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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Cavan => Topic started by: History Lives on Wednesday 03 March 21 20:08 GMT (UK)
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I am researching an Irish family of planters in the Caribbean, who primarily owned land in St Croix, and across the Virgin Islands during the early 1800s.
There were several of them, and I would assume they are likely to all be brothers: John Knight, William Knight born about 1798, Richard Gould Knight born about 1792, Joseph Knight born about 1800, Henry Knight born about 1801.
There are several censuses on St Croix and other parts, which list their place of birth as "Ireland" but give no further detail. Someone who put them on Geni.com listed their place of birth as Cavan but I can't find any source for this.
Can anyone help me link this Caribbean family back to Ireland? I assume they must have been of some status back in Ireland to afford to move themselves over to the West Indies in the first place, so perhaps there is some record of them.