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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

The Historical Society of Trinidad and Tobago (documents related to Azorean migration to Trinidad)

• Publication No. 796. A Petition from certain Portuguese Colonists to the Governor of Trinidad. 1835.
• Publication No. 797. A Petition from Josef da Costa, a Portuguese, to the Governor of Trinidad. 1835.

Colonial Office Correspondence

• Comment on the Portuguese in Trinidad by the Governor, 1869

Extracts from the Port of Spain Gazette

• 1834-1835, "Port of Spain Gazette Newspaper Clippings"
  "The Watchful (1834), the Stralhista (1834), the Eweretta (1834), and the Portland (1835)...."
• Friday, May 1, 1846, p.3 , "MADEIRA IMMIGRATION"
  "The last two or three vessels that have arrived in our river with immigrants from the island of Madeira...."
• Tuesday, May 12, 1846, p.3 , "ARRIVAL OF MADEIRA IMMIGRANTS"
  "The Barque Senator arrived here on Saturday last from Madeira...."
• Friday, October 23, 1846, p.2, "MADEIRA IMMIGRATION"
  'We insert the communication signed "EXPERTO CREDE," on the subject of Madeira Immigration......"
• Tuesday, November 3, 1846, p.3 , "BRITISH GUIANA"
  "We have had one or two arrivals of immigrants from Madeira during the fortnight. Among the vessels.......
• Friday, November 6, 1846, p.3 , "PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANTS"
  "We copy, for the information of our readers, the following notice issued by the Agent General of Immigrants....."
• Tuesday, November 10, 1846, p.3, "THE PORTUGUESE VERSION"
  "We gave last week the English version of the Kalley affair at Madeira; the following is a Portuguese account of the matter...."
• Friday, November 13, 1846, p.3, "IMMIGRATION FROM MADEIRA"
  "Within the short space of a week we have had two arrivals of Madeira Immigrants...."
• Friday, November 13, 1846, p.3, Extract from the article "IMMIGRATION OF FREE LABOURERS"
  "A free and constant stream of immigration is required...."
• Tuesday, July 20, 1847, p. 3. "ST. VINCENT"
  "There has been considerable commotion among the planters to stop the ruinous consequences of taking away their Portuguese laborers...."
• Tuesday, November 9, 1847, p. 2/3. "IMMIGRANTS"
  "The Barque Dalhousie, Captain Wilkie, thirty-five days from Madeira...."
• "SHIP NEWS", Various Dates, 1846-1847

EXTRACTS OF RECORDS

Extracts from Original Sources

• Portuguese Surnames Found in the 1881-1947 Baptismal Register of the St. Ann's Church of Scotland in Trinidad.
• List of approximately 249 Immigrants or Persons Applying for Passports from Madeira to Trinidad (plus 19 other passengers to other destinations) from 1851 to 1900 extracted from the Passport Application Files in the Arquivo Regional Da Madeira.
• * Some Early Portuguese Presbyterians in Trinidad. This list gives the names of some members of the St. Ann's Church of Scotland whose contributions to a Patriotic Fund were collected by the Reverend Mr. Henrique Vieira.
• * Some of the Earliest Marriages Among the Portuguese Presbyterians in Trinidad from the Marriage Register of Greyfriars Presbyterian Church, Port-of-Spain.

Lists and Compilations

• * Some 20th Century Portuguese Businessmen in Trinidad
• * Some of the First Ship Loads of Portuguese Refugees and Immigrants to Trinidad
• Persons of Portuguese Descent who Left Trinidad to Serve in the Great War. Transcribed from Brief History of the Associação Portuguesa Primeiro de Dezembro, by Charles Reis, Port-of-Spain: Franklin's Electric Printery, 1926., pp 59 to 62.
• Persons of Portuguese Descent who Left Trinidad to Serve in World War II. Compiled by Dean de Freitas from various sources.
• Persons of Luso-West Indian Descent Who are Listed in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission "Debt of Honour" Register. Compiled by Dean de Freitas
• Madeira Exiles - Passenger Shiplists - contains some passenger lists for ships with Portuguese immigrants saling to and from Trnidad.

  • * These extracts appeared in the articles "The Portuguese of Trinidad" and "Do Atlântico às Antilhas" by Jo-Anne Ferreira.

ESSAYS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER WRITINGS

CALVINADAGE - The PoWI Newsletter

• Issue 1 - July 28, 2001

Articles by Jo-Anne Ferreira

• "Madeiran Portuguese Migration to Guyana, St. Vincent, Antigua and Trinidad:
  A Comparative Overview", in Portuguese Studies Review 14:2 (2006): 63-85
• "Some Aspects of Portuguese Immigration into Trinidad and Tobago:
  An Investigation Based on Oral History", in OPReP Newsletter 8 (December 1989): 3-5
• "The Portuguese of Trinidad", in The Book of Trinidad, edited by Gérard Besson and Bridget Brereton, 263-269. Port-of-Spain: Paria Publishing Co. Ltd., 1991.
• "The Portuguese Cultural Contribution to Trinidad & Tobago", in OPreP Newsletter, 2002.
• "Do Atlântico às Antilhas: O Caso da Trinidad", in Islenha 19 (June to December 1996): 95-107
• "A Trinidadiana in Portugal", Newsday, and also Sunday Guardian (25th Anniversary European Union supplement), 21 June, 2001

Articles by Anthony Milne

• My Kind of Christmas: Remembering Things Gone By, Trinidad Express, 21 November 1989: 21.
• The Third Eye: On Behalf of the Portuguese, Trinidad Express, 23 November 1989: 24-25
• Note for the Quincentenary: From Madeira to Trinidad - the Portuguese in the West Indies, Sunday Express, 24 May 1992: 4, 22.
• Winter Wonderland: Letter Home from JB de Callao, Gowanus, Winter 2000

  Related Articles by Anthony Milne

  • What About Us?, Trinidad Express, 18 April 1998
  • White Like Me, Gowanus, Spring 1998.
  • De Bossière: The Lion in Winter, Gowanus, Summer 1997.

Other Articles

• Ser português na Trinidad: Etnicidade, subjectividade e poder, by Miguel Vale de Almeida (Etnográfica 1.1 (1997):9-31).
• A By-Path of Presbyterian Missions in the West Indies, by Rev. Gilbert Earle, The Trinidad Presbyterian, June 1923, Reprinted from "East and West", Canada
• O'Byrne, Michael. Archdiocese of Port of Spain. Catholic Encyclopedia Vol XII (transcribed by Douglas J.Potter), 1999.
  
• Five Years in the West Indies, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol. 71 (440) June 1852
• Historical Settings of Trinidad and Tobago, by Pantrinbago.com
• History of the Jews of the Caribbean, by Ralph G. Bennett
• Immigration to Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana After Emancipation, by Alden Maddocks
• Our West Indian Colonies, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol. 63 (440) June 1848
• 'Pilgrims' Madeirenses na Expansão da Fronteira Norte-Americana:Proselitismo de Robert Reid Kalley, 1838-c.1850, por Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu (Universidade da Madeira) (comunicação apresentada ao primeiro Congresso Internacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 6-8 Maio 2001, Lisboa) *[NOTE: This paper is in Portuguese, and the link leads you to a Word file. For an abstract in English, click here. The title of the paper in English is "Pioneers of North-America Frontier Expansion: Case Study of the Role of the Protestant Faith in Prompting Immigration from Madeira to America," by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu (Universidade da Madeira) (paper presented at the first International Conference for Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 6-8 May 2001, Lisbon.)]
  
• The Portuguese in Trinidad, Newsday Historical Digest, June 24, 2001, page 29
• Race and Color in Trinidad & Tobago, by Nakeba Stewart
• Small TT/Portuguese Community Continues to Celebrate Heritage, by Angela Pidduck
• Trinidad, from the Canada Heirloom Series, Volume VII - Canada at the Millenium, A Transcultural Society. Published as part of Canada's Digital Collections.
• Trinidad and Tobago, by IMDiversity.com
• The Last of the Jews in T&T, by Tim McDonald
• Contribution of Jews to Jamaica (Review of Arbell's Portuguese Jews of Jamaica)