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Internet in particular increase at a great rate, and others become
available in print. Tracing Ancestors in Barbados is a snapshot of
records available at the time of writing.
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Slave registers, wills, baptism and marriage records. Two
important sets of records have been added to
www.ancestry.co.uk
(a subscription website). The slave register for 1834 which contains
names of 100,000 slaves and their owners has been added and earlier
years will follow soon, along with records for other islands. The
slave registers are described on pp120-123 of Tracing Ancestors in
Barbados. In addition Joanne Mcree Sanders’ ‘Barbados Records’ has
been added. This includes records of baptism and marriage plus some
wills. Full descriptions can be found in Tracing Ancestors in Barbados
on pages 32 and 60.
Freedmen of Barbados: Names & Notes for Genealogical & Family
History Research
This publication, described on page 53 of Tracing Ancestors in
Barbados is now available in a second, expanded edition.
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more details (right click and save target as - 400KB - PDF File).
Voters registers
Readers are referred, on page 103
of Tracing Ancestors in Barbados, to the JBMHS 50:154-165 for a
list of the registered voters in 1873. Professor Woodville Marshall
subsequently undertook a detailed analysis of this list and his
comments can be seen in the JBMHS 51: 187-241. Names, addresses and
property details are given.
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Slave manumission records
The records held at the Barbados Department of Archives under
references RB7/26 & 27 and described on page 124 of Tracing
Ancestors in Barbados have been transcribed and can be seen at:
www.plantations.bb/manumission/
Slave Compensation Claims
When slaves were freed by the 1833 Emancipation Act the owners
of those slaves were paid compensation by the British
government. See page 52 of Tracing Ancestors in Barbados for a
full description. The records for Barbados and Antigua can now
be searched on
http://compensations.plantations.bb/
Maps
The 1722 list of subscribers to the Mayo map
of Barbados, described on page 92 of Tracing Ancestors in
Barbados, can now be seen on
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwi/barbados.txt This was
contributed by members of the Genealogical Computing Group of
the NZ Society of Genealogists.
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