Barbados Emigration and Immigration

English Immigrants

A standard work on early Barbados immigrants, which is now widely available on the Internet, is:

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 Ancestry ($); Google Books and Internet Archive; 1983 reprint: FHL Collection 973 W2hot 1983

Brandow published an addendum to Hotten's work:

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 Ancestry ($).

An original "list of tickets granted to people leaving the island in 1679" is kept at the Barbados Department of Archives. The collection has been microfilmed: FHL Collection 1162149 Item 1

Irish Immigrants

In their article on Irish settlers of Barbados, Radford and [who] conclude that Barbados probate records likely offer the most promising prospects of connecting a Barbadian back to the Emerald Isle.

Scottish Immigrants

David Dobson has dedicated years to establishing links between Scotland and immigrants who left their homeland throughout the world:

Dobson, David. Barbados and Scotland Links, 1627-1877. Baltimore, Md.: Clearfield, 2005. FHL Collection 972.981 W2d