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Occupied by Spain in the 16th century but relegated to a backwater status in its Empire, Belize fell under British control in the 1700s. Most of its 18th-century settlers came from Scotland, England, or Ireland, or were slaves imported from Africa. Belize's sea trade was extensive, so New Providence and other U.S. ports, as well as those in the West Indies, are mentioned in the records. Moreover, a number of Loyalists who fled the Carolinas at the end of the American Revolution settled in Belize (including Capt. James D. Yarborough, who gave the land for Yarborough Cemetery). Belize became an independent nation in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is a collection of some of the earliest British genealogical records known to survive for this nation. Compiled by Ms. Sonia Murray from originals at the Belize National Archives in Belmopan, the volume contains transcriptions of the oldest extant parish register (1794-1810) for Belize and four of its oldest censuses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe First Parish Register of St. John's Church (1794-1810)\u003c\/i\u003e contains records of birth, marriage, baptism, and death. The baptisms, for example, give the name of the infant; the date of, or age at, baptism; the names of parents; and, frequently, the names of grandparents. Death records identify the decedent by date and occupation, and occasionally by next of kin. Slaves or free blacks are usually so designated in all record categories. Owing to Belize's large Scottish influence, naming practices were influenced by the patronymic custom. In these cases women retained their maiden surnames throughout their lives, regardless of marital status. As the author points out, \"this is a blessing to genealogists, identifying women at a time and place in which many people died young, and quick remarriage was the rule.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe four censuses transcribed for the book (the household censuses of 1816, 1823 and 1826, as well as the slave census of 1820) convey a clear sense of the ethnic makeup of Belize society. Heads of household and slave masters, for example, are identified as white, colored, or free black. \"Coloured\" refers to free Amerindians and people of mixed race (white\/Indian, black\/Indian, white\/black, or white\/black\/Indian). Slaves could be black, mulatto, mixed race, or Amerindians or their descendants who had been slaves on the Mosquito Shore before 1776. 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(Ms. Murray's previous effort, \u003ci\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The First Parish Register of Belize, 1794-1810, and the First Four Censuses, 1816-1826\" href=\"\/products\/102-9024\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe First Parish Register of Belize, 1794-1810, and the First Four Censuses, 1816-1826\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010.) Like its predecessor, this work includes other vital information from supplementary sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe parish registers comprise about one-third of the volume, and they represent the registers of St. John's for baptism from 1814-1827 and burial for 1813, 1817-18, and 1820-28. (Although the baptismal register was begun in 1811, the earliest surviving entries commence with January 1814.) The baptismal register identifies the name of the infant; the date of, or age at, birth and baptism; the names of parents; and, frequently, the father's occupation. Death records identify the decedent by date of death and occupation, and sometimes by age at death or next of kin. An individual's race is usually so indicated. Not all the individuals referred to in the registers have found their way into the volume's index, as many inhabitants lacked surnames.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe short-lived \u003ci\u003eHonduras Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e was a rich source of local information. Primarily a publication of \"shipping news,\" the newspaper identifies the comings and goings of vessels by name, with the identities of their captains, passengers, cargo, etc. Published from July 1826 to October 1827, it also contained advertisements from local businessmen, outcomes of court cases, coroner's reports, and so forth. Ms. Murray has captured every nugget of genealogical significance from the \u003ci\u003eGazette's\u003c\/i\u003e pages, amounting to the middle third of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCensus records round out Ms. Murray's volume. The author discovered the remainder of the 1826 census in a folder at the National Archives subsequent to publication of her 2010 book. The 1829 census gives the names of all heads of household and all family members (but not their ages), and the names and ages of slaves. Like its predecessors, the 1829 census conveys a clear sense of the ethnic makeup of Belize society. Separate columns in the enumeration tabulate the number of men, women, and children in the household in each of four categories: white, colored, black, and slave. Men who were pensioned out of the Army and military widows who married settlers appear in the census, but men on active duty or their families do not.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMs. Murray's painstakingly transcribed new volume concludes with an index of names, places, and vessels of 6,000 entries. Like the inaugural volume, this one brings the early inhabitants of Belize within the reach of contemporary researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2011, paper, 326 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806355269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9343\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39802961231990,"sku":"102-9343","price":41.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9343-1500px.png?v=1777310725"},{"product_id":"102-8376","title":"They Came to Belize, 1750-1810","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCompiled from Records of Jamaica, the Mosquito Shore, and Belize at the British and Belize National Archives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonia Murray has devoted much of her adult life to the extraction and transcription of records pertaining to nation of Belize (formerly British Honduras). We have previously published her transcriptions of the earliest parish registers of Belize. This book is her most ambitious work yet, as it incorporates sources found over a twenty-year period at London's Guildhall, the Belize National Archives, the British Library, the Colindale Newspaper Library, and the National Heritage Library at Belmopan, Belize. In all, Ms. Murray identifies over 7,500 persons who lived or came to Belize from the middle of the 18th century to the first decade of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelize's population for this period was a mixture of Native American, African, Spanish, Scottish, English, and Irish, as well as a smattering of American Loyalists. This admixture, in part the result of Belize's active trade in mahogany, is reflected in the scores of documents itemized in this volume's contents, including the following: Amerindian Ancestors; Indian Slaves; American Loyalists; Spanish Inspectors in the Bay; Heads of Household in Belize; Spain and the Slave Trade; Traders on the Shore; Militia Lists; Trading with America; and much more. Ms. Murray has not only transcribed the source material but has also added lengthy [in some cases] and erudite annotations that shed light on the events and persons who figure in the story. In all cases the records place individuals in Belize at a moment in time; however, in many cases we also learn of family connections. For instance, the last will and testament of Bridge Bourke, dated 1806 and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1809, names Catherine Robinson, a widow, as her sister.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn short, \u003ci\u003eThey Came to Belize, 1750-1810\u003c\/i\u003e is an achievement of the first order. It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who entertains a serious interest in Caribbean history and the genealogy of Belize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2017, paper, 456 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806358406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8376\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39802965098614,"sku":"102-8376","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8376-1500px.png?v=1777310485"},{"product_id":"102-8766","title":"600+ Wills and Administrations of Belize, 1750-1800s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCompiled from Belize National Archives Registry, Private Records, Magistrate's Minutes, Emancipations, The End of Slavery, Baptisms 1868-1880, Family Records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonia Murray has devoted most of her adult life to the extraction and transcription of records pertaining to Belize (formerly British Honduras). In this, her fifth work of transcription, she has extensively researched the British National Archives at Kew, the Belize National Archives in Belize City, and the Belize City Registry as well as many other archives and private record collections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scope of this work covers wills of the Mosquito Shore and Belize; original wills at the Belize National Archives; wills and estates at the Belize City Registry and at the Archives; private records that include wills, estates, deeds, and manumissions; magistrate's minutes such as court records, estates, and manumissions; extensive records and journal articles on ending the slave trade; shipping lists; the Abolition Act of 1833 and the records created from it; slave registers and sales 1823-1830; index to the 1834 registry of slaves; Belize slave compensation claims and awards; Belizeans in British censuses; the Honduras Land Titles Act; the lost 1861 census; baptisms at St John's parish, 1868-1880; notes on early families; index to the registry of wills 1760-1900, and a comprehensive index to persons mentioned in the records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this work, Ms. Murray has not only transcribed the source material, she has also added lengthy and erudite annotations that shed light on the events and persons who figure in the records. This work is especially valuable for everyone who holds a serious interest in Caribbean history and the genealogy of Belize.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2022, paper, 690 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806359441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8766\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39803022180470,"sku":"102-8766","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8766-1500px.png?v=1777310614"},{"product_id":"102-8375","title":"The Third Parish Registers of Belize, 1828-1841","description":"\u003cp\u003eSonia Murray's popular series of vital records from Belize (former British Honduras) continues with this third installment. Following a very helpful Introduction that explains some peculiarities of Belize records (e.g., the importance of Scottish patronymics, by which women kept their maiden names throughout their lives), Ms. Murray arranges her findings by record group.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe baptismal and burial registers for St. Johns Church specify newborns by date of birth and names of parents, and decedents by age at and date of death. Next follow cemetery inscriptions for St. George's Cave Cemetery, Church Street Cemetery, Yarborough Cemetery, and St. John's Cathedral. Richer in detail than the earlier records described, these provide the names of various family members, dates of birth, and miscellaneous information, along with the decedent's age at and date of death.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy far, the longest collection of records in this volume is Ms. Murray's transcriptions of the Belize censuses for 1832, 1835, and 1839. In general, these records indicate the names and ages of all persons living in a household, as well as more specific information (e.g., race, slave or free) for household heads.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRounding out the book are two collections of vital records Ms. Murray culled from the \u003ci\u003eBelize Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e (1839-1840) and a variety of British newspapers. These entries are most detailed, ranging from simple obituaries to mini-genealogies of persons with Belize connections. The concluding full name index refers to well over 5,000 persons, and an index to ships lists all vessels cited in the newspaper articles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia Bennett Murray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2012, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, 422 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806355801\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-8375\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39803027325046,"sku":"102-8375","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-8375-1500px.png?v=1777329885"},{"product_id":"102-9877","title":"Reconstructed Passenger Lists for 1850: Hamburg to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and the United States, Parts 1, 2, 3 \u0026 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost German and Swiss emigrants to the New World during the middle of the 19th century left from the Port of Bremen. Sadly, those lists were destroyed during the final year of World War II. The lists that have survived from this period pertain to the port of Hamburg and are in the custody of the Hamburg police authorities. (For the early years of this migration, the original Hamburg lists do not exist; instead, researchers must rely on transcriptions made by police clerks in large bound registers.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register. The lists themselves were published originally as the first three Parts of this volume, each of which concluded with a surname index. The fourth and final Part contains the author's supplemental notes on the emigrants' places of origin–a heroic effort on the part of Mr. Smith to differentiate among the 1,750 places of origin mentioned in the police lists. Since the original lists do not distinguish among villages of the same name, the author provides his own alphabetical listing of every place name from eastern and central Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary from which an emigrant may have originated–complete with latitude and longitude coordinates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSupported by Introductory comments, lists of abbreviations, and lists of sources, this scarce consolidation is a must for anyone whose ancestor might have left from Hamburg in 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClifford Neal Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1980, 1981), 2005, paper, 292 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806352787\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9877\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41763792289910,"sku":"102-9877","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9877-1500px.png?v=1777310893"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/rest-of-world\/ship-passenger-lists+canada.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}