Where cab I find Dutch Easty Indies records

Question

I am looking for the father of Hugh Atkinson (Atkinson - 7277) who joined the Bombay Marine somewhere in the Dutch East Indies in 1817 . A search on the website Roosje Roos produced the death of a John Atkinson, seaman, in Surabaya on 2 Jun 1832.

The only reference given is "RA year 1833 page 271" which I don't understand. Can anyone suggest where I might look to find more about the life and death of John Atkinson and any possible link with Atkinson-7277?

Comments

perhaps the library in Surabaya might be able to help

https://c2o-library.net/

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has an email address

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Answer 1

Check out something on the British East Indian Company, you might find an answer to what RA means. It might not be the Dutch East Indies.Bombay is in India;it's now Mumbai.

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RA stands for Regerings-Almanak van Nederlandsch-Indië (Indische Almanak), a yearly publication from the Dutch government from 1815-1942. 

Part of its content was changes in the civil registration (births, marriages, deaths) in the colony, like an index. I think the original certificates (the ones that aren't lost) are now in Indonesia.

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Thanks for this, Joke. I don't seem to get a chance to vote for a reply to a comment but this is the sort of answer I was looking for.