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ITEMS FREE FOR ALL, January 21, 2012 [F]

28 new Photographs


13 new Obituaries


Deaths, Births, and Marriages of Jamaicans reported in Newspapers in Australia and New Zealand.



ITEMS FOR MEMBERS ONLY, January 21, 2012 [M]


January 21, 2012, Methodist Baptisms [M]

Transcriptions of Methodist Baptisms in the Spanish Town area 1866 to 1874.

Images of pages from the register of Methodist Baptisms in the Spanish Town area 1875 to 1881 for you to browse.




January 21, 2012, Cornwall Chronicle [M]

Transcriptions of February 7, 1789

Transcriptions of February to March 1789.




January 21, 2012, Family Genealogy Reports and Wills[M]


Virgo and Dunn families, with connections to Pinnock, Scarlett, Gallimore and Brooks. Includes photographs of tombs.


Family reports for Gallimore, Wisdom, Highatt, Scarlett, Dunn, and Grey families.


Families of John and Robert Simmons, including photographs.


Descendants of Mary Hyde, who married Halstead, Emily, and Baillie. Includes Will and list of Deeds.


Five James wills - Richard (2) Dennis, Thomas and Frances.


January 21, 2012, Other Original Documents - Letters [M]


Letter from Robert Hunter, Governor of Jamaica, 1732, concerning the progress of the first Maroon War.


Early Campbell letters 1747-1757 transcribed from papers in Archives in Scotland [with links to letters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6]


Letters from the Letter Book of Herbert Jarrett James concerning Weeks annuity and Rose Hall and Palmyra




January 21, 2012, Other Documents [M]

Portrait and biography of Nathaniel Neilson (1760-1834).


Report of Slave Compensation paid to land owners in St. Thomas in the East in 1838.





March 19, 2011, 1755 and 1804 Maps and Gazetteers

Thousands of names of properties, most of which were the names of the owners, have been extracted from maps for 1755 and 1804 and keyed to coordinates on the maps so that they can be located. Created and provided to this site by Antony Maitland. For full directions and links, please go to Jamaica 1755 and 1804 Gazetteers [M].



March 19, 2011, 1799 Almanac

The pages from the 1799 Almanac which contained names of people, viz. the Civil and Military lists. For Links to all pages, please go to the Almanacs lead page.



March 19, 2011, six new wills

Wills of Manning, Pratter, Paplay, Turner, D'Aguilar and Green. For Links to pages, please go to Registers lead page.



March 19, 2011, Baptisms in St. Catherine

All the baptisms from the Parish Register for 1669 to 1700. For Links to pages, please go to Registers lead page.



March 19, 2011, Church of England history

A History of the Church of England in Jamaica, with special reference to St. Thomas in the Vale from 1816 to 1832.[M]



March 19, 2011, three expanded genealogy reports

Genealogy reports for John Naylor, James Stewart, and Adam Scott with added information. For Links to pages, please go to Registers lead page.



March 19, 2011, Jamaicans Found Elsewhere

Jamaicans Elsewhere - nine new obituaries. [F]



March 19, 2011, photographs of Kent and Tilston

Photographs of Kent sugar works, and Tilston, both in Trelawny. [F]





December 3, 2010, Wills added

1761 Colin Campbell
1766 Capt. John Campbell
Crooks and Graham. (Christopher Crooks 1763 and 1793, James Crooks 1775, David Crooks 1919, William Graham 1821)
Clark wills - John Clark c1814 and his brothers Patrick and James.
James Wills and Inventory Montague James 1781, William Rhodes James 1796, Haughton James 1813, and William Rhodes James Inventory 1808.
Peart Wills and Genealogy Wills of John Peart 1847 and Elizabeth Peart 1854 incorporated in a revised genealogical report of Edward Peart, married in England in 1727.



December 3, 2010, Miscellaneous Data

Data from miscellaneous sources (including births, marriages, burials, and other events).



December 3, 2010, Jamaicans Found Elsewhere

Jamaicans Elsewhere - 6 new items [F]



December 3, 2010, Photographs

Photographs of Frederick duQuesnay, and of Monuments and tombstones in other countries [F]



December 3, 2010, Heavitree Compensation

The amount of compensation paid for slaves who were emancipated. [F]




March 26, 2010, Kingston Insurance Maps

Kingston detailed Insurance Maps for 1894, numbers 2, 8, 10, and 11



March 26, 2010, Montego Bay tombstones

Photographs of over 40 tombstones in a Montego Bay cemetery



March 26, 2010, Trelawny and St. Ann Register excerpts

Selected entries from the Original Trelawny Parish Registers 1858 to 1882(in the Jamaica Archives), and from St. Ann Parish Register volume I. [M]



March 26, 2010, Wills

Wills of John Dickson
Dugald Campbell and Edward Harrison. [M]



March 26, 2010, Jamaicans at Trinity College

Jamaicans entering Trinity College, Cambridge 1701-1800. [M]



March 26, 2010, James Deeds Patents and Plats

For documents in names of James see:
List of Deeds
James Patents
Deed and Patent
Richard James Plats. [M]



March 26, 2010, William Rhodes Plats

William Rhodes Plats 1711. [M]



March 26, 2010, Stephen Bourne excerpts

Excerpts from the Biography of Stephen Bourne who lived in Jamaica 1834 to 1841. [F]



March 26, 2010, plaques at National Library of Jamaica

Photographs of plaques at the National Library of Jamaica, including one for Mary Seacole. [F]



March 26, 2010, photographs of a Deed

Photographs of a Deed from Sarah Rodrigues to Mesquita, 1837. [F]



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