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Alternative spelling: '''Macau'''.
A [[Portuguese]] colonial interest in [[China]]. After Napoleon invaded Portugal, the [[Macao Expedition]] was launched against a potential French threat.
==Records==
*Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the [[ British Library]]. Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, '''IOR N/9'''*The [[British Association for Cemeteries '''These records are included in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the digitised records available on the commercial site [[British Libraryfindmypast]] has the following catalogue entries '''. Note: may be subject to omissions for technical reasons.*Family Search records**Microfilm catalogue entry for [httphttps://bacsawww.frontisgroupfamilysearch.comorg/binsearch/aps_browse_sourcescatalog/58612 Macao baptisms, marriages and burials, 1820-1833 ; Whampoa burials, 1820-1824] from the India Office Records. Index to baptisms, marriages, burials 1820-1833 498603 Item 5. Baptisms, marriages, burials 1820-1833 498606 Item 3.php?mode=browse_components&id=91&s_id=156 Cemetery files and registers : South East AsiaAs these are Indian Office records, and they are probably included in the Far East: China Macao]digitised records on findmypast, see above.**Microfilm catalogue entry for [httphttps://bacsawww.frontisgroupfamilysearch.comorg/search/bincatalog/aps_browse_sources49368 Records of the Church of England concerning British subjects in Macao.php?mode=browse_components&id=89&s_id=176 Reference material: Publications - by country; China Macao]*''An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials Text in Macao'' by Lindsay RideEnglish. Includes baptisms, May Ridemarriages and burials, Bernard Mellor Hong Kong University Press, 1996 is available at 1820-1838] film 576993 Item 4. See the Fibiwiki page [[British LibraryFamilySearch Centres]] ([http://cataloguefor details about digitised microfilm.bl.uk/F/T4QY6IHKKMA6ECNU55RBMVP5QPG72F795BQ4DKTPFIAH3CH527-19370?func=full-set-set&set_number=001859&set_entry=000001&format=999 Catalogue entry]) A searchable limited view with sample pages is available at [http://books.google.com/books?id=flbXWNoVraEC google books]
::The original records were previously in the Guildhall Library and are now in the [http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm London Metropolitan Archives] DL/E/E/059/MS11218: Transcripts of baptisms 1820-38, marriages 1822-38 and burials 1821-38 at Macao, and burials 1820-4 at Whampoa (registered at Macao), with certificates of marriages at the China Inland Mission at Wanhsien 1934, and Chengtu 1935. :Some/all of these records for baptisms and marriages are available on FamilySearch as transcribed indexes. These records were/are? in the World category (All Records Collections) in a group of records called World Miscellaneous, however the batch numbers below are now stated to be in the collections Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977, and Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988.::[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.batchNumber=%20C310001 Baptisms batch C310001]. It is not known whether this is the complete data set. ::[https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.batchNumber=M310001 Marriages batch M310001] (16 marriages) It is not known whether this is the complete data set. (If the links are unstable, in FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Search Historical Records] next select More Options then enter the batch number).*The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] holds information on both the Old and New Protestant Cemeteries in Macao under ref Mss Eur F370/816*''An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao'' by Lindsay Ride, May Ride, Bernard Mellor Hong Kong University Press, 1996 is available online, refer below.*Anglican Church registers for baptisms and marriages for the period 1838- c 1841 are held in Hong Kong at the Government Records Service/Public Records Office, see [[Hong Kong]].*Also see [[China#Records|China - Records]]. ==External links==*[http://gwulo.com/macau-protestant-cemeteries Macau's Protestant Cemeteries] Gwulo.com. Contains links to photographs and transcriptions of gravestones taken by Ms Shyama Peebles.*[http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/4145/1/Challenging%20Dead_final.pdf ''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan''] by Gotelind Müller 2018. crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/09/david-scott-india-merchant-and-british-supercargoes-at-macao.html "David Scott, India merchant, and British Supercargoes at Macao"] 07 September 2017. British Library Untold lives blog.===Historical photographs online===*[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-30383-A/8 Photographic panorama of Macau c 1900-1910] University of Cambridge Digital Library. A panoramic view, at the mouth of the Pearl River delta, by an unknown photographer.===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/details/journal-of-a-voyage-in-1811-and-1812-to-madras-and-china/page/n1/mode/2up ''Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812 to Madras and China returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; In the H. C. S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass''] by James Wathen 1814. With Coloured Prints from drawings by the author. Archive.org. Includes a visit to Macao, the spelling used is Macoa.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mymothersjourna00hillgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''My mother's journal: a young lady's diary of five years spent in Manila, Macao, and the Cape of Good Hope from 1829-1834'']. Edited by Katharine Hillard 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.30753 ''A Subaltern's Sick Leave: Rough notes of a visit in search of health to China and the Cape of Good Hope''] by Nicolas Polson, Bengal Native Infantry 1837. Archive.org Ministry of Culture/ National Library of India Collection. Elsewhere it is stated the author was in fact Lieutenant Peter Nicholson (or Nicolson). He sailed from Calcutta July 1835. Includes Macao.
*[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
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E8C ''A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton''] by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/historicmacao00jesugoog ''Historic Macao''] by C A Montalto de Jesus 1902 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/twentiethcentury00wriguoft#page/798/mode/1up "Macao"] page 798 ''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/seller-sing-songs/File1SellerSingSongs/page/n1/mode/2up "A Seller of 'Sing-Songs' : a chapter in the foreign trade of China and Macao"] by J M Braga originally from ''Journal of Oriental Studies'' [Hong Kong], v. 6 no. 1-2, 1961/64. Reprinted in 1967. Archive.org. Sing-songs was the collective term for items such as clocks and watches, musical boxes etc , which became obligatory gifts for foreigners to give to Government officials.
:[https://archive.org/details/seller-sing-songs/File2JoseMariaBraga/mode/1up Article about the author, the historian José Maria Braga] and his books about Macau. Translated by Kevin Sherlock, originally appeared ''Tribuna de Macau'', Macau 7 April 1984. Archive.org.
*[http://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/a97d6514015199a46f9e2064aba4c8c4.pdf "The Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao"] by Lindsay Ride ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 3 (1963)'' (27 pages) from [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] The University of Hong Kong Libraries
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20190130105758/https://lib.hku.hk/Press/9622093841.pdf ''An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao''] by Lindsay Ride, May Ride, Bernard Mellor Hong Kong University Press, 1996, lib.hku.hk, archived. A searchable limited view with sample pages is available at [http://books.google.com/books?id=flbXWNoVraEC Google Books]
:Sample pages Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CTLxAQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''The Voices of Macao Stones''] by Lindsay and May Ride, abridged with additional material by Jason Wordie. Hong Kong University Press 1999.
*[http://libdigital.umac.mo UM Digital Library Portal] University of Macau. Contains a number of different collections including "Books on China Online, 16th – Early 20th Century", "Open Access Books", "Rare Book Digitization Project (Western Rare Book)". Search or browse each collection separately.
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