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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044014172761?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai Almanac'' 1856] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044014172761?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai Almanac'' 1856] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MYdA2zTNYRkC&pg=PP9 ‪''The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China''‬] 1859 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MYdA2zTNYRkC&pg=PP9 ‪''The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China''‬] 1859 Google Books
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c104144935?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Morris's Directory for China, Japan and the Phillipines, etc. 1870'']  Note; this appears to be a reprint edition, and only includes those sections relating to China, excluding Hong Kong. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c104144935?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Morris's Directory for China, Japan and the Phillipines, etc. 1870'']  '''Note''': this appears to be a reprint edition, and only includes those sections relating to China, excluding Hong Kong. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''
:This publication had many titles over time and with different publishers: ''The China Register'' (1862, 1863, 1874). ''The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines'' (1873, 1879). In 1889 included ''Corea, Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin, Siam, Borneo, Straits Settlements, Malay States''. In 1889 included ''Indo-China'' (replacing ''Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin''). In 1899 included ''Netherlands India''. By 1905 the title had changed to ''The Directory & Chronicle…''
:This publication had many titles over time and with different publishers: ''The China Register'' (1862, 1863, 1874). ''The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines'' (1873, 1879). In 1889 included ''Corea, Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin, Siam, Borneo, Straits Settlements, Malay States''. In 1889 included ''Indo-China'' (replacing ''Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin''). In 1899 included ''Netherlands India''. By 1905 the title had changed to ''The Directory & Chronicle…''
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*Japan Directories
*Japan Directories
**[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. Note: some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
**[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. '''Note''': some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
**'''Restricted access only''', possibly available to those in North America and some other countries [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175007820742 ''Meiklejohn's Japan directory 1888''] Hathi Trust Digital Library
**'''Restricted access only''', possibly available to those in North America and some other countries [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175007820742 ''Meiklejohn's Japan directory 1888''] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023226065  ''China, Past and Present''] by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023226065  ''China, Past and Present''] by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org

Revision as of 07:10, 2 January 2015

China

Major locations

History

  • The Opium Wars:

Records

  • There are some records for China in the "World Miscellaneous" records on FamilySearch (source unspecified)
  • Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9. These records are now available on the pay site findmypast
  • China: Sources in the India Office Records Guide to records at the British Library
  • British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library. Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This link lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484)

British Army

The British Army leased for a time Wei-hai-wei (a fine natural harbour) on the mainland and Liu Kung Tao island. There was a garrison of British Troops A naval depot serviced the Royal Navy's China Squadron.[1]

Also see

External links

  • CHina Wikipedia
  • China Coast Family History Website of University of Bristol - project for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources".
  • University of Bristol’s Visualising China Blog is "a web-based resource that allows users to explore more than 9,000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950".

Historical books online

  • Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
    • Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11
    • Section 2 The continental kingdoms of Siam, Cochin-China [Southern Vietnam], Tonquin [Northern Vietnam], Pegu [Burma], and Ava [Burma]. pages 11-20,
    • Section 3 Japan and China pages 105-118
    • Section 4 China pages 209 -220
  • Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835 by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926.
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5: Supplementary, 1742-74. Pdfs to download from Digital Books from GIPE, Pune.
Volumes 3 and 4 are also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
This publication had many titles over time and with different publishers: The China Register (1862, 1863, 1874). The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines (1873, 1879). In 1889 included Corea, Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin, Siam, Borneo, Straits Settlements, Malay States. In 1889 included Indo-China (replacing Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin). In 1899 included Netherlands India. By 1905 the title had changed to The Directory & Chronicle…
Editions are available to read online on the Hathi Trust Digital Library, or to download as pdfs from archive.org (Currently most/all browsers cannot read the online versions on archive.org)
1862 1863 1873 1874

1874 archive.org

1879

1879 archive.org

1889

1889 archive.org

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1892 archive.org

1894

1894 archive.org

1899

1899 archive.org

1902
1905

1905 archive.org

1908

1908 archive.org

1917

1917 archive.org

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1920 archive.org

1922

References

  1. Great War Forum thread Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now by Bushfighter April 2008. (Images only available to logged in members of GWF) (retrieved 14 April 2014)