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*See [[General Register Office]], UK
*There was Civil Registration in Hong Kong, refer External links below. There are no records before 1873.
*[https://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hong_kong_cemetery/about/index.html "Hong Kong Cemetery"] Searchable and browsable database created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images. From ''Hong Kong Memory'' . Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Government.
**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. Click on later dates for further pages. ''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.
*See External links below for the Searchable database on the website ''China Coast Family History Families''.
*FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes
:"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/567153 catalogue entry] microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.
*[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.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.
*[httphttps://www.brischinafamilies.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History] , and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol Historical Studies Department** A search facility for . The website provides "a database which contains details growing body of foreign burials in a number information about men and women of cemeteries many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China, covering between the 1850s-1949** [https://wwwand 1940s.bris.ac.uk/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/customs/ancestors/directoriesof modern China and of the foreign relations of China".html Online There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories] including some for Hong Kong.
*Rudi Butt’s [http://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/ Hong Kong’s First]. A blog about historical aspects of Hong Kong
*1894 Plague
*''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]].
*[https://www.brischinafamilies.ac.uknet/history/customs/ancestorsdirectories/directories.html Online Directories] from [httphttps://www.brischinafamilies.ac.uk/history/customs/ancestors net China Coast Family History Families] University of Bristol Historical Studies Department. Mostly these focus on Shanghai, althogh 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 ...'' Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. Google Books, HathiTrust Digital Library and Archive.org.
