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*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*''The Burney Papers''.  Cover the period 1825 to 1849.  See [[Thailand]].
*''The Burney Papers''.  Cover the period 1825 to 1849.  See [[Thailand]].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8WVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Eastern Seas, or Voyages and adventures in the Indian Archipelago, in 1832, 33, 34 ... also an account of the present state of Singapore, etc.''] by George Windsor Earl 1837  Google Books
*''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'' by Howard Malcom
*''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'' by Howard Malcom
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume I],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1  Volume II] 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinsouthea00malc_0 Tenth American edition [with deletions<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1855] Archive.org
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume I],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1  Volume II] 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinsouthea00malc_0 Tenth American edition [with deletions<nowiki>]</nowiki> c 1855] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China,  1855 Archive.org.  The book appears to be translations  of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China,  1855 Archive.org.  The book appears to be translations  of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QBxJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca: Their Peoples, Products, Commerce and Government''] by John Cameron.  1865 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QBxJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca: Their Peoples, Products, Commerce and Government''] by John Cameron.  1865 Google Books
*''The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia''. Published at Singapore Volumes 1-9 1847-1855; New Series Volumes 1-4  1856-59/63.  
*''The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia''. Published at Singapore Volumes 1-9 1847-1855; New Series Volumes 1-4  1856-59/63.  
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:[https://archive.org/details/britishmalayaacc00swet ''British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya''] by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a [https://archive.org/stream/britishmalayaacc00swet#page/n472/mode/1up 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula]
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmalayaacc00swet ''British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya''] by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a [https://archive.org/stream/britishmalayaacc00swet#page/n472/mode/1up 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula]
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptivedic00denngoog ''A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya''] by N B Dennys 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptivedic00denngoog ''A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya''] by N B Dennys 1894 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034CB6 ''A Trip across the Malay Peninsula with H.E. the Governor [Sir C. B. H. Mitchell<nowiki>]</nowiki> ... Reprinted from the "Singapore Free Press"''] by Major H E McCallum (Henry Edward) 1894. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/campingtrampingi00rath ''Camping And Tramping In Malaya: Fifteen years' Pioneering in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula''] by  Ambrose B  Rathborne 1898 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/campingtrampingi00rath ''Camping And Tramping In Malaya: Fifteen years' Pioneering in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula''] by  Ambrose B  Rathborne 1898 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld28phil#page/218/mode/2up "The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East"] page 219 ''The  India Rubber World''  April 1, 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld28phil#page/218/mode/2up "The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East"] page 219 ''The  India Rubber World''  April 1, 1903 Archive.org

Revision as of 21:32, 19 January 2017

Also see Straits Settlements

Records

  • See General Register Office, UK.
  • For civil registration records of birth, marriage and death records, contact the National Archives of Malaysia and/or the National Registration Department.[1] There has been some registration since 1859.[2]
  • Birth, marriage and death notices may have been published in Singapore newspapers. See Singapore - Newspapers for details of free online Singapore newspapers.
  • BACSA have published the following books:
    • Ipoh and Taiping: War Graves and Graves of Europeans in the Cemeteries in Ipoh and Taiping, Perak, Malaysia by Justin Corfield, 2000. 108pp, 27 illustrations and plan
    • Kota Bharu (Malaysia): European Graves in the Jalan Hamzah Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 1999. 24pp, 23 illustrations and plan
    • Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): St Mary's Cathedral and the Jalan Birch Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 2000. 24pp, 5 illustrations
    • Seremban, Malaysia: Graves in St Mark's Churchyard, and the Anglican Section of the Seremban Cemetery by E Beavington and Justin Corfield, 2000. 56pp, 11 illustrations
    • Teluk Anson (Malaysia): European Graves in the Jalan Anderson Cemetery by Justin Corfield, 2000. 20pp, 14 illustrations and plan
Some cemetery books are still available, see BACSA Books
BACSA have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
  • British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935) by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the British Library. History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.

Military Operations

External links

Singapore And Malaya Volunteer Corps Medals 10 March 2013 from “Singapore Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Malaya Volunteer Forces”
"Planters, Estate Health & Malaria in British Malaya (1900–1940)" by Liew Kai Khiun Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 83, Part 1, June 2010, No. 298, pp. 91-115 academia.edu
"Mad Ridley and the rubber boom" by Dr Loh Wei Leng and Khor Jin KeonG 2011. malaysiahistory.net. The history of rubber in Malaya.
Video: A Rubber Plantation in Malaya, 1911 / La Cultivation du Caoutchouc en Malaisie, 1911 You Tube video
"Spreading the word: using cookbooks and colonial memoirs to examine the foodways of British Colonials in Asia, 1850-1900" by Cecilia Y. Leong-Salobir, University of Wollongong. From The Routledge History of Food 2015 (pp. 131-155)
"Mrs Beeton in Malaya" by Janice Loo. BiblioAsia Volume 9 Issue. 3 October-December 2013. ywca.org.sg

Maps

  • 1929 Motoring Map of Malaya Pages can be rotated if required. National Library of Malaysia.
  • Also see some Maps in Historical books online, below.

Historical books online

Note this website is often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
Volume I,Volume II 2nd edition, 1839 (2 Volumes in 1) Google Books. Tenth American edition [with deletions] c 1855 Archive.org
Multiple volumes: Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, including Index To All The Journals Nos.1-86 Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society Vol.5 Pt.4 1927
Journal Of The Malayan Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society Multiple volumes, broken range from Volume 1 1923. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
Malay Sketches by Sir Frank Althelstane Swettenham 5th edition 1921. First published 1895 Archive.org
British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula
"Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States" page 225 The India Rubber World April 1, 1904 Archive.org
Return to Malaya R.H.Bruce Lockhart 1936 Archive.org. The author had previously left Malaya c 1910, see previous book.
  • Singapore Patrol by Alec Dixon, 1935. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. The author who joined the Straits Settlements Police post WW1 was one of a small force of detectives, where riots, murders, and robberies, occurred with alarming frequency. Full title (perhaps only in some editions): Singapore Patrol: Experiences of a Detective Officer in Malaya. Review The Straits Times, 6 December 1935 gov.sg Review The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) 14 Dec 1935
  • "Malaya 1938-1939" page 164 Memories of Malaya by June Meyer 2007. Description of a rubber estate in the north of Malaya. Google Books.
  • Malayan Landscape 1946. The author is not as catalogued but is Katharine Sim, (with an introduction by Sir Richard Winstedt). The author was in Malaya 1938 to 1942. Includes a final chapter regarding the war situation ahead of the approaching Japanese, with the author’s eventual evacuation from Singapore, shortly before its fall. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
  • The War in Malaya by Lt-Gen A E Percival 1949. Available as a pdf download from Sejarah Melayu Library, refer above. Located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
  • The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c. For a range of editions to 1922, see China
  • A History of Malaya, A.D. 1400-1959 by J Kennedy 1962. Archive.org Lending Library. Before you can borrow this book, you must register. Only one person at a time is able to borrow the book, so you perhaps may need to wait until the book is returned..
  • The Adventures of John Smith in Malaya, 1600-1605 by A Hale 1909. Archive.org. This book was classified as a novel in a review when issued, but it was stated “In the Malayan part of the book…[there] seems to be first hand knowledge of the legends, custom and intimate life of the Malayans”, and it was “written… with… learning”[7]
  • Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891. The author lived at the Cape of Good Hope.

References

  1. Esslemont, Don. BMD certificates (was Robert Darwood engineer) Rootsweb Malaysia Mailing List 18 Mar 2008, which quotes a source of information which no longer appears to be available. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  2. Malaysia Civil Registration FamilySearch Wiki.
  3. A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya Naval & Military Press
  4. Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930, Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.
  5. Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World", The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber by John Tully 2011. Google Books
  6. "The Planter’s Life" by Christopher Hale, January 2013.
  7. The Spectator Archive: 10 July 1909, page 28