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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pGBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George  Volume 2 1702-1727''] J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pGBCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George  Volume 2 1702-1727''] J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=85UBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George to the French Occupation of Madras  Volume 3 1727-1748''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1862 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=85UBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George to the French Occupation of Madras  Volume 3 1727-1748''] by J Talboys Wheeler 1862 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfrompu00madrrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Records of Fort St George.  Selections from public consultations, letters from Fort St. George and Fort St. David consultations, 1740'']  Archive.org
*Records of Fort St George
*''Records of Fort St George. Public Despatches from England'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023929650#page/n3/mode/2up ''1753-1754 Volume 57''] 1964, [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073085288#page/n0/mode/2up  ''1755-1756  Volume 59''] 1970,[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073085247#page/n0/mode/2up  ''1756-1757 Volume 60''] 1971 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Diary%20Consultation%20Madras%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&page=1 ''Diary and Consultation Book''] Volume 1 1672-1678 to Volume 86  1756 (July 13 to September 22) (69 volumes available online) (Series consists of 90 volumes to 1760) Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Letters%20%22to%20Fort%20St.%20George%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts  ''Letters to Fort St.George'']  Volume 1 1681-82 to Volume 44 1763-64 (32 volumes available online) (Series consists of  45 volumes to 1765) Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=Letters%20%22from%20Fort%20St.%20George%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts ''Letters from Fort St. George''] Volume 1 1679  to Volume 40 1765 (broken range of 33 volumes available online) Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfrompu00madrrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Records of Fort St George.  Selections from public consultations, letters from Fort St. George and Fort St. David consultations, 1740'']  Archive.org
**''Records of Fort St George. Public Despatches from England'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023929650#page/n3/mode/2up ''1753-1754 Volume 57''] 1964, [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073085288#page/n0/mode/2up  ''1755-1756  Volume 59''] 1970,[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924073085247#page/n0/mode/2up  ''1756-1757 Volume 60''] 1971 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonpalkmanu00greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Report on the Palk Documents'']  1922  Archive.org.  Letters addressed to Sir Robert Palk from the time he relinquished the governorship of Madras in 1767 to the end of 1786. The majority were sent from Fort St. George, and they are “full of political and military intelligence”
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportonpalkmanu00greauoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''Report on the Palk Documents'']  1922  Archive.org.  Letters addressed to Sir Robert Palk from the time he relinquished the governorship of Madras in 1767 to the end of 1786. The majority were sent from Fort St. George, and they are “full of political and military intelligence”
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A Voyage To India''] by Rev James Cordiner  1820 Google Books  describes Madras in 1798-1799 from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA93 page 93]
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A Voyage To India''] by Rev James Cordiner  1820 Google Books  describes Madras in 1798-1799 from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA93 page 93]

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Madras (City)
Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 13.09°N, 80.27°E
Altitude: 6m
Present Day Details
Place Name: Chennai
State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Country: India
Transport links
Madras Railway (to 1908)
Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (1908 on)
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places of interest during the British period
Madras (City)



Madras (now Chennai) was one of the early East India Company Factories, the location of Fort St George and the seat of the Madras Presidency.

Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools
Madras 1893 Rootsweb

History

Spelling variants

Modern name: Chennai
Variants: Madras

FIBIS resources

Plan of Madras and its environs engraved by J & C Walker, London in 1854. This item is for FIBIS members only and you will need to log-in to view it.

Cemeteries

See Madras Cemeteries, for details of some of the Christian cemeteries in the city.

Orphan schools

See the main article Orphan Schools in Madras, or the following list of schools:

Economy and business

External links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (Presidency)

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
These articles have been reprinted as the book Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras , available at the British Library as Official Publications: Church Registers IOR/V/27/73 and Shelfmark OIR 929.354 Open Access. This book is available as a free pdf type download from FamilySearch (located, if the given link is not permanent, by searching the Library catalogue). This link may have download problems during maintenance night time Utah Time (Utah Time=GMT less seven hours). Try again at another time. Adobe Acrobat reader probably required.
  • Madras and its cantonments page 43, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847. Google Books. The cantonments were classified as "Stations on the sea coast"