Despatch regarding case of the wife of 'coloured' Barbadian, extract. Barbados, 1921.

Catalogue reference: CO 28/299/60 folio 398. Crown Copyright.

Transcript:

Barbados                                           Government House.
                                                            10th June 1921.
Confidential

 

       Sir,
       I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
       of your despatch, No.100 of 19th April, transmitting
       certain correspondence with His Majesty’s High
       Commissioner at Constantinople in regard to the murder
       of one Alexander Sobers in that City.

  1. I have caused discreet enquiries to be made and I find Alexander Sobers was a Barbadian, residing
    in Rock Hall Village in  the Parish of St Lucy, who left
    Barbados many years ago.  He is believed to have
    married a white woman and to have several children. He
    has six sisters residing in St Lucy.  There is no
    possibility of their being able to maintain the family
    if sent to Barbados and it is very unlikely that a
    white woman, the widow of a coloured man, would be
    able to make a decent living in this Colony. We have
    had to assist several white women who were married to
    coloured men to return to their homes as they found the
    conditions of life unsuitable here.
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