In the decade of the 1970s there was another dispersion to North America and the UK in particular. The ads contained in the Directory have also been transcribed. Some notes on the descendants of Col. John Campbell 1720-1793. Indian, Syrian, Lebanese merchants and businessmen came in the late 19th to 20th centuries.

Links, A complete list of the microfilms of the Church Registers which preceded Civil Registration (Baptisms, Marriages and Burials in the Anglican church; Dissenter Marriages). A painting of Cardiff Hall. The biography of the author of this website is in: Jamaica Almanacs Slave-owners, Civil & Military officers, Magistrates etc. The Obituaries which cover 1906 to 1917 are also summarized, as is military information for 1916. 1768-1845 Conveyances involving Clark, Clarke, Broadbelt, Malcolm, Virgo, Minto, Downer, Brissett, Isaac, Carr, Cresse, Lawrence, Hislop or others.

Surnames deriving from a place are probably the oldest and most common. There are transcriptions of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery in Falmouth, and some photographs of the cemetery. Some army officers surnamed Garsia whose names were found in the National Archives in London. Diversity increased with the addition of other people groups: French refugees from St. Domingue arrived in the late 18th century. Wildfires are devastating the American West, but the United States isn’t the only place on Earth that’s burning.

In earlier times they might have called…, Richard Stewart (Shawnee or Cherokee Descendant) My name is Richard Stewart. Louis C. Malabre wrote a 3-Volume record of the families of the colonists who survived the revolts in St. Domingue and fled to Jamaica in the late 18th century.

Jamaicans found in the 1851/1852 Census records for Canada. Extant Wills recorded in the Supreme Court 1725-1882, 1883-1889, 1891, 1894-1903, 1904-1914, 1917-1919, 1921, and 1923 to 1930 have been indexed, showing the name, and in most cases the residence and occupation of each testator. Views and reactions by authors. NA.

Over 1,550 property owners are listed.

This summer, portions of the Arctic shattered wildfire records set just last year, which at the time was the worst fire season in 60 years. Letter from Jamaica in 1687 from the Reverend Francis Crow to the Reverend Giles Firmin in Essex, England, on the manners and mores at Port Royal and the difficulties of getting people to attend to the word of God. A History of the Church of England in Jamaica, with special reference to St. Thomas in the Vale from 1816 to 1832, by Mary Mill. In Civil Registration records for 1943 there are records of deaths in the Military Hospital as well as in the Internment Camp at Up Park Camp. There is information on immigration and on slavery. This book is an invaluable research tool, and the entire Directory, containing over 370 pages, has been transcribed here. Views and reactions from 1732, and 1802 to 1833 as found in Colonial Office Correspondence. The movements of some Church of England clergymen who served in Jamaica, have been set out in a compilation from various sources, including names from church records. Among them were British military as well as German seamen who died in the camp.

German settlers were brought to the island in the mid 1800s.

There are many variations in the spelling of names. Some army officers surnamed Garsia whose names were found in the National Archives in London. Some records start as early as 1818 and include baptisms of slaves. Slave insurrections, particularly the one in Cornwall in 1831. Excerpts from Letters from Duncan Campbell 1766-1771 and 1766-1797. Spanish Town baptisms, as also baptisms and marriages in Agualta Vale, Annotto Bay, Scots Hall and other parts of St. Mary, Kings Weston, and May River, St. Mary, and the Indexes to 6 Volumes of Baptisms throughout the island will be of particular use to those who had relatives outside of Kingston.