Jamaicans of German Descent

This project is to discuss and research Germans in Jamaicans, and Jamaicans of German descent.

For those tracing German roots:

• Out Of Many Cultures: The People Who Came: The Arrival Of The GERMANS
• Jamaicans of German Descent (Genealogy) (Facebook)

Germans Surnames

Today some 160 people of German descent remain in Seaford Town, but family names like Dusterdick, Eisinger, Sleifer, Volker and Zwinkman, present 100 years ago, have disappeared. Inbreeding, along with some integration with Jamaicans of African and Asian descent occurred leading to the creation of "Germaicans," as stated by one resident of Seaford Town.

German influence such as Manhertz Gap, Charlotten-burgh, Mount Holstein, Bremen Valley, New Brunswick and Hessen Castle, among others.

I want to help start family trees for the Germaicans on Geni.com.--kkw, 3-5-15.

Links and Resources

• The Arrival Of The GERMANS -in Jamaica -from the Gleaner
• The arrival of the Germans (Part 1)
• (Part 2)
• Inventory of the Thomas William House Papers: 1864-1872
• Forgotten Faces of Jamacia Trailer/ white Jamaicans Asian Jamaicans
• Seaford Town - The German Jamaican Town
• German Residents of Seaford Town 1836-1837 : Surnames (A-D)
• German Emigrants: Westphalia to Jamaica (1834-1835) : Surnames: A - GEL
• German Town: The Lost Story of Seaford Town, Jamaica, Documentary