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***[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=%22Fort+St.+David%22&submit_apply_filter=&query=Fort+St.+George&scope=%2F&rpp=100&sort_by=score&order=desc ''Fort St. David consultations'' 1697- 1750. Also Fort St. David ''Letters'' to 1750]  Multiple  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE.
***[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=%22Fort+St.+David%22&submit_apply_filter=&query=Fort+St.+George&scope=%2F&rpp=100&sort_by=score&order=desc ''Fort St. David consultations'' 1697- 1750. Also Fort St. David ''Letters'' to 1750]  Multiple  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE.
***[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Fort+St.+George+Tellicherry&submit_apply_filter=&query=Fort+St.+George&scope=%2F&rpp=100&sort_by=score&order=desc ''Tellicherry Consultations'' and ''Letters''  1725-1751] Multiple  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE.
***[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Fort+St.+George+Tellicherry&submit_apply_filter=&query=Fort+St.+George&scope=%2F&rpp=100&sort_by=score&order=desc ''Tellicherry Consultations'' and ''Letters''  1725-1751] Multiple  pdf downloads Digital Repository of GIPE.
**[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 (including Madras as a Search term), together with [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Fort+St+George%29+AND+title%3A%28Mayor%27s+Court%29&sort=titleSorter Additional files] 1727-1746, (including Fort St George as a Search term). 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”.
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras''] by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Madrasiana''] by W.T. Munro (pseud. Rev. William Taylor)  1868 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR6 Contents]. Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 "Part I Churches and Chapels"].  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA111 Page 111: Mrs Murray’s Seminary] located at Vepery from 1815.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Madrasiana''] by W.T. Munro (pseud. Rev. William Taylor)  1868 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR6 Contents]. Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 "Part I Churches and Chapels"].  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJheAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA111 Page 111: Mrs Murray’s Seminary] located at Vepery from 1815.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortstgeorgemad02penngoog#page/n13/mode/1up ''Fort St. George, Madras; a short history of our first possession in India''] by Fanny Emily Penny 1900 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortstgeorgemad02penngoog#page/n13/mode/1up ''Fort St. George, Madras; a short history of our first possession in India''] by Mrs Frank Penny (Fanny Emily)  1900. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.118293/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Coromandel Coast''] by F. E. Penny 1908. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/vicissitudesfor00leiggoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Vicissitudes of Fort St. George''] by David Leighton 1902 Archive.org  
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/vicissitudesfor00leiggoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Vicissitudes of Fort St. George''] by David Leighton 1902 Archive.org  
*''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras'' by  Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
*''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras'' by  Rev Frank Penny 1904 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.
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.
On the Coromandel Coast by F. E. Penny 1908. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
  • Vicissitudes of Fort St. George by David Leighton 1902 Archive.org
  • The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
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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