West Indies

Information on migration between East and West Indies.

This post from the India List says ".. another side of my family tree goes back a long way in the West Indies. A lot of the names I see posted here [on the India List] also crop up in 18th century records from Jamaica and I wondered if anybody thought to look westwards when they hit a brick wall in India. Just off the top of my head, less common names I have seen in both contexts include Ricketts, Skinner, Scarlett and Hylton."

This following India List post adds further details.

External links

• Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library www.jamaican family search.com
• Jamaica Family Search (LDS) Wiki

Historical books online

• Monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies from the earliest date by J H Lawrence-Archer 1875 Archive.org
• The monumental inscriptions in the churches and churchyards of the island of Barbados, British West Indies edited by Vere Langford Oliver 1915 Archive.org
• "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