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*Tracing Your Roots > Caribbean > Tracing Caribbean Roots
* The Family History Centre records, London 
 
The Church of the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in London kept microfilm records of Jamaican births marriages and deaths originating from the Spanish Town Archives, Jamaica. The records are organised according to Jamaican Parish and then chronologically. The films for records post 1877 are held at the centre in Salt Lake City, Utah. I ordered a film containing birth records for Westmoreland 1886. To do this, I completed a simple form and paid a small fee for the cost of postage and packaging. Approximately four week later, LDS London sent a notice telling me that the film had arrived. I found a film copy of my Grandfather's birth certificate. His birth was registered at a place called Bigwoods, just outside Darliston town; furthermore, it confirmed Robert as my great-grandfather and Caroline Dell as my great-grandmother.

I also found:

  • the marriage listing of my GG Grandfather William Crooks to Ellen
  • record of only three Crookses in Westmoreland prior between 1806 and 1838 in Westmoreland (though none were related).
  • baptism records for dozens more Crookses prior 1838 going as far back as 1700.
  • William's baptism in 1834 along with his two siblings: John, aged eight and Barbary, aged four.
  • Those baptised were had been classified according to "degrees" of racial mix ie Negro, mulatto, quadroon, mustee .... White.
  • a film recording many of the mass baptisms of slaves in the parish of Hanover. Most took place on large properties prior to 1821. Frustratingly there was no record of the mass baptism that took place on Cousins Cove.
  • GGG Grandparents John Crooks and Sarah Brown of parents lived on the Cousins' Cove Plantation.
  • John was an unskilled labourer.
  • John Alexander Crooks's baptism on 1 January 1813.
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