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Bengal Ecclesiastical Returns Index

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'''N''' = Returns of Baptisms, marriages and burials
'''The following is a summary of the returns covering India, Burma, and elsewhere:*Bengal 1713-1947, N/1.*Madras 1698-1947, N/2.*Bombay 1709-1947, N/3.*India and Pakistan 1949-c1968, N/4.*Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5.*Burma 1800s-1936, N/1; 1937-1957, N/10.*Roman Catholic returns for each Presidency were incorporated in the main series except for a short period of time, 1835-1856, during which separate series was kept: N/1''' = /RC, N/2/RC, and N/3/RC.*Registrar marriages in India and Burma 1852-1911, N/11.*Other areas::*St Helena 1767-1835, N/6.:*Fort Marlborough [Benkulen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, N/7.:*Prince of Wales Island [Penang], Malacca and Singapore 1799-1829 in N/8, continued in the Bengalreturns 1830-1868, N/1. For Malacca marriages 1820-1824, see also IOR: R/9/39/3.:*Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, N/9.:*Kuwait 1937-1961, N/12.:*Aden 1840-1948, N/13; most of the Aden entries also appear in the Bombay returns.
'''2''' = Madras
 
'''3''' = Bombay
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