The Douglas Archives

A collection of historical and genalogical records

Colonial records - Caribbean & West Indies - Slaves, Slave owners & others

Slave & Slave owner records:

All Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834

Ancestry offers access for free (you may have to register):

A search for 'Douglas' slaves & slave owners gives over 900 records

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1129/?name=_douglas&a......

https://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3482022%3ABlo...

Slaves, Slave owners and other records in Jamaica

Held on the familysearch website (register for free):

Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880
Jamaica Births and Baptisms, 1752-1920

A search on the name 'Douglas' reveals over 7000 individual records in Jamaica.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?count=20&...

https://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3482022%3ABlo...

Certificates of freedom of emancipated peoples on Jamaica.

Manumission - Manumission is the act of freeing slaves by their owners, also known as enfranchisement or emancipation.

- Manumission records held in the British Library database, access for free

https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP148-3-1/search

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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