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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pwMk4FIcpuUC&pg=PR7  ''The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume''] 1939 Preview Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.23458 Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=pwMk4FIcpuUC&pg=PR7  ''The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume''] 1939 Preview Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.23458 Archive.org version], Public Library of India Collection.
*[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/storyoffortstgeo00cold ''The Story of Fort St. George''] by Col. D. M. Reid. Reprint edition, first published 1945 Archive.org, Historical Resources 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].   
*[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

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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)
Directories online
Newspapers and journals online

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. This book is available to read online, or download, catalogue entry, from FamilySearch. You need to be registered and sign in first.

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