chevreau; claim against HMG in respect of her husband's arrest by British Forces in North Persia during the war   T 161/484/S33988/1 and /2
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1920-1922   Free dental treatment to all RAF officers, wives and families of officers serving abroad and RAF Nursing Service personnel   T 161/64/S4661
WIVES - General :
1920   Higher education of ex-service men scheme; wife's earned income to be disregarded for payment of maintenance allowance purposes   T 161/77/S6081
1920-1947   Heading: Establishment: Women. 34 files: see list   T 162
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1939-1941   Employment of wives and relatives of civil servants and military officers in a temporary capacity   T 162/1001/39909
WIVES - General :
1939-1941   Employment of wives and relatives of civil servants and military officers in a temporary capacity   T 162/1001/39909
1927   Provision of free passage for Lady Hamilton Young accompanying her husband on a Government mission   T 162/124/E17435
WIVES - FORCES : Royal Air Force
1928   Public Trustee: Mrs C W involving the manage plantation in the Island of Granada   T 162/138/E19233/04
WIVES - General :
1931   Families of Civil Servants and officers invalided from abroad at public expense who later rejoin the husband at their own expense; payment of passage expenses when the husband is ordered home as the family is again invalided   T 162/264/E25575
1933-1934   Deductions from salaries etc. of civil servants of premium on insurable policies issued to their wives   T 162/324/E15929/037
1934-1938   Post Office: Miss Tostevin, Assistant Principal; application for retention after marriage   T 162/475/E30451
1935-1938   Reinstatement of married typists   T 162/476/E31421
1920-1922   Miss S Druitt (Mrs Hughes) Health Insurance Officer, Ireland; claim for retention in service after marriage   T 162/53/E4114
1938-1941   Retention of women in the Civil Service after marriage; position arising when husband is not a British subject   T 162/586/E6869/09
1937-1944   Re-employment during national emergency of pensioners and married women, who were formerly established civil servants   T 162/739/E34950/1-4
1941-1945   Re-employed pensioners and married women; overtime conditions   T 162/798/E43877
1944-1946   Provision at public expense of family passages to stations abroad   T 162/875/E48026/1-2
1947   Mrs J O Newcombe; application for reinstatement because of husband's financial difficulties   T 162/892/E2392/022
1941-1947   Increments to re-employed pensioners and married women; correspondence leading up to Establishment Officers Circular No 541   T 162/921/E34950/01/1
1937-1938   Labour Ministry: Miss A M Jennings, principal: retention of position after marriage   T 162/980/E35805
1946-1947   Provision at public expense of passages for families proceeding to and from stations abroad   T 162/996/E48026
1940   Proposal by the Labour Party for appointment of a select Committee to examine disparities between payments made to wives and children under various wartime schemes   T 162/999/E41326
1927   Married Women (Employment) Bill 1927   T 163/33/5
1930-1931   Nationality of Women Bill 1931   T 163/61/9
1921-1924   Jones, J T, retired school teacher, convicted of felony for attempted murder; superannuation allowance and gratuity paid to wife and write-off of overpayment authorised, but pension forfeited, not to be restored on his release from penal servitude   T 164/15/2
1937   Staines, A O: pension paid to his wife under three garnishee orders   T 164/159/12
1921-1922   Wernham, Dr H F, inmate of Hanwell Asylum: asylum charges to be paid from additional allowance and pension only to his wife   T 164/17/11
1936-1939   Heard, W H, RIC: compensation allowance paid to wife under power of attorney lapsed for several years; authority given for payment of arrears to wife until time of revocation when allowance would be paid to pensioner   T 164/177/1
1938-1939   Prior, S C award Post Office Savings Bank pension: receiver to obtain authority to act on behalf of beneficiary (wife), inmate of mental hospital   T 164/179/8
1941   Kennard, Sir H W, Ambassador to Polish Government: award of pension under Superannuation (Diplomatic Service) Act 1929; premature execution of allocation declaration before receipt of Civil Service Commissioner's report on health etc, and necessity for verification of entries on declaration regarding Lady Kennard   T 164/194/50
1929-1945   Bailey, Sir E B, Geological Survey of Great Britain to be treated as approved employment with benefit of Superannuation Act 1914 s.4: pension awarded with allocation to wife   T 164/315
1923-1924   Parkinson, S A, inmate of mental asylum: maintenance charges to be paid to the guardians from the additional allowance and pension to his wife   T 164/33/18
1923   Allison, Mrs A M, resigned to marry then resumed teaching after six years: period of service to be extended to allow for pension settlement   T 164/35/18
1922   Treasury Sanction for payments of wife's allowance in respect of unmarried wives of certain trainees (92) LAB 539/4F691/1922 1922-1924 School Teachers' (Superannuation) Act 1918 s.1(3): temporary return of married women to recognised service   T 164/38/9
1923-1924   Authority for payment of gratuity to wife of lunatic workman   T 164/42/2
1912-1924   Frow, Mrs E J: disablement allowance suspended on re-marriage: subsequently re-employed in public elementary schools and award under Teachers' (Superannuation) Act 1918 authorised   T 164/47/19
1924   Re-marriage of widows of the RIC: write-off sanctioned for over-issue of pension due to pensions being paid in advance   T 164/49/2
1920-1922   Pensions (Increase) Act 1920, queries: aggregation of pensions of husband and wife for 'means'   T 164/5/7
1926   Hosni, Mrs M B (née Griffith), died shortly after marriage: marriage by Muslim rite alone accepted as qualifying for gratuity; payment to father for funeral expenses   T 164/64/3
1927-1929   Trimby, Mrs A (née Whitaker), postmistress: temporary service rendered while husband still alive to reckon for pension   T 164/75/2
1928-1930   Langmead, S T, confined in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum: pension paid to wife and later balance to legal personal representative   T 164/76/7
1917   Will of Mr George Phillips; legatee married to a German   T 172/550
1915   Non-payment to landlady, wife of German Embassy official: debt declared to Public Trustee   T 198/80
1930   Return showing number of married women employed in an unestablished capacity in the Treasury   T 199/54
1957-1960   Travelling and subsistence allowance for wives accompanying civil servants on missions or visits   T 215/1153
1949-1960   Removal expenses regulations: position of married women officers   T 215/1273
1947-1954   Increments for re-employed pensioners and married women: queries arising from Establishment Circular (EOC) 51/48   T 215/218
1946-1957   Employment of married women in Civil Service: general questions   T 215/411
1953-1956   Promotion of re-employed, ex-established married women   T 216/299
1963-1966   Appointment of married and unmarried women to established posts during pregnancy   T 216/713
1961   Return of married women and recruitment to Civil Service of women formerly employed in local authorities   T 216/719
1964-1966   Review of rules governing the re-establishment of married women including the rule concerning refund of marriage gratuity   T 216/794
1964   Political activities of wives of senior civil servants   T 216/814
1966-1968   Review of rules governing the re-establishment of married women including the rule concerning refund of marriage gratuity   T 216/903
1943-1959   British Council: question of allowing free passage for wives and families of employees serving overseas   T 219/538
1943-1959   HM Foreign Service travelling allowances: wives of consular officers who assist their husbands on tours and visits   T 220/635
1959-1960   Lord Chancellor's Department: Judges, Judicial Officials and their wives visiting the USA 1960   T 221/586
1959   Lord Chancellor's Department: visit by Lord Justice and Lady Pearce to Australia Law Convention 1959   T 221/587
1959   Lord Chancellor's Department: Lord Chief Justice Parker and wife visit to Canadian Bar Associations meeting in Sept 1959   T 221/588
1947-1953   Implementation of the final report of Denning Committee: grants to Marriage Guidance Council   T 221/630-631
1962   War pensions: amendment to Royal Warrant in respect of wife's allowance payable with unemployability supplement   T 227/1606
1963   Imprisonment of war pensioners: payment of half-pension to wife or dependants   T 227/1613
WIVES - FORCES : General
1961-1962   Pensions (Polish Forces) Scheme (Amendment & Extensions) Order, 1962: payment of allowances to Polish war pensioners in respect of their wives who have resided in Poland since the end of their husbands service in Polish Forces   T 227/1614
WIVES - General :
1960-1961   Increases of retirement pensions for married women and widows in respect of insurance contributions paid after pensionable age   T 227/1723
1961-1966   Measures to encourage the return to schools of qualified married women teachers   T 227/2320
1946-1951   Lord and Lady Templewood: provision of foreign exchange for overseas lectures   T 231/1289
1952   Sir Dennis and Lady Burney: request for purchase of British car   T 231/1292
1950-1951   Emigration concession for women married to non-residents   T 231/513
1948-1957   Superannuation Act 1949: allocation of pension to wives of civil servants who were married before husbands were re-engaged in Civil Service   T 248/139
1960-1964   Travelling expenses of wives of Ministers of the Crown who accompany their husbands on official visits   T 322/10
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1941   Malaya: evacuation of Service wives and families   WO 106/2515
1942-1946   Overseas Service Families Committee   WO 163/171-172
1942-1946   Overseas Service Families Committee Minutes   WO 163/173-174
1953-1954   Army Council Secretariat: Committee on Separated Families   WO 163/388
1942   Western Desert: evacuation of British services children and families   WO 201/383
WIVES - General :
1945   Mrs Margherita Himmler and her daughter (wife and daughter of Reichsführer - ss Heinrich Himmler): capture and disposal   WO 204/12603
1951   Evacuation of women and children from Abadan, Persia, to England   WO 216/386
1951   Trieste: evacuation of families   WO 216/461
1952   'The British Housewife': proposed broadcast by CIGS (Chief of the General Staff)   WO 216/524
1945   Last days of Hitler and Eva Braun: press handout   WO 219/5183
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1942-1943   Malta: evacuation of families from Malta   WO 32/10215
1944-1945   Passages of families overseas: general policy   WO 32/11497
WIVES - FORCES : General
1945-1946   Post war maternity hospital services for wives of Servicemen   WO 32/11553
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1948-1953   Movement of families to Middle East by air   WO 32/12756
1949-1961   Berthing of families in post war troopships   WO 32/13330
1947-1948   Members of Women's Service married to member of Army: policy regarding serving in the same station as their husbands   WO 32/13687
1949-1969   Prohibition of member of the Women's Service from serving in the same units as their husbands   WO 32/13688
1951-1956   Allowances: officers and other ranks married to member of Women's Services   WO 32/14363
1952-1957   Complaint of necessity for payment of National Assistance to wives of regular soldiers   WO 32/14782
1953-1955   Army families separated by exigencies of military service: Army Committee Report   WO 32/15309
1956-1958   Passages for wives who desert husbands overseas: policy   WO 32/16367
WIVES - FORCES : General
1964-1972   Soldiers', Sailors' amd Airmans' Families Association (SSAFA) welfare officers: overseas establishment   WO 32/20208
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1935-1936   Malta: evacuation of wives and children of members of the Forces in the event of war   WO 32/2416
1938-1939   Coloured wives of soldiers abroad: accommodation   WO 32/4540
1939-1941   Maintenance of separated and 'unmarried' wives; priority of stoppages and allotments from soldiers' pay   WO 32/4679
1907-1912   Separation allowance: question of issue on behalf of children of soldiers separated from wives or whose wives are confined to lunatic asylums   WO 32/4857
1914   Discontinuance of grants towards confinement expenses of soldiers' wives   WO 32/4922
1920-1922   Review of policy towards confinement expenses   WO 32/4923-4924
1922-1923   Hospital stoppages for soldiers' wives during confinement   WO 32/4925
1940-1942   Passage of wives and children from the UK to Malaya and Colonial Dependencies   WO 32/9367
1962-1969   Marriage ordinance 1961 and amendments 1962 and 1963   WO 383/16
1818-1848   Passages (soldiers' wives etc.)   WO 4/853-871
WIVES - General :
1865-1866   Royal Courts of Justice, London: 6 Middle Serles Place: Mr & Mrs Norton, freeholder   WORK 12/55/1
1926-1940   Hampton Court Gardens: The Bargewalk: licence to Mr & Mrs Tagg to place boats on the river bank   WORK 16/1244
WIVES - FORCES : Army
1913-1918   Upper Lodge, Bushy Park: vacation by Lady Paget. Occupation by soldiers' wives and families. Loans to Canadian Red Cross Society   WORK 19/390
WIVES - FORCES : General
1911   King George V: coronation: allocation of free seats to hospital nurses, wives of Yeomen of the Guard, embroidresses   WORK 21/26/21
WIVES - General :
1950   Festival of Britain: photograph: Mr & Mrs Grinell and Paul Wright, South Bank 2313-2314   WORK 25/201
1951   Festival of Britain: photographs: Mr & Mrs Hart working on the Freedom Wall 2947   WORK 25/204
1710   (July) Houses of Parliament: Parliament Stairs: house and ground: lease: George Boll, and Sarah, his wife (4)   WORK 8/51
 
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