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:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06)  available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable.  The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06)  available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable.  The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:''Colonial Office List''  (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
:''Colonial Office List''  (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*[https://archive.org/details/barbarianeyelord00napi/mode/2up ''Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China, 1834, the prelude to Hong Kong''] by Priscilla Napier 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9  Volume II] Google Books
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9  Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1798051 "Note on the Island of Hong-Kong"] by A R Johnston .HM Deputy Superintendent of Trade,  an article from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 14. January 1, 1844'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-1798051 "Note on the Island of Hong-Kong"] by A R Johnston .HM Deputy Superintendent of Trade,  an article from ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 14. January 1, 1844'' Archive.org
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**''China Sea Directory Volume III. The Coasts of China from Hong Kong to the Korea etc''  Edited by Captain  Charles J Bulloch, RN. [https://archive.org/details/chinaseadirecto00offigoog 1874] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164986 2nd edition 1884] Archive.org
**''China Sea Directory Volume III. The Coasts of China from Hong Kong to the Korea etc''  Edited by Captain  Charles J Bulloch, RN. [https://archive.org/details/chinaseadirecto00offigoog 1874] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164986 2nd edition 1884] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongillustra00warn/mode/2up ''Hong Kong illustrated : views and news, 1840-1890''] by John Warner 1981.  Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Plague
*Plague
**[https://archive.org/details/1915480.med.yale.edu/page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong ... Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. August 1894''] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/1915480.med.yale.edu/page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong ... Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. August 1894''] Archive.org
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**[https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1097_00000441-189703000-00001/mode/2up "The Plague. The Recent And Present Outbreaks In Hong-Kong and India"] by Edward F. Willoughby ''The American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' March 1897. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1097_00000441-189703000-00001/mode/2up "The Plague. The Recent And Present Outbreaks In Hong-Kong and India"] by Edward F. Willoughby ''The American Journal of the Medical Sciences'' March 1897. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/b21297496/page/n7 ''Report on the causes and continuance of plague in Hongkong and suggestions as to remedial measures''] by WJ Simpson 1903 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/b21297496/page/n7 ''Report on the causes and continuance of plague in Hongkong and suggestions as to remedial measures''] by WJ Simpson 1903 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E8C ''A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton''] by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong  c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E8C ''A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton''] by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong  c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double. This company had an agent in Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double. This company had an agent in Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
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*[https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial0000hahn/page/n7 ''China to Me : a Partial Autobiography''] by Emily Hahn 1944. [https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial00hahn 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/chinatome00hahn 3rd file]  1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. [http://www.librarything.com/work/144031/reviews/86980107 About the book] librarything.com.  "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."  
*[https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial0000hahn/page/n7 ''China to Me : a Partial Autobiography''] by Emily Hahn 1944. [https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial00hahn 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/chinatome00hahn 3rd file]  1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. [http://www.librarything.com/work/144031/reviews/86980107 About the book] librarything.com.  "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."  
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongepilogue0000morr/mode/2up ''Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire''] by Jan Morris. Second edition 1993, first published 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00came/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of Hong Kong''] by Nigel Cameron 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon00wels/mode/2up ''A History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh 1993. USA title [https://archive.org/details/borrowedplacehi00wels/mode/2up ''A Borrowed Place : the History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by  John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by  John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenboymemorie00boot/mode/2up ''Golden boy : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by  Martin Booth 2005, first published 2004.  Also published as [https://archive.org/details/gweilomemoriesof0000boot/mode/2up ''Gweilo : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by  Martin Booth. The author was born 1944. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
====Fiction====
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/taipannovelofhon00clav/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tai-Pan; a novel of Hong Kong''] by  James Clavell 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/taipannovelofhon00clav/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tai-Pan; a novel of Hong Kong''] by  James Clavell 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Revision as of 08:03, 26 February 2021

Also see

Information about ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post—1903-1998 (published in Hong Kong) and other databases containing Chinese and Japanese English language newspapers.

Records

  • See General Register Office, UK
  • There was Civil Registration in Hong Kong, refer External links below. There are no records before 1873.
  • "Hong Kong Cemetery" Searchable and browsable database created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images. From Hong Kong Memory. Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Government.
    • Details of some of the inscriptions from the Ossuary[1]
For expanded cemetery details, see Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015724284 . Sample pages Google Books.
  • See External links below for the Searchable database on the website China Families.
  • FamilySearch Research page Hong Kong for Historical Records. However, some records are classified as China records and it may be clearer to find records directly from the Catalog specifically for Hong Kong, see following item.
  • FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" catalogue entry microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.
"Europeans - China Coast : [card file]" “Individual cards for Europeans residing in Hong Kong and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”. Digitised microfilm which may be viewed on your home computer.
Search the FamilySearch Catalog for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions catalogue entry, Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see FamilySearch Centres for changes involving microfilms.
  • Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
  • See Hong Kong Government Reports Online, below. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications.[2] The information was found in an official publication know as the Blue Book in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.
  • See Cemeteries for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
  • The BACSA Archive at the British Library holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
  • The book Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley by Solomon Bard 1997 is available at the British Library in the BACSA Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242. By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery 1991, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office) thought to be available at the Public Record Office, Hong Kong, possibly as a typescript. May possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery.[3]
  • The book British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This link lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).

Hong Kong Volunteers

Regimental history

  • Second to None : the Story of the Hong Kong Volunteers by Phillip Bruce 1991. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012596174

External links

  • “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong” by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. Records prior to 1873 no longer exist. All pre-war marriage records have been lost.
    • Immigration Department contact details. This Department is responsible for Civil Registration but the website does not include information about certificates for family history purposes for persons not resident in Hong Kong, so you would need to contact the Department.
  • Newspapers, including online
    • Hong Kong Public Libraries
      • Information about Old Newspapers and microforms available, now an archived page (details at 2013/03, it is not clear whether this information is also available on the current website.)
      • Newspapers and Periodicals Services, now an archived page (details at 2013/05, it is not clear whether this information is also available on the current website.)
      • To access online historical newspapers, from the link, Multimedia Information System (MMIS) select Collection then “Old HK Newspapers” to view these online. Previously the website advised the online newspapers are in TIFF format. If you cannot see the newspaper images, you may need to download a TIFF plug-in. The Newspapers available in English are
        • China Mail (1866/01/04 – 1961/12/29),
        • Hong Kong Daily Press (1864/01/04 – 1941/09/30),
        • Hong Kong Sunday Herald (1929/01/06 – 1950/10/29),
        • Hong Kong Telegraph (1881/06/16 – 1951/03/30)
        • Hong Kong Weekly Press (1895/01/03 – 1909/12/24)
Note some issues and pages may be omitted
  • Overland China Mail was the weekly edition of China Mail, also containing articles from Evening Mail and Sunday Herald, and was published 1848 to 1941.[4]
Overland China Mail is available on Findmypast, category "Newspapers & periodicals/British Newspapers ", with 'County' classified as Hong Kong China, with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites, added Feb 9, 2021. The date range when added was January 11, 1853 to December 30, 1915 being 1853-1861, 1863-1894, 1897-1915 (with 1848–1916 planned), with details on a BNA page. For BNA, the 'Region' is classified as South Central China, and the 'County' is classified as Hong Kong, China. It is possible to browse individual editions on BNA, in addition to searching. To browse the Findmypast editions, use the filters under "Narrow your search results" (left hand side of the webpage) "By Newspaper" and "By Date".
"Voices from the Stones" by Ko Tim-keung. history.cuhk.edu.hk

Second World War

Maps

Historical photographs online

Historical books online

1862: First publication; 1867, 1877; 1878; 1879 pdf from Oxford University Library, may be slow to open, 1879 Google Books edition; 1880, Google Books, 1880, HT with rotatable pages; 1881; 1889; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: A and B
In addition, Colonial Office List, 1863 and Colonial Office List, 1870 are available in the findmypast (pay website) dataset "Britain, Directories & Almanacs" located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs.
FamilySearch has a catalogue entry for a series of microfiches of the Colonial Office List, (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
Colonial Office List (to 1925) and the later title The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List are available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Fiction

Journals online

Hong Kong Journals online The University of Hong Kong Libraries. Click on 'Browse the titles' to see all the titles available. Included are the following:

  • Online editions of Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1961-2007
    • "Transactions of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society" [Hong Kong], 1845-46 by H. A. Rydings Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 13 (1973)
    • "Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super-cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811" by J. L. Cranmer-Byng Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 15 (1975)
  • "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)
  • "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)

References

  1. "The Ossuary". A series of articles by Christine M. Thomas from December 2018. 2019/01, 2019/03. There are biographical articles about the cemetery from June 2010. Hong Kong Cemetery.
  2. Who Do You Think You Are? Forum thread "Lighthouse keeper in the dark", now no longer available http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10068.html
  3. Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan by Gotelind Müller 2018, page 16, footnote 72 and page 18, footnote 85. See External links, above.
  4. Hong Kong Public Library page. Also "Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week" February 15, 2021. The British Newspaper Archive Blog.