well, it's been a while since i've responded to these posts. ernest, the compensation lists caught my eye and i'm wondering what type of time and how much work is involved if i volunteer to glean some of the information for st vincent & the grenadines and/or grenada if there is any. cheryl hazell > From: [email protected] > Subject: CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:00:05 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Slave compensation lists - Barbados (Ernest M. Wiltshire) > 2. Slave compensation lists - Barbados & Antigua > (Ernest M. Wiltshire) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:14:20 -0500 > From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> > Subject: Slave compensation lists - Barbados > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" > > Hello everyone. Am back from walkabout, (a bit footsore). > > Several years ago, my friend Prof. Richard Lobdell (Economic historian & > Vice Provost of the University of Manitoba) transcribed the lists of > compensation payments made to slave owners in all British colonies at the > time of abolition. I worked with him to organise the Barbados entries and > identify the persons named in the Barbados lists, establishing their family > relationships. Each claimant is named individually, and it is not always > obvious that the claimants are in fact closely related, so that payments > seemingly made to individuals are in fact going to several members of the > same family. [That info is not included on the website below] > > Geraldine Lane, genealogist & author of "Tracing Ancestors in Barbados" has > now taken our transcripts, checked them against the original lists, > corrected any transcription errors etc., and has posted them on a website > (see below). This is only for Barbados. It is possible that at a later date > we might tackle at least some of the lists for other colonies,but that would > require a mammoth effort so it remains to be seen if it will be possible. > Any volunteers? > > In the meantime you can find the Barbados lists, covering 5,349 individual > claims by slave owners, with an excellent introduction by Guy Grannum of the > PRO (now the British National Archives) at: > > http://compensations.plantations.bb/ > > Ernest M. Wiltshire, M.A. (Queen's) > Ottawa Ontario > Canada > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1146 - Release Date: 11/22/2007 > 6:55 PM > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:34:09 -0500 > From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> > Subject: Slave compensation lists - Barbados & Antigua > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" > > > Apologies for one error in my last post: the lists are for both Barbados AND > Antigua. > > http://compensations.plantations.bb/ > > Ernest M. Wiltshire > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1146 - Release Date: 11/22/2007 > 6:55 PM > > > > > End of CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 > ***************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with free Messenger emoticons. Get them today! http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122

I'm new to this and am looking for family names from the Coutain family in Grenada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nneka X" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:28 AM Subject: RE: CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 > > well, it's been a while since i've responded to these posts. ernest, the > compensation lists caught my eye and i'm wondering what type of time and > how much work is involved if i volunteer to glean some of the information > for st vincent & the grenadines and/or grenada if there is any. > > cheryl hazell > >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:00:05 -0700 >> >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Slave compensation lists - Barbados (Ernest M. Wiltshire) >> 2. Slave compensation lists - Barbados & Antigua >> (Ernest M. Wiltshire) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:14:20 -0500 >> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Slave compensation lists - Barbados >> To: <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" >> >> Hello everyone. Am back from walkabout, (a bit footsore). >> >> Several years ago, my friend Prof. Richard Lobdell (Economic historian & >> Vice Provost of the University of Manitoba) transcribed the lists of >> compensation payments made to slave owners in all British colonies at the >> time of abolition. I worked with him to organise the Barbados entries and >> identify the persons named in the Barbados lists, establishing their >> family >> relationships. Each claimant is named individually, and it is not always >> obvious that the claimants are in fact closely related, so that payments >> seemingly made to individuals are in fact going to several members of the >> same family. [That info is not included on the website below] >> >> Geraldine Lane, genealogist & author of "Tracing Ancestors in Barbados" >> has >> now taken our transcripts, checked them against the original lists, >> corrected any transcription errors etc., and has posted them on a website >> (see below). This is only for Barbados. It is possible that at a later >> date >> we might tackle at least some of the lists for other colonies,but that >> would >> require a mammoth effort so it remains to be seen if it will be possible. >> Any volunteers? >> >> In the meantime you can find the Barbados lists, covering 5,349 >> individual >> claims by slave owners, with an excellent introduction by Guy Grannum of >> the >> PRO (now the British National Archives) at: >> >> http://compensations.plantations.bb/ >> >> Ernest M. Wiltshire, M.A. (Queen's) >> Ottawa Ontario >> Canada >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1146 - Release Date: >> 11/22/2007 >> 6:55 PM >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:34:09 -0500 >> From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Slave compensation lists - Barbados & Antigua >> To: <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" >> >> >> Apologies for one error in my last post: the lists are for both Barbados >> AND >> Antigua. >> >> http://compensations.plantations.bb/ >> >> Ernest M. Wiltshire >> >> >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1146 - Release Date: >> 11/22/2007 >> 6:55 PM >> >> >> >> >> End of CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 >> ***************************************** > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself with free Messenger emoticons. Get them today! > http://www.freemessengeremoticons.ca/?icid=EMENCA122 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Cheryl How are you? Any progress on your Gen? Chris Cod -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 456 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.8/1154 - Release Date: 11/27/2007 11:40 AM

Hi Chris, ? Thanks for asking but not a lot to work with.? Was actually in Barbados from 29 October to 14 November 2007?as a result of my mum's passing. I visted the Registration section to acquire death?details for Martha and Mary Scantlebury. No?details could be traced for?Mary but?one was located for a?Martha Scantlebury of Josey Hill for 1956 (this is a possible lead and I?will try to?follow up on this one .....but her birthdate was indicated thereon as 1866 and the address mentioned thereon is Josey Hill, St. Lucy). However, the baptismal records at the Archives had indicated their births as 1877 with the address of Glendelough, which would be correct. I also visited the National Archives at Kew, trying to locate enlistment records for a Johnny Scantlebury or? Clarke this would have been my maternal grandmothers brother but this proved fruitless. Please advise how?can one check the Census records for Barbados? I will however continue the trace as?time permits. ?Thanks Cheryl -----Original Message----- From: C.M. Codrington <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 2:35 pm Subject: RE: CARIBBEAN Digest, Hi Cheryl How are you? Any progress on your Gen? Chris Cod -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 456 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.8/1154 - Release Date: 11/27/2007 11:40 AM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now.

Thanks Cheryl! but let me hasten to add before anyone else volunteers that any further projects of this kind would require funding, and probably also access to the original records to verify the transcripts etc. It probably is something that would need institutional support, to be done by grad students or something along those lines; it is not something that's going to happen in the near future! Apologies if I gave the impression that there was a firm project underway! Ernest M. Wiltshire -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nneka X Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CARIBBEAN Digest, Vol 2, Issue 288 ... ernest, the compensation lists caught my eye and i'm wondering what type of time and how much work is involved if i volunteer to glean some of the information for st vincent & the grenadines and/or grenada if there is any. cheryl hazell No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.9/1155 - Release Date: 11/27/2007 8:30 PM