What is a USA British Subject?

Question

I am trying to find my Great Great Great Grandfathers roots. He was born in 1837 and on the Welsh Census 1851 he is down as a USA British Subject - what is this?

Answer 1

He is a British subject that has USA citizenship as well.

Answer 2

Probably a US citizen (not a Brtitish citizen) living in Wales, but may have been born in an Empire country or colony:

Prior to 1 January 1949, the term "British subject" in British nationality law was used to describe any person who owed allegiance to the British Crown, wherever he was born in the British Commonwealth and Empire. Within the Empire, the only people who were not British subjects were the rulers of native states formally under the "protection" of the British Crown, and their peoples. Although their countries may for all practical purposes have been ruled by the imperial government, such persons are considered to have been born outside the sovereignty and allegiance of the British Crown, and were (and, where these persons are still alive, still are) known as British protected persons.

Between 1947 and 1951 each of the various existing members of the Commonwealth of Nations created its own national citizenship (the Irish Free State had done so in 1935, but left the Commonwealth in 1949). In 1948, the United Kingdom parliament passed the British Nationality Act 1948, which came into effect on 1 January 1949 and introduced the concept of "Citizenship of the UK & Colonies" .

Answer 3

You renounced your British citizenship once you swore your citizenship oath to the USA. the first 2 thirds of the US citizenship oath is a renunciation of allegiance your previous usa. you're breaking US regulation and would have your US citizenship revoked for protecting a British passport. the USA does no longer comprehend twin citizenship. Frankly, you're in some extreme sh!t if the US authorities unearths out what you're doing.

Answer 4

There was no such thing as dual citizenship back then. But if you were born in the US to British parents and returned, you'd be considered an American-born British subject.

Answer 5

Probably that he lived in the USA but was a British Subject, not having taken American citizenship

Answer 6

That seems something very strange to write in 1851. Could the letters be CAN, CND, or NA? Could he be a Canadian British subject?