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== Emigration == | == Emigration == | ||
=== American Emigrants === | === North American Emigrants === | ||
The constant arrival of shiploads of African, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants during the colonial period quickly led to overcrowding on this tiny island. Many people left to seek brighter futures on the North American mainland in colonies such as [[South Carolina|South Carolina]], [[Virginia|Virginia]], [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]],<ref name="irish" /> and [[Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]. Genealogists often encounter references to Barbados in colonial American sources. Published [[Barbados Genealogy#Bibliography|Barbados genealogies]] identify many such emigrants. | The constant arrival of shiploads of African, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants during the colonial period quickly led to overcrowding on this tiny island. Many people left to seek brighter futures on the North American mainland in colonies such as [[South Carolina|South Carolina]], [[Virginia|Virginia]], [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]],<ref name="irish" /> and [[Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]. Genealogists often encounter references to Barbados in colonial American sources. Published [[Barbados Genealogy#Bibliography|Barbados genealogies]] identify many such emigrants. | ||
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*"List of tickets granted to people leaving the island in 1679" is kept at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Barbados Department of Archives]]. The collection has been microfilmed: {{FHL|35200|item}} 1162149 Item 1 | *"List of tickets granted to people leaving the island in 1679" is kept at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Barbados Department of Archives]]. The collection has been microfilmed: {{FHL|35200|item}} 1162149 Item 1 | ||
In 1664, a "group of Barbadians joined in an agreement to settle in Carolina." In the twentieth century, this document was kept in the South Carolina Historical Society Collection (reference V/29).<ref>Moriarty, Appendix, ''Barbados Genealogies,'' p. 670.</ref> | In 1664, a "group of Barbadians joined in an agreement to settle in Carolina." In the twentieth century, this document was kept in the South Carolina Historical Society Collection (reference V/29).<ref>Moriarty, Appendix, ''Barbados Genealogies,'' p. 670.</ref> | ||
A list of persons seeking [[United States Passports|passports]] to travel from [[New York|New York]] to Barbados and other West Indian destinations for the year 1812 survives at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives and Records Administration]] (Washington, D.C.) and has been published: | A list of persons seeking [[United States Passports|passports]] to travel from [[New York|New York]] to Barbados and other West Indian destinations for the year 1812 survives at the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives and Records Administration]] (Washington, D.C.) and has been published: | ||
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*Marler, Don C. ''Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana's Mystery People''. Hemphill, Texas: Dogwood Press, 2003. {{FHL|1115655|item}} 976.3 F2md | *Marler, Don C. ''Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana's Mystery People''. Hemphill, Texas: Dogwood Press, 2003. {{FHL|1115655|item}} 976.3 F2md | ||
Genealogists attempting to track migrations from the British Isles to Barbados to Colonial North America, will be best served by attempting to find mention to an ancestor in other types of Barbados records, such as a [[Barbados Census|census]] or census substitute, [[Barbados Church Records|parish register]], or [[Barbados Probate Records|will]]. | Genealogists attempting to track migrations from the British Isles to Barbados to Colonial North America, will be best served by attempting to find mention to an ancestor in other types of Barbados records, such as a [[Barbados Census|census]] or census substitute, [[Barbados Church Records|parish register]], or [[Barbados Probate Records|will]]. | ||
=== British Emigrants === | === British Emigrants === | ||
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*Williams, Joseph J. ''Whence the "Black Irish" of Jamaica?'' New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 1932. {{FHL|1030045|item}} 972.92 W2w | *Williams, Joseph J. ''Whence the "Black Irish" of Jamaica?'' New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 1932. {{FHL|1030045|item}} 972.92 W2w | ||
=== Central American Emigrants === | |||
More Barbadians were employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission of the United States in building the Panama Canal than any other nationality. Records of two-year work indentures survive documenting thousands of these short-term migrants. Many Barbadians also participated in the French failed attempt to build the canal in the 1880s, but fewer records survive.<ref>Herbert Hutchinson, "Commemorating the Barbadians Who Excavated the Panama Canal (1904-1914)," ''The Journal of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society,'' Vol. 54 (2008): 223-248.</ref> | |||
=== References === | === References === | ||
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