Bibliography for Researchers of Jamaican Genealogy and History
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(compiled by Sally Jones - sally@farhills.demon.co.uk)
With additions by Stephen Hopwood and David Silvera
Alphabetically listed, by author.
Amendments, additions or reviews welcome!
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Treasure in the Caribbean: A First study of Georgian Buildings in the
British West Indies
Ackworth, A.C. (London, 1949)

Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica
Assembly proceedings 1/20/1663 - 12/22/1826
Aikman, Alexander

A Record of Jews in Jamaica from the English Conquest to the Present
Time
Andrade, Jacob A.P.M. (Kingston,1941)

Caribbean. Sea of the New World
Archiniegas, German     (Knopf, New York, 1946)

The Jews of Jamaica, Tombstone Inscriptions 1663 - 1880.
Richard D. Barnett and Phillip Wright.
This link will provide information about the book, the authors, and how to order.

The West Indian Sugar Industry in the late 19th Century
Beachey, R. (Oxford: Basil Blakewell, 1957)

Descriptive Account of Jamaica (2 vols)
Beckford, W. (London, 1790)

Jamaica in 1850
Bigebow J. (London, 1851)

History of Jamaica
[Schools textbook]
Black, Clinton V. (Collins educational, 1983)

Living Names in Jamaican History
Black, Clinton V.

Description of the Island of Jamaica
Blome, R. (London, 1672)

The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica : 1780-
Braithwaite, Edward (1820)

A Bibliography of Caribbean Migration and Caribbean
(Oxford Univ Press, 1971)

Immigrant Communities
Brana-Shute, Rosemary (Univ of Florida Press, 1983)

Civil & Natural History of Jamaica
Browne, P. (London, 1750)

The Jamaican People 1880 - 1902
Bryan, Patrick (Warwick University Caribbean Studies, 1991)

Slaves In Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815
Buckley, Roger Norman (Yale University Press, 1979)

History of the British West Indies
Alan C. BURNS.

Slave Women in Caribbean Society - 1650-1838
Bush, Barbara (James Currey: London, 1990)

Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands
Crain, Edward E. (University of Florida Press, 1994)

A Jamaican Plantation: A History of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
Craton, Michael (London, 1970)

The Social Structure of Jamaica
Cumper G. (Kingston, 1949)

Catalogue of Portraits in Jamaica's Historic Gallery
Cundall, Frank (Institute of Jamaica, 1914, Kingston)

Jamaica Place-Names
Cundall, Frank (Institute of Jamaica, 1909)

Documents relating to the History of the Jews in Jamaica
Cundall & Davis, Frank & D.

Lady Nugent's Journal
Cundall (ed), Frank

Jamaica's Heritage  - an untapped resource
Curtin, Marguerite (ed), (The Mill Press, Kingston, 1991)

Jamaican Houses  - a vanishing legacy
de Sola Pinto, Geoffrey (de Sola Pinto Publishers, Montego bay,
1982/1993)

A Guide to Jamaican Reference Material
Dellatre, R.

The New Jamaica Almanac and Register
Dickson (1794/6/8)

Memoirs of George William Downer, 1837-1912
Downer, Lindsay P. (1937)

The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery
Duncan Rice, C (Macmillan, 1975)

Sugar and Slaves (The Rise of the Planter Class in the English 
West Indies, 1624 - 1713)
Richard S. DUNN.

A History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies
Edwards, Bryan (London, 1801)

Family and Colour in Jamaica
Fernando, Henriques (Eyre and Spottiswoode,1953)

Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce,
1650 - 1750
Fortune, Stephen Alexander (University of Florida Press, 1984)

The English In The West Indies
Froude, James Anthony (Longman's, London, 1888)

Official and Other Personages of Jamaica from 1655 to 1790
Fuertado, Walter A. (W.A. Feurtado's, Sons, Kingston, 1896)[available on LDS microfilm # 0826558, "Ellis Family Papers"]

A History of Jamaica
Gardner, W.J. (Cass Library of W.I. Studies, 1971)

Sojourners of the Caribbean
Gonzalez, Nancie L. (University of Illinois Press, Baltimore,1985)

Tracing Your West Indians Ancestors/Sources at the Public Record
Office
Genealogical Sources at PRO, London
Grannum, Guy (PRO Publications, London, 1995)

British Slave Emancipation - The Sugar Colonies and the Great
Experiment 1830-1865
Green, William A  (Clarendon Press, 1976)

Naturalisation of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian
Colonies
Guiseppi, M. S. (ed.) (Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co.1979)
[available on microfilm from the LDS]

In Miserable Slavery - Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750-86
Hall, Douglas (Warwick University Caribbean Studies)

Buccaneers in the West Indies
Haring, C.H.

Cadastral Survey of Jamaica
Harrison, Thomas (Institute of Jamaica,)

Jamaica in 1866
Harvey & Brown, T & W. (London, 1867)

Jamaica Surveyed
Plantation maps and plans of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Higman, B. W. (Institute of Jamaica Publications, Ltd. 1988)

Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Higman, B. W. (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1984)

Slave Population and Economics in Jamaica 1807-34
Higman, B. W. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1976)

Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Colombus to the present day
Hulme & Whitehead, P & N (Oxford, 1992)

Sources of Jamaican History 1655-1838 (2 vols)
Comprehensive list of documents around the world
Ingram, K.E. (Inter Documentation Co. Ag Zug Switzerland, 1976)

The Printed Maps of Jamaica up to 1825
Kapp, Kit S. (Bolivar Press, Kingston, 1968)

Personality and Conflict in Jamaica
Kerr, Madeline (Collins, 1963)

Gentlemen of Fortune. The men who made their fortunes in Britain's
slave colonies
Knight, Derrick (Frederick Muller Ltd: London, 1978)

The Modern Caribbean
Knight & Palmer, F & C (University of North Carolina Press, 1989)

Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the
British West Indies
Lai, Walton Look, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993)

The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies
Langford Oliver, Vere (Dorchester, F.G. Longman, The Friary Press,
1927)

Immigration into the West Indies in the 19th century
Laurence, K. O. (Caribbean University Press, Barbados, 1971)

Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies
Lawrence-Archer, James Henry (Chatto and Windus, London, 1875)

A New & Exact Account of Jamaica
Leslie, C. (Edinburgh, 1739)

Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica
Livingston (ed), Noel B.

The History of Jamaica
Long, Edward (Cass Library of W.I. Studies, 1774)

Jamaica Genealogies
Long, Charles Edward (1689)

The Silver Men: West Indian Labour Migration to Panama, 1850-1914
Newton, Velma (University of West Indies, 1984)

War and Trade in the West Indies 1739-1763
Panes, M. (Oxford 1936, London 1963)

A Short History of the West Indies      
Parry & Sherlock, J & P (Macmillan Caribbean, 1988)

Jamaica: its Past and Present State
Phillip, James M.

The Damn'd Master - An Authentic Account of an Eighteenth Century
Slaver
Plimmer, C&D (New English Library, 1971)

Sins of the Fathers. A study of the Atlantic Slave Trader 1441-1807
Pope-Henessey, James (Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1967)

American Airlines guide to Jewish History in the Caribbean
Postal & Stern, B & M (New York)

The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean 1763-1833
Ragatz, L. (Washington DC 1928, NY, 1963)

The Slave Trade 
Ransford, Oliver (Readers Union, 1971)

Monuments of the Cathedral Church and Parish of St. Catharine
Roby, John (A. Holmes, Montego Bay, 1831)

Jamaica Planters Guide
Roughey, T. (London,1823)

Caribbean World, A Complete geography
Sealey, Neil E. (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994)

Jamaica as it was, as it is....
Senior, B. (London, 1835)

Doctors and Slave. A medical and demographic history of slavery in the
British West Indies. Sheridan, Richard  

In Old St James
Shore, J.

Dictionary of Place Names in Jamaica
Sibley, Inez K.

The tercentenary of the Official Founding of the Jewish Community of
Jamaica, BWI - 1655-1955
Silverman, Henry P. (Kingston, 1955)

A Letter to the Marquis of Normandy relative to the Present State of
Jamaica
Sligo,Marquis

A Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, St Christophers
and Jamaica (2 vols)
Sloane, Hans (London,1707-1725)

View of the Past & Present State of the Island of Jamaica
Stewart, J. (Edinburgh, 1823)

Cruising Among The Carebbees
Stoddard, Charles Augustus

The Forgotten Trade     
Tattersfield, Nigel (Jonathan Cape: London, 1991)

Explanation in Caribbean Migration, Perception and the Image -
Jamaica, Barbados and St Vincent
Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth M. (Warwick University Caribbean Studies)

Slaves and Missionaries. The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society
1787-1834
Turner, Mary

Black Ivory - A History of British Slavery
Walvin,  James (Harper Collins, 1992)

West India Sketch Book (2 vols)
Wentworth, Trelawny (Whittaker and Co, London, 1834)

Whence the Black Irish of Jamaica
Williams, J. J.

Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica      
Wright, Philip (Society of Genealogists, London, 1966)
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The Handbook of Jamaica
Jamaica Almanacs 
Who's Who in Jamaica
Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America  1625-1825 (6vols)
New World Immigrants 
Scottish American Wills
West Indian Bookplates
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Periodicals and Articles
Subjects and Sources in History of 17th Century English Jamaica
Blisseret?, D.J. (Jamaican History Review 110?)

Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labor in
the British West Indies after 1838
Bolland, O. Nigel (in "Comparative Studies in Society and
History",1981)

The Flight from the Estates Reconsidered: The British West Indies
1838-42
Hall, Douglas (Journal of Caribbean History 10-11, 1978)

The Slave family and Household in the British West Indies, 1800-1834
Higman, B. W. (Journal of the Interdisciplinary History (6), 1975)

Caribbeana Vols I - VI
Pedigrees of early families of the Caribbean
Langford Oliver, Vere (Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, London, 1909)

Merchants and Planters
Panes, M. (Economic History Review (supp 4) 1960)

Slavery on British west India Plantations in the Eighteenth century
Pitman, F. W. (Journal of Negro history 11, 1926)

The Role of the Scots in the Economy and Society of the West Indies
Sheridan, Richard (in "Comparitive Perspectives on New World

Plantation Societies" ed. Rubin & Tubin, New York, 1977)

Jamaican Research in Britain
Soares, Charlotte, (Family Tree Magazine 35, 1991)

Emancipation in the West indies: A six month's tour in Antigua,
Barbados and jamaica in the year 1837
Thome & Kimball, J & J (New York: The American Anti-slavery Soc, 1838)

Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1623 - 1667
Vincent, Harlow T. (Pub of the Haklyut Soc, 2nd series, LVI, 1925)

Materials for Family History in Jamaica
Wright, Philip (The Genealogists' Magazine, 239 - 250, Sep-66)

Jamaican Slave Mortality: Fresh Light from Worthy Park, Longville, and the Tharp Estates (Journal of Caribbean History 3, 1971)

Documents Relating to the Irish in the West Indies, with accounts of
Irish Settlements, 1612-1752 Analecta Hibernica - vol 4, 140-286

Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery (American Jewish History Soc 37, 1947)

1.       "Records and Letters of the family of  the Longs of Longville,
Jamaica and Hampton Lodge, Surrey"  (In 2 volumes). Edited by Robert Mowbray
Howard. Published in 1925, in London by Simpkin, Marshall, Kent & Co., Ltd. 
This book gives pedigrees of many early Jamaican families such as Byndloss,
Long, Edward Morgan, Ballard, Beckford, D'Oyley, Lawes, Moore, et., etc.,
 Well illustrated with photos of paintings and prints of individuals
connected with Jamaica. Many interesting letters dealing with early Jamaica -
politics, life and conditions. Many letters deal with plantation conditions
and life on the plantation.
2. "Minorities and Power in a  Black Society" (The Jewish Community in
Jamaica)
by Carol S. Holzburg. Published 1987, by the North-South Publishing Co.
ISBN#0-913897-04-3. Genealogies of several Jamaican Jewish Families plus
mentions of man other Jamaican Families.
3. "Letters to Jane from Jamaica 1788-1796" edited by Geraldine Mozley,
published (no date) by the West India Committee for the Institute of Jamaica.
An interesting collection of letters dealing with the family of Dr. Francis
Rigby Brodbelt of Spanish Town, Jamaica. Contains short biographies of the
Brodbelt family and a pedigree for "Penoyre of the Moor", Cliffor,
Herefordshire. (Mrs. Brodbelt was Ann Gardener Penoyre, Daughter of Thomas
and Sarah ((Nee Gardener)) Penoyre of Spanish Town, Jamaica.
4. "Jamaica in 1896 - A handbook of Information for Intending Settlers and
Others" by Frank Cundall, published by the Institute of Jamaica.
A compendium of information on Jamaica. Contains several interesting lists
including:- The Official List, List of Foreign Consuls, Institutions with
Secretaries names, Hotels, Lodging Houses and Livery Stables with names of
Owners/managers, List of Schools with Principals. A list of Newspapers with
Editors. A very interesting list of 17 Plantations particpating in a scheme
organized by the Institute of Jamaica called "Articled Pupils in Farming and
Planting", which set about encouraging young men to be instructed in
Agriculture as Articled Clerks to the Owner/Overseer of the plantation.