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**:Three volumes of the ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer, Indian Civil Service, are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, being Parts I and II (missing Part III), of Volume 1, Historical, published 1915 and the Geographical section of Volume II, Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer, published 1908.::Both Parts of Volume I, Historical, have the same extensive index, covering all Parts. Part I consists of the 'Arabian' portion of the History. Part I Contents computer pages 12-137. Text commences cp 138. Part II consists of the 'Persian' section of the History. Part II Contents computer pages 10-133. Text commences cp 134. Appendix "Published books and articles" cp 1210. Part III (a portfolio of genealogical trees of the ruling families) is not available online.::Volume II Geographical and Statistical Gazetteer. There is no Index. Introduction pages i-iii are missing. The text is cp 8-2047 and appears to be all Geographical. The Statistical portion is perhaps another volume, which is not available online. :The Qatar Digital Library contains (at October 2014), copies of the original editions,::[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514760.0x00000b Volume I: Historical: Part II] and::[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023515711.0x00000d Volume II: Geographical and Statistical]: Click on “About this record” for information about the contents. To select a particular page, click on “View all items”.
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*The [[LDS]] Library catalogue has the following entry: [https://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=153708&disp=Parish+register+transcripts&columns=*,0,0 Church of England in Iran. Anglican Chaplaincy (Julfa) Baptisms, 1875-1879 Marriages, 1877] Film 574493 Item 2. The original records are now in the [http://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/284/4/1/1866831?RECORD London Metropolitan Archives] DL/E/E/056/MS11215A (previously in the Guildhall) and are records from the Mission Chapel, Julfa. The chapel appears to have been attached to the Church Missionary Society.
:There are also some records for Iran in the [[IGI#India records|"World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch]]
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]]. Also refer Qatar Digital Library, below.
**[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/iran/index.html Iran: Sources in the India Office Records]
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorg_4&cid=1-10#1-10 Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf IOR/G/29] 1620-1822
==External links==
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en Qatar Digital Library] has content from the India Office Records at the British Library
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushire Bushehr] (Bushire) Wikipedia
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran] Encyclopaedia Iranica. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
*''Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820 - 1971'' by James Onley 2009 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:owrIIx2FWKkJ:www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/qatar/cirs/BritainandtheGulfShaikhdomsCompleteFile.pdf+Britain+and+the+Gulf+Shaikhdoms,+1820+-+1971&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShomNxAF-mzzn8rEBggmw_35cb7bAMxHfIdO8piv99FkMzW_eJzTROAaYP9gOdZNW-I4zuiKSMUrKwlaGABp72XuWjOMPwXQmiFDy6veqdJKpE9PtIP2E3Uk2SaMqpQ_8meu_9D&sig=AHIEtbQfShgsw1ijMacQDyac4E5h04qPtA html version] ,[http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=110431&lng=en download a pdf ]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chaterfamilytree/Armenian_Graves_in_Bushire.html Armenian Graves in Bushire] Chater Genealogy
===Maps===
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022744604.0x0000b6 1928 Map of Persia and Afghanistan] Qatar Digital Library
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA267 "Notes on Central Asia"] page 267 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5TkBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''From Bombay to Bushire, and Bussora; including an Account of the Present State of Persia and Notes on the Persian War''] by William Ashton Shepherd 1857 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027822679 ''The Persian problem: an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with some account of the Persian Gulf and the Bagdad railway''] by H J Whigham 1903 Archive.org
*Four out of six volumes of a reprint edition of ''Gazetteer Of The Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia'' by J G Lorimer are available to read online at [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590480 Hathi Trust Digital Library]
:British Library Untold lives blog [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/02/persian-gulf-tragedy-the-death-of-john-gordon-lorimer.html ‘Persian Gulf tragedy’ – the death of John Gordon Lorimer] 08 February 2014 (retrieved 18 June 2014}
*''Persia and the Persian Question'' (2 Volumes) by George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon) 1892 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
