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Emigration and Immigration

How to Find the Records

Online Resources

• Irish Emigrants in North America, 1775-1825 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 at Ancestry, ($), index and images
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• 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 Indexed at Ancestry ($)
• Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700Ancestry at Ancestry, ($), index and images.
• Immigrant Servants Database
• Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686, index
• "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"
• List of persons seeking passports to travel from New York to Barbados, 1812
• Carolina - The Barbadian Settlers, 1670 Ships lists: Carolina - Port Royal and the Three Brothers

North American Emigrants

• Alleyne, Warren and Henry Fraser. The Barbados-Carolina Connection. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1988. FHL Collection 972.981 H2a
• Kent, David L. Barbados and America. Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980. FHL Book 972.981 X2b.

In the seventeenth century, residents of Bergen County, New Jersey named a town "New Barbados."

Marler attempted to identify Barbados "Redbone" surnames present in Louisiana:

• Marler, Don C. Redbones of Louisiana: For 200 Years Redbones Have Been Louisiana's Mystery People. Hemphill, Texas: Dogwood Press, 2003. FHL Collection 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 census or census substitute, parish register, or will.

British Emigrants

As part of the Commonwealth until 1966, Barbadians had the full privileges belonging to subjects of the British Crown. This stimulated travel back and forth between the United Kingdom and Barbados. The twentieth century witnessed a large emigration of blacks from Barbados to the UK.

Caribbean Emigrants

Many Barbados indentured servants, after failing to secure land following their labor terms, left the island for Jamaica, see:

• Williams, Joseph J. Whence the "Black Irish" of Jamaica? New York, N.Y.: Dial Press, 1932. FHL Collection 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.

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