Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for the interest in my DuBois family. Any chance you could be on this line also or have you confirmed that your name was DuBois when they came to US.? The Barbados detour is a recent discovery from a cousin who I think said he was kicked out of the Church in England and sent to Barbados. "I have been told that Mary BOYCE d/o Joseph & Eleanor BOYCE.was supposedly born in Barbados on their way over to America. I have found no independant confirmation of this as yet." I have seen Mary added to the other children on several sites and in LDS. In the info about Barbados on one web site it said that many were sent from England basically to get them out of the country. I did find Jospeph BOYCE on the ship's passenger for The Expedition -November, 1635 departed London for Barbados. Its unusual that there were only men on this ship (205 passengers listed) since others to Barbados had atleast some women. This leads me to believe it could have been an exile. I found only 7 ships went Eng to Barbados in 1635 where some settled and others continued to New England. http://www.primenet.com/~langford/places/bi163.htm#1635 Barbados was an important sugar resource and very valuable to England who eventually found more profits there than from the whole US. So my Joseph went to Barbados in 1635 (possibly exiled) and on to Salem in 1639. Can't seem to find any information on ships making that trip to US and am trying to find out how long he stayed there. He may have had his first child there which means that Eleanor Plover must have come on another ship before 1638 but haven't been able to find any other ships. As to my early records- first from an ancestor who did extensive research. Then confirmed by "Savages Dictionary of New England" BOYCE, JOSEPH, Salem 1639, declared freeman 18 May 1642, had [1] Esther, bapt. 21 Feb. 1641; [2] Elizabeth 6 Mar.1642; [3] Joseph, 31 Mar. 1644; and [4] Benjamin, 16 May 1647. Since these are baptismal records from Salem it is possible the a 1st child, Mary, may have been born/ bapt. earlier in Barbados or England. -------Rachel --------Dutchess Co. NY "New England Genes" http://www.angelfire.com/ny/newenglandgenes/index.html Elizabeth Russo <elizabethrusso@home.com> wrote: << I appreciate your post and will be on the lookout for your names. I know I've seen these variations while looking at records for Barbados, and shipping records for the U.S. I would love to know what you mean by the "Barbados incident". What happened? And I'd also like to know where you found your earliest records. Thank you, Elizabeth DuBois Russo Whose John DUBOIS was rumored to have come to SC by way of Barbados by 1696 RRachelros@aol.com wrote: > > Joseph BOYCE, a Quaker, came from England to Salem in 1639 by way of > Barbados. Later about 1800 the name was changed to DU BOIS by some brothers and DUBOYCE by others. .... Would love to know more about the Barbados incident which may have come from dissention from the church. >>