Your Trinidadian Surname Is Grenadian — And It Tells You EXACTLY Which Parish Your Family Left

👉 THE SURNAME PAPERS — the full collection: https://theafricangenome.com Every Grenadian surname, and the parish in Grenada it comes out of. Everybody in Trinidad knows the island their Grenadian side came from. Almost nobody knows the parish — because Trinidad's forms had a line for the island and never had a line for the parish. One missing field, repeated for a century and a half, and a whole population can name a country but not a place. The surname still carries it. Grenada crossed to Trinidad in three waves, and each wave came off a different coast, for a different reason, in a different decade — and left a different kind of name behind. In this video: the 1783 Cedula that offered free Catholic families of colour sixteen acres in their own name before they ever got on the boat; the leeward French parishes of St. George, St. John and St. Mark, and why those names still look French in a family that speaks none; the windward estate parishes of St. Andrew, St. David and St. Patrick that emptied into the Trinidad cocoa hills after 1838; Carriacou, the Big Drum, and the only place in this part of the Caribbean where the African nation was never lost; why your people were filed in Trinidad as "British West Indian" and vanished; and the Act of 15 November 1865 that put a District Registrar in every Grenadian parish — which is why your parish is a field on a document, not a guess. Comments: give me the surname, the parish your family claims, and the name of the boat, if anybody ever said it. The boat is a route, and a route is a parish. Subscribe to The African Genome. #Grenada #Trinidad #Carriacou #CaribbeanHistory #AfricanAncestry #Surnames #Ancestry #WestIndian #BlackHistory #Genealogy