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Geraldine Lane's
Barbados Tombstones, Manumissions, Slave Compensations
From "The Connecticut Nutmegger", reprint from notes provided to the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc. by Mr. M. J. Chandler (Barbados Archivist) in 1973.
NOTE: These are the starting dates of the earliest Parochial registers:
*Ref Parish Baptisms Marriages Burials X Christ Church 1637 1643 1643 P St. Philip 1648 1672/3 1673 (all St. Philip imperfect before 1757) M St. Michael 1648/9 1648/9 1648/9 S St. James 1693 1693 1693 O St. Joseph 1718 1717/8 1717/8 T St. Thomas 1728 1723 1723 L St. Lucy 1747 1749 1748 E St. Peter 1779 1779 1779 (St. Peter lacking baptisms 1825 - 1834) G St. George 1801 1801 1801 J St. John 1805 1657 1657 (St. John Baptisms imperfect before1825) A St. Andrew 1825 1825 1825 *Ref : These letters are commonly used locally to identify the individual parishes. Note: They are also still used on automobile licence plates to identify the parish of registration, eg: M2245, in St. Michael. Where the number of vehicles registered in the parish have exceeded the following 4-digit limit (9999), a second character is added to the first to expand the available registrations, eg: MA2245, MB321, and so on.
NOTE: Contains census of the Island of Barbados, Church records, Emigration and Immigration, Slavery and Bondage, Military records
Contents Dates Dates Film # Vol. 1. List of land owners with quantity of land owned and servants. Number of Negro slaves imported and sold.
List of planters owning more that 200 acres.
1678-1679
Dec. 1678-Dec.-1679
British film area 1519514
Item 4Vol. 2. Calendar of licenses to leave the island; Name of passengers, ships and ships captains;
Nominal rolls of individual companies of the Military force of Barbados;
List of masters of plantations, householders, tenants, etc. within the military companies;
Accounts of artillery;
List of judges and members of the kings counsel and assembly
Feb. 1678-1679 1564648
item 2Dispatches of Governor, Sir Jonathan Atkins,. Population; names of land owners, number of acres, of white servants, and Negros belonging to them,
Nominal rolls of the regiments of horse and foot soldiers
1679-1680 Latin American film area 1162149
CENSUS
With names and ages of white inhabitants of the island arranged under their several parishes.NOTE: Index at end of volume.
Contents Dates Dates Film # Census 1715 Latin America film area 1162149
item 2.Census 1715 1162150
BARBADOS SUPREME COURT REGISTRY
Parish register transcripts, 1900-1931.NOTES: Microfilm of manuscripts in the office of the Registrar, Supreme Court Registry, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies. Irregular volume numbering in the registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials. High reduction microfilm (42x).
CONTENTS: Transcripts of registers of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials from parishes on the Island of Barbados, West Indies. Burial registers consist of "Burials solemnized" and "Burials of unbaptized persons and stillborn children.".
| Contents | Dates | Dates | Film # |
| Registers of births (v.11, Pt.1 - v.14, Pt.1) |
1900-1903 | America film area | 1563563 |
| Registers of births (v.14, Pt.2 - v.18, Pt.1) |
1903-1907 | 1563566 | |
| Registers of births (v.18, Pt.1 - v.23, Pt.1) |
1907-1912 | 1666966 | |
| Registers of births (v.23, Pt.1 cont. - v.27, Pt.2) |
1912-1916 | 1666967 | |
| Registers of births (v.28, Pt.1 cont. - v.33, Pt.2) |
1917-1922 | 1666968 | |
| Registers of births (v.33, Pt.2 cont. v.38, Pt.2) |
1922-1927 | 1666969 |
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| Registers of births (v.38, Pt.2 cont. - v.41, Pt.2) |
1927-1930 | 1666970 item 1-7 |
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| Registers of baptisms | 1900-1901 | 1666970 items 8-10 |
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| Registers of baptisms | 1901-1904 | 1666999 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1904-1908 | 1666984 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1908-1912 | 1666985 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1913-1918 | 1666936 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1918-1924 | 1666937 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1924-1929 | 1666938 | |
| Registers of baptisms | 1929-1930 | 1666939 | |
| Registers of marriages (pages missing from some volsumes) |
1900-1903 | 1666939 items 2-5. |
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| Registers of marriages | 1903-1908 | 1666940 | |
| Registers of marriages | 1909-1922 | 1667079 | |
| Registers of marriages (volume numbers out of sequence) |
1922-1930 | 1667080 | |
| Registers of burials | 1900-1901 | 1667080 items 7-9. |
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| Registers of burials | 1901-1904 | 1667081 | |
| Registers of burials | 1904-1909 | 1667082 | |
| Registers of burials | 1909-1914 | 1667083 | |
| Registers of burials | 1914-1921 | 1667099 | |
| Registers of burials | 1921-1929 | 1667100 | |
| Registers of burials | 1929-1931 | 1667101 |
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