Pondicherry

Pondicherry
Presidency: Madras
Coordinates:	11.845116°N 79.875241°E
Altitude:	0 m (0 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Puducherry
State/Province:	Indian Union Territory of Puducherry
Country:	India
Transport links
Pondicherry Railway

Pondicherry was formerly a French colony founded by Francois Martin in 1674.

History

• Siege of Pondicherry 1748
• Capture of Pondicherry 1761
• Battle of Pondicherry 1778
• Battle of Pondicherry 1793

Records

• See French. The Pondicherry archives are in the "Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer (ANOM)" in the city of Aix en Provence, France.

FIBIS Resources

• Images of Pondicherry

Churches

Immaculate Conception Cathedral

• Sacred Heart Church
• Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
• Notre Dame Des Anges (Our Lady of Angels)

Cemeteries

• English Cemetery
• French Cemetery
• Cemetery opposite Notre Dames Des Anges

(For some transcriptions see External links below)

External links

Cemetery Information

• Some older cemetery transcriptions from Inscriptions on Tombs and Monuments in Madras by J J Cotton 1905 archive.org
• Surnames from the European cemeteries in Pondicherry, archived website of Jean-Claude Feray, listing mostly French names.
• Cemeteries

Other information

• Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry, which are now archived. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them:
  • History of Pondicherry
  • Useful addresses for family history in Pondicherry
  • List of voters in Pondicherry 1792
  • Census of Pondicherry 1797
• Pondicherry Past and Present Institut Français de Pondichéry
• Details of EAP191/1 Periodicals of French India at the Library of the Institut Français de Pondichéry (1823-1958), now available at the British Library in digital form. Part of the The British Library's Endangered Archives Programme.
• [Researching at the] Institute Français de Pondichéry, India by Luther Obrock, (Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley) March 13, 2014. dissertationreviews.org
• "Pondicherry – A bit of France in India" by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk
• "Coromandel Trail - Along the salt pans to Pondicherry" by Lakshmi Sharath 17 September 2012 in.lifestyle.yahoo.com
• Images of Pondicherry collected by Remi Duvert toutpondi.com
• Pondichery Church and Cemetery You Tube
• In pictures: Former French colony of Pondicherry in India 19 September 2012 BBC News India
• Churches of Pondicherry aminearlythereyet.com Stunning photos