Penang
Penang Island was also known as Prince of Wales Island. It was part of the Straits Settlements, along with Singapore and Malacca. The capital of Penang is George Town (or Georgetown). The island now forms a part of the larger Malaysian state of Penang.
Alternative Spelling
Pinang
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.
BACSA have published a book entitled “Christian Cemeteries of Penang & Perak” which details inscriptions of those buried there. The index of persons named therein can be searched at BACSA Search. Application can be made to BACSA for copies of the full inscription or to buy the book - charges apply.
External Links
- Penang Island Wikipedia
- Straits Settlements Wikipedia
- Photograph: St George's Church - Penang - 1818 by DBHKer flickr.com
- Inscription inside St. George's church, Penang, John Alexander Bannerman (1758-1819) Governor of Penang, from Daniel Morgan's website
- Official website of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project includes History of the Dutch and Dutch-Eurasians in Malaysia
Historical books online
- Annual Register and Directory 1821 Prince of Wales Island . This publication lists the British government and administrative departments, military personnel, organizations, trades, church committees, etc, on Prince of Wales Island. Includes an index. Available to download from the National Library of Singapore.
- 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
- Penang, page 718 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
- Slavery and the slave trade in British India; with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents Published 1841 Google Books