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'''Serampore''' was a former [[Danish]] colony 20km due north of [[Calcutta]]. It was the headquarters of the subdivision of the same name in Hughli District, [[Bengal]] during the british period.
An excellent website which provides beautiful images of missionary sites in and around Serampore, along with maps and useful links is at [httphttps://www.virtualseramporewmcarey.org edu/carey/legacy/virtual-serampore/index.html Virtual Serampore].
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==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database: [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1923&s_id=1032 1840 Serampore Census] transcribed by Sylvia Murphy. European & Indo-European names. Details of names are available without restriction. Full details such as address, occupation, religion etc. are only available to logged-in FIBIS members.
==Danish history==
The Danish name was Frederiksnagore. Alternative spelling: Frederiksnagor, Frederiksnagar. It was established by the Danish East India Company, by then called the Asiatic Company, in 1755.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=FZQcjsSitEcC&pg=PA77 ''Der dänische Gesamtstaat: ein unterschätztes Weltreich?/The Oldenburg Monachy:An Underestimated Empire''] (in English) page 77 article by Eric Gobel 2006 Google Books</ref>
== Cemeteries==
There are two burial grounds at Serampore - Danish and the Mission .<ref> India List Roberts, John E C. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20181029061442/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/2009-08thread/2239614/ Marshall/1251294373 postMarschalk] about burial grounds and ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 26 August 2009, now archived. Also mentions records (retrieved 10 May 2014).</ref> == References ==<references />
==External links==
*[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 Searchable British Library catalogue]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160120134426/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120715/jsp/calcutta/story_15730606.jsp#.UAgbomH5CxU "Our heritage, their heritage"] Sunday, July 15, 2012 ''The Telegraph'', Calcutta, now an archived webpage. Heritage buildings in Serampore and [[Chandernagore]]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925044909/http://en.natmus.dk/enhistorical-knowledge/forskningresearch/research-projects/the-serampore-initiative/projects/ The Serampore Initiative] National Museum of Denmark , now archived.**[https://web.archive.org/web/20131206212136/http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/etnografisksamling/billeder/Serampore/Serampore_report_2010_web.pdf "Indo-Danish Heritage Buildings of Serampore"] by Flemming Aalund & Simon Rastén August 2010. natmus.dk, now an archived webpage.*[http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1175779 Photograph: Serampore (Fredericknagore), St Olaf's Church c. 1912 to 1914]. Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.*[https://www.peepultree.world/livehistoryindia/films/places/hooghly-the-global-history-of-a-river-with-robert-ivermee Robert Ivermee on ''Hooghly: The Global History of a River''] Live History India Book Club at peepultree.world. Contains a video (retrieved 10 May 201450 minutes). Includes discussion about Serampore.
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_183.gif Serampore] Imperial Gazetteer
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8720/page/n1/mode/2up ''The article Story of Serampore and its College''] by George Howells and A C Underwood 1918. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.93601/2015.93601.The-Calcutta-Review1918#page/n99/mode/2up "The Danes at Serampore"], by F.B.Bradley Birt, ''Calcutta Review, No. 295, January 1919, (New [2nd] Series Volume 25)'', pages 92-118 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Archive.org, Digital Library of India]] websiteCollection. '''Note''' however, that it is in the volume which is catalogued as 1918, bar code 4990010048588. This volume has title page and contents pages for 1918, but articles for 1919. *From ''Bengal, Past and Present Volume 23, July to Dec. 1921'' Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/bpp-1921-vol22-vol23/page/153/mode/2up "The article commences digital file Three Oldest Church Registers of Serampur 29th July 1769-1843"] by Rev H Hosten SJ, page 154**[https://archive.org/details/bpp-1921-vol22-vol23/page/171/mode/2up "Christian Inscriptions from Serampur"] by Rev H Hosten SJ, page 101171. *"Glimpses of Serampore 1810-1820" [https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-vol46-julydec1933/page/23/mode/2up pages 23-25] and [https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-vol46-julydec1933/page/131/mode/2up pages 132-136] ''Bengal Past and Present Vol. 46 1933 July-Dec''. Archive.org. Extracts from the diary of Severin Kierulf, merchant in the Danish Ost Indian Company at Serampore. Includes details of deaths, marriages and births.*[https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-vol-47-janmar1934/page/n69/mode/2up "Mission Burial Ground, Serampore"] by J G Brooker page 57 ''Bengal Past and Present Vol. 47 Part 1, 1934 Jan.-March''. Archive.org. With a Plan between pages 56-57. == References ==<references />
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