Genealogy Resources
World Genealogy
Barbados
- Brandow, James C. Genealogies of Barbados Families from
Caribbeana and The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical
Society. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 1983, 2004
reprint.
Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places.
Indeed, a great many were published in the
turn-of-the-20th-century journals Caribbeana and The
Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. This
present work contains every article pertaining to family history
ever published in these journals. The combined articles,
reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies
and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records, and they
refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the
index.
- Brandow, James C., and John Camden Hotten. Omitted
Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality and
Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations,
1600-1700: Census Returns, Parish Registers, and Militia Rolls
from the Barbados Census of 1679/80. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co, 1982.
Based on parish registers, censuses, and militia lists found in
the Public Record Office in London, this work identifies 6,500
immigrants who settled on Barbados before planting new roots on
the North American mainland and who are not listed in John
Camden Hotten's classic work, Original Lists of Persons of
Quality.
- Dobson, David. Barbados and Scotland Links, 1627 - 1877.
[Baltimore, Md.?]: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2008.
Drawing upon a wide range of manuscript and published sources
originating in Barbados, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, and
the U.S., the author here identifies about 2,500 Scots or their
progeny who made their way to Barbados. Most of these emigrants
left Scotland in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since vital
records comprise a large number of the sources for this book,
most Scots are identified by name, date/place of birth, baptism,
marriage, or death; name of spouse or parents; and, sometimes,
occupation, reason for transportation, ship, religious or
political persuasion, miscellaneous pieces of information, and
the source.
- Genealogical Publishing Co. English Settlers in Barbados.
Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Publishing, 1999. Contains images of
the pages of the following six volumes (all compiled by Joanne
McRee Sanders and published by the Genealogical Publishing
Company) : Barbados records: Baptisms 1637-1800 -- Barbados
records: marriages 1643-1800, Volumes I and II -- Barbados
records: wills 1639-1725, Volumes I-III. Approximately 200,000
individuals are referred to in these source records. Each record
includes vital information about
the baptism, marriage, or probate record sourced.
- Lane, Geraldine. Tracing Your Ancestors in Barbados.
Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006.
Tracing Ancestors in Barbados covers all segments of
Barbadian society, from the planter families to indentured
servants and the tens of thousands of Africans brought in as
slaves. It is designed to guide the reader through the many
types of records and published sources that chronicle the lives
of the people of Barbados.