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[[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. | ||
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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.
Church of England[edit | edit source]
Original Barbados christenings and burials (1679-1680) are kept at the Barbados Department of Archives. The collection has been microfilmed: FHL Collection 1162149 Item 1
Baptisms[edit | edit source]
- "Barbados Baptisms, 1739-1891," online database, FamilySearch.
- Sanders, Joanne McRee . Barbados Baptisms 1637-1800 . Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1984 . Free Name Search[1]; digital version at Ancestry ($); purchase at Genealogical.com; FHL Collection 972.981 K29s.
Marriages[edit | edit source]
- "Barbados Marriages, 1854-1879," online database, FamilySearch
- Sanders, Joanne McRee . Barbados Records: Marriages 1643-1800 . Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1982 . Free Name Search[1]; digital version at Ancestry ($); purchase at Genealogical.com; FHL Collection 972.981 K29sj v. 1.
Burials[edit | edit source]
Burials registered in some of Barbados's early Church of England parishes (more than 170,126 burial entries) are available on the website Tombstones.bb.
The records have been microfilmed and are widely available through the Family History Library's satellite Family History Center system. Some are also online:
- "Barbados Burials, 1854-1885," online database, FamilySearch
Vestry Minutes[edit | edit source]
Barbados Church of England vestry minutes survive from the 1650s for some parishes. See Court Records.
Clergymen[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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 Collection BRITISH Large Q Book 942 B4pro spec. ser. v. 5
Quakers[edit | edit source]
By the 1650s early Quaker colonists arrived in Barbados from the British Isles, and soon spread their religion from Barbados to the east coast of America. An article that describes Quaker records about Barabados is:
- 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. (FHL Book 941.5 D25ih v. 2 (1994/1995)) WorldCat entry.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Name Search at Genealogical.com is a comprehensive name index to 638 books and CDs published or reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company (now Genealogical.com). For a complete list of the works included, see Publications in Name Search at Genealogical.com
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