The contemporary image of the West Indies as paradise islands conceals a turbulent, dramatic and shocking history
This book is a comprehensive guide to locating and using records of British ancestors who moved to the British West Indies, and also Bermuda, British Guiana (Guyana) and British Honduras (Belize)
In the late 1640s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner
