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Emigration and Immigration

Online Records

• British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812 A list of persons seeking United States passports to travel from New York to Antigua and other West Indian destinations for the year 1812.
• Immigrant Servants Database
• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707 results for Antigua
• 1813-1834 Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 at Ancestry, ($), index and images.
• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 for Antigua at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 for Barbuda at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Antigua
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Barbuda

Finding the Town of Origin in Antigua and Barbuda

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Antigua and Barbuda, see Antigua and Barbuda Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Antigua and Barbuda Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Antigua and Barbuda

• The Spanish did not colonize Antigua until after a combination of European and African diseases, malnutrition, and slavery eventually extirpated most of the native population; smallpox was probably the greatest killer.
• The English settled on Antigua in 1632 and on Barbuda in 1685.
• Tobacco and then sugar was grown, worked by a large population of slaves from West Africa who soon came to vastly outnumber the European settlers.
• The English maintained control of the islands, repulsing an attempted French attack in 1666.
• The brutal conditions endured by the slaves led to revolts in 1701 and 1729 and a planned revolt in 1736, discovered before it began. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, affecting the economy. This was exacerbated by natural disasters such as the 1843 earthquake and the 1847 hurricane.

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