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***details of an [http://gwulo.com/node/8734 online database of the 6,000+ burials in the Hong Kong Cemetery]
*[http://www.npr.org/2012/08/21/159363999/deaths-tell-the-story-of-life-in-old-hong-kong?sc=emaf Deaths Tell The Story Of Life In Old Hong Kong] by Louisa Lim August 21, 2012 npr.org. An article about Patricia Lim and the Hong Kong Cemetery
*[http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors China Coast Family History] University of Bristol Historical Studies Department
** A search facility for a database which contains details of foreign burials in a number of cemeteries in China, covering the 1850s-1949
** [https://www.bris.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/directories.html Online Directories] including some for Hong Kong
*Rudi Butt’s [http://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/ Hong Kong’s First]. A blog about historical aspects of Hong Kong
*1894 Plague
**[http://newspaperarchive.com/london-and-china-telegraph/1894-07-16/page-14 ''London And China Telegraph'', July 16, 1894 Page 14] newspaperarchive.com
**[http://newspaperarchive.com/london-and-china-telegraph/1894-09-03/page-27 ''London And China Telegraph'' September 3, 1894 Page 27] newspaperarchive.com
 
===Second World War===
*Online books are available at the website [http://bamboo.lib.hku.hk/HKWest/HKWest.htm Hong Kong & the West until 1860] , a [http://lib.hku.hk/database digital initiative] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. [http://bamboo.lib.hku.hk/HKWest/HKWest.asp?page=1&TEXT1=b_all Browse the titles]
**'''Restricted access'''. Online books are available at the website China Through Western Eyes , from the same source. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this database is no longer publically available.
*[https://www.bris.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors/directories.html Online Directories] from [http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors China Coast Family History] University of Bristol Historical Studies Department. Mostly these focus on Shanghai, althogh there are some about Hong Kong
===Journals online===
*[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/2602388.pdf "The Colony of Hongkong - From a Lecture on Reminiscences of a long Residence in the East"] by Rev. Jas. LEGGE, D.D., LL.D. ''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East'' Volume 1 No. 3 (1872)
*[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/2600561.pdf "Historical Outline of Medical Missions at Canton, Hongkong and Macao"] ''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East'' Volume 4 No. 5 (1876)
 
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