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The Danish East India Company was established in 1616 and a Danish settlement was established at Tranquebar in 1620. There was also a Danish settlement at [[Serampore]] near [[Calcutta]]. They were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce. These settlements were perhaps the first perceptable cultural impingemnt of the Protestant West on India.  
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Information pertaining to ancestors with a '''Danish''' connection.


Source : A History of India (Volume Two) (1978) by Percival Spear p.68  
==History==
The Danish East India Company was established in 1616 and a Danish settlement was established at [[Tranquebar]] in 1620. There was also a Danish settlement at [[Serampore]] near [[Calcutta]]. These settlements were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce. They were perhaps the first perceptable cultural impingement of the Protestant West on India.<ref>''A History of India'' (Volume Two) (1978) by Percival Spear p.68 </ref>


In June, 1801 the Danish were defeated at Tranquebar by the [[94th Regiment of Foot|Scots Brigade]] and in 1845 the whole Danish colony was sold to England. This ended the Danish presence in India.  
In June, 1801 the Danish were defeated at Tranquebar by the [[94th Regiment of Foot|Scots Brigade]] and in 1845 the whole Danish colony was sold to England. This ended the Danish presence in India.  


Peter Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen wrote a term paper in 1996 entitled [http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html A history of the Danish East India Company 1616-1669]. This is very interesting and has a number of references at the bottom for those who want to pursue the subject further.  
Peter Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen wrote a term paper in 1996 about the   Danish East India Company 1616-1669, refer External links below. This is very interesting and has a number of references at the bottom for those who want to pursue the subject further.  


The article "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 online, see below.


== Church Records ==
==Akso see==
*[[Serampore]]
*[[Tranquebar]]


== Church records ==
For church and others records relating to Tranquebar, see the Fibiwiki page [[Tranquebar]]


If your ancestors were baptised, married or buried in a European church in British India, then the church records should have been transcribed and sent to the capital of the Presidency, where they would later have been forwarded on to London. These records were indexed and about 80% of church records in British India are believed to have survived. You can access these records at [[APAC]] in the British Library in London, or at [[LDS]] [[Family History Centres]]. The FIBIS website has extensive information on locating church records on microfilm for British India.  
== Other sources ==
Thomas M. Robertson has kindly extracted from the ''Calcutta Annual Directory and Calendar'' of 1813 all the names of [[Serampore|Danish residents of Serampore]].  


However, your Danish ancestors may not have lived in British India (i.e. that portion of India that was controlled by the British - this grew from a very small area in 1600 to almost all of India by 1947). In this case, the church records will not be kept in the [[APAC]] at the British Library.
[[BACSA]] has published the following books which shed some light on the Danish presence in Asia :
 
Some church records have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] and are available at [[Family History Centres]]. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the Jerusalems-kirken; baptisms, confirmations, betrothals & marriages, and burials of Zions Kirke at Tranquebar 1707-1818 are available on microfilm '''#128836'''.
 
 
== Other Sources ==


*''Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India'' : 1904-1947 by August Peter Hansen, 1999


[[BACSA]] has published the following books which shed some light on the Danish presence in Asia :
*''Protestant Cemetery in Bangkok'' by Justin Corfield, 1997. There are a lot Danish folk buried in this cemetery, as there was a substantial group of Danes who came to Thailand to train the Police and Customs Services. See [[Thailand]].
<UL>
<LI>'''Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India''' : 1904-1947 by August Peter Hansen, 1999
 
<LI>'''Protestant Cemetery in Bangkok''' by Justin Corfield, 1997. There are a lot Danish folk buried in this cemetery, as there was a substantial group of Danes who came to Thailand to train the Police and Customs Services.  
</UL>
The '''1834 census of Tranquebar''' is available on microfilm at LDS [[Family History Centres]]. It is on two rolls on microfilm '''#39091''' and '''#39092'''.  


The '''Register af Blanketregnskaber 1800-1847''' is available on microfilm #599136 at LDS [[Family History Centres]]. The microfilm description is "Register of applications pertaining to civil records including special burials, marriages without banns, divorce petitions, nonprobate will actions that should normally have been handled through a higher authority. Includes the various estates and baronies on mainland Denmark, and then the Danish possessions, Iceland, Faroe Islands, West Indies and Tranquebar, India."
The 1834 census of Tranquebar is available on [[FamilySearch]] digitised microfilm. It is on two rolls on microfilm #39091 and #39092, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/327409 catalogue entry], which are available on your home computer, but you must be signed into FamilySearch.  


Uno-Barner Jensen has created an impressive website which reflects his extensive research into the subject of '''coins of the Danish East India Company'''. It also has pages on the history of Tranquebar and many beautiful photos of the Danish churches there. The website is available in [http://www.tranquebar.dk/ Danish ] and [http://www.tranquebar.dk/welcome.htm English ].  
The ''Register af Blanketregnskaber 1800-1847'' is available as digitised  [[FamilySearch]] microfilm, available for viewing on your home computer. The microfilm description is "Register of applications pertaining to civil records including special burials, marriages without banns, divorce petitions, nonprobate will actions that should normally have been handled through a higher authority. Includes the various estates and baronies on mainland Denmark, and then the Danish possessions, Iceland, Faroe Islands, West Indies and Tranquebar, India." . The records for Trankebar appear at the end of the list, microfilm 382501, DGS 7751337, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/538957 catalogue entry].


Thomas M. Robertson has kindly extracted from the Calcutta Annual Directory and Calendar of 1813 all the names of Danish residents of [[Serampore]].  
There are Danish records of Tranquebar and Serampore in the King's Library (Det  Kongelige Bibliotek)  or [http://www.kb.dk/en/index.html Royal Library], and [http://www.sa.dk/content/us Danish State Archives] in Copenhagen, Denmark, refer the WHKMLA link below.


There are Danish records of [[Tranquebar]] and [[Serampore]] in the King's Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180718030547/http://scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html "Tranquebar: The Danish East India Company 1616 - 1669"] by Peter Ravn Rasmussen. scholiast.org, now an archived webpage. Revised and reworked from what was originally a term paper written at the University of Copenhagen in spring 1996.
*Uno-Barner Jensen has created an impressive website which reflects his extensive research into the subject of coins of the Danish East India Company. It also has pages on the history of Tranquebar and many beautiful photos of the Danish churches there. The website is available in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140428121643if_/http://www.tranquebar.dk/ Danish] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209120539if_/http://www.tranquebar.dk/welcome.htm English],  both now archived.
*[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/danish-factory-in-calicut-1752-1796.html The Danish Factory in Calicut 1752-1796] by Maddy. historicalleys.blogspot
*There is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120108071646/http://www.zum.de:80/whkmla/region/india/tldanindia.html Timeline of Danish India] on the  WHKMLA website in the section relating to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140824050532/http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/xdanindia.html Danish India], now archived webpages.
*[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 (50 minutes). Includes discussion about the Danish in Bengal.
*Danes in India did not intermarry much with local Indians, according to [https://international-journal-of-anglo-indian-studies.org/index.php/IJAIS/article/view/153 "Beyond "Cotton Mary": Anglo-Indian Categories and Reclaiming the Diverse Past"] by Adrian Carton ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 5, Number 1, 2000.
*[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Denmark Denmark] includes [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Danish_Word_List Danish Word List] and [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Danish_Handwriting_Guide Danish Handwriting Guide]  Family Search (LDS)  Wiki
*The [https://www.sa.dk/en/genealogy/ Genealogy page] from the [http://www.sa.dk/content/us Danish State Archives]. It includes a  [https://www.sa.dk/en/genealogy/handwriting/ Handwriting Guide], with link to a genealogical dictionary.
*Rudy Schmidt’s [https://web.archive.org/web/20170325014036/http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/International/Danish.htm  Danish/English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms], now archived.
===Historical books online===
*[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  Archive.org,  Digital Library of India Collection. Note however, that it is in the volume which is catalogued as 1918.  This volume has title page and contents pages for 1918, but articles for 1919.
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.93601/2015.93601.The-Calcutta-Review1918#page/n103/mode/1up Page 95] c 1712 the Danes were "supplied with wives from home and disdaining to form alliances with the women of the country".
*[https://archive.org/details/johncompanyatwor0000furb/page/n9 ''John Company at Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late eighteenth century''] by Holden Furber. 1970 reprint of 1948 original edition. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes the [[East India Company|English]], [[French]], [[Dutch]], and [[Danish]] East India Companies.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.283422/2015.283422.The-Journal#page/n9 "Early Trade Relations between Denmark and Siam"] by His Highness Prince Dhani Nivat and Major Erik Seidenfaden page 1 ''The Journal Of The Siam Society'' 1939 Vol XXXI Archive.org.


==References==
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Information pertaining to ancestors with a Danish connection.

History

The Danish East India Company was established in 1616 and a Danish settlement was established at Tranquebar in 1620. There was also a Danish settlement at Serampore near Calcutta. These settlements were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce. They were perhaps the first perceptable cultural impingement of the Protestant West on India.[1]

In June, 1801 the Danish were defeated at Tranquebar by the Scots Brigade and in 1845 the whole Danish colony was sold to England. This ended the Danish presence in India.

Peter Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen wrote a term paper in 1996 about the Danish East India Company 1616-1669, refer External links below. This is very interesting and has a number of references at the bottom for those who want to pursue the subject further.

The article "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 online, see below.

Akso see

Church records

For church and others records relating to Tranquebar, see the Fibiwiki page Tranquebar

Other sources

Thomas M. Robertson has kindly extracted from the Calcutta Annual Directory and Calendar of 1813 all the names of Danish residents of Serampore.

BACSA has published the following books which shed some light on the Danish presence in Asia :

  • Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India : 1904-1947 by August Peter Hansen, 1999
  • Protestant Cemetery in Bangkok by Justin Corfield, 1997. There are a lot Danish folk buried in this cemetery, as there was a substantial group of Danes who came to Thailand to train the Police and Customs Services. See Thailand.

The 1834 census of Tranquebar is available on FamilySearch digitised microfilm. It is on two rolls on microfilm #39091 and #39092, catalogue entry, which are available on your home computer, but you must be signed into FamilySearch.

The Register af Blanketregnskaber 1800-1847 is available as digitised FamilySearch microfilm, available for viewing on your home computer. The microfilm description is "Register of applications pertaining to civil records including special burials, marriages without banns, divorce petitions, nonprobate will actions that should normally have been handled through a higher authority. Includes the various estates and baronies on mainland Denmark, and then the Danish possessions, Iceland, Faroe Islands, West Indies and Tranquebar, India." . The records for Trankebar appear at the end of the list, microfilm 382501, DGS 7751337, catalogue entry.

There are Danish records of Tranquebar and Serampore in the King's Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) or Royal Library, and Danish State Archives in Copenhagen, Denmark, refer the WHKMLA link below.

External links

Historical books online

References

  1. ↑ A History of India (Volume Two) (1978) by Percival Spear p.68
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