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**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Madras%29+AND+creator%3A%28Mayor%27s+Court%29&sort=titleSorter ''Mayor's Court Minutes/Pleadings''] Madras 1689 and 1716 -  1745. Part of ''Records of Fort  St George''. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Madras%29+AND+creator%3A%28Mayor%27s+Court%29&sort=titleSorter ''Mayor's Court Minutes/Pleadings''] Madras 1689 and 1716 -  1745. Part of ''Records of Fort  St George''. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n15/mode/2up Contents]
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n15/mode/2up Contents]
*[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”.
*[https://archive.org/details/b29932518/page/n9 ''The Nabobs of Madras''] by Henry Dodwell 1926 Archive.org. The social background of the events in the second half of the 18th century.
*[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]
*[http://tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy&tag=#book1/ ''The Chief Secretary: Madras Diaries of Alexander Falconar 1790-1809''] Edited by N S Ramaswami 1983. Tamil Digital Library. Also contains a Notebook/Diary of  [[Madras Artillery|[Madras Army] Artillery]] Lieutenant Matthew Campbell 1821-1830 page 67. Based on diaries found in India. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8e8bb646-1600-45e0-a9be-3c253a52ea34 Brief career details of Alexander Falconar], and possible additional papers. nationalarchives.gov.uk
*[http://tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy&tag=#book1/ ''The Chief Secretary: Madras Diaries of Alexander Falconar 1790-1809''] Edited by N S Ramaswami 1983. Tamil Digital Library. Also contains a Notebook/Diary of  [[Madras Artillery|[Madras Army] Artillery]] Lieutenant Matthew Campbell 1821-1830 page 67. Based on diaries found in India. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8e8bb646-1600-45e0-a9be-3c253a52ea34 Brief career details of Alexander Falconar], and possible additional papers. nationalarchives.gov.uk

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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.
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.
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, published 1907. This book is available to read online, or download, catalogue entry, from FamilySearch. You need to be registered and sign in first.
List Of Marriages Registered in the Presidency Of Fort St George 1680 - 1800 edited by H Dodwell, Curator Madras Record Office 1916. Tamil Virtual Library. These records are compiled from St Mary's registers, and also Missionary registers, so perhaps include records additional to the record series above. Contains 74 pages of records.

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