Madras (City)

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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 one of the early East India Company Factories, the location of Fort St George and the seat of the Madras Presidency.

Madras in 1862, with churches, missions & schools
Madras 1893 Rootsweb

History

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:

Economy and business

  • This article mentions Thomas Parry, 1768-1824, a merchant in Madras, after whom Parry’s Corner is named. walesonline.co.uk 19 January 2012

Interactive Map

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The map to the right shows locations of interest in Madras

Hover your cursor over the markers on the map to reveal the places marked or use the below index.

Clicking on the markers also produces a balloon with further location details.

Locations index

  A - Fort St George

  B - St Georges Cathedral

  C -

External links

Historical books online

Also see Madras (Presidency)

Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Volume 2 1805 to 1835 Volume 3 1835 to 1861
These articles have been reprinted as the book Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras , available at the British Library as Official Publications: Church Registers IOR/V/27/73 and Shelfmark OIR 929.354 Open Access