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[http://databases.tanap.net/ead/html/LondonBL_1/ Dutch Records for Malacca in the India Office Records]Malaysian Branch of Royal Asiatic Society.  
[http://databases.tanap.net/ead/html/LondonBL_1/ Dutch Records for Malacca in the India Office Records]Malaysian Branch of Royal Asiatic Society.  
[http://www.academia.edu/1515247/Malay_documents_in_the_Melaka_Records_in_the_British_Library Malay documents in the Melaka Records in the British Library] by Annabel Gallop


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Revision as of 19:19, 8 March 2013

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.

Dutch Records for Malacca in the India Office RecordsMalaysian Branch of Royal Asiatic Society.

Malay documents in the Melaka Records in the British Library by Annabel Gallop

External Links

Historical books online