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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9  ''‪Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras army‬: ‪including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office'']‬ 1842 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9  ''‪Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras army‬: ‪including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office'']‬ 1842 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43 Madras and its cantonments] page 43, ''The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847''. Google Books. The cantonments were classified as "Stations on the sea coast"
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rBNPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA43 Madras and its cantonments] page 43, ''The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal Volume 68 1847''. Google Books. The cantonments were classified as "Stations on the sea coast"
*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/172/mode/2up "Madras"] page 173 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
**[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/171/mode/1up Plan of Madras and environs] prior to page 173


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Madras (City)
Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 13.09°N, 80.27°E
Altitude: 6m
Present Day Details
Place Name: Chennai
State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Country: India
Transport links
Madras Railway (to 1908)
Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (1908 on)
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See our interactive map of this location showing
places of interest during the British period
Madras (City)



Madras (now Chennai) was one of the early East India Company Factories, the location of Fort St George and the seat of the Madras Presidency.

Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools
Madras 1893 Rootsweb

History

Spelling variants

Modern name: Chennai
Variants: Madras

FIBIS resources

Cemeteries

See Madras Cemeteries, for details of some of the Christian cemeteries in the city.

Orphan schools

See the main article Orphan Schools in Madras, or the following list of schools:

Economy and business

External links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (Presidency)

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
These articles have been reprinted as the book Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras , available at the British Library as Official Publications: Church Registers IOR/V/27/73 and Shelfmark OIR 929.354 Open Access. This book is available as a free pdf type download from FamilySearch (located, if the given link is not permanent, by searching the Library catalogue). This link may have download problems during maintenance night time Utah Time (Utah Time=GMT less seven hours). Try again at another time. Adobe Acrobat reader probably required.

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