On Jan 4, 5:05 am, Ruth Murdoch <ruthamurd...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Happy New Season to all Lister's > I have been trying to find records for Trinidad pre British and was told to try the Spanish Archives. Has anyone else dealt with the Spanish Archives? I'm wondering how long I should wait before following up on the enquiry I sent close to a month ago. > Still trying to find birth records or baptism for a Gilbert Robertson, born 10 Dec 1794. Have found a few records relating to his fathers' (Gilbert Robertson, Kiltearn Plantation) slave holding returns for both Berbice and Jamaica 1818 and 1829. > Regards to all, Ruth > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > See what's on at the movies in your area. Find out now:http://au.movies.yahoo.com/session-times/ I found a reference somewhere in the Parliamentary Papers to the copying of foreign records by the British. Then Naipaul spoke of consulting the Spanish records. Can't remember where Kew? British Museum? That may have been in his Nobel Prize speech. I don't understand the context of your query. The English were scarce in Spanish Trinidad. There are a few English names listed as planters in Mallet - Descriptive account of the Island of Trinidad (1797) from Google Books including one Robertson H
I believe I have an interest also in records kept by the Spanish in Cuba. I have found my ancestors (origins: Antigua/St. Croix) got a passport in 1865 from NY to travel to Cuba. There is family lore that mentions Isle of Pines, which also is in Cuba. Anyone know of church/ land/tax records from the 1860s in Cuba? TIA, Laura in a chilly NC "He who speaks the truth better have one foot in the stirrup." -- Berber saying On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:09 AM, jrbolibuss wrote: > > I found a reference somewhere in the Parliamentary Papers to the > copying of foreign > records by the British. Then Naipaul spoke of consulting the Spanish > records. Can't remember where Kew? British Museum? That may have been > in his Nobel Prize speech. >