Mozambique Colonial Records

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Colonial Records

Portuguese Colonization (1498-1975)

Portuguese explorers arrived in the Mozambique area around 1498 and established trading posts and forts. Mozambique officially gained independence from Portugal in 1975 following the Carnation Revolution in 1974.

Record collection	Years covered	Record type	Language	Who is in the records
South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004 at FamilySearch - index and images	1801-2004	Baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials	Afrikaans and English	Members of the Church of the Province of South Africa in Mozambique
Lista dos telefones (Lourenço Marques, Moçambique) at FamilySearch - microfilm	1951	Telephone directory	Portuguese	People who owned telephones in 1951 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.
Lista dos telefones, (Moçambique) at FamilySearch - microfilm	1945	Telephone directory	Portuguese	People who owned telephones in 1945 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.
Parish registers, 1895-1940 at FamilySearch - microfilm	1895-1940	Marriages	Portuguese and English	Methodist people who lived in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.