Singapore

In 1819, the British East India Company, led by Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island, which was used as a port along the spice route.

Singapore formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Penang (Prince of Wales Island) and Malacca.

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. LDS batch number for baptisms 1828-1829 C310051. Data for the baptisms 1828-1829 has been transcribed on the LDS website. Select the IGI Search and enter Region Asia and batch number C310051, and baptismal records for Singapore on film 498606 will be shown. It is not known whether the data is a complete transcription or not.

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

• This LDS catalogue entry gives details of the church and cemetery records available for Singapore.

Newspapers

• Singapore Straits Times 1845-1982 (search) Full articles cannot be viewed, but searches can provide results to be explored on microfilm where available (such as at BL Colindale, and Monash University Library, Victoria, Australia (catalogue entry).

External Links

Encylopedia entries

• Singapore Wikipedia

• Singapore in the Straits Settlements era Wikipedia

• Thomas Stamford Raffles Wikipedia
• Straits Settlements Wikipedia
• Singapore Infopedia National Library of Singapore

Institutions

• The National Library of Singapore , in the section Singapore Pages

• Has a pdf brochure "Tracing Roots"
• The Singapore Collection of the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. This India List link mentions microfilms of Directories at the Library.
• Has books available to download including:

• Directories for The Straits and/or Singapore for the years 1853-1957, 1859-1863, 1867-1871, 1875, 1877,1879, 1881.The majority of these books are in the category 'Commerce and Industry', but the volume for 1867-1869 is in the category Events. There is also an 1821 Directory for Prince of Wales Island (Penang) in the category Organisations.
• The stranger's guide to Singapore with maps 1890

• National Archives of Singapore. Includes Access to Archives Online. This India List link details some of the information available at the National Archives
• National Heritage Board. Includes National Museum of Singapore

Online books

• Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,F.R.S., &c. &c., particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816,Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824: with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence by Sophia Raffles 1835 Volume 1, Volume 2 Google Books

• Singapore in 1837 commencing page 81 of Book 2 of Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one .Google Books

• Singapore, Chapters 3 and 4 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 Google Books

• Singapore, page 725 A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore by Pharoah &Co 1855

Other

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