Biographical Index – Bound Alphabet List of Biographical Notes files

Biographical Notes (B/N) Files
*Biographical Notes is a collection of clippings from Jamaican newspapers. Other material such as small brochures, extracts from various publications and clippings from West Indian newspapers are added from time to time. Files are arranged alphabetically according to personal names.

Burke.  Burke’s Peerage Baronetage Knightage and Companionage. 1909 929 Bur

Burke, Sir Bernard. Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison and Sons, 1886. 929.7 Bur

Cundall, Frank.  Catalogue of the Portraits in the Gallery of the West India Reference Library of the Institute of Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica,1914. 920 Ja Cun

Dictionary of National Biography – General Reference 920 Ref. (English who held positions in the W.I. included)

Gentleman’s Magazine – G44 Holdings: vols. 1-102, 1731-1832; vols 1-13, 1834-1840 & vol 1, 1886 (new series)

Guy, Henry A, ed. Women of Distinction in Jamaica
301.412097292 Ja Wom

Handbook of Jamaica (1881 – 1969 & 71) (Microfilm available) 
H354

Jamaica Gleaner Directory of Personalities  (1981-2002)*
920 Ja Jam
*Except years 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2000)

Lawrence, Archer.  Monumental Inscriptions of British West Indies, Barbados & Jamaica     

929.9 Ja

Livingston, Noel B. Sketch Pedigrees of the Early Settlers in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: The Educational Supply Company, 1969.
929.1 Ja.

Oliver, Vere L. Caribbeana
6 Vols. (microfilm)

Personalities Caribbean
920.0729 Per
Holdings: 4^th – 6^th editions, 1971, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1982-1983

Reference Book of Jamaica
317.29 Ja Bry  

Roby, John. Biographical Notes on the Members of the Assembly
328 Ja Rob  

Roby, John.  Members of the Assembly   

328 Ja Roby

Sheridans. Feurtado Manuscripts
Manuscript collection

Who’s Who 1919-1982 (select years)*
920.0729 Ja Who
*Except years 1925-38, 1947-1950, 1962, 1953, 1955-1959, 1961-1962, 1964-1965,
1967-1968, 1970-1974, 1976-1980

Who’s Who in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago
920.07298 Who

Wright, Phillip.  Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica. London: Society of Genealogists,1966.
929.5 Ja Wri

PLACE NAMES

Cundall, Frank. Place Names of Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica, 1939.  
910.3 Ja Cun

Sibley, Inez. Dictionary of Place Names. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, 1978.
917.292 Ja Sib

Wright , Phillip& Paul White.  Exploring Jamaica : Guide for Motorists.  London: Deutsch,1969.

917.292 Ja Wri

H/N –  Parish files
Historical Notes (H/N)  –  Place Names
*Historical Notes is a collection of clippings from Jamaican newspapers. Other material such as small brochures, extracts  from various publications and clippings from West Indian newspapers are added from time to time. Files are arranged alphabetically according to subject heading.

Hughes, Michael. Companion to West Indian Literature. London: Collins, 1979.

Ramchand, Kenneth. An introduction to the Study of West Indian Literature. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1976.

Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and its Background. London; Kingston: Heinemann, 1983.

H/N – Literature – Jamaican Authors

H/N – Literature – West Indian Authors

ESTATES, GREAT HOUSES & PRIVATE HOUSES

H/N – Estates, Great Houses etc. – general and individual files.

Handbooks of Jamaica. List sugar and coffee plantations. 1881
H354

Higman, Barry. Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica,1988.
333.3 Ja Hig

Jamaica Almanak 1816 – 1845 (not all almanacs have estate returns)
Microfilm

List of properties 50 acres upwards. Collectors General’s Department. 1912, 1920, 1930
O333.3 Ja Jam

Phillips, Anghelen and Geoffrey de Sola Pinto. Jamaica Houses, a Vanishing Legacy. Rev. ed. Montego Bay, Jamaica: De Sola Publishers, 1993.
724.1 Ja Phi

Vespucci, Americi. Names of the Principal Planters and Settlers in Jamaica, 1663

Blake, Evon. Beautiful Jamaica. 6th edition. Kingston: Kingston Publishers Ltd., 1991.

Cundall, Frank. Historic Jamaica. London: Published for the Institute of Jamaica by the West India Committee, 1915. Reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corp, 1971.

Ingram, Kenneth E. Sources of Jamaican History, 1655-1838: a Bibliographical Survey with Particular Reference to Manuscript Sources. London: Inter Documentation Co., 1976.

Long, Edward. The History of Jamaica, or a General Survey of the Ancient and Modern State of that Island. London: Frank Cass, 1970.

Senior, Olive. Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. Kingston: Twin Guinep, 2003.