West Indies
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".[1]
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.[2]
External links
- Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library jamaicanfamilysearch.com
- Caribbean FamilySearch (LDS) Wiki. Includes links to the pages for Barbados and Jamaica.
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
References
- ↑ Harding, Simon. Private Merchants & Photo's from India Rootsweb India Mailing List 19 December 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ↑ Balmer, Nick. Private Merchants & Photo's from India Rootsweb India Mailing List 19 December 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2015.