|
Pages: [1]
|
 |
|
Author
|
Topic: Searching for Jamaican ancestor (Read 319 times)
|
|
|
lizdb
RootsChat Marquessate
 Offline
Posts: 5106
|
Have you found them on censuses? might get Jamiaca as place of birth
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: Tuesday 06 May 08 18:14 BST (UK) by trystan »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
lizdb
RootsChat Marquessate
Offline
Posts: 5106
|
and her mother? father?
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: Tuesday 06 May 08 18:14 BST (UK) by trystan »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
rubyrose
RootsChat Senior
Offline
Posts: 438
Mum - thanks to RC Restorers
|
My husband's great grandfather was Jamaican and settled in Liverpool in 1860. We know this from census returns and family photographs (and the fact that we have a huge part of our family who are black). I have found it impossible to get any further back because I have no idea which parish in Jamaica the family was from or who was the slave owner. I can only assume that Lawrence was the name of the person who 'owned' our Jamaican ancestors. You need this information to be able to track black Jamaican families.
There is a very good website you can try jamaicanfamilysearch.com Its full of useful information and lists of slaves, manumissions, slave owners, newspaper reports etc. but without a name and place it is very difficult to track black Jamaicans back to Jamaica.
The BBC website, if I remember correctly, also has some information on how to trace ancestors from the Caribbean.
Good luck.
Ruby
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: Tuesday 06 May 08 18:13 BST (UK) by trystan »
|
Logged
|
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukBAKER - Lancashire, Cheshire, BUCHANAN - Glasgow, Lancashire, LAWRENCE - Jamaica, Lancashire, JONES - Shropshire, Lancashire, SHAWCROSS - Lancashire, India, MONTAGU - Lancashire, America, MORRISON - Fife, Lancashire, SEDDON DUTTON HESKETH - Lancashire, WHITEHEAD - Yorkshire, WIDDOWS - Ireland |
|
|
|
|
|
Pages: [1]
|
|
|
|
|
Hi, Would anyone know how to find out if ones ancestor was of Jamaican origin? I believe my great grandmother may of been or possibly her mother. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be great. Thanks 
GGM states she was born in Bilston in 1881, Ince in Makerfield in 1891 and Blackrod in 1901! She was illiterate at the time of marriage to GGF in 1883. So there is no satisfaction on the census front as to say she was coloured. 
Thanks for that Ruby. I am guessing that the stab in the dark would be a long one!! Forgive the play on words