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Alridge
Aldridge
Newspaper and Periodicals--
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
Aris
B
Baker
Blagrove
Bent
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=/en...
http://www.candoo.com/surnames/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1786
Many of the Bents lived in Queensberry. After the American revolution, many American Indians who had sided with the British were sold as slaves to the British colonies. A group of Cherokees from Georgia were shipped to Jamaica, and sold to a John Bent who owned a plantation called Yardley Chase. Among the group were a married couple, their infant son, and the husband's mother. The couple was scheduled to be re-sold to different owners, so they planned to jump off a cliff with their child. The wife changed her mind and left the child with her mother-in-law, but she and her husband jumped to their deaths. The son later married into the slave population and became part of the Southfied gene pool.
Everything bent--Periodicals
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
Boothe
Booth
Barrett
Burgess
Brooks
Bounds
C
Campbell
Periodicals
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
Cassells
http://www.candoo.com/surnames/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=20687821128
Chambers
Clarke
Copeland
Cris
Coy
Chin
Everything Copeland Periodicals
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/globalsearch.aspx?*content=Copelan...
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Daltons
Few rec
Daley
Denton
DeCosta
Dennis
Dumcombe (slave owner name check it)
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Ebanks /Eubanks
F
Fleming
Forrester
G
Genus
The Gale/Gayle Families of the West Indies
Green
Gardner
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
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Hall
Harris
Harrison
Hardie
Hanikie
Hewitt
Hill
Holness
Hutchinson
Hughes
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J
James
Jones
K
Kelly
L
LaBadie - Labadee (also Labadie) is a port located on the northern coast of Haiti. The location is named after Marquis de La Badie, a Frenchman who first settled the area in the 17th century. The spelling was changed to "Labadee" to make it easier for English-speakers to pronounce. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labadee ; http://books.google.com/books?id=gjADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=labadee&as... ).
Lewis
Lee
Lynch
Lin
Levien/Levine/Levene
Levy, descendants of Sephardic Jews who came to the new world (West Indies)during the Spanish Inquisition when jews were being kicked out of Spain. Hence, the name Levy. As you probably know, Levy is the most jewish name you can have. The Levys are revered in Judiasm because they were the keepers of the temples. The jews were also the surveyors and navigators on the ships coming from Spain to the Islands back in the 1700s.
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Macdonald
Moncriefe
Morant
Manley
Morgan
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Newell
Neysmith
O
Ormsby
O'Connor
Olfonse
P
Powell
Palmer
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
Parker
Parchment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#Family
Plummer
Purim
Everything purim-- http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/GlobalSearchNew.aspx?&qt=news&zdat...
Phillips
Q
R
Rickets
Rhoden
Roach
Reynolds
S
Simpson
Smith
Samuels
Swaby
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=40121377318
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Thompson
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V
Virtue
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Williams
william williams
http://aparcelofribbons.co.uk/apr/archive/files/336a2c25a248248a900...
White
Walcott
Whyte
White
Wilson
X
Y
Z
http://www.airgale.com.au/brooks/d6.htm
Powell Group-- http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_105380512826843&ap=1
Williams Group--
Facebook Clarendon Jamaica Group--
Books
The Crooks Family -- http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~prcrooks/index.html
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/onepeople/pa...
Halls of Jamaica Families
http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/d0/i0000037.htm
http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/
- Hodgsons Family
- Charles Jones family
- Charles Vidal family
- ffrench family
- Graves Family
- *searching for family URGENT INFORMATION NEEDED RE. DESCENDANTS OF THE JAMAICAN FAMILY OF THE MARSDENS; THE HERON-MARSDENS; THE WILSONS; AND THE HERON-WILSONS OF SOUTH MANCHESTER, JAMAICA
- Williams Family of England
- Williams Family of Spanish Town
Richards family
Daltons -- http://www.golden-hills.com/DDB/westindies.html
John Morant Family
Descendants of John Morant
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 MORANT was born in Jamaica, and died 1683 in Jamaica. He married SARAH.
Notes for JOHN MORANT:
John Morant was a descendant of the family of Spanish Jews, Morante, who accompanied Diego Columbus (Christopher's brother) when he was appointed Governor of the Island. The 'hato' de Morante, or 'cowpen of the Morante' is listed on Spanish maps dating back to the 1500s. Due to the threat of the Spanish Inquisition the Jews on the island (which included the Lopes-Torres family under arrest on the estate of Don Pereda in the English territory now called 'Southfield') assisted Admiral Penn and General Venables in their successful assault in on Jamaica in 1655. The Jews were given permission to reside on the island and became members of the Anglican church. They still practised a form of Judaism.
Name: Matthew Bernard Bent
Born: 1849, Jamaica
Died: 3rd May 1927, New Hall Penn, Saint
Elizabeth, Jamaica
Buried: 4th May, Family burial ground, New Hall, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Occupation: Planter
Name: Grace Amelia Mcintosh
Born: 6th June 1855, Delightful, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Died: 3rd December 1937, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Buried: Bamboo, Top Hill, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Children
Child 1: Mabel Victoria Bent Born: 1883, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 2: John Bernard Bent Born: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 3: Dorcas Antoinette Bent Born: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 4: Frank Bent Born: 28th March 1889, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Father: Bernard Ballard Bent Mother: Jane (Cousin Jane)
Father: John Mcintosh Mother: Dorcas Johnson
Parents
Father: Bernard Ballard Bent Mother: Jane (Cousin Jane)
Father: John Mcintosh Mother: Dorcas Johnson
Child 1: Mabel Victoria Bent Born: 1883, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 2: John Bernard Bent Born: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 3: Dorcas Antoinette Bent Born: Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
Child 4: Frank Bent Born: 28th March 1889, Saint Elizabeth, Jama
http://www.southfieldhodgsons.com/matthewbernardbentfamilytree.html
http://genforum.genealogy.com/marsden/messages/679.html
http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/surnames.duncombe/60.2.1.1.1/mb... Duncombe, U. 1796, June 30:
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Bents / Eliza Jemima Bent from St Elizabeth, Jamaica / died 1923 Posted by: Francis Carl Lindo (ID *****9642) Date: January 28, 2009 at 09:11:01
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Does anyone have any information about Eliza Jemima Bent from St Elizabeth Jamaica or any of her relatives, the Bents / Wallaces? She died 1923.
"Eliza Jemima Bent (often just called Jemima Bent) was the daughter of a Scotish woman, called Maw JinJin and a Jamaican man name Mr. Bent. Maw JinJin proper name was "Jemima Wallace". The Wallace family were Scotish settlers who came to Jamaica after the slave trade ended in 1807. The Wallace family were planters who owned most of North Eastern St. Elizabeth. Mount Trinity was one of many properties owned by the Wallace Family.
Eliza Jemima Bent died in April 1923. Mount Trinity was a slave plantation owned by the Wallace family and was given to Jemima Bent by her mother. "
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CARIBBEAN/2003-03/104...
Was Eliza Jemima Bent related to Anny (Annie) Bent from Southfield area of St Elizabeth's parish? She was, I believe, a midwife in the area near Queenstown. Her union with Charles Edward Isaacs gave birth to my grandfather, Arthur Isaacs and brother Charley. She died in the 1930's- 1940's according to a letter from Charley to Arthur.
Move
Has living relatives
Mount Grace Plantation hanover jamaica
( David Innes ) was the owner in the early 1800s until his death c1818).
Samuel Alpress, was a successful sugar cane planter on Jamaica in the early 1800s living at Mount Grace.
He became a member of the Jamaican Assembly and later of Jamaica's Royal Council.
tim ross thompson living relative
John Potter Innes c1798 was living there as shown on all census records. He was "a free person of colour" The plantation owner was a David Innes Esq, who we presume to be his father as there were several slaves bearing the surname Innes. He was listed as the owner of Mount Grace in the 1811 Hanover almanac,and on other census returns. David Innes was shown as deceased on 28th June 1817 on the slave returns. I have found a David Innes Esq in the Almanac Magistrates, Surrey, Jamaica in 1802. He was also shown in the Public Officers almanac 1802 as Naval Officer. Whether this is the same person I cannot prove. has living relatives
John Campbell (died 1740), who owned the sugar plantation, called Black River of south-western Jamaica? He is taken to be the "first Campbell on Jamaica", settling there in 1700, and he is taken also to have encouraged his nephews to come out as planters to benefit from his initiatives.
Kent Island project was William Claiborne (1587-1677), a name however destined to loom larger in colonial Virginia.
About 28 May 1631, William Claiborne "took command" of his Kent Island venture and sailed from England on the ship Africa (hired from William Tucker, who had married a sister of Maurice Thomson) with servants and supplies. Brenner has it that in 1631, Maurice Thomson and one William Cloberry were associated with with Kent Island Project (but all the interconnections, which do not involve Scots
http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/jamaica.htm
Trelawny was named after William Trelawny, the then Governor of Jamaica
Timeline
http://timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=313&title=Jamaica
1789 - English Thomas Clarkson and his fellow abolitionists published 700 posters with the image of the slave ship Brookes loaded with 482 slaves. The ship, owned by the Brookes family of Liverpool, operated between the Gold Coast of Africa and Jamaica.Links: Britain, Africa, Jamaica, Ship, Slavery
7. John Herman3 McPHAIL (John2, Archibald "Maclachlan
http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/d1/i0000376.htm
Olive Lee POWELL April 11, 1888. daughter of Thomas Smythe POWELL and Mary Thoburn PEARSON
Peter WELSH birth date unknown.
The English encouraged permanent settlement through generous land grants. In 1664 Sir Thomas Modyford, a sugar plantation and slave owner in Barbados (a Caribbean island of the Lesser Antilles chain), was appointed governor of Jamaica. He brought 1,000 English settlers and black slaves with him
- George William Gordon was the 2nd of 7 children born to a white planter, Joseph Gordon (Abt. 1790-1867) and a mullato slave, Ann Rattray (Abt 1792-before 1865) in April 1815 although many accounts give his birth as 1820. Gordon became a businessman and a landowner in the parish of St Thomas-in-the-East.[1] His other siblings are Mary Ann Gordon (abt 1813), Margaret Gordon (abt 1819), Janet Isabella Gordon (Abt 1824), John Gordon (Abt 1825), Jane Gordon (Abt 1826) and Ann Gordon (Abt 1828) all born on the Cherry Gardens Estate.
Welsh Names
Welsh (from Wales) background include:
Bryan
Davis
Davies
Jones
Meredith
Morgan
Owens
Rhys/Reece
Wall
Williams
William Williams( Planter)
James Williams
Vaughan
At one point in the 1950s some suburban house names in Kingston included Abergavenny, Pontypridd and Llandudno all names of Welsh towns.
Coombs -- http://genforum.genealogy.com/unitedstates/messages/388.html Venable
http://genforum.genealogy.com/venable/messages/695.html
Jamaica Handbook 1900 -- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jamwgw/jahanbk.htm
1900 Handbook of Jamaica -- http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CARIBBEAN/2001-01/098...
Ship List
http://immigrantships.net/1800/index.html
http://distantcousin.com/links/ships/1730.html
http://www.wingfield.org/register.htm
http://www.familybirthrecords.com/db.asp?dbid=6149
Ship Elizabeth and Ann
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthann/ships/eli...
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa1700-1730.shtml
Germans
http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/pa/17001726.htm
Claypole Family -- http://www.claypoolefamily.com/
The Crooks Family
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~prcrooks/index.html
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/onepeople/pa...
Hall Family -- http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/d0/i0000277.htm
Halls of Jamaica families
http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/d0/i0000037.htm
http://www.clanphail.org/UFT/html/JAMAICA/
Hodgsons Family -- http://www.southfieldhodgsons.com/index.html
Charles Jones Family -- http://www.airgale.com.au/jones/names17.htm
Charles Vidal Family -- http://www.green.gen.name/vidal/Sources.htm
ffrench family -- http://sites.google.com/site/ffrenchfamily/ffrench-s-in-jamaica
Graves Family -- http://www.gravesfa.org/gen387.htm
Williams Family of England -- http://www.williams.gen.nz/18and19a.html
Williams Family of Spanish Town -- http://www.tribalpages.com/family-tree/williamsline
Richards Family
Daltons -- http://www.golden-hills.com/DDB/westindies.html
Pakeham Family -- http://www.antonymaitland.com/pakham01.htm
Wrights -- http://www.stclairresearch.com/alex/jamaica.html
John Mckenzie -- http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.mckenzie/999.1/mb.ashx
Hodgson -- http://southfieldhodgsons.com/abrahamhodgsonofstmary.html
Maitlands -- http://www.antonymaitland.com/jammaitl.htm
John Graves -- http://www.gravesfa.org/gen387.htm
James Graves -- http://www.gravesfa.org/gen005.htm
Notes
John Williams
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/williams/
Move
Wells Plantation
http://www.heritagelib.org/articles/wells-plantation
American plantations
http://www.allcensus.com/original_lists_001.htm
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/reference/default.aspx#id=05_Addition...|01_Related_Websites