(Please note, therefore, that the site does not include the names of everyone who ever lived in Jamaica, from the arrival of the English in 1655, as the number would then be in the millions.) This site now contains approximately 297,000 names of people who lived in Jamaica at some time. This site offers information from these substitutes, as well as excerpts from old newspapers and other sources. 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. One exception is the Census information for Hanover for 1823 which has been found in some Colonial Office correspondence and is on this site. 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. 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. In the decade of the 1970s there was another dispersion to North America and the UK in particular. In the decade of the 1830s many landowners returned to Great Britain, or dispersed to other parts of the British Empire. Their mingling is reflected in our island motto, "Out of Many, One People."
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