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==Other records==
*The FamilySearch website contains some databases which are browsable collections of images, which have not been indexed, which are of church registers in India and Ceylon, refer [[Church records#Online records and transcriptions|above]].
* See [[Cemeteries]] for details of monumental inscriptions in books, including books available online.*''Bengal Past and Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society'', available at the [[British Library]] has lists of baptisms, marriages and burials based on the original church registers in Calcutta, up to 1800. They are probably mostly covered by the Ecclesiastical Returns in the B.L., however there may be some additional entries which never made it to England (e.g. the ship carrying the returns to England was lost). There are also some :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 detailsnotes. Some articles are available online, on the Digital Library of India website, or through the lists mirror editions on Archive.org. Other articles are available online, see at the [[Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical SocietyBritish Library]] for online editions of the . '''Note'Journal''.**: Records for Baptisms 1767-1777 have been transcribed and are available on the [http://mywebsearch.tiscalifibis.co.ukorg/frontis/cmadgebin/Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%201767-1777aps_browse_sources.pdf Baptisms 1767 -1777php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1979&s_id=1064&sort=0&st=0&np=14&tn=412 FIBIS database] and in the category Publications.:*[httphttps://mywebarchive.org/stream/in.ernet.tiscalidli.co2015.uk134759/cmadge2015.134759.Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-june#page/n351/mode/2up Baptisms%20in%20Calcutta%2017781713-17821758] BPP Volume XXI, pp 143-159. Archive.pdf org/DLI:*Baptisms 17781759-1782] Transcriptions from Registers of St John's1766 BPP Volume V, Calcutta by E W Madge as they appeared pp 325-332:*[https://archive.org/stream/in ''.ernet.dli.2015.501554/2015.501554.Bengal -Past and Present''<ref>Available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of Indiapage/n383/mode/2up Baptisms 1767 -1777]] website. ''Bengal Past and Present BPP Volume 25XXV, Parts I and II (Series nos 49-50) January-June 1923'', pages pp 130-155 and '', 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 26, part 2, XXVI 1923'', pages pp 142-168, . Archive.org/DLI computer pages 45-71<:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32668/ref> – this link is to website of Madge Family of Bengal2015. Each listing contains many pages of biographical notes (13 and 16 pages respectively)32668. The first Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol28#page of the second document lists articles in other volumes of BP&P containing transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials to 1800. **/n93/mode/2up Baptisms 17131783-1758 1785] BPP Volume XXIXXVIII, pp 143193-159221. Archive.org/DLI:**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501555/2015.501555.Bengal-Past#page/n95/mode/2up Baptisms 1769-1766 BPP 1786 to 1788] Volume VXXX, 1925, pp 32579-107. Also contains an addendum for the years 1783-3321785:**[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. Available online on DLI, catalogued as volAlso [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.32678/2015.32678. Bengal-Past-And-Present--Vol-9, 1918; computer #page/n157/mode/2up Marriages 1713-1754-II] pages 86282-112284. 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. Available online on Archive.org/DLI as (1909) vol:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500676/2015.500676. 4; computer pages 107Bengal-147**Past#page/n195/mode/2up Marriages 1780-1785 ] BPP Volume VII, pp 164-171. Available online on Archive.org/DLI, catalogued as (1917) vol:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.503761/2015.503761. 7 Bengal-Past#page/n51/mode/2up but published c 1911; computer pages 197-204**Marriages 17851786-1792 ] BBP Volume XVI, Part I, Serial No 31, Jan-March 1918 pp 41-71 Available online on . Archive.org/DLI as vol:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.134759/2015.16, pt134759. 1; computer pages 52Bengal-Past-And--Present-Vol20---21jan-82**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 Available online on . Archive.org/DLI as vol.10; computer pages 84-111*:*Burials 1759-1761 BBP Volume V, pp 136-142:**[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 Available online on . Archive.org/DLI, catalogued as Volume 6, no 12; computer pages 143-177.:**[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. Available online on Archive.org/DLI, catalogued as Vol.31,Part:*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501558/2015.1,Serial no501558.61, computer pages 149Bengal-175**Past#page/n359/mode/2up Burials 1782-88 ] Volume 32 II (Oct-Dec 1926) pages 109-132. Available Archive.org/DLI.*See [[Madras (City)]] for online on DLIdetails of Marriages at St Mary’s , Fort St George, catalogued as voland Marriages at Outstations 1680-1805.32*Also see other Fibiwiki Location pages , computer pages 132-155including [[Cawnpore]] for online monumental inscriptions.
== Regional breakdown of ecclesiastical records ==
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