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''[[Barbados|Barbados]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Barbados_Church_Records|Church Records]]'' | ''[[Barbados|Barbados]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Barbados_Church_Records|Church Records]]'' | ||
[[Image:BarbadosStJamesChurch.jpg|thumb|right]]The oldest standing church on the Island of Barbados is St. James Church (picture on right). Joanne McRee Sanders published indexes and abstracts of many Barbados church records (see below). Recently, FamilySearch has started an initiative to make free online indexes to many of the same records, and has broadened the scope to include nineteenth century records derived from both church and civil records. <br> | [[Image:BarbadosStJamesChurch.jpg|thumb|right]]The oldest standing church on the Island of Barbados is St. James Church (picture on right). Joanne McRee Sanders published indexes and abstracts of many Barbados church records (see below). Recently, FamilySearch has started an initiative to make free online indexes to many of the same records, and has broadened the scope to include nineteenth century records derived from both church and civil records. <br> | ||
== Church of England == | |||
Original Barbados christenings and burials (1679-1680) are kept at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Barbados Department of Archives]]. The collection has been microfilmed: {{FHL|35200|item}} 1162149 Item 1 | |||
=== Baptisms === | === Baptisms === | ||
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*[https://beta.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://pilot.familysearch.org/records/trk:/fsrs/c1520600&hash=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D "Barbados Burials, 1854-1885,"] online database, FamilySearch | *[https://beta.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://pilot.familysearch.org/records/trk:/fsrs/c1520600&hash=MPAfKvgWGXfZ5STyuqUCQxOVNk8%253D "Barbados Burials, 1854-1885,"] online database, FamilySearch | ||
=== Vestry Minutes === | === Vestry Minutes === | ||
Barbados Church of England vestry minutes survive from the 1650s for some parishes. See [[Barbados Court Records|Court Records]]. | |||
=== Clergymen === | |||
Barbados | *Cadbury, Henry J. "Clergymen Licensed to Barbados, 1694-1811," ''The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society'', Vol. 15, No. 2 (Feb. 1948):62-69. FHL LAT AM 972.981 B2j v. 15 1947-48 | ||
== Miscellaneous Records == | |||
*List and Index Society. ''Calendar of Letters from Canada, Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, Barbados and the Bahamas 1721-1793: Preserved at the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel''. London: Swift (P & D), 1972. {{FHL|1612040|item}} BRITISH Large Q Book 942 B4pro spec. ser. v. 5 | *List and Index Society. ''Calendar of Letters from Canada, Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, Barbados and the Bahamas 1721-1793: Preserved at the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel''. London: Swift (P & D), 1972. {{FHL|1612040|item}} BRITISH Large Q Book 942 B4pro spec. ser. v. 5 | ||
== Jews == | |||
The late Eustace M. Shilstone was a recognized scholar of Jews in Barbados. His manuscript research notes "Records of Jews in Barbados and Other Family Records," is held at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society]]. Pages 200 to 204, for example, identify early Jewish wills proved on the island. The collection was recently digitized through a U.S. Embassy grant. His superb work in transcribing, translating, and abstracting Jewish Synagogue monumental inscriptions is discussed in [[Barbados Cemeteries|Barbados Cemeteries]]. Arbell prepared a history of early Jewish refugees in Barbados and other Caribbean islands: | The late Eustace M. Shilstone was a recognized scholar of Jews in Barbados. His manuscript research notes "Records of Jews in Barbados and Other Family Records," is held at the [[Barbados Archives and Libraries|Library of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society]]. Pages 200 to 204, for example, identify early Jewish wills proved on the island. The collection was recently digitized through a U.S. Embassy grant. His superb work in transcribing, translating, and abstracting Jewish Synagogue monumental inscriptions is discussed in [[Barbados Cemeteries|Barbados Cemeteries]]. Arbell prepared a history of early Jewish refugees in Barbados and other Caribbean islands: | ||