Biographical: General Reference Works

Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company's Bombay Civil Servants from the Year 1798 to the Year 1839: distinguishing with dates the several high and important offices held by them during their official career also the dates of their retirement, resignation or death, to which is attached a list of the Governors of Bombay, from the year 1773 to the year 1839, with the dates of their appointments, when they assumed, and when quitted, the government, also a list of the East India Directors from the year 1779 to the year 1839, with those who have been appointed chairman and deputy chairman from the year 1788 to the year 1839. Compiled and edited by Messrs. Dodwell and Miles. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, 1839.

Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Indian Army... from the year 1760, to the Year 1834 inclusive, corrected to September 30, 1837. (eds.) Dodwell and Miles. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, & Co., 1838.

Australian Dictionary of Biography. [ADB]. Vols.1-2: 1788 -1850. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966-1967; and Supplement 1580-1980. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.

Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography. (ed.) Brian Dickey. Sydney: Evangelical History Association, 1994.

A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: 1500 to 1830. (eds.) A.W. Skempton et al. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2002.

A Biographical Dictionary of Mull people: Macleans: mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compiled by Jo Currie. Tobermory : Brown & Whittaker, 2002.

The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: from the earliest times to 2004. (eds.) Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes and Siân Reynolds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860. (ed.) Donald M. Lewis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 [2 vols].

The Bombay Artillery. List of Officers Who Have served in the Regiment of the Bombay Artillery from its Formation in 1749 to Amalagamation with the Royal Artillery... (compiled by) Colonel F.W .M. Spring. London: William Clowes, 1902. [Reprint: 2005 by The Naval & Military Press].

British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852. (eds.) S.T. Bindoff. London: Royal Historical Society, 1934. [Camden Third Series: Vol. 50].

BUSCOMBE, Eve. Artists in Early Australia and Their Portraits: a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land to 1850 - with detailed biographies, catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraiture. Sydney: Eureka Research, 1978.

BYRNE, William R. A Naval Dictionary; comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty's Navy from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant inclusive. London: Murray, 1849.

CAMPBELL, Major, Sir Duncan of Barcaldine. Records of Clan Campbell in the Military Service of the Honourable East India Company, 1660-1858. London, 1925.

Census of New South Wales, November 1828. (eds.) Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1980.

COLE, R. E. G. History of the Manor and Township of Doddington: otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the county of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees. Lincoln [Eng.], J. Williamson, 1897.

COLVIN, Howard. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995 [3rd ed.].

The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815. (eds.) David Syrett and R.L. DiNardo. Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1994.

CURRIE, Jo. Mull Family Names for Ancestor Hunters. Tobermory: Brown & Whittaker, 1998.

DALTON, Charles. Waterloo Roll Call: with biographical notes and anecdotes. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press, 2001. [Orig. publ. 1904].

DESMOND, Ray. Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994. [rev. ed.]

Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. (Ed.) Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press,1992.

Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-makers of Great Britain and Ireland 1530-1850. [eds.] by Peter Eden and Sarah Bendall. London: British Library, 1997 [2nd ed].

Dictionary of National Biography. [DNB]. London: Elder Smith & Co., 1885-1888.

Dictionary of South African Biography. [DSAB]. Durban: Butterworth, 1968- [5 vols].

FARRINGTON, Anthony. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers: 1600-1834.. London: The British Library, 1999.

Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae. The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. (ed.) H. Scott. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyde, 1926.

FERRAR, M.L. Officers of the the Green Howards, Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (formerly the 19th Foot) 1688 to 1920. London: Eden Fisher & Co. 1920.

FLYNN, Michael. The Second Fleet: Britain's grim convict armada of 1790. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1993.

FLYNN, Michael. Settlers and Seditionists: the people of the convict ship 'Surprize' 1794. Sydney: Angela Lind, 1994.

Fourth Fleet Families of Australia; containing genealogical details of two hundred & five Fourth Fleeters, their children & grandchildren. Compiled by Dr. C. J. Smee). Artarmon: Fourth Fleet Families of Australia, 1992.

General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land, 1811. Edited by Carol J. Baxter. Sydney: ABGR in association with the Society of Australian Genealogists, 1987.

General Muster of New South Wales, 1814. Edited by Carol J. Baxter. Sydney: Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record in association with the Society of Australian Genealogists, 1987.

General Muster List of New South Wales 1823, 1824, 1825. Edited by Carol J. Baxter. Sydney: Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record for the Society of Australian Genealogists, 1999.

GILLEN, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989.

The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010. (eds.) David Clune and Ken Turner. Annandale, NSW: The Federation Press, 2009.

HALL, John A. The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded, 1808-1814. London: Greenhill, 1998.

HARDY, Bobbie. Early Hawkesbury Settlers. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1985.

HODSON, V.C.P. Officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834. London: Constable, 1927-1947 [4 vols]

The House of Commons 1790-1820. (ed.) R. G. Thorne. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. Vols.1-5 (Series: The History of Parliament).

JOHNSON, William. Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1917.

LEWIS, J. Penry. List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest, with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated. Colombo: Government Printer, 1913 [Reprint: New Delhi: Navrang, 1994].

LEVI, John S. These Are The Names: Jewish lives in Australia, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah, 2006.

MACKENZIE, Robert Holden. The Trafalgar Roll: containing the names and services of all officers of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines who participated in the glorious victory of the 21st October 1805, together with a history of the ships engaged in the battle. London: George Allen, 1913.

Macleans: a biographical dictionary of Mull people mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Compiled by Jo Currie. Tobermory, Isle of Mull: Brown & Whittaker, 2002.

MEHRA, Parshotam. A Dictionary of Modern Indian History 1707-1947. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985.

MIKABERIDZE, Alexander. The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795-1815. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2005.

MOWLE, P.C. A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1948 [4 ed.].

Naval Chronicle 1799-1818: Index to Births, Marriages and Deaths. (comp. by Norman Hurst). Coulsden, Surrey: Privately Printed, 1989.

An Oriental Biographical Dictionary. Compiled by Thomas William Beale (expanded and revised by Henry George Keene). London: 1894.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 [60 vols].

PETERKIN, A. and JOHNSTON, William. Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1660-1960. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968. [Vol.1. 1660-1898].

PHILIP, Peter. British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819: biographical record of 4800 pioneers. Cape Town: David Philip, c1981.

PHILIPPART, John. The East India Military Calendar; containing the services of general and field officers of the Indian army. London: Parbury and Allen, 1823-1826. [3 vols]

A Register of Pioneer Families. Volume 1. Croydon, NSW: The 1788-1820 Pioneer Association, 1989.

RICH, P.J. Biographies of the British Residents & Agents in the Arabian Gulf, 1763-1987. Doha, Qatar: Doha Club Library, c1987.

RIDDICK, John F. Who Was Who in British India. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998.

RODGER, N.A.M. Naval Records for Genealogists. Kew: PRO Publications, 1998 [Public Record Office Handbook No.22]

The Royal Military Calendar or Army Service and Commission Book containing the services and progress of promotion of the Generals, Lieutenant-Generals, Major-Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, and Majors of the Army, according to seniority: with details of the principal military events of the last century. London: A.J. Valpy, 1820 (5 vols). [Facsimile reprint: The Naval & Military Press, 2003].

St Matthews Church of England Windsor NSW. Parish Registers 1810 to 1856: 'A Complete Transcription'.Teralba, NSW: Lake Macquarie Family History Group, 2003.

The 1788-1820 Association's Pioneer Register (compilers) Dr. C. J. Smee and J. Selkirk Provis. Sydney: The 1788-1820 Association, 1981. [2nd ed.]

SKELTON, Constance Oliver, and BULLOCH, John Malcolm. Gordons Under Arms: a biographical muster roll of officers named Gordon in the navies and armies of Britain, Europe, America and in the Jacobite risings. Aberdeen: The New Spalding Club, 1912.

South African Genealogies. Compiled by J.A. Heese, (ed.) R.T.J. Lombard. Stellenbosch: Genealogical Institute of South Africa, 1986- [10 vols].

Sydney Burial Ground 1819-1901: Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets and history of Sydney's early cemeteries from 1788. (eds.) Keith A. Johnson. and Malcolm R. Sainty. Sydney: Library of Australia History, 2001.

TARDIF, Philip. Notorious Strumpets & Dangerous Girls: convict women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829. North Ryde: Angus & Robertson, 1990.

Third Fleet Families of Australia; containing genealogical details of three hundred & eleven Third Fleeters, their children & grandchildren. (comp. by Dr. C. J. Smee). Artarmon: Third Fleet Families of Australia, 1991.

TRACY, Nicholas. Who's Who in Nelson's Navy. London: Chatham, 2006.

VALENTINE, Alan. The British Establishment 1760-1784: an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

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