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== Ecclesiastical Records (‘N’ Series in the India Office Records) ==

The [[East India Company]] established and paid for Anglican dioceses and parishes in all areas as they came under its control. Each parish priest was required to establish registers in which to record BMDs. In addition, he had to send duplicates to the presidency ecclesiastical authorities. These latter have been collated and sent to London and they are now in the care of the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]] in their Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections Reading Room ([[APAC]]). Microfilmed copies of these records are available for public inspection and indexes are available on the open shelves of the [[APAC]], broken down by Presidency, Alphabetically and by Year.

With the passage of time, the BMD returns became increasingly included and therefore more likely to feature in the ‘N’ series of returns at the [[APAC]]. Note, however, that for some reason, a number of Marriages performed in the Church of Scotland feature in the ‘Registry Office Marriages’ described below.

== ‘Domestic Occurrences’ in Registers, Almanacs and Newspapers ==