Saint Kitts and Nevis Emigration and Immigration
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Online Records[edit | edit source]
- 1813-1834 Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834, index, incomplete, ($) St. Kitts records listed under St. Christopher
- 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
- 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960, St. Kitts at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
- 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960, Nevis at FindMyPast; index & images ($)
- 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for St. Kitts
- 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Nevis
British Overseas Subjects[edit | edit source]
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Saint Kitts and Nevis, index and images, ($)
- British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)
- Caribbean, 1st Bn Royal Regiment Of Foot Deaths 1801-1811, index, ($)
Contents: Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834[edit | edit source]
The Original Register of 1817 represented the first census, or perhaps inventory, of the enslaved populations of St. Kitts. Subsequent returns recorded new births, deaths, manumissions, transportation and marronage (the process of extricating oneself from slavery).
The most obvious information that comes from the registers includes:
- – The names and number of the enslavers;
- – The number of the enslaved held in bondage by individuals and on the Island as a whole;
- – Individuals’ names, age, sex, colour, place of origin and occupation;
- – On rare occasions there is mention of family relations.
- – The enslaved were property that could be bought, sold, exchanged, willed and inherited;
- – The young (6 and under) the old and the infirm were not expected to work;
- – Enslaved man and women worked side by side in the cane fields.
There is also information that can be inferred.
- – There were opportunities for traditions and customs originating in Africa to be renewed and passed on.
- – A significant amount of migration was taking place both within the region and with North America.
- – Muslims were very likely present on the island and that some of the enslaved may have been literate as Muslim boys were often thought to read and in some instances to write.
- – Enslaved workers were moved, en mass from one island to the other, suggesting that elements of the white population had interests in other places besides St. Kitts.
- – Enslaved people may have attempted to create a family experience.
- – The names of the enslaved were sometimes an indication of the depth of the psychological trauma that the enslaved endured.
- – Some of the enslavers were actually humane and may have cared for the enslaved persons who worked for them.
- – Not all enslavers were rich white men. In some instances they were women, or free coloured or free black men or women who may have controlled a plantation or just a few household slaves.