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*'''1851''' [[Bombay Presidency]] Mofussil Districts - European Residents only. The data from this census is accessible through [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=119&s_id=131 FIBIS Search]. This information was originally from Valmay S. Young's British India Family History website ([http://valmayukuk.tripod.com/id32.html Census Information]) and further details are available there.
*'''1840''' [[Serampore]] (just north of Calcutta) - this was then [[Danish]] Territory and a complete census was taken of the population, including natives. The records have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] (Mormons), with [http://www. familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=327406 Library Catalogue entry]. A researcher in Sydney has a list of extracted names of the European & Indo-European/community at the time - most were connected with the Baptist Mission; but there were also about 180 persons described as Indo-[[Portuguese]]; on a religion basis there were 171 Protestants, 209 Roman Catholics and 1 [[Armenian]].
*'''1834''' [[Tranquebar]] - Madras Presidency - again this was Danish Territory at the time and the Danish 'as enumerated' data has been preserved and has been filmed by the [[LDS]], with [http://www. familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=327409 Library Catalogue entry]
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