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*[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]
*[https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM1kZxy#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. Also available mirror version [https://archive.org/details/dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy/mode/2up Archive.org]. [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
*[https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM1kZxy#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. Also available mirror version [https://archive.org/details/dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy/mode/2up Archive.org]. [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
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.163918/page/n1 ''Thomas Parry: Free Merchant Madras 1768-1824''] by G H Hodgson  1938 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Contains extracts from many letters, including Part II (from digital page 304) being  letters written 1806-1809.  Missing some of the Contents pages.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3415/page/n1/mode/2up ''Thomas Parry: Free Merchant Madras 1768-1824''] by G H Hodgson  1938. Note digital pages contain a watermark. Archive.org. Contains extracts from many letters, including Part II (from digital page 280) being  letters written 1806-1809.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.163918/page/n1 2nd file] Missing some of the Contents pages, however pages do not contain a watermark. Archive.org.
:[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/in.ernet.dli.2015.284859/mode/2up ''An accurate and authentic narrative of the origin and progress of the dissentions at the Presidency of Madras: founded on original papers and correspondence''] 1810. Missing at least one page which may be found in [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00040 File 2], however generally the 1st file is better quality. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123 ''Journal of a Residence in India''] by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) describes Madras in 1810 from page 123 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154 page 154] (Google Books).
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123 ''Journal of a Residence in India''] by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) describes Madras in 1810 from page 123 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=PyUAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154 page 154] (Google Books).
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofindia00sherrich ''Sketches of India''] by 'An Officer for Fire-Side Travellers At-Home' [Captain Moyle Sherer] 2nd edition, with additions 1824 Archive.org The author arrived in Madras in July 1818. His [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyle_Sherer Wikipedia] page indicates he was with the [[34th Regiment of Foot]].
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofindia00sherrich ''Sketches of India''] by 'An Officer for Fire-Side Travellers At-Home' [Captain Moyle Sherer] 2nd edition, with additions 1824 Archive.org The author arrived in Madras in July 1818. His [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyle_Sherer Wikipedia] page indicates he was with the [[34th Regiment of Foot]].

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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

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 history to 1798.
  • 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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