The question begs to ask, and this is for pondering, where did all to people go? If not to Barbados, Jamaica and Montsarrat, what did Cromwell do with them? Ann >From: RichardBond@webtv.net (Richard Bond) >Reply-To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >To: CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Irish Slaves >Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:33:52 -0500 (EST) > > I have seen a thesis on the migration of Irish to the Caribbean and >Jamaica. The thesis makes the same observation that there are many >people in Jamaica who claim descent from Cromwellian Irish emigrants. >However census records of Jamaica do not show it as having a large >poulation until later and few Irish in the time of Cromwell. The thesis >goes on to conclude that in the first generation most Irish transports >were actually going to Barbados. Many died and or left no children. The >island of Barbados could not carry as many people with opportunity as >lived there by the second or third generation. Most of the Irish >descendants born on Barbados then migrated to the other British colonies >including Jamaica. > > >==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== >ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES >What is a Mailing List? >http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html > "Sharing the information." _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus