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*[https://archive.org/details/b29932518/page/n9 ''The Nabobs of Madras''] by Henry Dodwell 1926 Archive.org. The social background of the events in the second half of the 18th century.
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A Voyage To India''] by Rev James Cordiner 1820 Google Books describes Madras in 1798-1799 from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA93 page 93]
*[httphttps://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy&tag=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM1kZxy#book1/ ''The Chief Secretary: Madras Diaries of Alexander Falconar 1790-1809''] Edited by N S Ramaswami 1983. Tamil Digital Library. Also contains a Notebook/Diary of [[Madras Artillery|[Madras Army] Artillery]] Lieutenant Matthew Campbell 1821-1830 page 67. Based on diaries found in India. Also available mirror version [https://archive.org/details/dli.jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZM9luQy/mode/2up Archive.org]. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8e8bb646-1600-45e0-a9be-3c253a52ea34 Brief career details of Alexander Falconar], and possible additional papers. nationalarchives.gov.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.163918/page/n1 ''Thomas Parry: Free Merchant Madras 1768-1824''] by G H Hodgson 1938 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Contains extracts from many letters, including Part II (from digital page 304) being letters written 1806-1809. Missing some of the Contents pages.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507301 ''Parrys of Madras''] by Hilton Brown 1954. Full title: ''Parry's of Madras: a story of British enterprise in India''. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*''The Church in Madras : being the History of the Ecclesiastical and Missionary Action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras'' by Rev Frank Penny 1904 Archive.org
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe01penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 1 In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe02penn#page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume 2 1805 to 1835''] [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe03penn#page/n7/mode/2up '' Volume 3 1835 to 1861'']
*[https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZt7luQ7 jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZt0kJhe ''A Hand book to St. Mary's Church : with a description of its monuments and other objects of interest with illustrations and a plan''] by the Rev. Charles Herbert Malden 1905. Tamil Virtual Library. Note author incorrectly catalogued as Maiden. Full title includes the words ''... St. Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras''.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriesofmadras00lawsuoft#page/n9/mode/2up ''Memories of Madras''] by Sir Charles Lawson 1905 Archive.org
*A collection of photographs from [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll29 ''India Illustrated: Being a Collection of Pictures of the Cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Together with a Selection of the Most Interesting Buildings and Scenes throughout India''], published by Bennett, Coleman, & Co., publishers of the English language newspaper ''Times of India'', c 1905. University of Houston Digital Library.
**Volume 23, 1907 [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n127/mode/2up 1796-1798], pages 54 -61, [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n275/mode/2up 1798-1800], page 128-129, [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n377/mode/2up/ 1800-1805], page 179-187, [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n393/mode/2up/ additional entries], pages 187-189
:These articles have been reprinted as the book ''Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras'', published 1907. This book is available to read online, or download, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1931668 catalogue entry], from [[Online books#FamilySearch Digital Library|FamilySearch]]. You need to be registered and sign in first.
:[httphttps://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail.php?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZt0l0Id&tag=List%20Of%20Marriages%20%20:%20Presidency%20Of%20Fort%20St%20George%20%201680%20-%201800#book1/ jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZtejZUe ''List Of Marriages Registered in the Presidency Of Fort St George 1680 - 1800''] edited by H Dodwell, Curator Madras Record Office 1916. Tamil Virtual Library. These records are compiled from St Mary's registers, and also Missionary registers, so perhaps include records additional to the record series above. Contains 74 pages of records.
* Also see [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Cemeteries - Inscriptions in online books]] for records from Madras.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report on the Medical Topography and Statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras army: including Fort St. George, and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court. Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office''] 1842 Google Books
