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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca Malacca] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca Malacca] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements Straits Settlements] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements Straits Settlements] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/ Official website of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project] includes [http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/press/paper_20080527_history_of_the_dutch_and_dutch_eurasians_in_malaysia.html History of the Dutch and Dutch-Eurasians in Malaysia] | *[http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/ Official website of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project] includes [http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/press/paper_20080527_history_of_the_dutch_and_dutch_eurasians_in_malaysia.html History of the Dutch and Dutch-Eurasians in Malaysia] | ||
===Historical books online=== | |||
*Malacca and Penang [http://books.google.com/books?id=VwVHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA94 Chapter 6] 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 | |||
*Malacca,[http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA723 page 723] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah & Co 1855 | |||
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023301710#page/n7/mode/2up ''Prisoners their own warders: a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements, established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the year 1797''] by Major J. F. A. McNair, assisted by W. D. Bayliss. 1899 Archive.org | |||
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Revision as of 10:50, 10 May 2012
Malacca was ceded to the British in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen on Sumatra. From 1826 to 1946 Malacca was governed, first by the British East India Company and then as a Crown Colony. It formed part of the Straits Settlements, together with Singapore and Penang (also known as Prince of Wales Island).
History
Malacca and the Spice Islands details military actions between the British and Dutch East India Companies at the end of the eighteenth century.
Battle of Soongei Pattye 1831
Battle of Kalama to Taboo 1832
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.
Returns are continued in the Bengal returns 1830-1868, N/1. For Malacca marriages 1820-1824, see also IOR: R/9/39/3.
External Links
- Malacca Wikipedia
- Straits Settlements Wikipedia
- Official website of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project includes History of the Dutch and Dutch-Eurasians in Malaysia
Historical books online
- Malacca and Penang Chapter 6 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
- Malacca,page 723 A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore by Pharoah & Co 1855
- Prisoners their own warders: a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements, established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the year 1797 by Major J. F. A. McNair, assisted by W. D. Bayliss. 1899 Archive.org