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Macao
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates: 22.198745°N, 113.54387°E
Altitude:
Present Day Details
Place Name: Macau
State/Province: Macau Special Administrative Region
Country: China
Transport links

Alternative spelling: Macau.

A Portuguese colonial interest in China. After Napoleon invaded Portugal, the Macao Expedition was launched against a potential French threat.

Records

The original records were previously in the Guildhall Library and are now in the 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.
Baptisms batch C310001. It is not known whether this is the complete data set.
Marriages batch M310001 (16 marriages) It is not known whether this is the complete data set. (If the links are unstable, in FamilySearch Search Historical Records next select More Options then enter the batch number).
  • The 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.

External links

Historical photographs online

Historical books online

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.
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 Google Books
Sample pages Google Books The Voices of Macao Stones by Lindsay and May Ride, abridged with additional material by Jason Wordie. Hong Kong University Press 1999.
  • 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.