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*St Theresa - built 1893
*St Thomas' Church - (Middleton Row). Begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto
*Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Boitakhana (Baithakhana), founded in 1810, as a Portuguese mission church. The address of the Church was 147 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street (Old Bowbazar Street). It is situated quite close to the Sealdah Station, and near the Railway Barracks where most of the Anglo Indian who were employed by the Railway lived.<ref>Munro, George [Joyce] [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/web/20210210021919/hyperkittyhttps:/list/indiamlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=7731504/ Entally] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2004. Retrieved 1 October 2018, archived.</ref> A book was published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by [https://web.archive.org/web/20170126052141/http://www.goethals.in/collections/felixrajarticles/Hhosten.htm Fr H Hosten]. A copy of this book is available in Calcutta at the [http://www.goethals.in/default.htm Goethals Indian Library] category Various Indian Missions subcategory Portuguese Jurisdiction, reference Id : 38L/135. At least some of the records appear in the [[Calcutta#FIBIS resources|FIBIS database, refer above]], but it is suspected that only some of the records were copied by Percy-Smith and Bullock. From copies of baptismal records obtained from the Church in the 1960s, and held by the FIBIS research co-ordinator, it would appear that some of the registers in the 1800s were noted in Portuguese.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20151009030439/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060415/asp/calcutta/story_6095119.asp "Non-Christians in church flock"] April 15, 2006. telegraphindia.com, now an archived webpage. Article about Our Lady of Dolours.
*[http://www.goethals.in/GoethalNews/2008Apr-JunGNews.htm Catholic <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other<nowiki>]</nowiki> Heritage Churches of Calcutta] goethals.in
:[http://www.flickr.com/photos/udayms/sets/72157594177409787/ Calcutta 1947]. Photographs, at least some of which appear to come from the above album, on flickr.com.
*[http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=563&chapterid=159&picturesize=medium Calcutta] from Great Mirror
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170722053817/http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=288984 Writers' Building, Kolkata] Photographs from Skyscrapercity.com, now archived.
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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27917 ''Calcutta, from fort to city: A study of a colonial settlement, 1690-1750''] by Thomas Andrew Mansfield 1 October 2012 Phd thesis, University of Leicester.
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/app-brings-kolkatas-history-alive/article7927723.ece '"App brings Kolkata’s history alive'"] by Shiv Sahay Singh November 29, 2015 ''The Hindu''. Install [http://www.time-scape.org Timescape: Kolkata]. Free App, for use in Calcutta.
*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/lhi-book-club/2021/02/08/robert-ivermee Robert Ivermee on ''Hooghly: The Global History of a River''] Live History India Book Club. Contains a YouTube video (50 minutes). Includes the establishment of Calcutta. *[http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/black-hole-calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta] by Richard Cavendish ''History Today Volume 56 Issue 6 2006''. This incident occurred on the night of 20 June 1756 at Fort William.
*[http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_publishing_group/documents/web_document/wtd006093.pdf "Town planning and public health in Calcutta in the 18th and 19th centuries"] by Dr Partho Datta ''Wellcome History'' Issue No.22 February 2003, pages 2-4
*Changed street names, old and new [http://www.calcuttaweb.com/roadnamech.shtml Calcuttaweb.com], [http://www.cyp.in/showUsefulInformation.asp?useCatid=29&useCatName=Changed%20Street%20Names Calcutta Yellow Pages]
