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:[https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n3 Vol. I] 1910, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv1oliv/page/n15 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n4 Vol. II] 1912, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv2oliv/page/n11 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n3 Vol. III] 1914, [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingm03oliv/page/n13 Contents]; [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/caribbeanabeingmv5oliv/page/n15 Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/caribbeanabeingmv6oliv/page/n9 Vol. VI] Commences page 41, no Contents or Index. 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], [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075409/00004/33j Contents]; and [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00075409/00007 Volume VI], no Contents or Index. All volumes may be accessed from the two given volume links by clicking on "All Volumes". Print may be darker in these volumes compared with the editions on Archive.org, and therefore easier to read.
*''The History of the Island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time'' by Vere Langford Oliver, published 1894-1899. [https://archive.org/details/historyofislando01oliv/page/n10 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofislando02oliv/page/n8 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/historyofislando03oliv/page/n10 Volume III] Archive.org. Includes family pedigrees.:[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 to read online or download. You need to be registered and sign in first, see [[Family Search]]. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/327348-more-monumental-inscriptions-tombstones-of-the-british-west-indies Direct link]. 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/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
:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*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.
*''The British Empire in America : containing the history of the discovery, settlement, progress and present state of all the British colonies, on the continent and islands of America. The Second Volume. Being an account of the country, soil, climate, product and trade of Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincents, Dominico, Antego, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christophers, Barbuda, Anguilla, Jamaica, the Bahama and Bermudas Islands. With curious maps of the several places done from the newest surveys'' [by John Oldmixon] [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina04oldm/page/n3 1708 edition], [https://archive.org/details/britishempireina02oldm/page/n10 Second edition, Corrected and Amended 1741] Archive.org
*''A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves'' by William Beckford 1790. [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc02beckgoog/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc03beckgoog/page/n6 Volume II] Archive.org.
*''The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies'' by Bryan Edwards. First published 1793. 1806 volumes have additional title ''To which is added A general description of the Bahama islands by Daniel M'Kinnen''
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924020417527/page/n5 ''Historic Jamaica : With fifty-two illustrations''] by Frank Cundall 1915 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/jamaicain1922han00cund/page/n26 ''Jamaica in 1922 : a handbook of information for intending settlers and visitors with some account of the colony's history''] by Frank Cundall 1922 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015003557488?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''The History of Piracy''] by Philip Gosse 1934, first published 1932. Hathi Trust Digital Library, with rotatable images. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34059/page/n7 Archive.org version]. Contains "Book III: The Pirates of the West". An earlier book was [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19564 ''The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers''] by Philip Gosse, first published 1924 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/pirateswhoswhogi0000goss/page/n3 1968 reprint edition] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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