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==Historical background==
*Details of the book [http://www.hordern.com/publications/broadbent-india-china-australia.aspx ''India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850''] by James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven 2003 The chapter on Indian connections is titled "Lifelines from Calcutta" by Suzanne Rickard, pages 65-93 and footnotes pages 194-196. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/30/1054177716867.html Review] of the book by William Dalrymple
* ''Colonial Cousins. A surprising history of connections between India and Australia'' by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde Wakefield Press 2010. [http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/files/extracts/Colonial_Cousins_extract.pdf Extract from Colonial Cousins] Wakefieldpress.com which includes Contents, Foreword and Preface.
*''[http://angloindian.wordpress.com/history A Brief History of the Anglo Indians]'' by Dr. Gloria J. Moore. An article written for inclusion in a publication in 1988, ''The Australian People: an Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and Their Origins''. A second edition of this book by James Jupp, Cambridge University Press, 2001 is available in a [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA435 Limited View Google Book], page 435.
==Orphans==
*Boys<br>
In 1838 the government of New South Wales agreed to take seven boys (of not less than twelve years of age and of ‘pure European descent ‘) from the [[Orphan Schools in Madras# Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum|Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum]]. The seven boys arrived on the 'Sesostris' in February 1841, their passage arranged and paid for by the East India Company’s Marine Board. The seven boys were Samuel Hobart, James Marlow, John Harris, Christopher Connor, William Bird, James Barry and James MacKin.<ref> ''India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850'' pages 86-87, footnotes page 196. The boys details are in India Office Records F/4/1916 (Correspondence Book Entry 82082) at the British Library. </ref>
*Girls<br>
The following case study might help researchers.
Transcribed 13.5.2009 by Heather Hall at State Records NSW, Kingswood.
*Page 10, CARDWELL Mary Ann, 16, Arr 7.1.1843. Left 18.7.1843. This girl came from the [[Orphan Schools in Madras# Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum|Madras Military Asylum]]. To Mrs B Minders. (See note 1 below)
*Page 12, DAVEY Caroline, 14, Arr 7.1.1843. Left 7.8.1843. This girl came from the Madras Military Asylum. To Mrs Hallen of Prospect, 7.8.1843. Returned 25.8.1843. Sent to Mrs Pearce of Surry Hills Sydney, September 1843. (See note 2 below)
*Page 56, SMITH Caroline, 14, Arr 1.7.1843. This girl came from the Madras Military Asylum. Returned from Mrs Mills of Parramatta and afterwards given to Mrs Buchanan of Sydney. Returned to the school by Mrs Buchanan and given to Mrs Mills of South Head. Returned to School again for very disgraceful conduct on 26.3.1845. (No other dates were written on this record. HH) (See note 3 below)
#A Helen Tooner married Walter W J Pearce at Albury 1854.
#There were three marriages for a Mary Watts in Sydney in 1850, 1851 and 1852.
A newspaper item from the ''Bombay Times & Journal of Commerce'', 2nd April 1851 states 5 girls had been sent to New South Wales, indicating no further girls had been sent from Madras to that date. Refer [[Orphan newspaper items]]
==Convicts==
See the FiBiwiki article on [[Convicts#Convicts transported to Penang|Convicts]]
==References==
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