((Jah_yout)) :truce: I need :help: :help:

[Tropicana]

No this is not for jah yout...sorry.

Can't change the title.

Anyway, now that I have everyone;s attention. What happened to the census records for Jamaica from the 19th century. Where are they located now and how does one access them?

[Leddih]

I think you should consult the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Jamaica (or even the USA). For some reason they seem to have been able to acquire a lot of that sort of information from Jamaica's past.

[Tropicana]

Thanks....unfortuntely....

"In the 17th through 19th centuries Britain required that the colony should take a census or a count of the population in various years in order to provide statistics concerning the makeup of the population. The results which have been preserved as census records do not contain any names of individuals, but merely numbers of persons in various categories, which generally included: white, black, free colored, certain countries of origin, and occupation. One exception is the Census information for Hanover for 1823 which has been found in some Colonial Office correspondence and is on this site. Because of this lack of what most genealogists would consider census information, the best substitutes are the Jamaica Almanacs, lists of landowners, Directories, Church Registers, and tombstones. This site offers information from these substitutes, as well as excerpts from old newspapers and other sources."

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/