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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA283 "The Eastern Settlements: Singapore, Prince of Wales Island, Malacca"] page 283 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books. Includes Lists of Inhabitants.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA283 "The Eastern Settlements: Singapore, Prince of Wales Island, Malacca"] page 283 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books. Includes Lists of Inhabitants.
*Malacca and Penang [http://books.google.com/books?id=VwVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94 Chapter 6] of ''Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China'' by G.F. Davidson 1846
*Malacca and Penang [http://books.google.com/books?id=VwVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94 Chapter 6] of ''Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China'' by G.F. Davidson 1846
*''The Burney Papers''.  Cover the period 1825 to 1849.  See [[Thailand]].
*Penang, [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA718 page 718] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah &Co 1855
*Penang, [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA718 page 718] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah &Co 1855
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IaBVAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Memorandum on the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca''] by John Crawfurd 1858 Google Books (Missing pages 1-3) Penang, [[Malacca]] and [[Singapore]]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IaBVAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Memorandum on the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca''] by John Crawfurd 1858 Google Books (Missing pages 1-3) Penang, [[Malacca]] and [[Singapore]]

Revision as of 08:32, 19 October 2015

Penang Island was also known as Prince of Wales Island. It was part of the Straits Settlements, along with Singapore and Malacca. The capital of Penang is George Town (or Georgetown). The island now forms a part of the larger Malaysian state of Penang.

Alternative Spelling

Pinang

Records

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library. Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in IOR N/8. These records are included in the digitised records available on the commercial site findmypast
The LDS film number for these records is 498606, item 2.

Returns are continued in the Bengal returns 1830-1868, N/1. For Malacca marriages 1820-1824, see also IOR: R/9/39/3.

Cemeteries

BACSA have published

  • Penang: Graves in the Protestant Section of Western Road Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 2000 80pp, 27 illustrations
  • Christian Cemeteries of Penang & Perak which details inscriptions of those buried there.
The index of persons named therein can be searched at BACSA Search. Application can be made to BACSA for copies of the full inscription - charges apply. For details of the books including purchase, see BACSA Books - select Cemetery Record Books.

Also See Details of the English Cemetery and some Gravesfrom Pete's Penang.

External Links

Cemetries

  • George Town’s Northam Road Protestant Cemetery. From George Town World Heritage Inc. html version, pdf

Historical books online