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Additional LDS films:*Refer also [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=883691 883691[Dutch Indies Genealogical Association] Indonesian parish register printouts, christenings for Bengkulu, 1754-1825 with some missing years, extracted from filmed copies of Bishop's Transcripts*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=883737 883737] Indonesian parish register printouts, marriages for Bengkulu, 1754-1824, extracted from filmed copies of Bishop's transcripts. Years covered: 1754; 1759; 1779-1780; 1792-1798; 1802-1824.
These two films may possibly * The [[BACSA]] publication entitled ''Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments'' by Alan Harfield 1985 is now out of print but can be extracted found in the [[British Library]] on the open shelves or amongst the BACSA files under reference MssEur F370/1243. Indexes from film 498606this book are online (for free) at [http://bacsa. Please consult frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA search]. BACSA also have a cemetery file under reference MssEur F370/823**FamilySearch have digitised the LDS Catalogue and/or above BACSA book, which has restricted access, but which may be viewed on a FamilySearch computer at a LDS Family History FamilySearch Centre Librarian. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/544102 catalogue entry]. For more information, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. '''Update June 2018. It appears that FamilySearch digital viewing is no longer possible. To be clarified'''.
Refer also [[Dutch Indies Genealogical Association]].==Recommended Reading ==
==Books==*''Letters from Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery 1823-28 by Thomas Day and the Fort Marlborough MonumentsWilliam Day'' with an intro by Alan Harfield 1985. A James Trelawny Day (Cambridge Asia Series , Hardinge Simpole 2008) Book reviewed in [[BACSAFIBIS Journals]] publication. *''Bencoolen: A History on the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825'' by Alan Harfield 1995 is available at the [[British Library]]. Read about the [http://wftw.nl/bencoolen/bencoolen.html book here]no 26.
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In 1825, the EIC exchanged Benkulen with the Dutch for [[Malacca]] which was more strategically useful to the British. Benkulen remained a Dutch possession until after World War 2.
== Spelling Variants ==
Variants: Benkulen, Bencoolen
==FIBIS resources==
*"The Assassination of Thomas Parr, Resident of Bencoolen" by Joanna C Fennell ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 32 -38. The muder took place in December 1807. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
*"Distant Relations Discovered - A Bencoolen Family Reunited" by James T Day ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 15- 18. "The story begins way back in 1794". See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
==Records==
*Held at [[British Library]]**Deaths at Benkulen 1691 '''IOR/E/3/48 f.252'''**Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at Benkulen 1740-1742, '''IOR/G/35/9''' **Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, [[British Library]] reference '''IOR N/7'''. '''These records are included in the digitised records now available on the commercial site FindMyPast'''. The [[LDS]] film of this data is [httphttps://www.familysearch.org/eng/librarysearch/fhlcatalogcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=498606 156143 498606]. Data for the baptisms and marriages has been transcribed on the LDS website. Select the [httphttps://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true IGI Family Search] and enter Region Asia and . Enter batch number C310011 for the baptisms and batch number M310011 for the marriages, and baptismal and marriage records for Bencoolen on film 498606 will be shown. It is not known whether the data is a complete transcription or not. These records are in the World category (All Records Collections) in a group of records called World Miscellaneous.
== External links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/benkulen.htm 'Benkulen'], ''The British Empire''.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkulen 'Bengkulu'], ''Wikipedia''.
*Richard Davies' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102115732/http://sites.google.com/site/sumatraswestkust /home Sumatra’s Westkust] includes [https://web.archive.org/web/20111230013747/http://sites.google.com/site/sumatraswestkust/bencoolen The British in West Sumatra 1770-1824: Bencoolen, Fort Marlborough], now archived. This site contains many names.*[http://mahandisyoanatablogs.multiplybl.comuk/photosuntoldlives/album2012/12001/THE_OLD_BRITISH_CEMETERY_IN_BENCOOLEN_A_MEMORY_FOR_WEST_SUMATRA_GARRISON_ the-east-india-company-slaving-voyage-of-nicholas-skottowe.html "The Old British Cemetery in BencoolenEast India Company slaving voyage of Nicholas Skottowe"] Blog by MahandisyoanataProfessor Huw Bowen 09 January 2012 British Library Untold lives blog. Photographs of some of the gravestones The slaves were transported to [[St Helena]] and inscriptions 1775Bencoolen 1764-18586.
*[http://historyofbengkulu.blogspot.com/search/label/Treaty The Anglo-Dutch 1824 Treaty] History of Bengkulu website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111203111501/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/ghosts-of-britannia/431893 Ghosts of Britannia] The Jakarta Globe (News site), archived.*[https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/376 ''Company culture: information, scholarship, and the East India Company settlements 1660-1720s''] by Anna E Winterbottom 2010 PhD thesis, University of London. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77036594.pdf Pdf, core.ac.uk]. Includes one chapter which has information about Bencoolen.
====Historical books online====
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Yx5MAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Sumatra: containing an account of the government, laws, customs and manners of the native inhabitants, with a description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient political state of that island''] by William Marsden. Third edition with additions 1811 Google Books.The map has not been filmed. First published 1783. The 2nd edition describes the author "late Secretary to the President and Council of Fort Marlborough".
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eDNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 ''Memoir of Lieut.-Col. John Macdonald''] 1831 Google Books. He became a cadet of the Bombay Army in 1780, first in the infantry , then the Engineers. In 1782 he joined the Bengal Engineers and was sent to Bencoolen and mainly performed survey work in this area until 1796. (Note, an unrelated book follows the Memoir)
*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 . [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA1 pages 1-11]. Other Sections [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA11 page 11], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105 page 105], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209 page 209] Google Books
*''Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,F.R.S., &c. &c., particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824: with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence'' by Sophia Raffles 1835 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lqA2AAAAMAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=86A2AAAAMAAJ Volume 2] Google Books
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023301710#page/n7/mode/2up ''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
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