If anyone can help this chap please email me off list and I'll pass on the email address. Interesting the only thing I have on this family is a Birth for Micajah Clarke son of Michael and Margaret 1661 ( source PRO IOW ) and nothing else , no other kids , marriages zilch. Could someone please explain to me why families from IOW were packed off to Barbados ? What sort of crime did they commit if any ?? Angela My name is Robert Clifton Clark of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. I started searching my family history years ago after my father died (1988) and discovered that my family had come from Barbados. Then, I was on a business trip in Salt Lake City, Utah and searched the LDS records and found that the Clarks in Barbados had come from England. Based on information learned there, I searched the internet and found that my family comes from the Isle of Wight -- Michajah Clark married Sallie Ann Moorman in 1680. Her father was exiled to Barbados and several family members went with him including Micajah and his wife. The name Micajah continued to pass down through the generations in the USA.