Finding genealogical information for families enslaved in the western hemisphere is always a challenge. Information on enslaved people was sparsely recorded (if at all). Slave registers were created in British colonies like St Kitts in the early nineteenth century, after the slave trade was abolished by Great Britain in 1807. The British government sought to document the slave population to prevent the illegal importation of additional slaves, and for the purposes of accurate monetary compensation for slave owners after slavery was abolished in 1834. In these registers, an individual’s name (often only the first name, but in some cases first and last), sex, “color” (a racial designation such as black or mulatto), age, country of origin, and occupation were recorded. In addition, if a slave was added or removed from an owner’s record, the reason for the change was given, including birth, death, or sale to a new owner.
Another source that gives more detailed genealogical information for Kittitian slaves can be found in the Hamilton College Library in Clinton, NY. The Beinecke Collection contains historical documents, maps, letters, and artwork from the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. In particular, there is a body of early 19th century legal documents and letters related to the transfer of the Wingfield sugar plantation from a General Samuel Jeafferson (also spelled Jeaffreson) to the Earl of Romney in the early 18th century. At issue was whether the enslaved people who worked the plantation should have legally remained “attached” to a plantation after the land was sold or leased to a new planter. As part of the evidence accumulated for the case, lists were made of the current slaves with as much detail on family relationships as possible, because the descendants of slaves from the property could still be considered attached. A number of older local residents were interviewed for the making of the lists. There was, for instance, a Misses Douglas, described as “an elderly mulatt. woman of excellent understanding and good memory and excellent character whose mother had been a slave on the Lord Romneys estate and who had resided there many years”.
The ancestry lists provide a fair amount of detail on family relationships for the Wingfield Estate, most of whom bore the surname Jeafferson. Other last names listed included Rose, Silladay, Moss, Spencer, Romney, and Saunders. Examples of some of the Jeafferson lineage given in the lists are
- Minah Jeafferson (dead) her daughter is Pender Jeafferson about 70 or 80
- Pender Jeafferson has children Santie Jeafferson, Minah, Betsy Moss, and David Jeafferson all alive
- Cotto Jeafferson was Pender’s sister, has no children
- Minah Jeafferson has children
- Betsy Moss has children
- Lidy Jeafferson (has children) Hannah Jeafferson (the 2nd)
- Sue Jeafferson
- Hannah Jeafferson the 1st has children Beck Jeafferson and Sue Jeafferson
- Mary Rose
- Leah Jefferson, dead, had a son Jumah
- Eva Jeafferson was a twin sister of Hannah and aunt to Sue
The collection also contains two lists of slaves from an estate lease from the period 1697-1712.
One interesting sideline to this story. The Samuel Jeafferson who owned Wingfield Estate may be an ancestor of president Thomas Jefferson. This connection has not been definitely proved, but there is evidence that the owner of St Kitts’ Wingfield Estate had three sons born in the Caribbean, one of whom was named Thomas. Thomas was quite possibly the Thomas Jefferson of Henrico, Virginia who was the great-grandfather of the president.
Sources
- Ancestry.com. Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
- Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834, UNESCO 2009
- Copy of A Lease to Mr. Burrell 1697 for 15 years with an Account of the Slaves and buildings Then on the estate– The Names of the Slaves Specified– This Lease Terminated 1712, Beinecke Collection at Hamilton College Library
- Uncovering the Secrets of St Kitts, The Daily Beast 2014
- Jefferson’s Ancestry, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc.
Looking for information on Eliza Cook, a slave; and her two children, also born into slavery but all three were freed by her “lover” and their father Richard Edward Cardin.
Hi Geralyn, I have information on Eliza Cook. I have been researching the connection of Richard Edward Cardin to Saitch, Cardin and Ashhurst in some detail. I am on Ancestry site as “Mark Joyce, London” and happy to help.
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Looking for information on the James Adams and Fanny Goldenrock of the Goldenrock Estate in St.Kitts.
Approximately what years did they live in St Kitts? Adams is a fairly common name there, but I’ve never heard of Goldenrock as a surname!
Hi Geralyn,
I am sooo late, but I just came across this read and the comments. The name Saitch caught my eyes as it’s one of the names I’m researching. connected to the island of St. Kitts. I have Saitch coming into my paternal line of Gardiner or LeGrant through the surname Levy, but I’m still unable to undoubtedly confirm this information.
My great grandfather, Henry Charles Gardiner, was born around 1874 and married Clementina LeGrant around 1909. I have been unable to locate parents of Henry, but if you can help with any information at all on the Saitch’s it would be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance.
Did these people live in St Kitts? Do you know what years, and in which parish? Those details might help with looking for them in old birth, death, and marriage registers from St Kitts.
Hi, I’m looking for info about Louis LaPlace, Elodie LaPlace Kinsley (Louis’ daughter), Catherine Jane Nicholls (Elodie’s mom) and John Kinsley (Elodie’s husband) PLEASE. I have been unable to find info about these people. Thanks so much.
Possibly… I will email you.
Looking for information on John and Sarah Berridge St.Kitts
approx 1845-1894
Hi dreamer, This is a long shot but on Sept 23, 2019, you replied to me that you would email me info about LaPlace people from St. Kitts. The following is what I posted, to which you replied that you would email me.
I’m looking for info about Louis LaPlace, Elodie LaPlace Kinsley (Louis’ daughter), Catherine Jane Nicholls (Elodie’s mom) and John Kinsley (Elodie’s husband) PLEASE. I have been unable to find info about these people. Thanks so much.
Sorry, I have so little time to devote to my genealogy research and I just discovered that you replied saying you would email.
Thanks for anything you can tell me.
Christine
I am trying to find out more about my 5x great grandfather Adam De Gray born st kitts 1741 approx ended up serving in the royal navy and pensioned off to greenwich hospital a free man
That doesn’t look like an easy question. De Gray isn’t a surname I’m familiar with in St Kitts. Not a lot of records for that time period either. There are some religious records for Basseterre on familysearch.org, but your Adam would have had to be involved in a baptims/marriage/burial to appear there. But sounds like a really interesting and unusual story!
Hi Christine. My dad was a Louis LaPlace. He, however, is not the one in which you are interested! Wish we could connect to find a correlation.
My great grandmother was known to me as Didi LaPlace she came to United States in the early 1900 ‘s on a ship called the Korona . Did anyone have relatives on that ship? They started their lives in Harlem area, than moved to Brooklyn.NY my great grandmother stayed and died in Harlem.
Belinda, do you have any more information on your Didi? Was Didi a nickname? Do you know the names of any of her family members?
I would appreciate it any information on the Barnes of St. Kitts W.I. Henrietta, Theophelus, Florence, Sarah., Elizabeth and Lucretia. Thank you so much.
Approximately what years – are you going back to the 1700s, 1800s, or more recently? I have seen a Sarah Barnes who married William Nichols in the late 1700s in Basseterre.
Thank you for your reply, should have included the years. My search is as early as 1700’s and primarily 1800’s. Theophilus ‘s brother ‘ s name was Adolphus a lamp lighter in Independence Square, Basseterre possibly living on Canyon St or Irish town.
Am very interested in resuming my search and would appreciate any help possible. Thanking you in advance.
Any information on Samuel Phillip or Phillips I heard he was a cop , and he was mulatto, probably born in the early 1900’s , mystery for years!
No, but I’ll keep an eye out for him!
How did the plantation get its name?
That’s a really good question! I couldn’t find an obvious answer, but looking at the documents at Hamilton College in the Beinecke Collection, I found one from St Kitts from 1685 that referenced the “plantation or parcel of land in ye Island of St Christophers commonly called Wingfeild Manner”, so certainly by that early date it was called Wingfield. One possible source of the name I found was the first president of the Virginia colony in Jamestown, Virginia, who was an Englishman named Edward Maria Wingfield. He was in Jamestown in 1607 but was apparently stripped of his office and sent back to England (based on some fairly flimsy charges). He continued to raise funds and send supplies to the Virginia colony through the time that John Jeffreason was in Jamestown (Jeffreason left Virginia in 1624 for St Kitts). Could John Jeffreason have named the estate after Edward Wingfield?
Looking for information on Abraham Swanston married to Rebecca Hobson, Abraham born circa 1830, interested in parents and siblings
Do you know what part of the island Abraham and Rebecca lived in? I’ve seen the surname Swanston in St Ann parish.
I know he was born in Nevis. Further, from the info sent by to me by my cousin he had eight children and was a Preacher in the Methodist Church in Gingerland which I believe is in Stonyhill Nevis. He worked as an estate manager.
Hi any information for the crawfords st kitts
Hi do you have any info about a Robert Langley. if the story is right his mother was from Madera who went back with her daughter/sister and i believe his father was a headmaster from Montserrat who settled in St Kitts. there is an Iona Langley somewhere in the mix.Thanks
Do you have any approximate dates (or decades) for Robert or Iona? Any surname for the mother from Madera? I can do some hunting with a little more to go on.
I would like some information on samuel nathan my mother’s father apparently started first trades union in sk
Hi Leslie,
Have you read this post?
http://cornerofgenealogy.com//edgar-challenger-in-the-fdr-presidential-library/
It talks about labor leaders on St Kitts, including Joseph Alexander Nathan (1881-1948), who was a forceful (and apparently somewhat controversial) figure in labor. Could he be an ancestor of yours? I haven’t found any references to a Samuel Nathan as a trade unionist, but perhaps there is a family relation. Here’s another link with info about Joseph:
https://www.historicstkitts.kn/people/joseph-alexander-nathan
If you have more details on Samuel (year of birth for instance) I could do some hunting for you!
Linda
Yes thanks for the information this is my grandfather I would like to see a picture if possible. I’m planning to visit St kitts this year so I will do some research. Thanks again
I’m trying to find out information on what part of Africa did the first slaves of St Kitts and Nevis come from I read from Senegal and I’m trying to find out the Douglas and Gould family History
Hi Sarah –
A DNA test is a good way to get information on specific African countries of origin. You could also play around with this tool on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade website :
https://slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates
There’s lots of information there – you can drill down to only ships that disembark in the British Caribbean, under the “regions” choice.
I think my husband may have a Gould connection through his Cannonier ancestors – there was an Ann Marie Gould who married Thomas Tobias Cannonier, who was a planter on the Pogsons Estate in St John Capiesterre parish – she died in 1871.
Looking for information on John & Sarah Berridge St.Kitts ?? 1870 1880. I know John Berridge died approx 1880.
Thank You
Mike Berridge
abranger65@outlook.com
I took a quick look for those names, and found a few records, and something possibly very interesting. There is a St George Basseterre birth record from 1877 for Enoch Theophilus, whose parents were John Berridge and Sarah Berridge. It states that John was a laborer living in the Irish Town part of Basseterre. There are a couple of other possible births for Sarah that don’t give the father’s name, from August 1880 (son Tobias) and June 1884 for a daughter Mary who then died later the same month of tetanus. Are they all your Sarah Berridge? They all are from St George Basseterre parish. Most of then give Irish Town as the neighborhood, and two of them list women named Drew as friends who reported the birth or death. Seems like a good chance they are all the same Sarah. But here’s the unusual part – the 1880 birth record for Tobias lists the mother as “Sarah Berridge an African”. Since the transatlantic slave trade was abolished for the British West Indies in 1809, there is no way a women having babies in the 1870s and 1880s was brought to St Kitts as an enslaved person before 1809. There is a possibility that Sarah could have been one of the so-called “Liberated Africans” of St Kitts, that I wrote about here: http://cornerofgenealogy.com//the-liberated-africans-of-st-kitts/ . I will email you the images for these records, so you can see what you can make of them. Thanks for your question!
Some time between 1831-1835, a slave owner named William Dow Rivers of St. Kitts registered a slave in the “Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers 1813-1834.
The name of the slave is entered in the Registry as George Rivers, then 18 years old.
The Register does not give the date of birth of the slave, but since he was 18 when he was registered, he could have been born any time after 1795.
I believe George Rivers was my great-grandfather, who had nine children, all of whom were born in Trinidad. My theory is that upon being freed, George Rivers somehow made his way to Trinidad and became a prosperous landowner in Manzanilla, |Trinidad.
George named his second son Eugene Dow Rivers. At the time Eugene was born (the 1880’s) the name Dow was a quite uncommon surname, relatively unknown in the Caribbean.
I believe that having been give his master’s surname (common practice at the time), George then endowed his son with his master’s middle name as well. It seems unlikely he would have come up with name Dow out of thin air.
Has anyone ever heard of William Dow Rivers of St. Kitts? I would be grateful for any information regarding him.
Interesting story!
Doing a quick check of the British Slave Registries, I see that George Rivers appears in the 1813 book for Trinidad, held by William Dow Rivers (who was at that time a minor). From 1817 through 1834, the registries (and the Slave Compensation database) only show William Dow Rivers living in St Kitts, with several members of the Rivers family also showing up there. In the 1828 book there is a note that William Dow had “come of age”, so he became an adult sometime between 1822 and 1828. I don’t see a listing for any enslaved man named George for any of the SK registry years, for anyone in the Rivers family. By the law of the time, the addition to a household of an enslaved person from another British colony would have to be recorded. Which makes me think that perhaps George was born in St Kitts, but from 1813 on he was in Trinidad. It also seems that William Dow Rivers only appears in the 1813 Trinidad book, and not for any of the years after.
The Dow middle name does seem like more than a coincidence. It sounds like your George Rivers could very well be the man listed in the 1813 registry for Trinidad. The Dow name does appear sometimes in the SKN vital records of the 20th and 19th centuries.
Thank you so much, Dreamer.
The information that George Rivers’s name appears in the 1813 Trinidad book, where his age is given as 18, allows me to feel more comfortable in my conclusion that he was born in 1795.
If William Dow Rivers came of age between 1822-1828, then he might have been as young as nine when he registered George in Trinidad in 1813. I have no knowledge of whether minors were permitted to own and register slaves, but it seems like an awesome responsibility for a minor to travel to Trinidad and register a slave. I therefore wonder whether it was William Dow’s father who registered George in Trinidad. Even now, and more so in the old days, it was customary for a first son to bear his father’s name.
I do wonder what might have been the purpose of registering the slave George in the Trinidad register, instead of the St. Kitts register? Was it possible William Dow Rivers acquired George by some transaction that would not bear scrutiny, or even stole him from another planter, and registered him in Trinidad to conceal his existence? Or was it a ploy to reduce his slaveholdings in St. Kitts for some reason? We can only speculate.
But as far as tracing the Rivers bloodline, I think that for now, the buck probably will stop with George, who is described in the register as “Negro Taylor – Creole.of St. Kitts,” and in the next line as “The whole number of slaves of the said William Dow Rivers is one Slave Return”. As you know, the word Creole indicates George might well have been born to a Negro slave woman in St. Kitts, fathered by someone of European or possibly Spanish-American ancestry. It’s possible but, realistically, less likely that it was the other way around i.e. that his mother was a woman of European or Spanish Amercan ancestry who bore a child fathered by a Negro slave.
If his mother was Negro (more probable), her last name – the one she carried when she or her ancestors were captured/brought to the West Indies – was probably considered inconsequential by her owners and is likely now lost in the mists of time. George might have had Rivers blood in his veins, or he might simply have been given his owner’s surname. We may never know for sure.
It’s interesting to know there were several Rivers showing up in the St. Kitt’s databases. I will suggest to the family that the updated family tree in our third family reunion booklet include a foreword on who George Rivers was or might have been, so any budding genealogists in the family will know that a trip to St. Kitts might well prove interesting.
George Rivers would be pleased to know his “tributaries” have flowed from St Kitts/Trinidad into Europe, the U.S. and Canada. I myself have lived in Ottawa since the sixties and enjoyed an interesting and fruitful career in government. I am happily retired and write books. My children/grandchildren are Canadian-born.
Again, thanks so much for taking the time to respond to my inquiry.
Joyce,
I love your family story. The process of filling in the details and puzzle pieces is fascinating and never really ends, as you build the story of the impact on future generations of your George Rivers.
A few thoughts about the slave registry documents, which can hold quite a lot of information. In the Trinidad registry of 1813, William Dow Rivers is listed as the holder of George Rivers. On the 2nd page of the entry is written “the return of William Empson Rivers of the quarter of La Brea of personal slaves being the property of William Dow Rivers a Minor whereof the said William E Rivers is in possession as Guardian”. So William Empson could have been William Dow’s father or another close male relative, and he served as his guardian in the matter of possession of the enslaved George Rivers. About the description “creole of St Kitts” – that would be a way to classify where he was born. I don’t think in this case it indicates any racial identification. I’m no expert, but in looking at registries from different islands in the British West Indies, I’ve found that creole means someone born in the particular island. It doesn’t seem to have the same meaning as creole used in the United States (and possibly Canada), that might have indicated mixed race. George’s race is recorded as negro, which should indicate most (or all) African ancestry. Flipping through the Trinidad registry, I saw a few people listed with race “Cabre” or “Cabress” which was often used to denote three quarters African heritage.
I share you frustration with knowing the identify of enslaved mothers in your family tree. We think my husband’s 3rd great-grandmother was an enslaved woman, but her name is lost to history unfortunately.
I have seen the movement of enslaved people in his family’s records between Montserrat and St Kitts. It doesn’t seem to have been unheard of that family members living in neighboring islands moved their enslaved laborers back and forth, I suppose depending on the work needs from year to year.
Best of luck with your search for your ancestors!
Linda
Looking for information on the parents of George Henry of St. Peters Parish in St. Kitts, born around 1900 and died in 1958 who had a daughter named Margaret.
Hello
I am trying to research my ancestors I was given a list of names many years ago and on the list it shows a Samuel Blake and says he was born in Saint Kitts(he would be a great grandfather) it also says that he was married to a Maria (no maiden name) but I think he was married more than once as another lady is mentioned named Agatha (again no surname)there is mention of a brother for Samuel whose name is shown as Isiah.
Samuel at some point went to live in Trinidad,he had many children he was born around 1870ish and he died in Trinidad in 1930.
Is there any way I could find records to find out who his parents may have been,I am assuming his parents were probably enslaved.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope it is okay to post this question here,apologise if not.
would appreciate any info on how and where to look for info.
You could start with the familysearch.org indexes for St Kitts civil records (birth, death, and marriage) at: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/4318342. That has birth entries starting in 1859. I took a quick look, and there seems to have been a few Samuel Blakes during the time period you’re interested in. One of those could be yours. If Samuel was born around 1870, there is a chance that his parents were enslaved, as slavery was abolished in St Kitts in 1834.
Hello from Texas! I am looking for any info on my family from St Kitts and Nevis. Montserrat too. My great grandfather, Alexander Hamilton Cromarty left St Kitts at age 13 for NY in 1896. Son of James Cromarty and Elizabeth Van Engle. Elizabeth owned Potworks Estate on Nevis where my great grandpa grew up. Our land was stolen by the Crown. I have black blood and can’t figure out my DNA connection to a US mixed race cousin whose family name is SWANSTON from St Kitts. My grandpa was 1st generation born in USA. His skin color was clearly mixed race. Should I use the genealogist there? I am worried it will go no where as I heard many graves have no stones and the church records were destroyed. I think our family church was St Michaels?? I forget. My kin came from Barbados first. I have a Hill great grandma back in Barbados as well as the name Fletcher. I am related to the Leacock family in Barbados thru a Cromartie relative who married into their line. Thx and God bless all there!! Donna Blizzard, Texas USA
Hi Donna!
Let me do a little hunting. I’ll see what I can come up with and email you back. You may not need to pay a genealogist, depending on how far back you want to go.
Linda
I am Donna’s cousin and I am interested in this information as well. I was contacted by someone who is a 4th cousin…her mother was born in St. Paul’s, St. Kitts. Her mother’s father is Joseph Bradshaw and his mother is Rebecca Bradshaw, who was the sister of Robert Bradshaw, a Prime Minister of St. Kitts (Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw? ). I show that our shared ancestry percentage is Mali but she thinks our connection is from St. Kitts or Barbados.
Searching for what happened to ‘slaves’ registered to the household of St Kitts Governor William Charles Maxwell between 1817-1825, particularly Juno, said to have originated from the Congo, and also including Nanny Harris, William Wood and Sophy. We believe that two ‘natural’ sons , William and Christopher Maxwell, born 1817 Dominica, and 1821 St Kitts, respsectively, may have been the children of Juno, but are unable to verify this. The descendants of the Maxwell brothers are to be found predominantly in New Zealand, with branches in England, America and Australia.
Very interesting question! I will do a little research on this and get back to you via your email. A quick look shows some of these names on the early slave registry books from St Kitts. I may have some questions for you!
Good Day,
I’m searching for any information you can assist with finding records on my great grandmother, Beryl Todd ( born in St. Kitts circa 1893-1895). She migrated to the Dominican Republic. The only info I have is that she got to the Dominican Republic at around 18/19 years old. Everything prior to that has been a roadblock. She had 1 daughter with Halvor Peterson (from Tortola, BVI) in the Dominican Republic. Her name was Silvia Hortencia Todd Peterson. She married a Sam Johnson in the Dominican Republic in her latter years. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I’ll take a look!
my great grandmother, Elodie LaPlace, the daughter of Louis E. A. LaPlace was from Basseterre, St. Kitts. Elodie, born about 1880, give or take, immigrated to NY and married John A. Kinsley in Manhattan in 1912. However, I’ve seen something showing John in St. Kitts and his occupation was “overseer.” Can anyone shed any light on what an overseer was there in St. Kitts? I don’t know that it’s the same as in the US South. Any idea how to find out what plantation he was the overseer to? Again, I’m assuming he worked at a plantation. I don’t know what Louis LaPlace did, or if he was from St. Kitts.
This gets so confusing and yet, exciting at the same time!
Christine,
I think I already sent you some info on your LaPlace family, but I’ll email you Elodie’s birth record from St Kitts.
As to her husband John Kinsley being an overseer in St Kitts, I haven’t found any evidence of that, so I’m interested in what gave you that clue. If he was an overseer on a sugar estate, it would be similar to those in the United States – they would have overseen the day-to-day operations of the estate as the on-site manager.
Hello Christine,
Elodie LaPlace is also my great grandmother!
My grandfather is Aloysius Kinsley, son of John and Elodie Kinsley
Carolyne J
Hi my grandfather wss born ssndy point st kitts nevis early 1900s his name john james warner help me to know my mothers grandfathetr and grandmother please help god bless.
Sharon,
I’d be happy to take a quick look, but I may need some more details, because there were quite a few John James Warners in Sandy Point. Do you know anything about his parents (names etc)? And do you have any information on your grandmother (first or last name)? That could help.
Linda
His parents maybe hezekiah and Eliezer Warner my have connections to Mary Ethel Hughes or Gwendolyn Mary Hughes thank for your help I pray
I see a Gwendoline Warner born March 10, 1901 in St Anne parish, with parents Hezekiah Warner and Eliza Harris Warner. Does that sound right? You’ll need a free account on familysearch.org to see this: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CB3-N7GB
Thanks For Your Help Hezekiah And Elizer Mybe John James Warner Grandparents Ethel Is Their Daughter Hew Are Their Chikdren I Dont Know Any Of My Family Please Help Somebody
Are you asking about Hezekiah Warner and his wife Eliza (maiden name Harris) who had a number of children in St Anne parish in the late 1800s?
Thanks I heard names before Hezekier Eliza Mary Ethel gwyndolin John Daniel James all Warner born my be 1870 to Early 1900s st kitts Nevis or some were in the West Indies or British England
John james warner mothers name is floretta warner
Hello, this was a very interesting read. I have hit a wall looking for my maternal grandmother, Susannah Richardson and her mom. It is believed that Susannah was born in Anguilla in the 1890’s and brought to St. Kitts as a very young girl. Susannah lived in Ottley’s Village and her dad may have been a sugar cane cutter from Anguilla named John or George Ezekiel Richardson.
Susannah’s mom’s name is unknown at this time, but it seems as though Susannah’s mom has quite a bit of relatives born on the island of St. Kitts (surnames: Thomas married to Allen; Matthew married to Gurley; Gaskin; Benjamin married to Martin and I’m sure many others). I ‘m akin to believe that Susannah’s mom may have been from St. Kitts, but lived in Anguilla for a bit or possibly traveled back and forth between Saint Kitts and Anguilla.
Susannah’s mom worked as a mid-wife to Lydia Benjamin (married to Peter Martin) and maybe other families. It has been rumored by my mom that Lydia had many stillborn, but when the 1st child of Lydia (Mariel Olivia Martin born in October 23, 1913) was born alive; my great grandmother died the same day.
I have painstakingly combed St. Kitts’ civil records for women dying on that day and found a Catherine Richards(son) dying on the same day and in the same parish of St. Mary’s Cayon. However, I don’t know if I’m on the right track.
Susannah’s siblings are Ruth Ann (maiden name unknown), but was married to James York and possibly had a son named James York; Jerry Buchanan had a daughter named Georgina Buchanan, another girl and a boy (names unknown); John Richards had a daughter named Tisha Richards. I cannot find Susannah’s siblings or her mom and I’m starting to think that Susannah may be under another name in the records. I’ve spent quite a bit financially contacting Anguilla and St. Kitts for possible records, but in the end I was told that I need her birth date to receive accurate information.
Susannah gave birth to my mom, Julia Smithen Richardson (alive at 86 yrs) and Catherine Malvina (deceased in 2010) whose father was Abraham Hull Smithen of Bharnes Ghaut. Susannah has a son in the birth records of Jacob Ezekial Williams Richardson born in 1918 whose father was a Williams from Nevis.
I would like to find Susannah’s birth record, which will lead me to her mom’s name and I would like to locate her siblings. Would you be able to help point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance.
Let me look into this. My husband’s 2nd great-grandmother was also a Richardson, probably from Anguilla. It’s a common surname there apparently.
Looking for information on the parents of George Henry of St. Peters Parish in St. Kitts, born around 1900 and died in 1958 who had a daughter named Margaret.
Here’s a link to a search you can do with the St Kitts birth records on familysearch.org (just create your own free account first): https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&f.recordType=0&q.anyDate.from=1890&q.anyDate.to=1910&q.anyPlace=Saint%20Peter%20Basseterre%2C%20Saint%20Kitts%2C%20Saint%20Kitts%20and%20Nevis&q.givenName=george&q.surname=henry&f.collectionId=4318342
This should give you all birth records from St Peter’s parish from the years 1890 to 1910. Maybe one of them is your George Henry.
Yes I Am Interested To know Hezekier Warner and Eliza Warner maiden name Harris children ST Ann Sandy Point St Kitts Nevis my mother Will Soon Be 90 Years Old I would love to tell her about her grandparents uncles and aunts thanks God Bless You.?
Greetings, I am seeking information on Brighton estate on st Kitts from 1834 to present. especially related to ownership
I’ll take a look at it, and get back to you 🙂
Hi,I need info for the Perdereaux family in Saint Kitts,many of my family members carry this last name but I want to know if it’s from a slave owner or someone married into the family and that’s how we got our last name,my great great grandmothers name is Martha Perdereaux and my great grandmothers is Millicent Perdereaux,her birthday is May 29th don’t know the exact year maybe between 1905-1910 any help is appreciated,thank you.
Hello,
Doing a quick search for that surname, I see it appears as both Perdereaux and Perdriau (I would assume they are the same name, just spelled differently at different times). There were people in St Kitts who held slaves in the early 1800s named Perdriau. I will email a few documents about them.
Linda
I am looking for information about my grandfather James Warner from Sandy Point St.Kitts. I think he was born in the early 1900. I am also looking for information about my gg father . He was also from St. Kitts. I think they called him Bozzy.
Hi cousin my g father war john james warner born early 1900 sandy only family i heard of is ethel hughes how is she related
I have emailed you with some information.
Hello, I’m looking for information on the Webb or Webbes family. My great grandfather (John or Yani) fled to the Dominican Republic with his 2 older brother, Joseph & “Manny” in late 1800s-Early 1900s.
Do you know if they lived in St Kitts or in Nevis? In the records, there is an Emanuel Webbe in St Kitts, and another living in Nevis.
They lived in Nevis
It’s difficult, because there were so many Webbes in Nevis, and names like John and Joseph were so popular. There are lots of records of boys with names like that from Nevis. Manny Webbe is a little easier (short for Emmanuel, I’m assuming). That’s not as common. I found two Emmanuel Webbes, but they both died very young – one lived 1917-1920 in St John Figtree parish, the other died at birth in 1914 in St George Gingerland. Part of the problem finding birth records from those days is that if the parents weren’t married at the time of the birth, the baby may not have the father’s last name recorded. The mother’s name only could be listed, with her surname. The boy may have taken the father’s last name later in life. If you have any idea of mothers’ names, that could help narrow down the people you are looking for.
If I’m not mistaken, the mothers last name was Parris
I’m looking for information on the Berridge family. John and Sarah Berridge 1880 gave birth to my grandfather Toby /Tobias Berridge .
Any information from 1834-1860 would be greatful.
I emailed you some information and documents in March of 2022 – hopefully you’ll find them if you look back in your old emails.
Good Morning, would you mind emailing me the information again? I did lose some information when I changed computers.
Thank You
Mike Berridge abranger65@outlook.com