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Information on migration between East and West Indies.
There are many surnames common to both India and the West Indies, particularly Jamaica. "I wondered if anybody thought to look westwards when they hit a brick wall in India".<ref>Harding, Simon. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261218753 Private Merchants & Photo's from India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 19 December 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2015.</ref>
A number of families who were active in India, had in previous generations also taken part in the development of the West Indies. Some of the most effective officers in India during the 1780's and 1790's had previously served in the West Indies. The reverse also applied. Planters from India moved to the West Indies to run plantations there.<ref>Balmer, Nick. [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-12/1261223381 Private Merchants & Photo's from India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 19 December 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2015.</ref>
==External links==
*[http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/index.htm Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library] www.jamaican family search.com
*[https://archive.org/details/monumentalinscri00olivrich ''The monumental inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the island of Barbados, British West Indies''] edited by Vere Langford Oliver 1915 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924096785278#page/n427/mode/2up "Barbadoes Parish Registers 1678-1679"], page 419 ''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''.
Edited by John Camden Hotten. 1874 Archive.org
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