If Your Family Is From Any of These 14 Jamaican Parishes — The 1817 Registers Reveal Your Origin

Kingston. St. Andrew. St. Thomas. Portland. St. Mary. St. Ann. Trelawny. St. James. Hanover. Westmoreland. St. Elizabeth. Manchester. Clarendon. St. Catherine. Every Jamaican family on earth comes from one of these fourteen — and the 1817 Slave Registers say something different about every single one. 📜🇯🇲 🔔 Subscribe to Nubian Untold for more on African ancestry, Caribbean history, and the hidden stories behind Black surnames! 🌍🧬 Your surname tells you which estate. Your parish tells you which ocean crossing. In this video we go through all 14 Jamaican parishes, one by one, and trace what the estates in each one were actually buying — and from which stretch of the West and Central African coast. 🌊 Because the corridors were not the same. Westmoreland, Hanover, Trelawny and St. James bought relentlessly through the Gold Coast — Ashanti and Fante country, modern Ghana. St. Thomas, St. Mary and St. Ann lean toward the Bight of Biafra — the Niger Delta, Igbo territory, the ports at Bonny and Old Calabar. Portland shows a striking share from the Bight of Benin — Yoruba and Fon country. Clarendon and St. Catherine carry a heavy later wave from West Central Africa — Kongo and Mbundu. Two families with the same surname, on opposite ends of a small island, can be pointing at coastlines fifteen hundred kilometres apart. 🌿 We'll also cover something almost nobody knows: in 1817, Jamaica had 22 parishes, not 14. St. David, St. George, Vere, St. Dorothy, St. John, St. Thomas-in-the-Vale and Metcalfe were all real, all held records, and were all abolished in 1867. If your family's paper trail seems to vanish, the parish itself may have stopped existing — and that is the first thing to check. 🕊️ And we go through what the people in these registers actually did: Tacky's rising in St. Mary in 1760, the Hanover conspiracy of 1776, Nanny and the Windward Maroons in Portland, Accompong in St. Elizabeth, the Trelawny Maroons deported to Sierra Leone in 1800, Paul Bogle and Morant Bay in St. Thomas — and Samuel Sharpe in St. James, whose 1831 uprising came fourteen months before Parliament passed the Abolition Act. Whether you're researching your Jamaican roots, tracing Caribbean genealogy, or simply fascinated by African ancestry and Jamaican history — this is the one video where nobody gets left out. All fourteen. 🇯🇲 📚 SOURCES Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813–1834 — The National Archives, Kew, series T 71. Digitised and searchable, organised by colony and parish. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database — slavevoyages.org — voyage records, ports of embarkation, and regional distribution by decade. Legacies of British Slavery — University College London — estate ownership, compensation claims from 1834, and property records. Jamaica Parish Consolidation Act, 1867 — for the eight abolished parishes and where their records were absorbed. These archives are public and free to search. Start with the parish, then the estate, then the name — in that order. That is the order the records were written in. 👍 Like if your parish came up. 💬 Comment your parish — and your district if you know it. The last two videos turned this comment section into a map. People are finding cousins down there. 🔔 Subscribe — St. Ann is next, estate by estate. The parish after that gets picked from your comments. #Jamaica #JamaicanParishes #JamaicanSurnames #BlackHistory #AfricanAncestry #Genealogy #JamaicanHistory #SlaveRegisters #FamilyHistory #CaribbeanHistory #Heritage #Maroons #SamSharpe #PaulBogle #MarcusGarvey #JamaicanDiaspora