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{{Places of Interest|title=Calcutta |name=Calcutta|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004b9536bac950652e90&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=1}}
*[http://archive.org/stream/thackersguidetoc00firm#page/69/mode/1up St Thomas’ Church], part of the [[Orphans|Free School]] , completed 1831
*'Old' Mission Church - see article in ''[[FIBIS Journal]] 7'', includes a list of graves. Also see [http://asiaticus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/kiernanders-church.html Kiernander's Church] asiaticus.blogspot.co.uk.
*St Stephen's, Kidderpore. Photographs: Kidderpore Church: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/3166127172/ 2008] (flickr.com) *Church Districts in Calcutta (as from September 1847) [https://archive.org/details/bengalchaplainsv00cars/page/26/mode/2up Page 26] ''Bengal Chaplain's Vade-Mecum, or a collection of extracts from various sources which will guide a chaplain in the performance of the duties of his office, and also be of use to him in other respects'' by Joseph James Carshore, Chaplain on the Bengal Establishment 1857 Archive.org.* The contact details for the Church of North India in Calcutta is given in the website of the [http://cnicalcutta.org/ Diocese of Calcutta, CNI], or [https://www.anglicancommunion.org/structures/member-churches/member-church/diocese.aspx?church=north-india&dio=calcutta Diocese: Calcutta] anglicancommunion.org
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File:St James Calcutta - Exterior View October 2010.jpg|Exterior View of St James Church
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.2456/page/n5 ''Selections. The Supplements to the Calcutta Gazettes 1871-1874''] 1874 Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GgRXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA251 "A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others, who were suffocated in the Black-Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the Night succeeding the 20th Day of June 1756"], page 251-276 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GgRXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''India Tracts''] by Mr Holwell and Friends. Second Edition 1764 Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.9381/page/n3/mode/2up ''List of Europeans and others in the English factories in Bengal at the time of the Siege of Calcutta in the year 1756''] by S Charles Hill 1902 Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MeJDAQAAMAAJl&pg=PA313 1794 boundary of Calcutta] page 313 ''Parliamentary Papers: Indian Law Commission: Session 2 February- 24 August 1843'' Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xHYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Asiaticus: in two parts. Part the first, ecclesiastical, chronological, and historical sketches respecting Bengal…''] by [John Hawkesworth] 1803. Google Books [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003577E 1869 Reprint with title ''Calcutta in Days of Yore''] with commentary. British Library Digital Collection.
*''Memoirs of William Hickey''. Editions edited by Alfred Spencer, published 1913-1925. Note however the comment that a later version, edited by Peter Quennell, London 1960, is to be preferred to that edited by Alfred Spencer, in which some of Hickey’s racier reportage is expurgated.<ref>Footnote in [http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/Golden_jubilee_vol/articles/H_459%20(PJ%20Marshall).htm "The Muharram Riot Of 1779 And The Struggle For Status And Authority In Early Colonial Calcutta"] by P J Marshall ''Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Golden Jubilee Volume 50 2005''</ref> Quennell’s edition was a one volume selection, with a slightly expanded edition in 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160225021853/https://books-and-records.com/products/58/1913/william_hickey_memoirs_of_a_georgian_rake_folio_society/ William Hickey: Memoirs of a Georgian Rake] books-and-records.com, now an archived webpage.</ref>
:Edited by Alfred Spencer: [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n1/mode/2up Volume 1 1749-1775] [http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirsofwilliam015028mbp#page/n347/mode/2up/search/Index Index] Archive.org, [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover Volume 2 1775-1782] [http://books.google.com/books?id=jXcNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA397 Index] Google Books. Volume 3 (1782-1790) and Volume 4 (1790-1809) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41512 Volume III archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41514 Volume 1V Archive.org].
:Edited by Peter Quennell: [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hickrich ''The Prodigal Rake: Memoirs of William Hickey''] 1962, [https://archive.org/details/prodigalrakememo00hick/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file] are available to borrow from . Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This appears to be the USA title. UK title ''Memoirs of William Hickey'' 1960. [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwilliam0000hick/page/n3/mode/2up 1984 reprint of 1975 edition]. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:A subsequent edition, edited by Roger Hudson, was published in 1995 under the title ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', and is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01007249327
*[https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/n8/mode/2up ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''] by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromislan00kind_0/page/72/mode/2up Letter 18] in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Letters 20-21, and 64-67 are written from Calcutta. Jemima Kindersley was the wife of a Bengal Army Officer. For further details, including letter transcriptions see [[Travel accounts online]].
*See [[Food and Drink]] for a 1864 Food and Drink catalogue from Payne & Co., a Calcutta business.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
* ''Indian Gods Sages And Cities'' by C Cesary 1881. [https://archive.org/details/indli.ernet.dli.2015.128152 528035/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India . Contains much information about Calcutta. Includes [https://archive.org/streamdetails/indli.ernet.dli.2015.128152528035/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n103101/mode/2up Third Part] page 101 which includes the area around Calcutta, and [https://archive.org/streamdetails/indli.ernet.dli.2015.128152528035/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n157155/mode/2up Fourth Part. Notes. On Calcutta and Its Suburbs] page 156. The latter includes on [https://archive.org/streamdetails/indli.ernet.dli.2015.128152528035/2015.128152.Indian-Gods-Sages-And-Cities#page/n171171/mode/2up page 172] information about Catholic schools and orphanages. '''NoteCatholic''': From the page numbers, many pages appear to be missing, including page 173schools and orphanages.**Catholic Institutions This book was reprinted in Calcutta c 1881 1987, [http://books.google.com/books?id=OJ_CknHdCbUC&pg=PA172 page 172Google Books sample pages only] reprint of original published 1881 at Calcutta by Catholic Orphan Press. Preview Google Books 1987
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000357DE ''Jottings and recollections of a Bengal “Qui hye!”''] by Louis Emanuel [1886] British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiansketchesra00daly ''Indian Sketches and Rambles''] by J Bowles Daly 1896 Archive.org. Contains chapters on Calcutta, including [https://archive.org/stream/indiansketchesra00daly#page/60/mode/2up "The General Hospital"] page 60
*[https://archive.org/details/calcuttapapercha00sabr/page/n3/mode/2up ''Calcutta Paperchasing Records''] by “X” 1909. Archive.org. Author is catalogued as Sabretache, b. 1867. The Calcutta Paperchase Club was descended from the old Calcutta Hunt.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.664/page/n1/mode/2up ''Hotch Potch and Kedgeree''] “being mainly Sir Allan Arthur’s personal experience in the “Land of Humour” in Scotland, India and elsewhere…Also a number of Caricatures and Sketches by Mr F C Macrae and others”. Catalogued 1916 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. Contains many references to Calcutta, including the Calcutta Scottish [Volunteer Regiment] and Royal Calcutta Turf Club.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84345/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Sheriffs of Fort William from 1775 to 1926...and other matters relating to the city of Calcutta during the past century''] by Charles Moore. 2nd edition 1926. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53429 ''John Barleycorn Bahadur: Old Time Taverns in India''] by Major H Hobbs [Harry] 1944 (2nd edition with Index, first published 1943?) Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. :[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.03119/mode/2up ''Indian Dust Devils''] by Major H Hobbs 1937 Archive.org. Reminiscences of a time 40 or 50 years earlier.:Some other, but not all, publications by this author, published in Calcutta, are available at the [[British Library]]. [http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1196763 Author details] in photograph description from Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland.
*''Report of the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Town of Calcutta'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Third Half-yearly Report 1850], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP23 Fourth Half-yearly Report 1851], [http://books.google.com/books?id=WYoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP45 Tenth Report, for the year 1853] Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/selectionsfromr00indgoog#page/n427/mode/1up ''Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal: no 10: Report on the Establishment of Water-Works to Supply the City of Calcutta''] 1853 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0z0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Drainage and Conservancy of Calcutta''] by David Boyes Smith M.D., Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal 1869 Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906. Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India including Calcutta, and other cities in the region. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org
*''Municipal Calcutta: Its Institutions in their Origins and Growth'' by SW Goode 1916. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33547 Archive.org], mirror version from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/58/mode/2up/ "The City of Calcutta"] from ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne, J W Bond, edited by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org.
*''Bengal Past and Present-Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society''
:''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'' was first published 1907 and is a very valuable source of information. Volumes are available at the [[British Library]]. There are published indexes, each of one volume, as follows: Volumes 1 (July 1907)-8 (June 1914); Volumes 9 (1914)-18 (1919); Volumes 1 (1907)-85 (1966); Volumes 1 (1907)-104 (1985). In addition, the British Library has an index for Volumes 19-29.
:(Note that a different Journal, with a somewhat similar name, is the ''Calcutta Historical Journal'', published by the University of Calcutta, first published July 1976, available at the [[British Library]], with some available online, see further on).:A broken range of volumes to 19391988, plus 1955 a few later, is available online, see '''[[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society]]'''
:*Transcriptions from Registers of St John's, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared in ''Bengal Past and Present''. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes. Some articles are available online, as mirror editions on Archive.org, originally from Digital Library of India. Other articles are available at the [[British Library]]. '''Note''': Records for Baptisms 1767-1777 have been transcribed and are available on the [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1979&s_id=1064&sort=0&st=0&np=14&tn=412 FIBIS database] in the category Publications.
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n351/mode/2up Baptisms 1713-1758] BPP Volume XXI, pp 143-159. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.26420965?Search=yes&seq=406#page_thumbnails_tab_contents Baptisms 1759-1766] BPP Volume V, pp 325-332 jstor.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n409/mode/2up Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/324/mode/2up another Archive.org version]:**[https://archive.org/streamdetails/in.ernet.dli.2015.50155448159/2015.501554.Bengal-Past#page/n383n157/mode/2up Baptisms 1767 -1777] BPP Volume XXV, January-June 1923, pp 130-155, Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501554/2015.501554.Bengal-Past#page/n167/mode/2up Baptisms 1778-1782] BPP Volume XXVI 1923, pp 142-168. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32668/2015.32668.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol28#page/n93/mode/2up Baptisms 1783-1785] BPP Volume XXVIII, pp 193-221. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32678/2015.32678.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol-9#page/n85/mode/2up Marriages 1713-1754] BBP Volume IX, Part II, Serial No 18, Oct-Dec 1914 pp 217-243. Also [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32678/2015.32678.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol-9#page/n157/mode/2up Marriages 1713-1754-II] pages 282-284. Archive.org/DLI. '''Note''' on page 218 it is stated that in the 18th century, 'Mrs' is often used to denote a young unmarried lady of quality. "'Miss' appears but rarely in these early registers".
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500673/2015.500673.Bengal-Past#page/n105/mode/2up Marriages 1759-1779] BBP Volume IV, July-Dec 1909 pp 486-512. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/n159/mode/2up Additional notes to Marriages in Bengal 1759-1779] BBP Volume V, Jan.-June 1910 pp 143-150 Archive.org/DLI (U Calcutta)
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500676/2015.500676.Bengal-Past#page/n195/mode/2up Marriages 1780-1785] BPP Volume VII, pp 164-171. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.503761/2015.503761.Bengal-Past#page/n51/mode/2up Marriages 1786-1792] BBP Volume XVI, Part I, Serial No 31, Jan-March 1918 pp 41-71. Archive.org/DLI
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n285/mode/2up Marriages 1781-1800 (Supplementary Register)] BBP Volume XXI, pp 76-141. Archive.org/DLI.
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32665/2015.32665.Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol10#page/n83/mode/2up Burials 1713-1755] BPP Volume X, Jan-June 1915, Serial Nos 19-20, pp 257-284 . Archive.org/DLI.
:**[https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.26420965?Search=yes&seq=165#page_thumbnails_tab_contents Burials 1759-1761] BBP Volume V, pp 136-142 jstor.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.31275/page/n167/mode/2up Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.03979/page/137/mode/2up another Archive.org version]
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500675/2015.500675.Bengal-Past#page/n141/mode/2up Burials 1762-1774] BBP Volume VI 1910, pp 92-126. Archive.org/DLI.
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.501558.Bengal-Past#page/n147/mode/2up Burials 1775-81] BPP Volume 31 (Jan-Jun 1926) pages 130-156. Archive.org/DLI.
:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.501558.Bengal-Past#page/n359/mode/2up Burials 1782-88] Volume 32 II (Oct-Dec 1926) pages 109-132. Archive.org/DLI.
:*[https://archive.org/details/bppcalcutta-baptisms-images/mode/2up Baptisms], [https://archive.org/details/bppbengal-marriages-images Marriages], [https://archive.org/details/bpp-calcutta-burials-images/mode/2up Burials] Archive.org mirror versions of the above articles.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Calcutta+Historical+Journal%22%29&sort=date ''The Calcutta Historical Journal''] Volumes 1-14 1976-1989 published by Calcutta University. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/storylallbazarb00wenggoog '' The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of Carey's Church from 24th April 1800 to the Present Day''] by Edward Steane Wenger 1908 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n604/mode/2up An Alphabetical List of members of the Church] and other lists, following page 575. [https://archive.org/stream/storylallbazarb00wenggoog#page/n664/mode/2up Index]
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500671/2015.500671.Bengal-Past#page/n15/mode/2up "Slavery Days in Old Calcutta"] by Syud Hossain, ''Bengal Past and Present, Volume II, Part II 1908'', pages 271-276, Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta.<ref> Reprinted in [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist''], page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858. </ref> [https://learninglab.si.edu/resources/view/90161 Photograph: Man in palki or palanquin], Calcutta. Click through to 2nd image. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Learning Lab website. :[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04022/page/137/mode/2up "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta"] by Frank E Bushby pages 138-141 ''Bengal Past and Present, Vol-41 January-June 1931''. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzxcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Rules and Regulations of La Martiniere, Founded in Calcutta Under the Will of Major General Claude Martin: With an Extract of the Will of the Testator, the Decree of the Supreme Court with Regard to the Same, and Other Documents''] 1835 Google Books
*There are many references to Calcutta, including Catholic churches, in [https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfThePortugueseInBengal ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal''] by J J A Campos 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7149/mode/2up 2nd file, Archive.org], mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
