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General pointers re Jamaica please
« on: Tuesday 28 February 17 14:08 GMT (UK) »
I haven't got an Ancestry subscription at the moment, but I don't want to freeload...perhaps someone could tell me if they think there's anything there that could help me, so that I can subscribe immediately.

I've got someone baptised & married in England, who never appears on an English census. I found someone (same name & age) sailing from Liverpool to New York ( just before the first  census) & someone with the same name & age as my man's neighbour's son (also never appears on a census) is on the same ship.  A few years later,I  can find 2 men with the same details working as labourers in Florida.

However, my man definitely died in Jamaica. A fellow descendant has found a newspaper cutting from Britain giving the details, with his parents' correct names & address:

I've been through the links provided here, but, unfortunately, nothing has turned up.  I don't know whether I've  got the right man & he moved from Florida to Jamaica (mid nineteenth  century) or if I've been on the wrong track all along & the man is Florida is not the one I'm looking  for.

All pointers welcome...thanks :-*
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Re: General pointers re Jamaica please
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 February 17 15:05 GMT (UK) »
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: General pointers re Jamaica please
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 16 March 17 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your reply, jan.....no luck, I'm afraid. His parents were Jewish, but I don't know if he abandoned the faith or not, or if he would have been recognised as coming from a Jewish background. The general material I've read always refers to either free or slave blacks or whites etc &, although it is mentioned that there was a reasonably large Jewish minority, it's never made clear how they fitted into the general picture....I'll keep trying

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Re: General pointers re Jamaica please
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 16 March 17 16:05 GMT (UK) »
If he has Jewish ancestry it might be worth contacting organisations specialising in Jewish genealogy.

Good luck!
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: General pointers re Jamaica please
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 16 March 17 16:17 GMT (UK) »
You might want to consider that he mat have Anglicised his name so you could look for Jewish variants of his surname.
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