SOURCES


This is a list of books that St. Kitts-Nevis genealogists will either find of use or interest.
If you have additions for this list please write me. - Michelle

St. Kitts-Nevis Sources | Genealogical Sources | General Histories

ST. KITTS-NEVIS SOURCES

Hubbard, Vincent
1993 Swords, Ships and Sugar: A History of Nevis to 1900. Third Edition. Placentia, California: Premiere Editions.

Merrill, Gordon
1958 The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies. Mexico: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia.

Moll, Verna P
1995 St. Kitts-Nevis (World Bibliographical Series 174). Oxford.

Oliver, Vere Langford, editor
1919 Caribbeana: Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies, 6 Volumes. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke.

Oliver, Vere Langford, editor
1927 Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies. Dorchester: Friary Press. [Reprinted in 1993 by Borgo Press as More Monumental Inscriptions].

Pares, Richard
1968 A West-India Fortune. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Press, .

Public Record Office of Great Britain
1574 - The Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series, America and West Indies. London.

Rossignol
1987 Recensement de l'ille de Saint Christophe. Paris.

GENEALOGICAL SOURCES

Baker, Edward Cecil
1965 A Guide to Records in the Leeward Islands. Oxford: The University of the West Indies.

Coletta, John Philip
1993 They Came in Ships: A Step by Step Guide to Researching Passenger Arrival Lists and Indexes, 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Ancestry.

Grannum, Guy
1995 Tracing Your West Indian ancestors: Sources in the Public Record Office. London : ProPublications.

Kemp, Thomas Jay
1994 International Vital Records Handbook of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 3rd ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co..

Szucs, Loretto Dennis
1997 They Became Americans: How to Discover Your Family or Ancestors in Naturalization Records. Salt Lake City: Ancestry.

GENERAL HISTORIES

Baird, Charles
1966 History of the Huguenot Emigration.

Bridenbaugh, Carl and Roberta Bridenbaugh
1972 No Peace Beyond the Line; the English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690. Oxford University Press.

Burns, Alan
1965 History of the British West Indies. London: George Allen & Unwin.

Carter, Marina
1996 Voices from Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire. New York: Leicester University Press.

Dessalles, Adrien
Histoire General des Antilles.

Dunn, Richard S
1972 Sugar and Slaves : The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press.

Fortune, Stephen
1984 Merchants and Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650-1750. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Gmelch, George
1992 Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home. University of Michigan Press.

Higham, Charles
1921 The Development of the Leeward Islands under the Restoration, 1660-1688. Cambridge University Press.

Higman, B. W
1984 Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.

Lai, Walton Look
1983 Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Parry, J. H.
1971 A Short History of the West Indies, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan.

Watson, Jack
1979 The West Indian Heritage: A History of the West Indies. London: John Murray.

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