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*''Caribbeana : being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies'' edited by Vere Langford Oliver. There appear to have been six volumes published, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002840779 .
:[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n4 Vol. I] 1910; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n4 Vol. II] 1912; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n3 Vol. III] 1914; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeing00oliv/page/n3 Supplement to Vol.IV ''The Registers of St Thomas, Middle Island, St. Kitts''] 1915; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv5oliv/page/n4 Vol. V] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv6oliv/page/n9 Vol. VI] Commences page 41. All Archive.org.
:All seven volumes of ''Caribbeana'' are available online at The University of Florida Digital Collections including [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075409/00004/ Volume IV] and [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075409/00007 Volume VI].
*[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://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/656462 ''More monumental inscriptions : tombstones of the British West Indies''] by Vere Langford Oliver. Reprint of ''The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies''. Collected and edited by V. L. Oliver. 1927. Catalogue entry with link to a FamilySearch Digital Book. [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE198136& Direct link]. May take a few minutes to load. Catalogue entry says "Inscriptions copied from cemeteries on the West Indian islands of Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad; on the Bahamas; and in the former Dutch colony of Demerara, now a county of Guyana. With an Index of Names at the back of the book.
*[https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofbar00bran ''Genealogies of Barbados families : from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society''] by James C Brandow. 1983. Archive.org Lending Library
*[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00001365/00001 ''The Jews of Jamaica: Tombstone Inscriptions, 1663-1880''] Richard D. Barnett and Philip Wright c 1997. Digital Library of the Caribbean.
*Comments about [https://archive.org/details/registrumecclesi00burnrich/page/236 "The registers of Persons Baptised etc Abroad: The West Indies"] page 237 ''Registrum ecclesiae parochialis : the history of parish registers in England : also of the registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies...'' by John Southerden Burn 2nd edition 1862 Archive.org. Refers to some early Baptisms and Burials from Barbados in the "State Paper Office", now The National Archives at Kew, but it is unknown whether these records are still available. See [[West Indies#Other records|Other records]] above.
*''Jamaica: its Past and Present State'' by James M Phillippo, Baptist Missionary 1843. [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspasta00mursgoog/page/n10 London Edition 1843], [https://archive.org/details/jamaicaitspastpr00phil/page/n7 USA Edition 1843] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030726859 ''History of the First West India Regiment''] by A B Ellis, Major, First West India Regiment. 1885 Archive.org
