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	<title>St. Vincent and the Grenadines Genealogy Research</title>
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	<description>Helping you find your ancestors from the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies.</description>
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		<title>The Hurricane of 1831 in St. Vincent &#8211; An Eyewitness Account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE HURRICANE OF 1831 IN ST. VINCENT; BY AN EYE-WITNESS     Edited by Mary BROWNE*&#160; (see source at end of article)
The month of August is considered one of the hurricane months, and although this island had not for half a century experienced anything of the kind (or whilst other islands have suffered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book!: Early Printing in Saint Vincent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For those of us with ancestral ties to St. Vincent, the publication of a new book about the island stirs some excitement. Many will rush to buy a copy with the hope that somewhere within the pages, one of our ancestors will be mentioned. Others will make the purchase to broaden their knowledge of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/new-book-early-printing-in-saint-vincent/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent List of Government Officers: 1877</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This information is from Whitaker’s Almanack, which was published by Joseph Whitaker, beginning in 1868. It listed government officers from nation’s all around the world.
DUNDAS, George &#8211; C.M.G. &#8211; Lieut. GovernorTRAFFORD, G. &#8211; Chief Justice &#38; Vice-Chan.LABORDE, Edward &#8211; Colonial SecretarySHAW, H. &#8211; Treas. &#38; Collr. of CustomsCHOPPIN, J. C. &#8211; Attorney-GeneralBREEN, Hen. H. &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-list-of-government-officers-1877/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent List of Subscribers: 1830</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This list of individuals is found in Charles Shephard&#8217;s book &#8220;An Historical Account of the Island of Saint Vincent,&#8221; which was published in 1831.
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AGASSIZ, Rev. R. &#8211; Saint VincentALLAN, George &#8211; Saint VincentBAYNHAM, E. &#8211; BermudaBELL, Simpson &#8211; BristolBERENGER, Viscountess Monod de &#8211; Rue Faubourg, St. Honore, ParisBILLINGHURST, Joseph &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-list-of-subscribers-1830-new/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Militia Commissions List: 1787 – 1828</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Militia was comprised of all the island&#8217;s free inhabitants between the ages of 18 and 55. It was formed into one regiment of 580 men, two King&#8217;s companies of 150 men, and two Queen&#8217;s companies of 125 men, as well as 25 cavalry. They assembled for exercises once each month, at different stations in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-militia-commissions-1787-1828/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Government Officers: 1883</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This information is from Whitaker&#8217;s Almanack, which was published by Joseph Whitaker, beginning in 1868. It listed government officers from nation&#8217;s all around the world.
CHOPPIN, J. C. &#8211; Attorney-GeneralGORE, Augustus Frederick [Esq. C.M.G] &#8211; Lieut. Gov. and Colonial Sec.GRIFFITH, F. B. &#8211; Treas. &#38; Collr. of CustomsMcLEOD, C. J. &#8211; Provost-MarshalTRAFFORD, Chas. G. &#8211; Chief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/new-st-vincent-government-officers-in-1883/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Names from Major Manuscript Collection: 1700&#039;s &#8211; 1800&#039;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Names mentioned in Manuscripts pertaining to St. Vincent contained within the Beinecke Collection held by Hamilton College in New York:
AUGIER &#8211; mentioned in references to Mr. GORDON&#8217;s estates in the West Indies, 1824, as having a boundary to Fairhall and Brebner Estates.
BYRES &#8211; mentioned in references to Mr. GORDON&#8217;s estates in the West Indies, 1824, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/new-st-vincent-names-from-major-manuscript-collection-1700s-1800s/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Land Records List: 1768 &#8211; 1777</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This information is from the publication titled &#8220;Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations,&#8221; which was published throughout the 1700s.
Akers, Edmund &#8211; 35 acres from Paul Cazaubon and wife Louise &#8211; July 1772
Alexander, Harry &#8211; 26 acres from Fournier Debzine &#8211; November 1770
Alexander, William &#8211; 95 acres from Marc Papin &#8211; July 1772
Antoyer, Louis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/new-st-vincent-land-records-1768-1777/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Video Tours on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The discovery of ancestors from St. Vincent, whether they lived on the island in the French or British colonial era, or in more modern times, sparks an interest in seeing the place they called home.
Thanks to the internet, you can visit St. Vincent right from your computer chair, and get a good idea of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-video-tours-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Sardine Family&#8217;s New Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sardine family of St. Vincent has started a website to share family information.
Information includes Sardine, Jardine, and De Sousa genealogies.
You can access it here: www.sardine.cc
You will also find it linked from our SURNAMES page here: http://svgancestry.com/index.php/families-surnames
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		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/sardine-familys-new-website/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Property Owners List: 1797</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is only a partial list of those who owned property in 1797. It is based on the Report of the COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATURE, appointed to investigate and ascertain LOSSES suffered in consequence of the REBELLION AND INVASION of the CHARAIBS (CARIBS) and FRENCH.
Many of the individuals listed here were prominent on the island for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-property-owners-in-1797/</link>
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		<title>Searching OUR RECORDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Use the Google searchbox at right to search for your St. Vincent surnames on this website. New information is added throughout the year, so check back often. Thousands of names from historical data on St. Vincent are already here.
Use our FORUM (see link above) to post your own queries to this website.
Additionally you can browse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/searching-our-records/</link>
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		<title>Seeking Noted Vincentians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know of a person in recent or older history of St. Vincent who should be included on our Noted Vincentians list?
We invite your submissions. Just send us the individual&#8217;s name and information about their historical ties to St. Vincent &#38; the Grenadines, and include why you think they belong on the list.
Also see, our current list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/seeking-noted-vincentians/</link>
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		<title>St. Vincent Individuals in Book Sources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the names listed below are citations from the unindexed book: &#8220;A Narrative Of the Official Conduct of Valentine Morris, Esq. Late Captain General, Governor in Chief of the Island of St. Vincent and its Dependencies, as written by himself.&#8221; Published in 1787.
***Other names have their sources listed therewith.***
ALDRIDGE, Michael (60th Regiment) &#8211; pages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/st-vincent-individuals-in-book-sources/</link>
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		<title>Individuals Named in St. Vincent Publication &#8211; 1773</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The individuals listed below are all named in the following 1773 publication:
&#8220;Authentic Papers relative to the expedition against the Charibbs, and the sale of lands in the island of St. Vincent. London.&#8221;  
Published in London in 1773.
For further information about the entries, please Contact Us.

ALEXANDER, Harry &#8211; pages 20, 22, 24 &#8211; 25BARRINGTON, Lord Viscount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Webster &#8211; St. Vincent Doctor in 1795</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEBSTER, Charles ((05 December 1795))
Dr. Charles WEBSTER, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and one of the physicians to the army. Dr. WEBSTER obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1777;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..he went out to the West Indies as physician to the army. But not long after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Collins &#8211; St. Vincent Doctor in 1787</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COLLINS, John ((22 October 1787))
Two letters from John COLLINS, Esq. of the Island of St. Vincent, addressed to Benjamin VAUGHN, Esq., of London, on the subject of a species of Angina Maligna, and the Use of Capsicum in that and several other diseases. Communicated by Dr. Adair CRAWFORD. Read Jan. 19, 1790.
LETTER I (dated October [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/john-collins-st-vincent-doctor-in-1787/</link>
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		<title>Roger Swire of St. Vincent &amp; Jamaica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger SWIRE (Planter &#38; Magistrate) (1792 &#8211; 1841)
Read Swire Family Letters from the 1870&#8217;s &#8211; 1901
Roger SWIRE was born 15 September 1792 in Hunsingore, Yorkshire, England to Roger SWIRE and Hannah MELLIN. His English ancestry is well documented back to the mid-1500&#8217;s. It&#8217;s not known exactly when he left England, but it is assumed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/roger-swire-of-st-vincent-jamaica/</link>
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		<title>Robert Sutherland&#8217;s Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will of Robert SUTHERLAND of the Island of St Vincent in the West Indies.
Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions. PROB 11/1749More SUTHERLAND family information
I Robert SUTHERLAND of the Island of St Vincent in the West Indies and of Millmount in Rosshire, North Britain. Hereby revoke all my former wills, codicils [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/robert-sutherlands-will/</link>
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		<title>Sutherland of St. Vincent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE RIBBON TRAIL
By:Joan Leggett
This article was first printed as &#8220;Georgie, Madge and hair ribbons&#8221;, in the March 1998 issue of Family Tree Magazine (UK), and appears here by permission.
Robert SUTHERLAND (1776 &#8211; 1828) &#8211; first SUTHERLAND in St. Vincent

Robert SUTHERLAND&#8217;s Will
Detailing extensive research on the SUTHERLAND family of St. Vincent
Some years ago in Trinidad, West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/sutherland-of-st-vincent/</link>
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		<title>Richardson of St. Vincent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Gladstone Richardson (24 Feb. 1874 &#8211; 05 Sept. 1947)
Methodist Church Bishop &#8211; USA
Ernest Gladstone RICHARDSON was born in St. Vincent according to U. S. newspaper records from the Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio for 24 February 1927 which states in its Today&#8217;s Birthdays column that &#8220;Bishop Ernest G. Richardson of the Methodist Episcopal Church&#8221;, had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/richardson-of-st-vincent/</link>
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		<title>PATTERSON of St. Vincent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Edward PATTERSON
Father of noted African-American William L. Patterson
James Edward PATTERSON was born in Kingstown, St. Vincent about 1850. His mother was said to have been a Carib Indian, his father, a &#8220;full-blooded African&#8221;. His parents were not believed to have been married, and their names are not known. His mother was reported to have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/patterson-of-st-vincent/</link>
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		<title>Newspaper Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OLD NEWS OF ST. VINCENT
The Virginia Gazette of 16 July 1767:
By Capt. DARRELL, from St. Vincent&#8217;s, we learn that the English settlements on that island proceed with a good deal of life and vigour, and that it bids fair to be one of the most flourishing islands in the West Indies. Above 100 hhds. of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/newspaper-records-2/</link>
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		<title>Newspaper Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. VINCENT EARLY NEWSPAPER NOTICES 
*there are also a few names mentioned from other records
From Various Newspapers, noted with each entry (when known) Some of the extracts on this page were transcribed by researcher CINDY KILGORE, who has graciously allowed us to use them here.
ABERDEEN, Mr. &#8211; ADVERTISEMENT, WANTED, A young Negro Woman who is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/newspaper-records/</link>
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		<title>MELVILLE of St. Vincent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FAMILIES OF ST. VINCENT
MELVILLE
Dr. Alexander Melville (1758 &#8211; 1829)
Dr. Alexander MELVILLE was born in Scotland on 15 September 1758. He was the son of Alexander MELVILL and Jean LYELL/LYALL of Scotland. He studied medicine at the famed Edinburgh University. He went to America before moving on to St. Vincent in the 1780&#8217;s as an Army [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://svgancestry.com/index.php/melville-of-st-vincent/</link>
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