Philippines

British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 during the Seven Years' War. At other times, the British in the Philippines appear to have been there mainly for trade or other work related reasons, as part of a British in Asia expatriate community.

Also see

• General Register Office, UK, for general sources for records for the British overseas.

Cemeteries

• The British (Protestant) Cemetery at San Pedro, Makati, Manila, Philippines. An article with some records is available online, see Historical books online below.

Military

• Manila Expedition 1762

External links

• Philippines Wikipedia
• Philippines Genealogy FamilySearch Wiki
  • Philippines Online Genealogy Records FamilySearch Wiki
• "The English "Country Trade" with Manila prior to 1708" by Serafin D Quiason pages 64-83 Asian Studies [Manila] : Institute of Asian Studies, [1963] asj.upd.edu.ph

Serafin D Quiason is also the author of English Country Trade with the Philippines, 1644-1765, published 1966, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003018180 .

• "Changing the Rules of the Game (The India-Manila Trade: 1785-1809)" by Cheong Weng Eang Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 (Sep., 1970), pp. 1-19 (19 pages) jstor.org. Register with Jstor.org and read online for free. Alternatively you may be able to log in to jstor.org using certain library cards.
• Marginal Players and Intra-network Connections: New Perspectives on the Manila Trade, c. 1640–1780 by Birgit Tremml-Werner Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy Volume 29, Number 4, pp. 599–626, 2017?. Includes "II. Trade and Connections between Manila and the Coromandel Coast".
• "The Philippines: An Overview of the Colonial Era" by Dana R. Herrera 2015. Pdf format asianstudies.org
• "The ties that bind: Intersections in British and Philippine history" by Gabriel Azicate October 25, 2020 tinig-uk.com
• Noble Colonials: Americans and Filipinos, 1901-1940 by Kenneth F Kasperski 2012 Ph D Dissertation University of Florida.

Historical books online

• A History of the Philippines by David P Barrows 2nd edition 1907, first published 1905 Archive.org.
• "The British (Protestant) Cemetery at San Pedro, Makati, Manila, Philippines" by David W Mahoney Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 27 (1987), pages 101-111. Archive.org.
• For online editions 1862-1938 of The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c, see China-Historical books online- Directories etc

Also on the same China page are details of other publications whose target audience was the British in Asia (generally excluding India) such as The London and China Express, and The London and China Telegraph, which are available on pay websites.

• Commercial Directory of Manila 1901 Archive.org
• Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila or Rosenstock's Manila City Directory
  • Rosenstock's Manila City Directory

  1903 National Library of the Philippines

  1906 July-December. Actual title Rosenstock’s City Directory of Manila, Iloilo and Cebu 1906 July-December elib.gov.ph. At least some of the pages are poorly scanned.

  1907 National Library of the Philippines.

  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1908 July-December Volume XIII National Library of the Philippines. Note catalogued as Rosenstock's Manila City Directory 1908. Title page digital page 28, Manila Section digital page 32, Hongkong Section digital page 398 etc
  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1909 January to June, Volume XIV. Hongkong, Manila, Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking, Chefoo and Canton Archive.org includes

  • "Manila Section" digital page 34.

  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1909 July-December Volume XV National Library of the Philippines. Note, catalogued as Rosenstock's Manila City Directory 1909. Includes Title page digital page 20. Manila section digital page 24. Hong Kong section digital page 364. Canton section digital page 580, and more for China.
  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1910. Volume XVI University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines.
  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1911. Volume XVII University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines.

  For the last two entries, the books are searchable. Click on the icon for the book reader.

  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1917 Volume XXIII Archive.org includes
    • Manila City Directory digital page 140.

    Rosenstock’s Manila City Directory 1917 Volume XXIII Note catalogued as Rosenstock's directory of China and Manila. Title page University of Michigan Library. Note this is probably the same content as the item immediately prior.

  • Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1920 Volume XXVI Archive.org. Includes
    • "Manila" digital pages 142-1034.
  • Rosenstock’s Manila City Directory 1921 Volume 27 Archive.org
  • Manila City Directory published by Philippine Education Company, Manila. A continuation of Rosenstock's Manila City Directory, first published 1903.
    • Manila City Directory 1933-34 Volume 39 Archive.org
    • Website of Filipinas Heritage Library. Links to Manila City Directory 1934-35, Volume XL and 1941 Volume XLVI, each in three parts on issuu.com. Catalogued on the Filipinas Heritage Library website under Rosenstock's Manila City Directory. The direct issuu.com links are 1934-35/1, 1934-35/2, 1934-35/3; 1941/1, 1941/2, 1941/3.
    • Manila City Directory 1937-38 Volume 43 Archive.org
    • Manila City Directory 1941 Volume 46 Archive.org
• Romance and Adventure In Old Manila by Walter Robb, from manuscripts of Percy A Hill. 1935, revised 2nd edition, first published 1928. Archive.org
• University of Michigan Library digital collection "The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism". Search results for books with Manila in the title.
• Filipiniana Online on issuu.com (filipinasheritagelibrary) Mainly WW2. Note, many of the books seem to be limited pages only. Strangely, the editions of Manila City Directory (see above) do not appear in the Search results.