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Passport Applications - look up please

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~Looby Loo~

~Looby Loo~ Report 11 Nov 2009 06:34

Hi, I would appreciate it if someone with access to passport applications please look up a William Henry Baker's application around 1873 - 1881 please. He was born in 1857.

Many thanks, Lou

Researching:
Baker, Blann. Coyne, Jackman, Parr, Price,

KeithInFujairah

KeithInFujairah Report 11 Nov 2009 06:58

If you suspect he was military, I doubt he would have needed a passport, he would probably have travelled on military papers.

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 11 Nov 2009 07:15

Passports as we know them didn't start to be issued until the end of WW1

Prior to that high ranking diplomats were the only people to hold them I also doubt if there any searchable records

~Looby Loo~

~Looby Loo~ Report 11 Nov 2009 07:16

Hi Keith, he wasn't in the Military, it was his father in law.

He worked for the railways in India as an engineer.

Maybe he went under the name William Baker or W Baker?

Thanks again for trying to help.

Lou

Researching:
Baker, Blann. Coyne, Jackman, Parr, Price,

~Looby Loo~

~Looby Loo~ Report 11 Nov 2009 07:19

Hi Hawkwind,

But I know you can find when a person applied for a passport application as I have his father's & mother's passport applications and they were in 1853.

Perhaps you just applied on paper and were not issued with an actual passport.

Lou

Researching:
Baker, Blann. Coyne, Jackman, Parr, Price,

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 11 Nov 2009 10:18

I am not saying passports weren't issued then - it is just that they were few and far between so it was more common not to have one, than to have one.

Try googling - often a good way to find information.