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In June, 1801 the Danish were defeated at Tranquebar by the [[94th Regiment of Foot|Scots Brigade]] and in 1845 the whole Danish colony was sold to England. This ended the Danish presence in India.
Peter Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen wrote a term paper in 1996 entitled [http://www.scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html A history of about the Danish East India Company 1616-1669], refer External links below. This is very interesting and has a number of references at the bottom for those who want to pursue the subject further.
The article "The Danes at Serampore", by F.B.Bradley Birt, ''Calcutta Review, No. 295, January 1919, (New [2nd] Series Volume 25)'', pages 92-118, is available at the online, see below. ==Akso see==*[[British LibrarySerampore]]*[[Tranquebar]]
== Church records ==
'''Main article''': [[Church For church and others records]] Danish ancestors may not have lived in British India (i.e. that portion of India that was controlled by the British - this grew from a very small area in 1600 relating to almost all of India by 1947). In this caseTranquebar, see the church records will not be kept at the Fibiwiki page [[British LibraryTranquebar]].  Some church records have been microfilmed by the [[LDS]] and are available at [[Family History Centres]]. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the Jerusalems-kirken; baptisms, confirmations, betrothals & marriages, and burials of Zions Kirke at Tranquebar 1707-1818 are available on microfilm '''#128836'''.
== Other sources ==
*''Protestant Cemetery in Bangkok'' by Justin Corfield, 1997. There are a lot Danish folk buried in this cemetery, as there was a substantial group of Danes who came to Thailand to train the Police and Customs Services.
The 1834 census of Tranquebar is was available on microfilm at LDS [[Family History CentresFamilySearch]] microfilm. It is on two rolls on microfilm '''#39091''' and '''#39092''', [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/327409 catalogue entry]. Currently (2018/10), they are not yet digitised, see [[FamilySearch Centres]].
The ''Register af Blanketregnskaber 1800-1847'' is available on microfilm #599136 at LDS as digitised [[Family History CentresFamilySearch]]microfilm, available for viewing on your home computer. The microfilm description is "Register of applications pertaining to civil records including special burials, marriages without banns, divorce petitions, nonprobate will actions that should normally have been handled through a higher authority. Includes the various estates and baronies on mainland Denmark, and then the Danish possessions, Iceland, Faroe Islands, West Indies and Tranquebar, India." . The records for Trankebar appear at the end of the list, microfilm 382501, DGS 7751337, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/538957 catalogue entry].
There are Danish records of Tranquebar and Serampore in the King's Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) or [http://www.kb.dk/en/index.html Royal Library], and [http://www.sa.dk/content/us Danish State Archives] in Copenhagen, Denmark, refer the WHKMLA link below.
 
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180718030547/http://scholiast.org/history/tra-narr.html "Tranquebar: The Danish East India Company 1616 - 1669"] by Peter Ravn Rasmussen. scholiast.org, now an archived webpage. Revised and reworked from what was originally a term paper written at the University of Copenhagen in spring 1996.*Uno-Barner Jensen has created an impressive website which reflects his extensive research into the subject of coins of the Danish East India Company. It also has pages on the history of Tranquebar and many beautiful photos of the Danish churches there. The website is available in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140428121643if_/http://www.tranquebar.dk/ Danish] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209120539if_/http://www.tranquebar.dk/welcome.htm English], both now now archived.
*[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/danish-factory-in-calicut-1752-1796.html The Danish Factory in Calicut 1752-1796] by Maddy. historicalleys.blogspot
*There is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120108071646/http://www.zum.de:80/whkmla/region/india/tldanindia.html Timeline of Danish India] on the WHKMLA website in the section relating to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140824050532/http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/india/xdanindia.html Danish India], now archived webpages.
*Danes in India did not intermarry much with local Indians, according to [http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/carton.html "Beyond "Cotton Mary": Anglo-Indian Categories and Reclaiming the Diverse Past"] by Adrian Carton ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 5, Number 1, 2000.
*[https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Denmark Denmark] includes [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Danish_Word_List Danish Word List] and [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Danish_Handwriting_Guide Danish Handwriting Guide] Family Search (LDS) Wiki
*The [httphttps://www.sa.dk/contenten/usgenealogy/genealogy Genealogy page] from the [http://www.sa.dk/content/us Danish State Archives]. It includes a [httphttps://www.sa.dk/contenten/genealogy/handwriting/ Handwriting Guide], with link to a genealogical dictionary. *Rudy Schmidt’s [http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/International/Danish.htm Danish/English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms]===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.93601/2015.93601.The-Calcutta-Review1918#page/usn99/genealogymode/genealogical_dictionary Dictionary2up "The Danes at Serampore"], by F.B.Bradley Birt, ''Calcutta Review, No. 295, January 1919, (New [2nd] Series Volume 25)'', pages 92-118 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Note however, that it is in the volume which is catalogued as 1918. This volume has title page and Handwriting Guidecontents pages for 1918, but articles for 1919.==References==<references />
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*Rudy Schmidt’s [http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/International/Danish.htm Danish/English Glossary of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms]
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