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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP955/3/1
Title:: Entierros Hospital San Juan De Dios [1800-1874]
Scope & Content:: This bound volume contains paragraph length entries recording the deaths of invididuals that took place in the Hospital of San Juan de Dios in the city of Sancti Spiritus. Entries contain information on age, race, legitimacy, parentage, profession, etc. Extent and format of original material: O...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin and Spanish
Date Range:: 25 Jan 1800-3 Feb 1874
Extent:: 573 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP955/3/2
Title:: Libro 1 de Reconocimientos de Hijos Naturales [1848-1858]
Scope & Content:: the parish church of La Caridad from 1848-1858. Each entry contains data on the recently baptised child, the mother, and witnesses who attest to the testimony of paternity. The child takes the father's name, even though this was highly uncommon for Hijos Naturales (literally "Natural Children")....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin and Spanish
Date Range:: 14 Sep 1848-22 Feb 1858
Extent:: 154 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP955/3/3/1
Title:: Indice de Bautismos [1830-1899]
Scope & Content:: This book contains the names, listed alphaetically and by volume, for baptisms of people categorised by the church as "Blancos" and people categorised by the Church as "de Color" ("pardos", "morenos", "esclavos", "chinos", "indios", etc.), between the 1830s-1890s. Presumably all of these people ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin and Spanish
Date Range:: 1830s-1890s
Extent:: 409 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP955/3/3/2
Title:: Libro 5 de Bautismos de Color [1809-1815]
Scope & Content:: This book contains information on people baptisted in the parish church of La Caridad in Sancti Spiritus between 2 May 1809 and 7 December 1815. The book also contains dozens of pages of index of names of those appearing in the book in the first portion. Extent and format of original material: ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin and Spanish
Date Range:: 2 May 1809-7 Dec 1815
Extent:: 392 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5
Title:: Evelyn Rutnam Institute
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of two parts: (1) print books, and (2) a series of 148 non-sequential numbered files relating to the life, work, and immediate family of Ceylon’s third Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849), a critical advocate of early nineteenth-century Protestant mission t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1781-1983
Extent:: 10649 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: A series of 148 files relating to the life, work and family of Sir Alexander Johnston (1775–1849), the third Chief Justice of Ceylon and a famous orientalist. Johnston was known for pursuing a number of administrative reforms within the British government including the introduction of trial by j...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1781-1983
Extent:: 10413 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/13
Title:: Alexander Johnstone Papers
Scope & Content:: (1) 1808 letter from Alexander Johnston to English writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833) about Tamil and Sinhala translations/adaptations of St. Paul's life and of "the sacred dramas," for native audiences in Ceylon. Johnston notes that his depth of experience in Ceylon makes him cer...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1798-1965
Extent:: 566 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/24
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: (1) mss letter sent by Sir Alexander Johnston in March 1841; (2) 1901 letter addressed to Louis Campbell-Johnston from his sister, Charlie, about a photograph of Lady William Campbell; (3) various mss notes or parts of letters; (4) 183[?] letter from Edwin Norris To A.J. regarding an arabic-lang...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 1790-1901
Extent:: 226 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/121
Title:: Alex. Johnston Paper
Scope & Content:: Print copy of 1876 Parliamentary Records. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 272 pages.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1876
Extent:: 276 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP981/1
Title:: Jaffna Bishop’s House Collection
Scope & Content:: This collection contains diverse types of documents; handwritten, bound registers and account books; letters and correspondence; and printed books and paper clippings. They cover the period between 1775 and 1948. They consist of rare documents like personal memoirs; chronicles; account books; co...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1500-1999
Extent:: 111,196 TIFF images

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