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*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900. 
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors''] 
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900. 
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors''] 
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Archive.org
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022973196 ''With the Chinks''] by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps, 1919 Archive.org
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
 
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up  ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918'']  Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
  

Revision as of 10:30, 10 October 2014

China

Major locations

History

  • The Opium Wars:

Records

  • There are some records for China in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch (source unspecified)
  • Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9. These records are now available on the pay site findmypast
  • China: Sources in the India Office Records Guide to records at the British Library
  • British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library. 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)

British Army

The British Army leased for a time Wei-hai-wei (a fine natural harbour) on the mainland and Liu Kung Tao island. There was a garrison of British Troops A naval depot serviced the Royal Navy's China Squadron.[1]

Also see

External links

  • CHina Wikipedia
  • China Coast Family History Website of University of Bristol - project for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources".
  • University of Bristol’s Visualising China Blog is "a web-based resource that allows users to explore more than 9,000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950".

Historical books on-line

  • Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
    • Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11
    • Section 2 The continental kingdoms of Siam, Cochin-China [Southern Vietnam], Tonquin [Northern Vietnam], Pegu [Burma], and Ava [Burma]. pages 11-20,
    • Section 3 Japan and China pages 105-118
    • Section 4 China pages 209 -220
  • Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835 by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926 Digital Books from GIPE, Pune. Pdfs to download.
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742-74. Volume 3 is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website

References

  1. Great War Forum thread Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now by Bushfighter April 2008. (Images only available to logged in members of GWF) (retrieved 14 April 2014)