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*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories.
*:[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ordAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA343 "Historical Outline of Medical Missions at Canton, Hongkong and Macao"] ''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East'' Page 329 Volume 4 July 1875 to June 1876. Google Books
→External links
**Details of some of the inscriptions from the Ossuary<ref>[http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2018/ "The Ossuary"]. A series of articles by Christine M. Thomas from December 2018. [http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2019/01/ 2019/01], [http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com/2019/03/ 2019/03]. There are biographical articles about the cemetery from June 2010. ''Hong Kong Cemetery''. </ref>
:For expanded cemetery details, see ''Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery'' by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01015724284 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iaZMzPuLAggC&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.
:Also see the book available [[Hong Kong#Historical books online| online below]], ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley'' by Solomon Bard 1997.:This cemetery is located on the western side of Happy Valley and was previously known as the Protestant Cemetery or the Colonial Cemetery.*See External links below for the Searchable database databases on the website ''China Families''.*See External links below for the Searchable database ''The Carl Smith Collection'' at the Government Records Service/Public Records Office. Note, some or all of this collection is available as images on FamilySearch.*The Government Records Service/Public Records Office holds some original church registers for baptisms and marriages from St John's Cathedral. See External links below for the website ''Gwulo: Old Hong Kong'' which holds some brief records, also including deaths, for the period 1897- April 1931 from the Cathedral magazine.
*FamilySearch Research page [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927198?region=Hong%20Kong Hong Kong] for Historical Records. However, some records are classified as China records and it may be clearer to find records directly from the Catalog specifically for Hong Kong, see following item.
*FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
:"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567153 catalogue entry] microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.
:[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/723198 "Europeans - China Coast : [card file<nowiki>]"</nowiki>] Carl T. Smith collection. “Individual cards for Europeans residing in Hong Kong and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”. Digitised microfilm which may be viewed on your home computer.
:Search the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog FamilySearch Catalog] for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/567122 catalogue entry], Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see [[FamilySearch Centres]] for changes involving microfilms.
*Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
*See Historical books online below, including**Hong Kong Government Reports Online, below. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications.<ref> Who Do You Think You Are? Forum thread "Lighthouse keeper in the dark", now no longer available <nowiki>http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10068.html</nowiki> </ref> The information was found in an official publication know as the ''Blue Book'' in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.**Directories and related publications, including ''The Colonial Office List''.
*See [[Cemeteries]] for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
*The book ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley'' by Solomon Bard 1997 is available [[Hong Kong#Historical books online|online, see below]]. It is also available at the [[British Library]] in the [[BACSA]] Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242. By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, ''Report on survey and study of old service graves at Stanley Military Cemetery'' 1984 and ''Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery'' 1991, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office) thought to be available at , the Public Record Office, Hong Kong, possibly as a typescript. May latter may possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery.<ref>''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan'' by Gotelind Müller 2018, page 16, footnote 72 and page 18, footnote 85. See [[Hong Kong#External links|External links]], above.</ref> The 1984 and 1991 publications are available at the Government Records Service Hong Kong, also known as the Public Record Office, Hong Kong in the Library, DDC Call Number 929.5095125 BAR and 929.5 BAR respectively.*The book ''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://web.archive.org/web/20231022105837/https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicg/uk.people.ex-forces/c/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
*The book ''Traders of Hong Kong: Some Foreign Merchant Houses, 1841-1899'' by Solomon Bard Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1993 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012493829 . [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Traders_of_Hong_Kong.html?id=IXeHAAAAIAAJ Searchable but not viewable Google Books]. "A very useful summary of the wide range of foreigners, from Germans and Americans to Armenians, Parsees and Jews"<ref> "Annotated Bibliography The Basics" ''Hong Kong History Project''. Refer External links, above.</ref>
*The National Archives, Kew record series CO 1070 index cards in respect of Second World War Hong Kong civilian internees and some prisoners of war are now searchable by name. See TNA blog [https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/life-and-death-in-hong-kong-during-the-second-world-war/ "Life and death in Hong Kong during the Second World War"] 8 February 2024.
==Hong Kong Volunteers==
*''Second to None : the Story of the Hong Kong Volunteers'' by Phillip Bruce 1991. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012596174
==External links==
*[http://files.lib.byu.edu/family-history-library/research-outlines/Asia/HongKong.pdf “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong”] by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. "Records prior to 1873 no longer exist". "All pre-war marriage records have been lost". '''Note''' however, there appear to be some surviving church records.
**[http://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/contactus/index.html Immigration Department contact details]. This Department is responsible for Civil Registration but the website does not include information about certificates for family history purposes for persons not resident in Hong Kong, so you would need to contact the Department.
*Hong Kong [https://www.grs.gov.hk/en/index.html Government Records Service] grs.gov.hk. Archives and Library with an online catalogue. Also known as the Public Records Office (PRO), Hong Kong.
**[https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/public_records_office.pdf Hong Kong: Public Records Office] Fact sheet dated November 2019. gov.hk
**[https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarladv.xhtml Search the Carl Smith Collection] of 140,000 index cards. In respect of these records, the website ''China Families'' advises "The cards contain information about residents not only in the former British colony, but across China. The catalogue does now allow you to view cards, but they are small in size, and the search results are often very numerous".
*:Some or all of these records are available on FamilySearch on your home computers, refer Records above.
**Government Records Service, in the Archives section, holds some original church registers from St John's Anglican Church/Cathedral. Use the [https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searcharcadv.xhtml Archives Search] to find the catalogue entries, with more details. Note, the actual records are '''not''' available online. The records include
***Record ID HKMS37 Indexes to Registers of Baptism. The indexes relate to baptisms recorded in the relevant registers of the British Chapel Macao, 1838-1887, and of St John's Cathedral, 1887-1928.
***Record ID HKMS36 Registers of Baptisms 1838-1973. The records prior to 1842 are for Macao.
***Record ID HKMS38 Registers of Baptisms, St Peter's Seaman's Church 1873 – 1932
***Record ID HKMS40 Registers of Marriage 1838 – 1975. The series relates to the registration of marriages solemnised at the British Chapel, Macao (1838-1841) and the Anglican Church/Cathedral, Hong Kong (1843-1975).
***For some brief records from St John's Cathedral, see the ''Gwulo: Old Hong Kong'' website below.
*Newspapers, including online
**[https://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/index.html Hong Kong Public Libraries]
****Hong Kong Weekly Press (1895/01/03 – 1909/12/24)
::::Note some issues and pages may be omitted
:*[https://archive.org/details/china-mail?sort=date ''The China Mail'' collection at Archive.org] Issues from 1866 to 1961, broken range. Note this collection also includes some editions of ''Hong Kong Daily Press'' 1864- 1941 September, ''Hong Kong Telegraph'' 1881 June - 1951 March, ''Hong Kong Sunday Herald'' 1929 January-1950 October. (Dates as at 2023/12/30. Additional files are being added regularly.) Note there is a "Search text contents" specific to this collection, or browse particular years or issues.
:*''Overland China Mail'' was the weekly edition of ''China Mail'', also containing articles from ''Evening Mail'' and ''Sunday Herald'', and was published 1848 to 1941.<ref>[http://www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/common/attachments/hkcl/resources/resources_ra_01_reading_area.pdf Hong Kong Public Library] page. Also [https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/02/15/new-titles-15-february-2021/ "Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week"] February 15, 2021. The British Newspaper Archive Blog.</ref>
::''Overland China Mail'' is available on [[Findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals/British Newspapers ", with 'County' classified as Hong Kong China, with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites, added Feb 9, 2021. The date range when added was January 11, 1853 to December 30, 1915 being 1853-1861, 1863-1894, 1897-1915 ; 1848-1852, 1895-1896 added May 2, 2022; 1916 added Feb 22, 2024; (with 1848–1916 planned), with details on a [https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/overland-china-mail BNA page]. For BNA, the 'Region' is classified as South Central China, and the 'County' is classified as Hong Kong, China. It is possible to browse individual editions on BNA, in addition to searching. To browse the Findmypast editions, use the filters under "Narrow your search results" (left hand side of the webpage) "By Newspaper" and "By Date".:* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership those outside the Indian Empire, is available on [[Findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Also includes a page [https://www.chinafamilies.net/links-for-further-research/hong-kong/ Hong Kong]
*Cemeteries
**[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/8684b2e7b8d0256b3529f07addef9651.pdf "Notes for a visit to the Government Cemetery at Happy Valley"] by Carl T. Smith ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'' Vol. 25 (1985) hkjo.lib.hku.hk
**[https://www.dva.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/commems-memorials/cwgc_hongkong.pdf "The War Cemeteries and Memorials in Hong Kong"] Commonwealth War Graves Commission Information Sheet. dva.gov.au
**[http://www.npr.org/2012/08/21/159363999/deaths-tell-the-story-of-life-in-old-hong-kong?sc=emaf "Deaths Tell The Story Of Life In Old Hong Kong"] by Louisa Lim August 21, 2012 npr.org. An article about Patricia Lim and the Hong Kong Cemetery
**[https://www.lordwilson-heritagetrust.org.hk/filemanager/archive/project_doc/27-9-30/1a.pdf Hong Kong Cemetery Conservation Management Guidelines] July 2017. Includes History and images. lordwilson-heritagetrust.org.hk
*David’s [http://gwulo.com/ Gwulo: Old Hong Kong] including
**[http://gwulo.com/hong-kong-cemeteries Cemeteries in Hong Kong]
***details of an [http://gwulo.com/node/8734 online database of the 6,000+ burials in the Hong Kong Cemetery]. For the database, see [[Hong Kong#Records|Records]] above.
**[https://gwulo.com/node/7495 St John's Cathedral Records] transcribed from copies of the Cathedral ''Review'' magazine 1897- April 1931. Also read the Comments for some extra baptismal records. The Government Records Service, also known as the PRO, holds original church registers for baptisms and marriages, see above.
**[https://gwulo.com/atom/27872 [Plan of<nowiki>]</nowiki> Stanley Military Cantonment 1853]
*[https://www.hkmemory.hk/ Hong Kong Memory] Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Hong Kong Government. “Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage”. Includes
**[https://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hong_kong_cemetery/about/index.html "Hong Kong Cemetery"] Searchable and browsable database is created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images.
*[https://www.houghton.hk/?p=22 Hong Kong 1836-1844] in three parts, from "A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers" houghton.hk. Extracts from Chinese region newspapers, ''Canton Register'' and ''Friend of China''.
*Rudi Butt’s [http://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/ Hong Kong’s First]. A blog about historical aspects of Hong Kong
*British Army regiments in Hong Kong are included in the following which is mainly about British Army Regiments in India. Note, may not be complete. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085422fw_/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz1.htm Indian portion of ''In Search of the 'Forlorn Hope': A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640-WWI)'' by John M Kitzmiller] - lists the location/year of all British regiments that served in India and related regions. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200507070713/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz.htm Regiments], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085628/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz2.htm Locations]) . From Bob Holland’s Rampais website, archived. Kitzmillers's two volume book is available at the online, see [[British Library UIN: BLL01010128905Army#Historical books online 2|British Army-Historical books online]].
*[https://www.mardep.gov.hk/theme/port_hk/en/index.html "History of the Port of Hong Kong and Marine Department"] Marine Department Hong Kong includes
**[https://www.mardep.gov.hk/theme/port_hk/en/p1ch3_5.html Leading foreign firms in Hong Kong]
*[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/1661to1966/hongkong_china/hkc_list.shtml The Regiments in China and Hong Kong 1860 - 1935] Battalions of [[2nd Regiment of Foot|The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]] and the East Surrey Regiment. queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmQZOf8cpI Britain's Gateway To Troubled China (1932)] Short (1 minute) British Pathé video on YouTube. Full title reads: "Hong Kong. Britain's gateway to troubled China. Loyal Indian Troops impress natives with magnificent spectacle of military precision and discipline." (retrieved 15 May 2014)
*[https://ellott-postalhistorian.com/articles/Hong-Kong-Station.pdf "The Royal Navy East Indies & China Naval Station. A brief History"] by Gerald J. Ellott May 2011. ellott-postalhistorian.com
*[http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/HMS_Tamar.htm# H M S Tamar, R N Base, Hong Kong] royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk
*[https://gwulo.com/atom/19483 1926 Submarines and HMS Titania] gwulo.com
===Second World War===
*[http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:12702/SOURCE02?view=true ''The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940''] by Tony Banham November 2014 PhD thesis, University of NSW, Australia.
*[http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison.html Hong Kong War Diary : Hong Kong Defenders, December 1941-August 1945] Includes Indian Army Units and Indian Medical Service
*''The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A note on the literature and the effectiveness of the defence'' by Lawrence W C Lai, University of Hong Kong , Discussion paper series, July 2000. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180820074556/http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B38630229.pdf Pdf].lib.hku.hk, now archived.
*[https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/data.php The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project] digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk Hong Kong Baptist University. Includes a [https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/bibliography.php Bibliography].
*[https://www.rhkrnsw.org/occasionalpapers "Occasional Papers"] An historical series of papers on the war and occupation of Hong Kong 1941‐45 from the website ''Hong Kong Volunteer and ex-PoW Association of NSW''.
===Maps===
*[http://maps.nls.uk/hongkong/102621568.html Ordnance Map of Hong Kong by Thomas Collinson, 1846] National Library of Scotland.
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.lib.hku.hk/database/ The Universities of Hong Kong Libraries Digital Initiatives] includes
**[http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/index.jsp Hong Kong Government Reports Online 1842-1941] Click on 'Browse the titlesTable of Contents' to see the titles available. Includes the ''Hong Kong Government Gazette'' 1842-1941 and the ''Blue Book'' 1871-1940. ([https://gwulo.com/hong-kong-blue-books Details of ''Blue Books''] gwulo.com.) Earlier editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series CO 133, commencing with CO 133/1, for 1844.***In addition, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22+Hongkong28Hong*+Blue+Book%22%29&sort=titleSorter date ''Hongkong Blue Book for the year…''] broken range from 1887 1914 to 19191938; plus including [https://archive.org/details/hongkongbluebook1920hong/page/n3 1920], including [https://archive.org/details/hongkongbluebook1920hong/page/72 "List of Officers"] page 73. Archive.org.
**[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/collection/k0698b414/ Hong Kong & the West until 1860]
**[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/collection/b8515n36q/ China Through Western Eyes] Originally covered the period until 1911, although the date of publication may have been later, but this may no longer apply. Includes titles about missionary work. Some items may be extracts only, and are classified Resource Type: Article
:[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk DigitalRepository@HKUL] This appears to be a more recent website from the same source The University of Hong Kong Libraries, which includes the collections as above, and perhaps additional collections/material. The digital files appear to be in a more modern format, compared with the "older" website.
*[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/tb09jw16s ''The Hongkong almanack and directory for 1846 : with an appendix''] General information, but seemingly no lists of names.
:[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5d86pv849 ''The Hongkong almanack, and directory for the year 1848''] with names
:[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/wm118j56x ''The Hongkong almanack, and directory for the year of our Lord 1850''] with names. All digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MYdA2zTNYRkC&pg=PP9 ''The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China''] 1859 Google Books
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1922, see [[China]].
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net/directories/ Online Directories] from [https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families] University of Bristol. Mostly these focus on Shanghai, although there are some about Hong Kong.
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Achive.org
*''The Colonial Office List for ...Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volumealso includes Hong Kong. Google BooksFor editions 1909-1917, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.:see [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GtANAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 1862: First publication]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1867China], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CtgNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 1877]; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002214374g?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 1878]; [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/555073632.pdf 1879] pdf from Oxford University Library, may be slow to open, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_List.html?id=T9UNAAAAQAAJ 1879 Google Books edition]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Phg5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1880, Google Books], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b587083?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1880, HT] with rotatable pages; [https://archive.org/details/colonialofficel00offigoogrosenstocks-directory-china-1933/page/n14 1881]; [https:n591/mode/hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89090339342?urlappend=%3Bseq=21 18892up "Hongkong Section"]; [https://archivedigital page 592 ''Rosenstock's Business Directory of China'' 1933 Archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_001/page/18 1901]; [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_002/page/24 1902]; *[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_003the-comacrib-directory-of-china-1925/page/23 1903]; [https:n1059/mode/archive.org/details/ldpd_11897910_004/page/49 19042up Hongkong Section]; HathiTrust Digital Library editions to digital pages 1060-1296 ''The Comacrib Directory of China 1925 viewable in restricted areas such as North America: [https://catalogCombined Chinese-Foreign Commercial and Classified Directory of China and Hongkong.hathitrustVolume 1''.org/Record/005698734 A] and [https://catalog.hathitrustArchive.org/Record/009992447 B]: In addition, *''The Colonial Office List, 1863'' and ''Colonial Office List, 1870'' are available in the [[findmypast]] (pay website) dataset [https://searchfor .findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-directories-and-almanacs "Britain, Directories & Almanacs"] located in Newspapers, Directories & Social History/Directories & Almanacs''.:FamilySearch has Includes a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of section on each country, and the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchableend of each volume. First published 1862. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.:''See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and |Directories online - Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 for a broken range 1862-1966. Includes Hong Kong and UIN: BLL01007173533Wei-hai-wei.
*[https://archive.org/details/barbarianeyelord00napi/mode/2up ''Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China, 1834, the prelude to Hong Kong''] by Priscilla Napier 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese'' from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nX1CAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9HZCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books
**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034776 ''The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong''] by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1868. British Library Digital Collection.
**''China Sea Directory Volume III. The Coasts of China from Hong Kong to the Korea etc'' Edited by Captain Charles J Bulloch, RN. [https://archive.org/details/chinaseadirecto00offigoog 1874] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164986 2nd edition 1884] Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongillustra00warn/mode/2up ''Hong Kong illustrated : views and news, 1840-1890''] by John Warner 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Things Chinese being Notes on various subjects connected with China'' by J Dyer Ball H M Civil Service, Hong Kong.
:[https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00balliala/page/n5/mode/2up 1892 edition]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor00ballgoog/page/n8/mode/2up 2nd edtion, revised and enlarged 1893]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00ball 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1900]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor01ballgoog 4th edition 1904] with title ''Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China''. All Archive.org.
*Plague
**[https://archive.org/details/1915480.med.yale.edu/page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong ... Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. August 1894''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fareasterntropic00ireluoft/page/14/mode/2up "Hong Kong"] page 15 ''The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands'' by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924071143832/page/n5 ''Historical and statistical abstract Statistical Abstract of the colony Colony of Hongkong. 1911'']published 1911. Appears to be an An official publication. There It appears there was an earlier edition in 1907 as part of another Government publication, perhaps the ''Civil Service List''. There appear to be later editions :''Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong 1841-1920'' published 1922. [https://archive.org/details/hist-stat-abstract-hk-1922 Archive.org version], (for the period to 1920), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=E3twAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books version].:''Historical and 1932 (for Statistical Abstract of the period to Colony of Hong Kong 1841-1930)'' published 1932. Third edition. [https://archive.org/details/hist-stat-abstract-hk-1932 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SgQNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books version], [https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/9880vr05x digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk version].*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongshorthis00mag ''Hong Kong: A short history of the colony and an outline of the present political situation in China''] by A G M. 3rd edition revised c 1928 (or later) 1929 (catalogued as 1900) Archive.org*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Hong-Kong, page 176 ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books. See the [[Indian Army]] page for additional editions of this publication.
*''British Rule In Eastern Asia: A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic development in British Malaya and Hong Kong'' by Lennox A Mills 1941. Issued under the auspices of the Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations International Research Series. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89975/page/n7/mode/2up File 1] some missing pages noted; [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35262 File 2] Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/n9 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India''] by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The initial pages indicate the situation in Hong Kong to 1941 when the author’s husband a metallurgist/chemical engineer was transferred to India to work for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories. By the same author (born in Shanghai, daughter of a tea merchant) ''The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of Old China'' 1973. ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rtxpS_nLyp8C Searchable but not viewable Google Books], 1987 edition.). Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000594031 [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/enid-saunders-candlin/the-breach-in-the-wall-a-memoir-of-the-old-chin/ A review] kirkusreviews.com.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b658121?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai Lawyer''] by Norwood F. Allman 1943 HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes some chapters on internment by the Japanese in Hong Kong during WW2.
*''Prisoner of the Japs'' by Gwen Drew 1943. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015040804588?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 HathiTrust Digital Library], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.60006 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection]. The author was an American journalist who was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial0000hahn/page/n7 ''China to Me : a Partial Autobiography''] by Emily Hahn 1944. [https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial00hahn 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/chinatome00hahn 3rd file] 1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. [http://www.librarything.com/work/144031/reviews/86980107 About the book] librarything.com. "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/hong-kong-ingrams/page/n1/mode/2up ''Hong Kong''] by Harold Ingrams 1952 Archive.org. A volume in the Colonial Office's series ''The Corona Library'' published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon0000enda/page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of Hong Kong''] by G B Endacott 1964, first published 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/eastern-entrepot-endacott/page/n5/mode/2up ''An Eastern Entrepôt. A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong''] by G B Endacott 1964 HMSO. Archive.org
*[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/26ce4e7c530ccd62a466d2d62b7884d6.pdf ''Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong. The Story of the British Military Hospital Hong Kong 1942-1945''] by Donald C Bowie ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) pages 150-290. From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk.
*[https://archive.org/details/lastinghonour00lind/mode/2up ''The Lasting Honour : the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941''] by Oliver Lindsay 1980, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/atgoingdownofsun0000lind/page/n5/mode/2up ''At the Going Down of the Sun : Hong Kong and South-East Asia, 1941-1945''] by Oliver Lindsay 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveyearsoccu00birc ''Captive years : the Occupation of Hong Kong, 1941-45''] by Alan Birch and Martin Cole 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternbankinges0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''Eastern banking : essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation''] edited by Frank H H King 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/hongkongepilogue0000morr/mode/2up ''Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire''] by Jan Morris. Second edition 1993, first published 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00came/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of Hong Kong''] by Nigel Cameron 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofhongkon00wels/mode/2up ''A History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh 1993. USA title [https://archive.org/details/borrowedplacehi00wels/mode/2up ''A Borrowed Place : the History of Hong Kong''] by Frank Welsh. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/b2775190d ''Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley''] by Solomon Bard 1997. [https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/b2775190d#?c=&m=&s=&cv=154&xywh=-214%2C-77%2C1926%2C2293 Index of names digital page 155] This is a selection, not a complete list of those in the cemetery. Circumstances of death are usually included. digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk.
*[https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay/page/n5/mode/2up ''Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong''] by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenboymemorie00boot/mode/2up ''Golden boy : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by Martin Booth 2005, first published 2004. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/gweilomemoriesof0000boot/mode/2up ''Gweilo : memories of a Hong Kong childhood''] by Martin Booth. The author was born 1944. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
===Journals online===
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000065359 ''Notes and Queries on China and Japan''], four volumes 1867 to 1870. Published in Hong Kong. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28+Notes+and+Queries+on+China+and+Japan%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions] 1867, which also contains [https://archive.org/details/notesandqueries00unkngoog/page/n198/mode/2up 1868] (from digital page 198), and 1869. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VXtFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume 4, Issues 1-8] [1870] Google Books.*''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East''. Published in Hong Kong. Multiple volumes from Volume 1, 1872 to Volume 21 1894-5 catalogued full view, but Vols. 22 and 23 also noted, cataloged incorrectly. HathiTrust Digital Library [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100154402 A], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100159834 B] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100394917 C]. From an individual book file, it is generally possible to click on "Find at Google Books" for the Google Books file. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=China+review++or+Notes+%26+queries+on+the+Far+East.&sort=-date Archive.org volumes].*[http://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] The University of Hong Kong Libraries. Click on Although previously there were multiple ''Journal'Browse the titles' to see all the titles available. Included are it appears currently (2021/05/02) the following:*Online editions of only title is ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (previously the range was 1961-2007 ). Includes** "Transactions of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society" [Hong Kong], 1845-46 by Hhttps://hkjo. Alib. Rydings ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 13 (1973) **"Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super-cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811" by Jhku. Lhk/archive/files/53e5107b9b7997df2625bde368ce20a3. Cranmer-Byng ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 15 (1975) *pdf "The Colony of Hongkong - "] From a Lecture on Reminiscences of a long Residence in the East"by Rev. Jas. James Legge, D.D., LL.D. Originally published in ''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East'' Volume 1 No. 3 (1872). Reprinted ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 11 (1971) **[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/67e62942bc61f5c64bdda61d5d5e1463.pdf "Historical Outline Transactions of Medical Missions at Cantonthe China Medico-Chirurgical Society [Hong Kong<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Hongkong and Macao1845-46" ] by H. A. Rydings ''The China Review, or notes & queries on Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Far EastRoyal Asiatic Society'' Volume 4 No. 5 13 (18761973):''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' is also available [https://www.jstor.org/journal/jhongkongbranroy JSTOR.org] from Volume 1, 1960-1. Register, and read 100 articles per month for free, or perhaps you may be able to login through your library.
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