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*Tracing Your Roots > Caribbean > Migration
* Outwards Passenger Lists (from the UK) 
 
Before 1890 there are very few records of emigrants to the West Indies:

  • Licences to pass beyond the seas (E 157) include registers of passengers going to America and the West Indies between 1634 and 1639 and in 1677
  • Port Books, 1565-1798 (E 190) are customs accounts and often include names of passengers
  • Privy Council registers (PC 2) contain petitions and letters of people emigrating to, or already settled in, the Caribbean
  • For a short period, 1773-76 a register was made of emigrants going from England, Wales and Scotland to the Americas (T 47/9-12)
  • Many early passenger lists and correspondence and petitions from intending migrants can be found in the records of the Colonial Office
Between 1890 and 1960 outwards passenger lists have been kept for ships leaving British ports to places outside Europe and the Mediterranean. These passenger lists (BT 27) are arranged by date, port of departure and by ship. The information includes name, age and occupation of each passenger, and from the 1920s, often the place of residence in Britain.

There are no indexes to the passenger lists, but for the period 1906-51, if you know the name of the ship and approximate date of departure, you can identify the port and month of sailing from the registers in BT 32.

There are no passenger lists after 1960 and none for people who travelled by aeroplane. It is possible that inwards passenger lists by boat and aeroplane may survive in the country of arrival.

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