Freedom of Information: Records released as a result of Freedom of
Information (FOI) requests
October 2007
This table lists the individual records opened in October 2007 as a result
of FOI requests.
Subject
Health
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Criminal
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Murder
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HM Revenue and
Customs
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Catalogue
reference
Date of
record
Description
MH 159/493
1971 Jan 011975 Dec 31
Minutes of meetings held between
30 July 1973 and 7 April 1975
HO 405/16662
1938 Jan 01 1945 Dec 31
GMACH, L T Date of birth
20.12.1885
PCOM 9/297
1931-1936
RYDER, William: convicted at
Stafford on 2 July 1931 (commuted)
HO 144/17525
1933
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Beier, Emil
Max, from Germany. Resident in
Dover. Certificate AZ3130 issued
10 July 1933.
DPP 2/3254
1961
SMITH, Kathleen: murder of
Vivienne SMITH (daughter)
HO 144/3265
1924
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Sovitzsky,
Hyman (known as Hyman Savitt),
from Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 11,111 issued 25 April
1924.
IR 40/8581
1946
Review of relief given on dividends
in respect of Dominion income tax
HO 405/7763
1949 Jan 011949 Dec 31
CAPANNI, G G Date of Birth:
24.03.1909
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/1979
1923
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/20498
1936 Jan 01 1936 Dec 31
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/5503
HO 144/10432
1926
1929
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Sigalow,
Abram Peissach (or Abraham
Peissach Segalov), from Russia.
Resident in London. Certificate
B.932 issued 19 March 1929.
Sigalow, Colman (or Colman
Segalov). Child of Abram Peissach
Sigalow. Certificate B.932.
MORGENSTERN, M Date of birth
12/04/1902.
Contains the application for
naturalisation of Mrs Margarethe
Morgenstern and her husband
Erwin, both Jewish refugees who
had fled from Nazi oppression prior
to the outbreak of World War II.
Also includes a letter from the
campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst to the
Home Office pleading the case for
Mr Morgenstern to be allowed to
join his wife in the UK.
HO 405/35798
1938 Jan 01 1949 Dec 31
British Council
BW 90/1933
1975; 1978
Work and Pensions
PIN 38/299
1977
BW 2/572
HENNIES, A Date(s) of birth:
19.05.1875
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Beidenkopf,
Israel or Ulik, (or Louis Bidencope,
or Louis Cope), from Poland.
Resident in Harrogate. Certificate
13157 issued 22 March 1926.
Nationality and
Naturalisation
British Council
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Sovitzsky,
Harris (known as Harris Savitt),
from Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 10,759 issued 13
December 1923.
1959-1960
Mozambique: correspondence
The History of the invalid vehicle
service: amendment of 1975
edition; departmental publication
Soviet Relations Committee:
correspondence, including scientific
visitors from USSR; delegation to
Moscow
British Council
BW 2/557
1958-1959
Soviet Relations Committee:
agenda, minutes and matters for
discussion
British Council
BW 2/540
1955-1957
Soviet Relations Committee:
minutes of meetings
1951-1952
MESSINA, Alfredo: convicted at
Central Criminal Court (CCC) on 9
May 1951 of living on immoral
earnings and corruptly offering
bribe; sentenced to 2 years
imprisonment
HO 144/8687
1928
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Tobin, Oscar,
from Roumania. Resident in
Croydon. Certificate 16518 issued
13 October 1928.
Contains the application for
naturalisation of Dr Tobin, who was
active in Labour party politics in
London in the 1920s. Includes
representations made by Clement
Attlee (later the post-war Labour
prime minister), who protested at
the 'spiteful' refusal by the Home
Office in 1924 to grant Dr Tobin
British nationality.
Murder
ASSI 90/62
1954
MURDER: Hepper, William
Sanchez de Pina
Transport
BT 239/411
1963-1982
FO 371/136643
1958
Leading personalities
HO 144/14715
1931
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Franchitti,
Giustino (known as George
Franchitti), from Italy. Resident in
Whitburn. Certificate A19797
issued 6 May 1931.
HM Revenue and
Customs
IR 83/281
1936-1942
British Council
BW 63/39
1981 Jan 01 1984 Dec 31
Criminal
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Foreign and
Commonwealth Office
Nationality and
Naturalisation
PCOM 9/1596
Signals from life-saving stations
and maritime rescue units in reply
to distress signals
Extracts from tax file: Haile
Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games:
international cultural festival
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/9435
1928
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Szumeraj,
Moseck (or Morris Sumray), from
Russia. Resident in London.
Certificate 15797 issued 5 March
1928.
Cabinet Office
PREM 11/2431
1958
Prime Minister met Foreign Minister
of Nepal on 8 December 1958
AN 129/32
1975 Mar 1975 Apr
Investment committee submissions
1989-1990
Committee on Ethical Issues in
Medicine: minutes and papers of
meetings held between July 1989
and July 1990
Transport
Medical Research
Council
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Attorney Generals
Office
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Criminal
Nationality and
Naturalisation
Nationality and
Naturalisation
FD 7/2609
HO 144/12290
LO 2/404
HO 144/5779
MEPO 3/616
HO 144/3127
HO 144/4456
1930
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Chollet, Marcel
Henri, from Switzerland. Resident
in Blackpool. Certificate 18121
issued 21 March 1930.
1962
Applications for the attorneygeneral's fiat under the Public
Order Act 1936: Jordan, C: Tyndall,
J: Pirie, D: Kerr-Ritchie, I: consent
1926
NATIOANLITY AND
NATURALISATION: Torbe, Fanny,
from Poland. Resident in London.
Certificate 13754 issued 31 August
1926. Re-admission.
1938-1939
Refusal of firearms certificate to
Count John Edward JohnstonNoad: failure of appeal at County of
London Sessions
1924
NATIOANLITY AND
NATURALISATION: Kalisky,
Solomon, from Russia. Resident in
London. Certificate 11,107 issued
25 April 1924.
1925
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Silbiger,
Bezalel Elias, from Poland.
Resident in London. Certificate
11976 issued 27 March 1925.
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Cianfarani,
Francesco, from Italy. Resident in
London. Certificate 18500 issued
22 July 1930.
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/12678
1930
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/9309
1948 Jan 011948 Dec 31
CANTORVITCH, G H Date of Birth:
27.06.1892
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/32350
1959 Jan 01 1960 Dec 31
KALYNYCZ, I Date of birth:
20/01/1921
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/14798
1941 Jan 01 1949 Dec 31
FIREMAN, I aka FIREMAN, M Date
of birth 09.02.1902
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/37339
1947 Jan 01 1952 Dec 31
MIKOLAJSKI, K aka MITCHELL
Date of birth 29/02/1924
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/26856
1935 Jan 01 1944 Dec 31
KOLNER, A aka KOELLNER Date
of birth: 22/12/1894
FD 23/676
1958
'The bomb test risk to world health':
article by Professor C F Powell
published in the 'Sunday Pictorial':
subsequent notes and
correspondence
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/35734
1938 Jan 01 1962 Dec 31
MULLER, A Date of birth
24/05/1899
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/36835
1945 Jan 01 1954 Dec 31
MOHAMED, A Date of birth 1900
Medical Research
Council
Criminal
HM Revenue and
Customs
Nationality and
Naturalisation
1930-1950
CRIMINAL CASES: BETTS, Victor
Edward and RIDLEY, Herbert:
convicted at Birmingham Assizes
on 5 Dec 1930 of murder and
sentenced to death; Ridley's
sentence commuted to life
imprisonment
IR 40/7930
1906-1946
Various tax cases involving Inland
Revenue and the Sir H M Mallaby
Deeley family; queries regarding
domicile and the assessment of
taxes
HO 405/13874
1939 Jan 01 1948 Dec 31
FRIEDLANDER, V W Date of birth
15.01.1905
HO 45/24450
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 405/6853
1948 Jan 011969 Dec 31
BERGNER, L Date of Birth:
29.09.1907
Murder
MEPO 3/1032
1932-1939
Gertrude Smith described as a
professional abortionist: sentenced
for three cases of using an
instrument: death of Phyllis
Gertrude Bawcutt
Criminal
PCOM 9/358
1936-1938
QUEREE, Hilda: convicted at
Central Criminal Court (CCC) on 14
October 1936 (commuted)
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/13164
1931
NATIONALITY AND
NATURALISATION: Rachom,
Etska (known as Isaac Tragen),
from Russia. Resident in Preston.
Certificate A19375 issued 3
February 1931.
Responsibility in investigations on
human subjects; experiments on
children and adults for research
purposes: correspondence and
papers; position in law
Health
MH 160/527
1975-1977
Foreign and
Commonwealth
FO 369/2711
1941
Foreign and
Commonwealth
FO 612/90
1930 - 1937
Consular staff at Fernando Po
Variety Artistes Federation: artistes
in Gibraltar