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==FIBIS Resources==
*[http://search.fibis.ourarchives.onlineorg/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=180 Images and transcriptions of graves at Northam Rd Cemetery, Georgetown] FIBIS database *[https://search.fibis.ourarchives.online org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1086&s_id=180 The Protestant Cemetery, Penang, Malaysia - Records of graves] FIBIS database.
==Cemeteries==
**''Penang: Graves in the Protestant Section of Western Road Cemetery'' by Justin Corfield, 2000 80pp, 27 illustrations. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009531508 .
**''Christian Cemeteries of Penang & Perak'' by Alan Harfield c 1987 which details inscriptions of those buried there. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011842779
*:The index of persons named therein can be searched at [http://bacsa.frontis.co/bin/index.php BACSA Search]. Application can be made to BACSA for copies of the full inscription - charges apply. For details of the books including purchase, see [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books. In addition FamilySearch have digitised ''Christian cemeteries of Penang and Perak'', which has restricted access, but which may be viewed on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/568686 Catalogue entry]. For more information, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. '''Update June 2018. It appears that FamilySearch digital viewing is no longer possible, but possibly this availability may return in the future'''.
*[http://www.peterloud.co.uk/photos/Penang/Cemetery/Cemetery.html Details of the English Cemetery and some Graves] from Pete's Penang.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penang_Island Penang Island] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_Settlements Straits Settlements] Wikipedia
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/4499753953/in/photostream Photograph: St George's Church - Penang - 1818] by DBHKer flickr.com
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/sea/stgeorge-pen.htm Introductory Note to the Microfilm: History of Saint George's, Penang] by Michael Poon. anglicanhistory.org. With pdf downloads which are only available in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123190628/http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/sea/stgeorge-pen.htm archived version] , particularly Part 2 which includes An Alphabetical List of Memorials and Monuments in St. George's Church, Penang, with Short Biographical Details of the Persons Commemorated. Unfortunately the text quality of this listing is not very good. Note, pdfs may be slow to load.
*[http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/ Official website of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project] includes [http://www.dutchmalaysia.net/lang_en/press/paper_20080527_history_of_the_dutch_and_dutch_eurasians_in_malaysia.html History of the Dutch and Dutch-Eurasians in Malaysia]
*''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]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], [[Hong Kong]], Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], Penang), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
