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''[[Barbados]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[ | ''[[Barbados]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Barbados_Emigration_and_Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]'' | ||
As a leg in the triangular trade, many ships traveling between the British Isles, Africa, and America stopped in Barbados during the colonial period. {{Wikipedia|Triangular_trade|Triangular trade}} | As a leg in the triangular trade, many ships traveling between the British Isles, Africa, and America stopped in Barbados during the colonial period. {{Wikipedia|Triangular_trade|Triangular trade}} | ||
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*Brandow, James C. ''Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. Digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Ancestry] ($). | *Brandow, James C. ''Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. Digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49280 Ancestry] ($). | ||
[[ | [[Peter Wilson Coldham|Peter Wilson Coldham]] has published several volumes of English records that identify, among other American immigrants, those destined for Barbados. Coldham's works are indexed in Filby's ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s'' (digital version at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486 Ancestry] ($)). | ||
*[[ | *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2004. {{FHL|1210004|item}} CD-ROM no. 2150. | ||
*[[ | *[[Peter Wilson Coldham|Coldham, Peter Wilson]]. ''The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988. {{FHL|658375|item}} 942.41/B2 W2c; digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=49090 Ancestry] ($); [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. {{FHL|773852|item}} CD-ROM no. 9 pt. 350; digital version of select portions at [http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/search_indentures.html Virtual Jamestown]. | ||
Cooper published a study of [[Cornwall, England|Cornish]] emigrants to Barbados 1634-1659: | Cooper published a study of [[Cornwall, England|Cornish]] emigrants to Barbados 1634-1659: | ||
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Can you tell us about these records? | Can you tell us about these records? | ||
==== English Ships ==== | |||
Many ships that sailed from Bristol, England to Barbados are described in: ''Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America 1698-1807'' (4 vols.) {{FHL|504033|item|disp=FHL British Books 942.41/B2 B4b v. 38-39, 42, 47}}. | |||
=== African Immigrants === | === African Immigrants === | ||
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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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=== Central American Emigrants === | === 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 &amp;amp; Historical Society,'' Vol. 54 (2008): 223-248.</ref> | 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 &amp;amp;amp; Historical Society,'' Vol. 54 (2008): 223-248.</ref> | ||
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