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*[http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/1795 ''Factories and Ports in India: a study of the English settlement pattern on the Coromandel Coast 1630-1724''] by C Srinivasa Reddy University of Hyderabad 1997 thesis from [http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/ Indian ETD Repository]
*[http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/1795 ''Factories and Ports in India: a study of the English settlement pattern on the Coromandel Coast 1630-1724''] by C Srinivasa Reddy University of Hyderabad 1997 thesis from [http://ietd.inflibnet.ac.in/ Indian ETD Repository]
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804481.ece Discovered: Pictures of Madras after Emden struck <nowiki>[</nowiki>September 22, 1914<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by  A. Srivathsan ''The Hindu'' 22 August 2012 . Includes photographic slideshow [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804379.ece?ref=slideshow When Emden Bombed Madras]
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804481.ece Discovered: Pictures of Madras after Emden struck <nowiki>[</nowiki>September 22, 1914<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by  A. Srivathsan ''The Hindu'' 22 August 2012 . Includes photographic slideshow [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3804379.ece?ref=slideshow When Emden Bombed Madras]
:Also see Historical books online, below.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] ''The Hindu'' 3 January 2012
*[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] ''The Hindu'' 3 January 2012
*Two articles about Popham’s Broadway, the main North-South thoroughfare in Black Town/Georgetown: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/popham-the-improver-1163210.html Popham the Improver] Saturday 6 June 1998  The Independent; [http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article795251.ece Madras miscellany: The drain that became Broadway] ''The Hindu'' 26 September 2010  
*Two articles about Popham’s Broadway, the main North-South thoroughfare in Black Town/Georgetown: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/popham-the-improver-1163210.html Popham the Improver] Saturday 6 June 1998  The Independent; [http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article795251.ece Madras miscellany: The drain that became Broadway] ''The Hindu'' 26 September 2010  
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old  I. C. S.''] by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461199 ''Work And Sport In The Old  I. C. S.''] by  W O Horne [William Ogilvie] 1928. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. He was appointed to the Madras Civil Service in 1882. Includes reference to the Madras Hunt.  
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507301    ''Parrys Of Madras''] by Hilton Brown 1954. Full title: ''Parry's of Madras: a story of British enterprise in India''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507301    ''Parrys Of Madras''] by Hilton Brown 1954. Full title: ''Parry's of Madras: a story of British enterprise in India''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German  SMS Emden which attacked oil tanks at Madras [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/52/mode/2up page 51]. 
*Articles by F.E.P, very likely Fanny Emily Penny, giving details of Marriages at St Mary’s , Fort  St George, and Marriages at Outstations Recorded in the St Mary’s Register Book,  appeared in ''The Genealogist'', Volumes 19-23 published in London  1903 to 1907 Archive.org
*Articles by F.E.P, very likely Fanny Emily Penny, giving details of Marriages at St Mary’s , Fort  St George, and Marriages at Outstations Recorded in the St Mary’s Register Book,  appeared in ''The Genealogist'', Volumes 19-23 published in London  1903 to 1907 Archive.org
**Volume 19, 1903. [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist01unkngoog#page/n198/mode/1up/  St Mary’s Marriages 1680-1693], pages 182-189,      [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist01unkngoog#page/n301/mode/1up/  1693-1711], pages 285-292                 
**Volume 19, 1903. [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist01unkngoog#page/n198/mode/1up/  St Mary’s Marriages 1680-1693], pages 182-189,      [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist01unkngoog#page/n301/mode/1up/  1693-1711], pages 285-292                 

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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)
FibiWiki Maps
See our interactive map of this location showing
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

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

Also see Historical books online, below.

Maps

Note: this map contains an insert, A Plan of Fort St. George and the City of Madras, which can can be enlarged considerably.

Historical books online

Also see Madras (Presidency)

Also available as downloads from GIPE, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, with possibly better images. Vol. I, Vol. II, Part 1, Vol. III.
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.

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