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This is the master project and clearinghouse for all Jamaican surnames and surname projects. Collaborators with knowledge on the origin of Jamaica surnames, especially of those who migrated from other countries to Jamaica, please Join and share. Subgroups Jamaica - Lost Traces Jamaica Graves Famous Jamaicans Irish in Jamaica Petticoat Rebellion Jamaican Planters Jamaica F...
This is the Portal or Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaican Portal: "Out Of Many, One People" : you will find links to online civil records across Jamaica that may be very helpful in your quest). Important Events in Jamaica's History What can you do here? Ask questions. Collaborate on your research. Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific ar...
Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European and mixed African and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish, European colonisation. An early influx of Scots came in 1656, when 1200 prisoners of war were deported by Oliver Cromwell.to the recently acquired English colony there. They were so...
"No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." -- Maya Angelou Check for DNA testingwww.23andme.com. www.gedmatch.com===Geni Subgroups=== Dowie DNA -Genetic Genealogy Explained Jamaica DNA Project recommends the 67-marker test.
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A Census of the White & Brown inhabitants & other Persons of Free Condition of the Parish of Hanover distinguishing their Sexes, Colour, Ages and places of Residence* bear with me. I'm working on making the file more readable for all.Name Gender Age Colour ResidenceVassall, Robert O. Male - White Abingdon Vassall, Christian Female - White Abingdon Vassall, John Male - White Abingdon Vasall, Mar...
This is the master project for Slaves in Jamaica. = Naming conventions = Also see: Naming Conventions of US Slaves . * First name : Ned * Middle name : (blank) * Last name : (blank) * Birth surname : (blank) * Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt * Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, Ned the slave of Fred Ugly* About : Any other information that may be ...
African, African-American and Caribbean thinkers have played a major role in defining the critical issues of our time, just as the cultures of Africans and their descendants have transformed the cultures of the Americas and the world. Source > "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, and the past "will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refu...
Highlanders and Lowlanders The Scots are not to be confused with the Scotch-Irish, who were Ulster Irish and emigrated from Ireland Scotch-Irish Americans and not in not this Project - We are tracing our ancestors who were born in Scotland and emigrated directly from Scotland to the American Colonies, Canada, and Jamaica. Large-scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after ...
This project focuses on all the Sephardic Marache / Marrache / Maratchi / Maradji / Marachi / Marratche / Marashe / Marash families. At the current moment there are five main sections of the family tree; Gibraltarian Marrache family, Peruvian Marrache family, the Tetuan Marrache/Maratchi family, the Tangiers Marrache family, and the Rabat Marrache family. One of the main goals of this project i...
(This project is to research and find out more about the Williams and other related families originating in Jamaica, West Indies. This project is associated with the Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project.) All Williams from the West Indies are encouraged to participate in this Project, your input is welcome. also Adding your family Son or descendant of Guillemin, a pet form of Guilla...
This project includes various lists of British (and Canadian) Regiments serving in Jamaica, West Indies.* Important Events in Jamaica's History ==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help*Start your own relat...
This project is for those buried in Prospect Cemetery, Jamaica, Queens County, New York. Many prominent families are buried in this, the oldest cemetery in NYC, such as the Brinkerhoffs, the Van Wycks, the Sutphins, The Remsens, The Nostrands and the Lefferts. Notable Burials Egbert Benson (1746-1833) - US Congress Gen. Increase Carpenter (1736-1807) - Member of the Sons of Liberty an...
Scope of Project===This project is a sub-project of Jamaican Portal: "Out Of many, One People" project, and reflection of the Maroon history of Jamaica, West Indies.The Maroons are descended from runaway slaves who established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica during the long era of slavery in the island. African slaves imported during the Spanish period may have provided ...
(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project.)==Summary== and resources==* Female Models * List of Jamaicans * Quotes * Jamaican Poets * Heroes * Famous soccer players from Jamaica
(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project, and Jamaica - Lost Traces ). Jamaica Roll of Honor "Even though the people are dead, they are speaking to us” - Historian Enid Pinkney In the 19th century was the practice of burying persons according to their denomination and class Here People from other places are buried in Jamaica Here People ...
WORK IN PROGRESS=======Hyperlinks refer to Wikipedia pages where more information can be found=====.==Motives==* Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History) From Library Journal This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and ...
This project is for Bent Family of Jamaica, and related families. We will discuss, research, and connect here.===Notable Bents===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 plan...
Work in Progress=====Recent search=== needed==This project is for people from Jamaica with the Witter surname.Please join, add profiles, post and add pics and discussions.==Summary====Witter Notables====References and links
A Sub-project of The Jamaica Out of Many - One People Master Project A project about Jamaican slave owners, slaveholders, and their plantations. See for pictures.= Naming conventions = Also see: Naming Conventions of US Slaves . * First name : Ned * Middle name : (blank) * Last name : (blank) * Birth surname : (blank) * Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt * Also known as : List of other sla...
This project covers Caribbean peoples migrating to and from North America/the United Colonies (U.C.)/ United States (U.S.), prior to 1900. Starting about 1500. * A time-line of Latin America ==Arrivals in Caribbean from Europe==* Jews from Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Britain * See Albion's Seed project* Scottish and Irish prisoners and indentured servants* Cromwell's fleet arrived in J...
Under ConstuctionS. W.Year 1734-1735St GeorgeKing George the second Towns * Buff Bay*Cattawood Spring* Hope Bay* Manchioneal* Nanny Town* Port Antonio, Capital* St. Margaret's Bay [ San San]* Boston* DrapersWilliam Williams(sl o ) Humphreys(sl o)__________________________A* AndersonAllenAlridgeBBryanBlakeBakerLorenzo Dow Baker ( Banana king)BrownBurnettCCampbellAlexander CampbellMary M John All...
List of Governors of Jamaica From List of Governors of Jamaica and Governor-General of Jamaica This is a list of viceroys in Jamaica from its initial occupation by Spain in 1509, to its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. For a list of viceroys in Jamaica after independence, see Governor-General of Jamaica.==Contents==1 Spanish Governors of Santiago (1510–1660)2 English Commanders of ...
This project covers Indians that have left India in the last 300 years, and settled in different continents, regions and countries. East Indian Dispersion Blog (I'm working on a genealogy project for a friend. She is Trinidadian, but looking into where her family came from in India. I mentioned Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) as three main cities--British centers--of em...
Colonials who owned land and slaves in countries, not their homeland and traveled frequently. My concentration is in Jamaica and USA.The likely hood that an American Plantation owner had other Plantations and relatives in other countries is always possible. I know most of mine did, and this creates a problem for genealogy searches in Jamaica.If u know of or have ancestors who fit this descripti...
"One surviving English register of emigration contains the names of approximately 10,000 servants who sailed from Bristol to America between 1654 and 1678. Roughly half of these emigrants went to Virginia. The rest found their way to the West Indies--mainly the island of Barbados which was such favored during the 1650s, and the beautiful little island of Nevis which was preferred in the early 1...
My Maternal Grandmother Eliza Campbell from Buff Bay, Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica West.Indies. and her children, including my mother Kathleen of unk birth surname . Don't now much about her( my grandmother) except that she gave my mom up for adoption to a lady with the surname Whyte . No one knows how many times grandma was married... could be once or twice and to whom. possible husbands su...
This project is set up to track Welsh, Walsh, Welch, Walshe, etc. Family members who migrated to the New World, especially the Caribbean and North America. ==Summary== ==Notables== ==Locations=====Jamaica===* Robert Welsh arrived in Barbados or Jamaica in 1690.* Robert Welsh arrived in Barbados or Jamaica in 1691.* Robert Welsh arrived in Jamaica in 1725.* Robert, age na, arrived in Jamaica ...
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This project covers the ancestry and descendants of the Robins River Estate/Pen, Westmoreland, Jamaica. This is one of the individual plantation projects in the Jamaican Planters and Plantation series.==Summary==1811 - Robins River Estate/Pen registered to Forrest. Forrest, Arthur, deceased, Masemure and Robins River 269 slaves/ 537 stock.1816 - Forest, Arthur, heirs of, Robin's River, 62 slave...
genealogy consists of the subjects list below, most from this Wikipedia search, but also includes the causes of death (CODs) for our ancestors and relatives, for example Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and paralysis.* Genetic analysis* Genealogy tourism* Medical family history or Family history (medicine)* Genetic genealogy* Hippocrates' legendary genealogy* Consanguine marriage===additions===* ...
In the 1800s, Chinese migrated to the Caribbean-bordered areas, including the Caribbean islands, Central America, and Mainland Caribbean (South America), including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad, and Guyana. See Chinese Caribbean - Wikipedia ==The Bahamas==Chinese-Bahamians have a long history, dating back to at least 1879. The original Chines...
This is sub-project of the Master Project for Jamaica: Jamaica Out Of many, One People"' .>>In 1700, there were more Jews in Spanish Town than in all of North America, and by 1730, Jews represented 12 percent of the white population of Jamaica. In the 18th century, Ashkenazi Jews began arriving from England and Germany, joining the Sephardi Jews who had begun to arrive a century earlier. In the...
This project is for the Wigton Plantation and the people who resided there. Manchester Parish, Jamaica.==Heron Family====Slaves=====resources and links===
This project is for the Griffiths family of Jamaica, especially those of St. Elizabeth and Manchester Parishes.Individual Summaries for John Griffith of Saint Elizabeth:
This project is for the White, Whyte and related families of Jamaica.==Summary====Notables====Timelines====resources, references, and links==
music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles. Jamaica's music culture is a fusion of elements from the United States (rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul), Africa and neighboring Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago (calypso and soca). Reggae is especially popular ...
This project is to research and find out more about the Melville and other related families, originating in Jamaica, West Indies.My maternal grandfather, Cecil W. A. Melville . (KKW)"My Melville relatives came from Jamaica and settled in Guatemala, but first went to Panama and Costa Rica."--Evelyn Arguedas ( Re: Panama byway of Jamaca ).== Notables ==== Links ==* Melville family * The Modern-Da...
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Herriott DNA1. George Harriot was born Abt. 1825. He married Ann Muschett February 14, 1850 in St. Elizabeth (Source: B0056 St. Elizabeth Parish Register III & IV, 1835-1859, IV, p. 364 #3.). She was born Abt. 1825.More About George Harriot:Residence: 1850, St. ElizabethMore About Ann Muschett:Residence: 1850, St. ElizabethDescendants of Robert Muschett Harriott1. Robert Muschett Harriott was b...
The Medal for the Best Shot in the British Army, Infantry , was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1869 and was awarded annually from 1870 to 1882 to the best shot of the Infantry of the British Army, including the Royal Engineers and the Colonial Corps.In 1923, the medal was re-introduced by King George V and designated the King's Medal for Champion Shots in the Military Forces . It could now be ...
Carla CampbellThe curvaceous Campbell was born Nov. 22, 1980. The internationally known model appeared in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and a variety of promotions for Victoria’s Secret. She was the first Caribbean model to appear in Sports Illustrated and the second to work for Victoria’s Secret. Her clientele includes such well-known names as Avon, L’Oreal, Nike, Target, Footlock...
Christing date, Country , Parish, Plantations, ImmigrationYr, Marriage, ________AArmistead William Mitchell, july 16 1816 (christing)() Armistead Mary () Armistead Charles () Armistead John () Armistead Mary Elizabeth () Mary Elizabeth () Armistead Constant () Armistead Richard Scudimore ,feb 4th 1785 (christing)() Armistead Catherine, Nov 15th 1772 ()BBerryCCampbellCarterConstantDEElliottFGGor...
This project is about the coffee plantation that existed at Orange Vale, Portland Parish (formerly St. George) in Jamaica, 1780-1850.See accompanying article of same name.a==Summary==Jamaica Surveyed by BW Higman says about Orange Vale (not to be confused with Golden Vale): Few plans of Jamaican coffee plantations exist for the years before 1800. One of the earliest is Robert Leslie's plan of O...
I understand, For many Jamaican families it is difficult to name sometimes our grandparents, especially our great-grandparents, and least likely to name our great-great grandparents. I hope with more people doing genealogy on families in Jamaica, this changes in the near future!I am the Grand-daughter of GILBERT POWELL and ADINA WILLIAMS , and the daughter of GEORGE POWELL. I understand that my...
Connected Families*Samuel Stallard 1720 of Essex Co VA
This project is to research and find out more about the Forrest and other related families, including Foster, originating in Jamaica, West Indies. Forrest Family of Jamaica My paternal great uncle was Bawder Forrest .== Stories from Australia ==Barbara Forrest, now Troth... I am decended from the Forrests from Jamaica. I saw your post on the Jamaican GenForum. I have been tracing my family tree...
This is a list of notable Jamaican Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.===(This project is a part of or subgroup of Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" project.)Are you related? Intrigued by a genealogy? Please contribute by building out their family trees on Geni. Make sure the profile is "public" but please protect the p...
The main information is from the book, Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of a National Consciousness, by Richard Smith, Manchester, Manchester University Press, c. 2004, ISBN: 0719069858. Review of book The two main units mentioned and expounded upon in this marvellous book are the West India Regiment(s) (WIR), which was made up of mainly Jamaican...
This project covers the ancestry and descendants of the Mesopotamia Plantation, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica. This is the first of the individual plantation projects in the Jamaican Planters and Plantation series.==Summary=="About sixty sugar estates were operating in Westmoreland parish at the western end of Jamaica in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, staffed by som...
This project is to research and find out more about the Welsh/Welch/Walsh and other related families in Panama, who originating in Jamaica, West Indies.==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help*Start your o...
(This project is associated with the Jamaica "Out Of many, One People" master project and Jamaica Graves project).== Objective ==The objective of this project is to serve as a repository for all Jamaicans whose genealogical traces end in Jamaica in the 15th to mid-20th centuries (1498-1950). This project is for genealogical research that dead ends" at a certain point.Please add all your Jamaica...
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Lewis Burwell Martin.
Tracing the Harrisons of Harrison Town, Ocho Rios, Jamaica and the diaspora.
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