Madras (City)

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)

Madras (now Chennai) was the seat of the Madras Presidency and the location of Fort St George.

Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools

Madras 1893 Rootsweb

History

• Loss of Fort St George 6-19 Sept 1746
• Siege of Madras Dec 1758 - Feb 1759

Spelling variants

Modern name: Chennai
Variants: Madras

FIBIS resources

Plan of Madras and its environs engraved by J & C Walker, London in 1854. This item is for FIBIS members only and you will need to log-in to view it.

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:

• Charity School
• Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum
• Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum
• Poonamallee Military Asylum at Poonamallee, about 15 miles from Madras
• Black Town/Civil Orphan Asylums

External links

• Chennai, Tamil Nadu Wikipedia
• Pre 1800 maps of Madras can be found by searching the French archive ANOM's database Ulysse.
• New buildings in Madras 1888-1896 from Henry Irwin Architect in India 1841–1922
• Madras Musings is a fortnightly newsmagazine, available online, devoted to the preservation of the heritage and environment of the city of Madras. It has online Archives from 1991.
  • It includes a number of articles titled "Literature on Madras", containing bibliographic references to help you find historical information about Madras, refer Madras bibliography
  • 'The best east of Suez,' they described MH [The Madras Maternity Hospital] June 1-15, 2009, Where they see, hear and dream Ob & Gyn, June 16-30, 2009

Historical books online

• Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800 Index Volume by Henry Davison Love 1913 Archive.org. If you find a reference here you wish to follow up, Vestiges of Old Madras Volumes I, II, III are available through the Digital Library of India. Each volume is very informative, with over 600 pages.
• Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation to the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham 1639-1702 by J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
• Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George Volume 2 1702-1727 J Talboys Wheeler 1861 Google Books
• Madras in the olden time: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation of Fort St. George to the French Occupation of Madras Volume 3 1727-1748 by J Talboys Wheeler 1862 Google Books
• Records of Fort St George. Selections from public consultations, letters from Fort St. George and Fort St. David consultations, 1740 Archive.org
• Report on the Palk Documents 1922 Archive.org. Letters addressed to Sir Robert Palk from the time he relinquished the governorship of Madras in 1767 to the end of 1786. The majority were sent from Fort St. George, and they are “full of political and military intelligence”
• Journal of a Residence in India by Maria Graham, 2nd Edition (1813) describes Madras in 1810 from page 123 and page 154 (Google Books).
• Travels in South-Eastern Asia...etc by Howard Malcolm, 2nd edition (1839) 2 volumes, describes Madras in 1837 in Book 2, Chapter 2 (Google Books).
• A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore by Pharoah &Co (1855), detailing Madras (Google Books)
• A Handbook for India: Being an Account of the Three Presidencies, and of the Overland Route; intended as a guide for Travellers, Officers and Civilians. Part I Madras by Edward B. Eastwick, published by John Murray 1859 Google Books
• Fort St. George, Madras; a short history of our first possession in India by Fanny Emily Penny 1900 Archive.org
• Vicissitudes of Fort St. George by David Leighton 1902 Archive.org
• The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861

• Memories of Madras by Sir Charles Lawson 1905 Archive.org
• Articles by F.E.P, very likely Fanny Emily Penny, giving details of Marriages at St Mary’s , Fort St George, and Marriages at Outstations Recorded in the St Mary’s Register Book, appeared in The Genealogist, Volumes 19-23 published in London 1903 to 1907 Archive.org
  • Volume 19, 1903. St Mary’s Marriages 1680-1693, pages 182-189, 1693-1711, pages 285-292
  • Volume 20, 1904 1712-1727, pages 57-61, 1727-1760, pages 99-107 , 1761-1780, pages 200-207, 1780-1789, pages 274-279. There is a footnote on page 274 stating the words native of India means a person who was born in India. "They might be of European blood or mixed parentage"
  • Volume 21, 1905. 1790-1809 .Not available online except for a subsequent correction of an entry. However this volume is available at the British Library . Look at the back of the book for Madras in the place index, for the relevant pages.
  • Volume 22, 1906 1810-1811, pages 63-67, 1812 , pages 134-137, 1813-1814, pages 190-193, 1814-1815, pages 246-248

  "Returns of Marriages at Outstations in the Madras Presidency, Recorded in the Register Book of St Mary’s, Fort St George, between 1783 and 1805" 1783-1796 pages 248-257

  • Volume 23, 1907 1796-1798, pages 54 -61, 1798-1800, page 128-129, 1800-1805, page 179-187, additional entries, pages 187-189