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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Island Penang Island] Wickipedia<br>
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Island Penang Island] Wickipedia<br>
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements Straits Settlements] Wickipedia   
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements Straits Settlements] Wickipedia   
 
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==Records==
 
Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the [[ British Library]]. Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in '''IOR N/8'''.<br>
 
Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the [[ British Library]]. Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in '''IOR N/8'''.<br>
 
The [[LDS]] film number for these records is 498606, item 2.
 
The [[LDS]] film number for these records is 498606, item 2.

Revision as of 11:58, 22 August 2009

Penang Island was also known as Prince of Wales Island. It was part of the Straits Settlements, along with Singapore and Malacca.

Penang Island Wickipedia
Straits Settlements Wickipedia

Records

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library. Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in IOR N/8.
The LDS film number for these records is 498606, item 2.

Returns are continued in the Bengal returns 1830-1868, N/1. For Malacca marriages 1820-1824, see also IOR: R/9/39/3.

External Links

Malacca and Penang Chapter 6 of Trade and Travel in the Far East; Or, Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China by G.F. Davidson 1846