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==How to Find the Records== | ==How to Find the Records== | ||
===Online Resources=== | ===Online Resources=== | ||
*'''1607-1707''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48521/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1607-1707''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48521/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1611-1707''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48522/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1611-1707''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48522/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1612-1783''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48520/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1612-1783''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48520/ The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1614-1775''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61074/ Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1614-1775''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61074/ Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775] at Ancestry - index & images ($). | ||
*'''1654-1686''' [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686], index | *'''1654-1686''' [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686], index | ||
*'''1637-1800''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61463/ Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1637-1800''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61463/ Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1670''' [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/barbadian_settlers.html Carolina - The Barbadian Settlers, 1670] Ships lists: [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/charles_town_settlers_ship_carolina.html Carolina] - [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/charles_town_settlers_ship_portroyal_three_brothers.html Port Royal and the Three Brothers] | *'''1670''' [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/barbadian_settlers.html Carolina - The Barbadian Settlers, 1670] Ships lists: [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/charles_town_settlers_ship_carolina.html Carolina] - [https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Settlement/charles_town_settlers_ship_portroyal_three_brothers.html Port Royal and the Three Brothers] | ||
*'''1679''' | *'''1679''' {{FSC|35200|item|disp="List of tickets granted to people leaving the island in 1679"}} in "The dispatches of Governor, Sir Jonathan Atkins, relating to the population of the island of Barbados, A.D. 1679-1680" | ||
*'''1775-1825''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61849/ Irish Emigrants in North America, 1775-1825] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1775-1825''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61849/ Irish Emigrants in North America, 1775-1825] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1812''' [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/49091/images/FLHG_BritishAliensinUSDuringWar1812-0390?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=1559%2C324%2C1786%2C355&pId=14781A List of persons seeking passports to travel from New York to Barbados, 1812] | *'''1812''' [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/49091/images/FLHG_BritishAliensinUSDuringWar1812-0390?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=1559%2C324%2C1786%2C355&pId=14781A List of persons seeking passports to travel from New York to Barbados, 1812] | ||
*'''1813-1834''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1129/ Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834] at Ancestry ($) | *'''1813-1834''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1129/ Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | *'''1878-1960''' [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1518/ UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960] at Ancestry - index & images ($) | ||
*'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel%20%26%20migration&sid=999 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | *'''1890-1960''' [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?sourcecategory=travel%20%26%20migration&sid=999 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960] at Findmypast - index & images ($) | ||
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*[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database] | *[http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database] | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=B414AAAAMAAJ The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England], images [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2065/ Indexed at Ancestry] ($) | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=B414AAAAMAAJ The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England], images [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2065/ Indexed at Ancestry] ($) | ||
*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations] at Ancestry ($) | *[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations] at Ancestry - index & images ($). | ||
*[https://immigrant.pricegen.com/search/simple.php Immigrant Servants Database] at PriceGen - 20,000+ colonial immigrants, primary focus: Chesapeake Bay colonies (Virginia and Maryland) | *[https://immigrant.pricegen.com/search/simple.php Immigrant Servants Database] at PriceGen - 20,000+ colonial immigrants, primary focus: Chesapeake Bay colonies (Virginia and Maryland) | ||
*[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/britain-early-emigration-to-barbados Britain, Early Emigration to Barbados] at Findmypast - index & [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/britain-early-emigration-to-barbados-browse images] ($) | |||
*[https://www.shipindex.org/ ShipIndex Vessel Research Database] at shipindex.org - index | |||
==Emigration and Immigration== | ==Emigration and Immigration== | ||
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A standard work on early Barbados immigrants, which includes some passenger lists from the 1630s, is now also widely available on the Internet: | A standard work on early Barbados immigrants, which includes some passenger lists from the 1630s, is now also widely available on the Internet: | ||
*Hotten, John Camden. ''The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''. London: the author, | *Hotten, John Camden. ''The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars; from MSS. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England''. London: the author, 1874. Digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2065 Ancestry] ($); [http://books.google.com/books?id=B414AAAAMAAJ Google Books] and [https://www.archive.org/details/originallistsofp00hottuoft Internet Archive]; 1983 reprint: {{FSC|1055287|item}} 973 W2hot 1983 | ||
Brandow published an addendum to Hotten's work: | Brandow published an addendum to Hotten's work: | ||
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*[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. {{FSC|1210004|item}} CD-ROM no. 2150. | *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. {{FSC|1210004|item}} CD-ROM no. 2150. | ||
*[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988. {{FSC|658375|item}} 942.41/B2 W2c; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49090 Ancestry] ($); [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brbwgw/PubForums.htm Chronicle Barbados] | *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988. {{FSC|658375|item}} 942.41/B2 W2c; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49090 Ancestry] ($); [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brbwgw/PubForums.htm Chronicle Barbados] (Barbados entries only); [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown]. | ||
*[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1776''. n.p.: Brøderbund, 1996. {{FSC|773852|item}} CD-ROM no. 9 pt. 350; digital version of select portions at [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown]. | *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1776''. n.p.: Brøderbund, 1996. {{FSC|773852|item}} CD-ROM no. 9 pt. 350; digital version of select portions at [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown]. | ||
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*Cooper, Cliff. "Barbados Connection," ''Journal of the Cornwall Family History Society'', Vol. 79 (Mar. 1996). {{FSC|887014|item}} 942.37 B2cf | *Cooper, Cliff. "Barbados Connection," ''Journal of the Cornwall Family History Society'', Vol. 79 (Mar. 1996). {{FSC|887014|item}} 942.37 B2cf | ||
A collection labeled "Apprenticeship Indentures" for Lyme Regis Borough, held at the Dorset Record Office (Dorchester, England), identifies several English indentured servants shipped to Barbados and other American colonies | A collection labeled "Apprenticeship Indentures" for Lyme Regis Borough, held at the Dorset Record Office (Dorchester, England), identifies several English indentured servants shipped to Barbados and other American colonies in the 1680s (Reference DC/LR/M/9). Murphy published an abstract: | ||
*Murphy, Nathan W. "‘To be sent to America,’ Indentured Servants Registered at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, 1683-1689,” ''Genealogists’ Magazine,'' Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 2007): 101-102. {{FSC|434342|item}} 942 B2gm v. 29, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) | *Murphy, Nathan W. "‘To be sent to America,’ Indentured Servants Registered at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, 1683-1689,” ''Genealogists’ Magazine,'' Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 2007): 101-102. {{FSC|434342|item}} 942 B2gm v. 29, no. 3 (Sept. 2007); these immigrants are included in the free online [http://www.pricegen.com/immigrantservants/search/simple.php/search/simpleResults.php?keywords=Lyme Immigrant Servants Database]. | ||
==== English Ships ==== | ==== English Ships ==== | ||
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In their genealogical article on Irish settlers of Barbados, Radford and White conclude that [[Barbados Probate Records|Barbados probate records]] offer the most likely prospects of connecting a Barbadian back to the Emerald Isle.<ref name="irish">Dwight A. Radford and Arden C. White, "The Irish in Barbados," ''The Irish at Home and Abroad: A Newsletter of Irish Genealogy and Heritage,'' Vol. 2, No. 3 (1994/1995):92-97. {{FSC|678738|item}} 941.5 D25ih v. 2 (1994/1995)</ref> | In their genealogical article on Irish settlers of Barbados, Radford and White conclude that [[Barbados Probate Records|Barbados probate records]] offer the most likely prospects of connecting a Barbadian back to the Emerald Isle.<ref name="irish">Dwight A. Radford and Arden C. White, "The Irish in Barbados," ''The Irish at Home and Abroad: A Newsletter of Irish Genealogy and Heritage,'' Vol. 2, No. 3 (1994/1995):92-97. {{FSC|678738|item}} 941.5 D25ih v. 2 (1994/1995)</ref> | ||
Sheppard wrote a | Sheppard wrote a history of the Irish in Barbados. Many of the Irish were indentured servants brought to labor in sugar plantations. Because their pale skin burned red in the tropical climate, they were dubbed "redlegs" by the English. | ||
*Sheppard, Jill. ''The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History''. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1977. {{FSC|124667|item}} 972.981 H6s | *Sheppard, Jill. ''The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History''. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1977. {{FSC|124667|item}} 972.981 H6s | ||
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=== Scottish Immigrants === | === Scottish Immigrants === | ||
David Dobson has dedicated many | David Dobson has dedicated many years to establishing links between Scots and their dispersed Scottish cousins who settled throughout the world. For Barbados connections, see: | ||
*Dobson, David. ''Barbados and Scotland Links, 1627-1877''. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2005. {{FSC|1210311|disp=FS | *Dobson, David. ''Barbados and Scotland Links, 1627-1877''. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2005. {{FSC|1210311|disp=FS Catalog book 972.981 W2d}}; online at [https://archive.org/details/barbadosscotland00dobs Internet Archive]. | ||
*Dobson, David. ''Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857''. 2 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 1998-2006. {{FSC|816520|disp=FS | *Dobson, David. ''Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857''. 2 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 1998-2006. {{FSC|816520|disp=FS Catalog book 972.9 W2d}}; online at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5110/ Ancestry] ($). | ||
=== Emigration === | === Emigration === | ||
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=== North 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 | 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 Genealogy|South Carolina]], [[Virginia Genealogy|Virginia]], [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|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. | ||
Unfortunately, lists of individuals leaving Barbados for the American continent are almost non-existent for the early period, with one noted exception: | Unfortunately, lists of individuals leaving Barbados for the American continent are almost non-existent for the early period, with one noted exception: | ||
*"List of tickets granted to people | *"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: {{FSC|35200|item}} 1162149 Item 1 | ||
In 1664, a "group of Barbadians joined in an agreement to settle in Carolina." In the twentieth century, | 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 Genealogy|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 Genealogy|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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*Scott, Kenneth. ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/british-aliens-in-the-united-states-during-the-war-of-1812/oclc/5711802 British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812.]'' Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, 382-383. {{FSC|78653|item}} 973 W4s; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49091 Ancestry] ($). | *Scott, Kenneth. ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/british-aliens-in-the-united-states-during-the-war-of-1812/oclc/5711802 British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812.]'' Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, 382-383. {{FSC|78653|item}} 973 W4s; digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49091 Ancestry] ($). | ||
Several histories chronicle | Several histories chronicle these Atlantic World links: | ||
*Alleyne, Warren and Henry Fraser. ''The Barbados-Carolina Connection''. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1988. {{FSC|428472|item}} 972.981 H2a | *Alleyne, Warren and Henry Fraser. ''The Barbados-Carolina Connection''. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1988. {{FSC|428472|item}} 972.981 H2a | ||
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Marler attempted to identify Barbados "Redbone" surnames present in Louisiana: | Marler attempted to identify Barbados "Redbone" surnames present in Louisiana: | ||
*Marler, Don C. ''Redbones of Louisiana: | *Marler, Don C. ''Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana's Mystery People''. Hemphill, Texas: Dogwood Press, 2003. {{FSC|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]]. | ||
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==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||
*{{FSC| | *{{FSC|Barbados - Emigration and immigration|subject|subject-id=1759981703|disp=Barbados - Emigration and Immigration}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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