EAP408: From the brink: identifying, collecting and digitising records of the after the destruction of Hurricane Ike

Dr Donald Keith, Turks and Caicos National Museum 2010 award - Pilot project £12,242 for 8 months

A survey report was produced as well as inventories of extant historical documentation relating to the Turks and Caicos Islands, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike in September 2008.

Survey Report: p2 Appendix 1: p16 Appendix 2: p67 Appendix 3: p76 Appendix 4: p80 Appendix 5: p82

Further Information

You can contact the EAP team at [email protected]

This Survey Report is prepared as a partial fulfillment of the Endangered Archives Grant Pilot Project EAP 408, entitled: “From the Brink: Identifying, Collecting and Digitizing records of the Turks and Caicos Islands.”

The Turks and Caicos National Museum, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies, June 2010.

Prepared by Project Archivist: Melanie Clifton-Harvey

May 2011

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Contents Introduction ...... 3 Background ...... 3 Endangered Archives Project 408...... 3 Colonial Archives Project ...... 4 Records from 1983 Colonial Archives Project Report Pre‐1900 ...... 5 Government Office Record Survey ...... 5 Other Islands and Government Offices ...... 7 Survey of other Community Record Holders ...... 9 Church Records ...... 9 The Turks and Caicos National Museum...... 11 Private Collections ...... 12 Estimate and Extent of Records documented and digitized...... 12 Conclusions and Further Recommendations...... 13 Appendix 1 Colonial Archives Project Report ...... 14 Appendix 2 TCNM Archive: Pre‐1900 Documents Inventory...... 14 Appendix 3 TCNM Archive: Microfilm Inventory...... 14 Appendix 4 TCNM Archive: Transcript Inventory ...... 14 Appendix 5 Turks and Caicos Islands Records in other Repositories...... 14

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Introduction

The Turks and Caicos Islands are located 550 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, just below chain and just to the east of Cuba and the island of . Here, English colonists began to produce salt for commercial shipment to other American colonies in the late 1600’s. A salt‐based economy lasted until commercial production ended in the 1960’s. The islands had previously been governed from both Jamaica and the Bahamas, through a British government, and between the 1950s and the 1980s, the United States established both naval and air bases on the islands.

In February 2006, Carnival Cruise Lines opened a cruise ship dock on the Capital island of Grand Turk. The cruise ship industry can land more than 3000 tourists a day on the island, and developments all over the island have been built for onshore excursions.

This pilot project was intended to create an inventory of any historical documentation relating to the Turks and Caicos Islands that was still existing after the disastrous Hurricane Ike in September 2008, which caused a great deal of damage to the islands, and most particularly Grand Turk, the administrative center of the islands. Government offices and the local community were to be interviewed and research done into the last known storage of any such materials. Any documents or records that were found could also, with the owner’s permission, be removed to the Turks and Caicos National Museum archive storage room, as the only suitable climate controlled storage area on island.

Background

Endangered Archives Project 408

The impetus for the creation of The Turks & Caicos National Museum was the archaeological investigation of the oldest shipwreck ever discovered in the Western Hemisphere: the Molasses Reef Wreck, dated to the first quarter of the 16th century. Mrs. Grethe Seim, a Norwegian national living in the Islands, thought that such an important find deserved to be protected and displayed. Working with Governor Michael Bradley and other advisors she created the Museum as a non‐profit, non‐government private institution, governed by a Board of Trustees selected from the community and mandated by the government to collect and preserve the cultural and natural history of the Turks and Caicos. The Museum opened its doors on November 23rd, 1991, and has been in continuous operation ever since. Soon after, an adjacent property was leased to the Museum for the creation of a botanical garden and in 1995 a second building was constructed on the premises to house its office, laboratory, workshop, and object storage areas. The Museum sponsors archival research, archaeological field and laboratory work, the collection of oral histories, and a Children’s Club.

Building on work done by the previous Director, Dr. Neal Hitch, Dr. Donald Keith and myself as Collections Consultant, the Turks and Caicos National Museum supported by Ms. Susan Lugo, Territorial Archives Director for the US Virgin Islands, placed its priority on the preservation of archival materials. After a two year plan involving newly qualified Library Science graduates and other archive specific project funding, the TCNM received the Endangered Archives Grant just in time to continue its focus on archival materials. This EAP Pilot Project had been intended to build upon this previous work and try to locate any of the

3 EAP 408 “From the Brink: Identifying, Collecting and Digitizing records of the Turks and Caicos Islands.” 4 existing records and bring them to the safe storage of the TCNM archives while at the same time searching for any community held collections of records from before 1900.

Colonial Archives Project

In 1983, a team under the auspices of the Caribbean Research Foundation from Washington D.C. led by Dr. James H. Neal from the Middle Tennessee State University came to the Grand Turk to start work on a project to inventory and arrange the government archives which at that time were stored under the Post Office on Front Street in . The project leaders and interns came annually for 3 years to continue the process and the introduction to the report describes the difficulties with which this project met while on Grand Turk. See Appendix 1.

At the end of the project a report was compiled which had broken down the various governmental creating bodies on both the islands and also in the governing countries, Great Britain, Jamaica and the Bahamas depending on the date of the records. The TCNM had a copy of this report in its library and this was initially used to locate records across the island of Grand Turk. There had since been a number of reports written, including one involving archivists who had visited from the Bahamas Archives, suggesting that a National Archives for the Turks and Caicos Islands was imperative if the loss of important historical documents were to be stopped. Unfortunately that has yet to be realized.

Initial research showed that the records had been moved to a variety of storage areas after 1983 and that many people could tell apocryphal tales of trucks full of records going to the dump, records and papers falling off the back and lying in the street while local community members picked them up and took them home. The chain of custody seemed to have fallen apart, as the TCNM was often notified and sometimes a major part in the record moving activities, but in the latter years the records had all but disappeared.

Research conducted amongst local community and past museum staff led to a much clearer picture of how and why the Government Records had been moved so many times and why they were left in their current storage space. After the Colonial Archives Report Project had left, the Post Office was deemed an unsuitable storage area and the records were separated. The more important Presidential Era records were taken to the safer storage of the Victoria Public Library, where they were still believed to be in November 2010. All the other records had moved to the Old Prison, from where they had to be moved when the site was taken over for a tourist development. The move from the Prison made use of a variety of local government and the non‐government Turks and Caicos National Museum staff, who took the remaining documents still in good condition, to a building which had been used as the fire house, situated off Pond Street in the historic district. The building, owned by the government was offered as a safe storage site, where the records could be placed on shelves and the doors securely padlocked.

At some point around the disastrous Hurricane Ike in September 2008, the government leased the Old Fire house to a fast‐food restaurant owner who had lost her property on Front Street. The records were then moved into the adjacent empty building, known as The Old Police Station (also The Harrison Hotel).

On my arrival in November 2010, I visited the current storage site and was shocked by the conditions. The resulting damage from Hurricane Ike, rendering the building structurally unsound, ceilings fallen down and

4 EAP 408 “From the Brink: Identifying, Collecting and Digitizing records of the Turks and Caicos Islands.” 5 building envelope open to the elements in some places and not completely secure. Homeless locals and drug users used the back entrance hall for eating, living and leftover and raw chicken rubbish from the adjacent Fried Chicken restaurant was left in open bags, collecting maggots. The records themselves, after being subjected to the harsh Caribbean climate with high humidity temperatures averaging over 80 degrees daily and high hurricane season rainfall, were in 2 rooms up to 5 feet high with no air flow and as they had been left in the plastic rubbish bags used to transport them 3 years ago and previous plastic wrappings from the Colonial Archives Project Report, were now subject to moulds, spores, and rot.

After documenting the situation and on the recommendations of a variety of disaster management specialists, both paper and archives, I decided that for the sake of both my health and that of my co‐ workers and volunteers, the records would have to stay where they were and the EAP project was not going to be able to sort through or record them in any great depth. They were most definitely not going to be moved to the TCNM in any great numbers due to the high likelihood that they would contaminate the museum spaces and place the other stable archival and museum collections at risk.

Records from 1983 Colonial Archives Project Report Pre‐1900

In November and December 2010, two separate investigative trips were made to the Old Police Station to try and locate, or at least document, the most easily accessible records to give an idea of whether these were the remaining government archives as recorded in 1983. On the second of these visits, in full safety clothing, myself and one volunteer spent 2 hours sifting through the piles of disintegrating records to find that the majority of records were from the 1930’s‐1960’s and as such were not the subject of the rescue part of the project. The bundles of documents that were found dating to before 1900, approximately 3 linear feet are mentioned in the CAPR, but in most cases the description is not quite precise enough to distinguish Bundle A, from Bundle B. See table below and Appendix 1.

Page 67 26B4/1 1878‐1881 CM CS 24.0 Various. Separate Entries made. 011170

Page 1 13B1/3 1858‐1859 PR CS 5.0 Consecutive Despatches 1858‐1859. 090381 Separate Entries Made

The above records (13B1/3) were put in quarantine, UV treated to deter any further mould growth and then vacuumed thoroughly with a HEPA vacuum before being digitally photographed as the sample images for the EAP pilot project.

Government Office Record Survey

Initial interviews with museum trustees, staff and board members, some who had also held positions in local government, led to some potential leads to pre‐1900 records. The results were disappointing. It proved to be more effective to telephone directly the local government offices listed and ask if they had

5 EAP 408 “From the Brink: Identifying, Collecting and Digitizing records of the Turks and Caicos Islands.” 6 any “old records.” For various reasons it proved quite difficult to access the records. There is currently no Freedom of Information Act in the Turks and Caicos Island Law, although one may be mandated in the next constitution, and as such it appears that many individuals are reluctant to volunteer information.

I achieved the most success with face‐to‐face meetings and once I realized this I tried to set up appointments to introduce myself, and the Endangered Archives Project. This was not always so easy. These staff members travel constantly between islands, attending seminars, workshops and meetings. I approached the Head Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages directly, to great success, and also the District Commissioners of Salt Cay, North Caicos, Middle Caicos and , the administrative center of the Caicos Islands. The Permanent Secretary of Border Control and Immigration, responsible for overseeing the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, was also very approachable and is now firmly behind the project and its preservation ideals.

It was difficult gaining access to the Environment and District Commission but in March 2011, I was able to have a meeting with the Permanent Secretary and obtained restricted access to the Land Registry Department. I also discovered at the same time that there was a record digitization project already underway, copying all the land records that had been organized into folders during an investigation in the 1970’s, funded by the local government, and which had been underway since 2009. Many of these records were not accessible to me. However, on other islands it was possible to examine similar records located in an off‐site storage room. The Survey was hindered due to a possible fear of the archives being moved to the TCNM Archive and the cost implications that could involve.

Grand Turk: Central Administrative Record Holding

Ministry of Border Control and Immigration: Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Type of Record Dates of Creation Microfilm Copies Available

Burials 1864‐1937, 1937‐Present Yes Deaths 1864‐1913, 1914‐Present Yes Marriages 1864‐Present Yes Land Registry Records No’s 1‐254 1898‐1909 No No’s 491‐667 1840‐1884 No Records of probate wills 1937‐1954 Yes Marriage Licences 1874‐1875 Yes Births 1960‐1978 Yes Index to Public Records

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C‐1(A) 1823‐1824 Yes B 1825‐1827 Yes C 1827‐1828 Yes D 1829‐1832 Yes E‐1 1832‐1840 Yes G No 1870‐1873 Yes H 1873‐1877 Yes I 1877‐1879 Yes K

Attorney General’s Office‐Have records from the mid‐1980’s, stored in lockup storage and a storage container on the street at South Base. Already mould contaminated, non‐climate controlled storage. Ministry of Finance‐Have records from the mid‐1980’s, in the office. Advisory Council‐Have records from mid‐late 1980’s, in offices. Ministry of Justice‐Have records from late‐1980’s, in offices. Public Works Department (EMS)‐Have some records late‐1980’s in offices. Land Registry‐Land Adjudication Records are locked in a storage vault and contain records from before the 1970’s to present. No admittance to non‐registry personnel. Post‐1970 records have been digitised. Other Offices: Either no assistance, no records or no information available.

Other Islands and Government Offices

My fieldtrips to the islands and visits to meet with the District Commissioners proved fruitful. In February and March 2011, I arranged to visit Salt Cay, Providenciales (Provo), North and Middle Caicos to find out if there were any records existing on those islands. Before my arrival the relevant District Commissioners made inquiries among the local community, and on arrival I met with the D.C’s who directed me to the older residents who I interviewed. In April 2011, I visited South Caicos, which had been the administrative centre of the Caicos Islands, and Providenciales until the 1980’s. Here a great many records had been stored in filing cabinets and then moved to a utility room in an outdoor entertainment venue, created out of a disused salt storage shed adjacent to the dockside. The District Commissioner gave me staff and time to sort through and prioritise these government records. One bundle of records dating from before 1900 was removed and taken to the TCNM and after the appropriate permissions were received, entered into the Pastperfect database as a Long‐term loan from the Department of the Environment and District Commissioners.

Salt Cay: District Commissioner’s Office Old Salt Storage Shed • 8 boxes post‐1950 General Office/District Commissioner/Government content • School Admission Records‐ Diocese of Jamaica: 1932‐1943, 1951‐1957 • Police/Courthouse Daybook: 1887‐1914 • 25 Ledger books 75% poor condition o Statement of Royalties paid 1910‐1918 and half: Salt Industry Grant to Working Proprietor’s 1911‐1918

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o Hurricanes 1926: Hurricane Relief payments, names, dates, amounts o Hurricanes 1928: Hurricane Relief payments, names, dates, amounts o Relief Work Labour Book: November 1932‐ December 1939 o Daily Balance Book: Salt Cay 1968‐ o Daily Balance Book 1958 o Government Savings bank 1968 o Cash receipts‐ Paupers Relief Fund: 1914‐1928 o Government Officers Office 1910‐ o Public Works 1927‐1928 o Expense Waste Book 1940‐1944 o Expense Waste Book 1944‐1947 o Registered Letters received 1967 o Salt Industry Advisory 1938 o Small Proprietor’s Salt raked, shipped etc: January 1939‐ o Badly deteriorated and illegible pages from 1899‐1901 o Salt Pond Labour Book 1909 o Treasury 1970’s o Hurricane Relief 1908 including Crown Salt 1907‐1919 o Treasury 1977 o Post Office cash book o Cash Book 1960 o Cash Book 1989 o Cash book 1979 o Water Ration Book 1959 o Waste Book 1947‐1951

District Commissioner’s Office Holding Cell Storage • Maps, papers government related from the 1980’s

South Caicos: District Commissioner’s Office

Records held cover 1943‐1999. Any records from before 1900 were removed to the TCNM where possible. A large number of records such as payment books, receipts and vouchers from the Treasury were removed and destroyed while I was present. Records also cover Crown lands, maps of land plots across the Turks and Caicos Islands, Liquor Licenses, Executive Council, Justice of the Peace, Civil Aviation Authority, Famine and Pauper Relief, Governor and VIP visits, Fishing, Agriculture and trades. The majority of the records are in fair condition due to the storage in filing cabinets. However at this time the cabinets are rusting severely and there is much mould present.

Providenciales: All records are sent to the appropriate offices in Grand Turk.

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North and Middle Caicos: District Commissioner’s Offices‐ all records were sent to South Caicos District Commissioner’s Offices.

Survey of other Community Record Holders

Church Records

The Anglican Church was the first established in the islands, with the earliest records dating back to 1798, and the parish of St. Thomas extended across the whole island of Grand Turk, the other islands had their own church/parish jurisdiction and also central record storage. Although today there are a variety of churches across the Turks and Caicos Islands, the jurisdiction is currently broken down into the three earliest churches, Anglican (Church of England), Baptist and Methodist, all of whom have central repositories on Grand Turk, who have the most records and are the holders of any records from before 1900.

1. Anglican: Central record storage for St. Thomas, Grand Turk, and St. John, Salt Cay. St. George on South Caicos holds jurisdiction over Middle Caicos, North Caicos and Providenciales. The records from South Caicos are currently missing. They were removed from the church in the 1990’s presumably at the same time as the Grand Turk Anglican records (Denise Lakey and Ships of Discovery) for preservation filming, although inquiries were being made to date they have not yet been recovered.

Records Held: Grand Turk: Baptism, Funeral and Marriage registers: 1864‐present.

Records also held at: St. John’s, Salt Cay: 75% fair to good condition, most bindings still attached but loose pages and fragmentary records pre‐1900 (not readily accessible)

• Register of Marriages 1909‐1981 • Register of Burials 1909‐current • Register of Baptisms 1909‐current • Register of Confirmation • Fragmentary Lists of services 1899 or earlier, list of linens etc. 1899 or earlier

2. Baptist: Salem Baptist Church: Central record storage for North, Middle, South Caicos, Providenciales and Salt Cay. The Church was established in 1836 and the current building opened 2010.

Records also held at: The Jamaican Baptist Union and The Baptist Society in the United Kingdom. Churches named: Salt Cay: Mount Zion, South Caicos: Mount Olivet (also called East Harbour), Middle Caicos: Mount Mariah, Mount Hermon, Bethlehem, North Caicos: Ebeneezer (Sandy Point), Mount Lebanon (Bottle Creek), , Bethel (Kew) Providenciales: Jericho, Bethany, Paradise (also called Blue Hills)

Inventory of Records

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Births, Baptisms and Deaths: Lorimers (Middle Caicos) 1864 • Register of Name, when and how received, when and how removed Lorimers, Bambarra, Mt. Peto, Bottle Creek, • 1866 • Grand Turk 1868 • Salt Cay and Cockburn Harbour 1868 • Alphabetised list of names B‐W • Baptisms only to end

Dedications (Baptisms) Earliest Date of Birth 1865 1880‐1907

The Original Marriage Register 1895 • Various pages of the Marriage Register 1881, 1883‐4, ‐ 1887

Grand Turk Sunday School Register 1883 • School superintendents elected etc 1879‐1880 • Register also includes entries from 1877‐1880 • Also Weekly Penny Subscribers list 1895

Names of Seat Holders‐Grand Cay 1863 • Births, Dedications 1910‐1918 • Includes: Dedication of Illegitimate Children May 19, 1886–Dec 1911 • Dedications (includes Date of Birth) Earliest DOB 1905‐some illegt. Dec 1911‐ 1925

Membership of the Grand Turk Baptist Church. 1885‐1910 • Revised and Recopied January 1885 • Male and female entered separately

Marriage Register 2 pages 1907‐1908

Baptist Sunday School Register and Minutes Book Sept 1937‐1947 • Accounts 1938‐1939 • Teacher and Scholars Roll 1944‐1945 • Lesson content, school opened by etc. 1937‐1942

Births and Marriages: earliest birth Aug. 21st 1930, 1st page missing Sep 1935‐Jun 1945 • Dedications and birth dates: Rev. Glen L. Walters (Mentions Blue Hills, Sandy Point, Kew, Five Cays, Grand Turk, Bight, Salt Cay, East Harbour, Bottle Creek, Conch Bar, Lorimers, Bambarra and Whitby) • Marriages in Salem Baptist Church, Grand Turk (one in the Bight) 1937‐ July 1938 (Includes original Marriage Certificates from Feb 1st 1944) • At back of book Baptisms starts again June 9, 1945 ‐ May 11, 1947 • Burials: March 16th 1937‐ March 3rd 1953 • Pauper notes: 1950’s • Also St. Thomas Marriage Officers Certificate June 1944

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Marriage Register 1938‐1948

Marriages and Baptisms 1948‐1952

Burial Records: Parish of St. George, The Bight: loose pages 1952

Duplicate Marriage Register Caicos Circuit of Baptist Churches (Marriage Register Salem Baptist Church) 1953‐1966

Register of Dedication of Children, Turks & Caicos Is. Baptist Union, Baptist Church, December 1963‐2009 1962‐2009 (contains remarks: “Father is Married”)

Register of Baptisms, Turks & Caicos Is. Baptist Union, Baptist Church, December 1963 1963‐1977

Marriage Register, Salem Baptist Church , 1966‐1974 (Rev. Glen Walters) 1.12.66‐10.8.74

Salem Baptist Officers Meeting Minutes May 1972‐1977

Marriage Register (Rev. Ednold H. Outten) Jan 22nd 1975‐Dec 24th 1983

3. Methodist: Central records held on Grand Turk or with the Diocese of Jamaica, Diocese of the Bahamas. Records Held: Various records, post‐1920. Records also held at: Pre‐1900 documents held in Jamaica or the Bahamas.

The Turks and Caicos National Museum

Established in 1986, by a private funder, Grethe Seim, the TCNM, a non‐profit, non‐government funded institution had for many years been the only safe repository for artifacts and records in the islands. Although the museum’s mission was not initially to collect government records, the British government records were stored and collected and over the years the Museum became concerned especially after episodes of civil unrest. Dissociation has led to some confusion in the past with the exact location of some donations, occasionally resulting in a reluctance to transfer items to the Museum. Church records from the Anglican Church of St. Thomas, which had been placed in the care of the TCNM as a copying and preservation measure, remained relatively hidden until my arrival. Ownership and donation or loan status issues have arisen during the 6 months of the EAP. The two most pressing were the Anglican Church and the government archives (National Archives to be) collections.

Pre‐1900 records in the TCNM Collection: (see attached inventory list, Appendix 2) Records on Microfilm in the TCNM Collection: (see attached inventory list, Appendix 3) Transcribed Government and other records in the TCNM Archive: (see attached inventory list, Appendix 4)

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Private Collections

Herwin Salt cay Benevolent Society Books

75% poor condition, insect eaten bindings but pages mostly intact, letters and receipts in good condition

• Benevolent Hall 1948‐1956 • No Cover‐ 1948, contains Sick and Burial General Funds 1948‐1950, Roll Book (Index of Names) dues 1948‐1955 • Minute Book 1943‐1948 • Fragments: 7 pages of 1931 Minutes • Fragments: List of members. Front and back cover and 3 pages 1915, 1930‐1941 • Minutes 1940‐1943 with names of attendees • One page June 16th 1930 • Loose front and back cover • Letter 1940‐ asking for funds • Insurance Certificate 1967 • Notepad‐ Fragments: 3 pages 1934 • Benevolent Union Minute Book 1970 • Roll Book‐very faded names readable, poor condition with cover, 1934‐1937 • Rules, Roll Book 1960‐1963 ‐ Insect damage, pages together but no covers. List of members since 1914 in the front of the book • Minutes 1963‐1970, cover in good condition, foxing and some discolouration present • Benevolent Society minutes: March 6, 1956‐1960‐ cover unattached, but otherwise good condition • Loose Back cover‐names but no date • Minutes‐ August 10th 1937‐1939: Book‐ no front cover, binding sound • BWA Sick and Burial Fund 1936‐1940‐ also contains expenses 1936, assorted loose pages 1936, assorted loose pages 1934‐1936, 2 assorted loose pages 1934, 1935

Harriott: Salt Cay Salt Company Records

Tatem‐Wood: Grand Turk Grand Turk Personal and Business Records

Brooker‐Wood: Grand Turk Grand Turk and Canada Personal and Business Records

Estimate and Extent of Records documented and digitized

3 Linear feet

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Conclusions and Further Recommendations

During the EAP contact was made with the Familysearch organization in Utah, part of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, who currently run a worldwide project to digitize records, deeds and Birth, Death and Marriage registers to preserve and improve access to this information. Mr. Tim Law came to Grand Turk for three days in March, to meet with the Church and Government officials who may have been interested in making use of this free service. We had an Archives Basics workshop and Mr. Law gave a presentation on the history of the Familysearch organization and mission. After the meeting I was asked to host other archival presentations, to the church members to explain the procedure and why it was important.

To date, the Anglican, Baptist and Methodist churches are all working to finalize agreements to go ahead with this vital preservation and information accessibility work. The Permanent Secretary of Border Control and Immigration is currently working with the Attorney General’s office to word the copying contract to their satisfaction. There is currently an issue with a contract upheld by the laws of Utah, USA over the laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands. A compromise may be reached with a contract upheld by British law, however this has not yet been resolved. The Familysearch digitization team is starting to plan their visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands and I am extremely hopeful that they will be able to gain access to all the pre‐ 1900 records and those up to the present day where appropriate, subject to privacy laws.

Issues of Ownership proved a little problematic during this project. Government documents, wherever they are currently stored, were not to be moved and placed in the TCNM as originally assumed by the project proposal. The Governor had given the TCNM and Project Archivist permission to collect materials, but the other local government offices would only allow materials to be taken in on long‐term loan. This highlights the problem of not having a National Archive. The TCNM, although offering to house items, does not have enough room to house and care for the records currently stored in the Old Police Station and imminent development places them in extreme danger.

The governor and his office were alerted to the conditions and future prospects of those records and started to search for an alternative storage site. However, a move on that scale should be overseen by a trained professional and basic treatment and sorting should be carried out during the move. A basic project budget for the preservation and stabilization of these records would be close to $150,000. The governor’s Office did mention they may look for overseas funding, but this is not definite, so at the time of writing the records are still in an extremely high‐risk situation.

A major digitization and preservation project could be carried out in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Recommendations from a disaster and mould mitigation expert, Dan Oselette, are that to process just the government archives from their current state would take up to a year with one project archivist and one or two archival team members. Issues of final location and ownership of material (and also more importantly on Grand Turk, continued costs for the preservation and upkeep of the storage) must be agreed upon in advance, and agreement from all offices involved must also be sought in advance. The TCNM’s involvement would be encouraged and the use of their facilities required unless better conditions are available elsewhere.

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As far as collections already housed in the TCNM archive storage, digitization of these should be carried out for greater accessibility.

For further information please see:

Appendix 1 Colonial Archives Project Report Appendix 2 TCNM Archive: Pre‐1900 Documents Inventory Appendix 3 TCNM Archive: Microfilm Inventory Appendix 4 TCNM Archive: Transcript Inventory Appendix 5 Turks and Caicos Islands Records in other Repositories

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Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Accession Description Date of Number Creation T‐0358 Handbook of the Turks & Caicos Islands, 1897 1897 T‐0407 Land Grant to Joseph H. Deane: 2 May 1887 also Land Transaction certifying Eliza Paris owner of 1887, 1902 land previously belonging to Joseph Deane signed by Susan Deane, witnessed by May Moore 24 Jan 1902 T‐0438 Map: Islands and banks between San Salvador and San Domingo, published by the Admiralty, 1889 London, UK T‐0533 Maps; removed from books: St. Domingue, c. 1770, Turques Isles, c. 1779, Turks and Caicos, 1880 1770, 1779, 1880 T‐0534 Map: Ile de St. Domingue, Le Nid du Faucon, Grand Caye‐Turque, 1857 1857 TCNM.2004.22.1 Map: West India Islands including North and South America, 1811 1811 TCNM.2004.22.2 Map: West Indies including North and South America, c.1751 1751 TCNM.2004.22.3 Map: Cuba and Hispaniola including the Leeward Islands and South America, 1690 1690 TCNM.2008.11 Journal and business ledger: contains lists of monies paid in full, includes shipping receipt between 1886‐ Anthony Tatem and H. Astwood for a gold watch using the West India Steamship Line. Signed by Tatem and Bean on the front page and the mark of David Manuel. Mentions: the purchase of various mules, and when they died, cost of jewelry, correspondence between family members etc. First Page dated is 1886. TCNM.2009.6.1 Journal of Ship's captain Thomas Phillips on the 1624 voyage. Includes specific accounts of 1746 Baradoes: the people, customs, forts and trade. TCNM.2009.6.3 Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Suppression of the African 1862 Slave Trade. TCNM.2009.43.1 Government Records: Post Office: 1890‐1988 1890 Mails Notice TCNM.2009.44.1 Government Records: Correspondence: 1805‐1872 1. Panel of jurors 1866 2. Correspondence 1872, 1805: regarding public warehouse to "Your Honor" from "Alex. W. Muir" President of the Turks and Caicos Islands 3. Sloop Eliza Return of Merchandize 1803 4. Payment of Duties for JCW Ralph Sept 21,1805 (2 docs) 5. n. d. list of supplies (?) 6. unidentified parish record ‐ St. James Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

7. Colonial Secretary's Office 1 Oct 1863 correspondence RE: note to NY Gov. regarding an ill shipmate of the British Schooner “Volunteer “ 8. Jan 6, 18(4)9 to President of TCI Muir from __ Darrell RE: warrant of arrest for correspondent's father. 9. Government Notice 1873 10. Note regarding New pilot rules n. d. 11. Note The Hawke's Nest Anchorage in the Turks Islands by Commander Richard Owen HMS Blossom 1830 TCNM.2009.45.1 Lighthouse Collection: Lighthouse Inspector’s Log, contains information about the Inspector’s 1895‐1901 maintenance visits to the Grand Turk Lighthouse, April 10, 1895‐September 5, 1901 TCNM.2009.47 Paper published by W. Bingley as evidence of the "wilful, deliberate, and determined' negligance of 3 Dec 1770 Parliament. Contains transcript from the House of Lords 22 November 1770. Accompanying note: "Turks Islands, mention of dispute with France (p. 584) TCNM.2009.48.17 Government Records: Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, Turks Islands, No. 5: Report on the Blue 1875 Book of the Turks and Caicos Islands for the year 1875. TCNM.2009.48.22 Government Records: The Past and Present State of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, Turks and 1860 Caicos Islands, Report for 1860 TCNM.2009.48.28 Government Records: Report from the Commissioner on the status of the Turks Islands. Extract 1887 from Report on the Blue Book for 1886: Report from the Commissioner on the status of the Turks Islands. TCNM.2009.48.32 Government Records: Type transcripts of government correspondence from the years 1763 to 1763‐1770 1770. TCNM.2009.48.33 Government Records: 1898 1898

TCNM.2009.48.36 Government Records: 1898‐1899 Annex to West Indian No. 85: Report by Dr. G.E. Brooke, Government Medical Officer, on his Second Tour of Medical Inspection, Nov. 12‐27, 1898. TCNM.2010.6.1 Government Records: Executive Council Meeting Minutes 1850‐1856 1850 ‐ 1856 (3 volumes) TCNM.2010.6.2 Government Records: Executive Council Meeting Minutes 1856‐1861 1856 ‐ 1861 (3 volumes) TCNM.2010.6.3 Government Records: Executive Council Meeting Minutes 1862‐1873 1862‐1873 (2 volumes) TCNM.2010.7 Government Records: Records of the Board of Representatives, Jamaica. 1797‐1805 Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Plantation No. 1 of 2: Minutes of the Board of Representatives 1797 ‐ 1805 TCNM.2010.8 Government Records: Legislative Council Records 1852‐1972 Box 1: T‐0431 Legislative Board Minute Book March 29, 1950‐May 1, 1959 Box 2: Minutes of the Legislative Council 1850‐51 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1852 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1853 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1855 Box 3: Minutes of the Legislative Council 1856‐1857 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1860‐63 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1864‐67 Box 4: Minutes of the Legislative Council 1868‐73 Minutes of the Legislative Council 1874‐94 Box 6: Legislative council re: salary of Common Gaol, dog tax Mar 15, 1858 Mar 30, 1858 Minutes and related correspondence

TCNM.2010.10 Government Records: Records of the Presidency: 1850‐1864, Box 1: Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands 1854 (Office of the President correspondence) 1872‐1876 Box 2: Correspondence to Government House, Grand Turk Letter Book 1850‐1864 Letter Book 1872‐1876 (contains index) TCNM.2010.11 Government Records: Records of the Colonial Secretary: Correspondence to and from the 1851‐1878 Colonial Secretary Office 1851 ‐ 1878 Box 1: Letters from the Colonial Secretary 1851‐1854 Letters General 1854‐1855 Box 2: Letters General 1859‐1862 Letter Book 1862 ‐ 1865 Box 3: Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Letter Book 1866‐1869 Letter Book 1871‐1873 Box 4: Government Notices 1854‐1862 Government Notices 1872‐1878 Correspondence from the Colonial Secretary: February ‐ March 1857 TCNM.2010.13 Government Records: Records of the Office of the Registrar, 1867‐1981 Box 2: T‐0348 Indenture of Shadrach Kerr Oversized Government Records Box T‐0349 Re‐communication of Power of Conrad Weech's Wife Margaret 1867 (very delicate) T‐0350 Deed of Indenture of Conrad Weech (?) 1867

TCNM.2010.14.1 Government Records: Dispatches received from London and Jamaica offices. Usually discusses 1849‐1929 new orders, changes in procedures, requests for information, announcements, health research, and other notifications. Box 1: Aug 12, Oct 20 1849; May 30, Dec 31 1859; Mar 12, Apr 5, 28, May 30, Oct 24, Dec 18, 1862; 1863 and index for July ‐ Dec; 1864 and list of circulars and index; Box 2: 1865 and index; June ‐ Dec 1866 and index; 1867; Apr 17, 1868; Dec 6, 1898; Box 3: 1899; July 24, 1900; July 24, 1908; Sept (?) 1925; March (?) 1929 TCNM.2010.14.2 Government Records: Dispatches and Correspondence to the Colonial Secretary, Grand Turk 1849‐1873 Box 1: Dispatches to the Governor and the Chief, 1849‐1850 Letters to the Colonial Office, 1850‐1873 Box 2: T‐0429 Dispatches to Governor in Chief from September, 1850‐November, 1852 Box 3: Dispatches to the Governor and the Chief, vol.1, 1853 Box 4: Dispatches to the Governor and Chief, vol. 2, 1853 Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Box 5: Dispatches to the Governor and the Chief, 1854‐1857 Box 6: Dispatches to the Governor and Chief, vol. II, 1857‐1860

TCNM.2010.15.1 Government Records: Correspondence of the Commissioner's Office 1847‐1900 Box 1: Record of Correspondence, 1889 ‐ 1895 Record of Correspondence, 1895 ‐ 1899 Box 3: Letter Book, 1880 ‐ 1881 Box 4: Letters, General ,1895‐1898 Letters, General ,1898 TCNM.2010.15.2 Government Records: Administrative Records of the Commissioner's Office 1878‐1914 Salt Records as recorded by the Commissioner and his Salt Cay representative (Harriott) Box 5: Salt Book, Commisher's Office, 1878‐1936 Box 6: Salt Pond Board Records, 1895‐1914 (mold) TCNM.2010.15.3 Government Records: Administrative Records of the Commissioner's Office 1829‐1921 Box 2: Cash Book, 1864‐1886 Ledger, 1867‐1889 Box 3: Turks Island Militia, 1847 Box 10: Turks and Caicos Records Book D. 1829‐1832, including index (transcribed) 1888 Hurricane Relief Report Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Box 11: Accounting Department Account of Chest ‐ Survey Letters, 1886 ‐ 1895 Pauper Relief, 1899‐1921 Box 18: Application for Land Petitions, 1897 ‐ 1939 F. Forth to Crown Company re: property boundary with Astwood, 1844

TCNM.2010.15.4 Government Records: Administrative Records of the Commissioner's Office 1824‐1855 Box 9: Mosquito Shore Address, 1824 Copies of Addresses and Correspondence with Governor of Bahamas, 1844 ‐ 1847 T‐0354 Addresses and Reports to and From London, printed 1847 Election Petition Committee 1853 Accounts n. d. (c. 1855)

TCNM.2010.16.1 Government Records: 1841‐1855 Transactions relating to ships registered under the 8th and 9th Victoria, Cap. 89 May 18, 1841 ‐ April 21st, 1855 (oversized)

TCNM.2010.17.1 Government Records: Records of the Ministry of Justice: Ordinances and Administrative Records. 1846‐1853 Criminal Cases: 1846‐53 statistics Ordinance 1858: re: public service salary Ordinance 1858: re: voting

TCNM.2010.17.2 Government Records: Records of the Ministry of Justice: Ordinances and Administrative Records. 1841‐1950 Laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands Vol. III, 1847 Authenticated Ordinances, 1889‐1905 Supreme Court Minute Book ,1901‐1910 St. James Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1841‐1847 Oath Book, 1909‐1950 (not inclusive) TCNM.2010.17.3 Papers found on the grounds outside the Prison July 2005. Unprocessed, but surveyed as below: 1861‐1864 1. Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln 2. Correspondence between Grand Turk and Haiti and Puerta Plata and other parts of the Caribbean 3. Numerous letters, affidavits, etc. referencing ship‐wrecked schooners, sloops and other vessels. Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

4. References to military presence and problems. 5. Legal Documents. 6. Government correspondence, especially that of the Governor /President e.g. Alexander Wits___ Moiv. 7. Letters and documents referencing to the salt ponds on Grand Turk and Salt Cay. There workings, ownership, prices, etc. 8. Prison day by day records ‐ 1943 9. Law and order concerns 10. Other documents. TCNM.2010.18 Newspaper: The Royal Standard including the Turks and Caicos Gazette 1849‐1907 Box 1: Select issues for: 1849 (T‐0434), 1851, 1888, 1894, 1849‐1852 (T‐0352), 1870 ‐ 1873 Box 2: 1870 – 1877, 1882 ‐ 1885 (poor condition), select issues in 1889, 1894, 1903 ‐ 1907 (oversized) TCNM.2010.19.1 Government Records: Journals and Administrative Records, Central Prison, Grand Turk 1887‐1890 Prison Records 1887‐1890 TCNM.2010.20.5 1.Registrar’s paperwork: Land Transaction, William S.Adams to Zaccheus Frith (2 documents) 1821,1871,1876 Register of Deed in Renunciation of Dower mortgage for Zaccheus Frith property by Herbert R Spencer, November 9, 1876 2. Letter to President Campbell, Government House from Queen's Advocate's Office regarding the Barrack's lot for the use of Episcopal Church, August 2, 1871 3. Letter from Honerable Wylly recording the building of the church, May 5, 1821 TCNM.2010.22 Harriott Papers: 1830‐1863 1.Copy of Labour Book ,1860 ‐ 1863 2.copies of salt industry and business documents 3.Original Labour Book, 1830 ‐ 1863 TCNM.2010.24 Crofton Coverley Papers: Papers relating to deed of gift, 1898 1898‐1979 TCNM.2010.28.2 Victoria Public Library Collection: Rules of the Victoria Public Library, Grand Turk 1852 TCNM.2010.28.4 Victoria Public Library Collection: Trustee Records, Deed of Trustee 1866, Trustee Letters of 1866, 1946 Appointment, 1946 TCNM.2010.29.1 St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Records: Records for St. Thomas, Grand Turk, including: 1799‐1922 Book 1 Marriages: 1799 ‐ 1813 Births and Baptisms: 1798 ‐ 1813 Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Pre‐1900 Document Inventory Appendix 2

Births and Baptisms: 1808 ‐ 1818 Burials: 1804 ‐ 1812 Book 2 Register of Marriages: 1805 ‐ 1812 Births and Baptisms: 1792 ‐ 1818 Funerals: 1804 ‐ 1812 Book 3 Marriage Registry: 1822 ‐ 1833; Rev. William Strachan, Rev. Lindsay Item 4: Marriage Register c. 1870 ‐ 1877(loose sheets) Item 5: Marriages:1835 ‐ 1922, Baptism 1874 (loose) Item 6: Births and Baptisms: 1835 ‐ 1922, Index of Registry Item 7: Deaths: 1835 ‐ 1922 Item 8: Register of Book Divine Service Turks Island: 1847 ‐ 1864 Item 9: Register of Church Services: 1878 ‐ 1903 (loose) Item 10: Minutes of Church Meetings: 1879 ‐ 1894 (not inclusive, loose sheets)

TCNM.2010.29.2 St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Records: Baptism Records St. Thomas, Grand Turk 1822 ‐ 1835, 1824 TCNM.2010.30.1 St. John Anglican Church Parish Records: St. John Register of Baptisms, Salt Cay, Commencing 1865 1865‐1909 TCNM.2010.30.2 St. John Anglican Church Parish Records: Admission register for Public School at St. John's Parish, 1888‐1975 Salt Cay (extremely brittle) TCNM.2010.41 Parish Records: Correspondence between Reverend Isaac Pegg and President Campbell relating to 1821‐1830 the establishment, funding and maintenance of the Baptist Church TCNM.2010.43 The Morning Post Feb 12, 1788 (copy) 1765‐1785 Edinburgh Advertiser Aug 1764 (copy) London Chronicle (originals in flat files) Jan 1765, June 1785 re: French relations Aris's Birmingham Gazette May 1774

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T‐446 United States Consular Records: US Consular Office Dispatches: 1818‐1906 Containing: numbered dispatches, correspondence and letters, memoranda about general matters and finances, between the US Consular Office on Grand Turk/Turks Island and the US Government, Washington D.C 1)Jan 10 1818‐ Dec 26 1839 2)July 15 1840‐May 1845 3)July 10 1845‐Dec 3 1850 4)Jan 3 1851‐Dec 29 1854 5)Jan 8 1855‐Nov 30 1856 6)Jan 1 1857‐Oct 13 1857 7)Jan 1 1858‐Dec 12 1859 8)Jan 2 1860‐Mar 28 1861 9)Apr 1 1861‐Nov 6 1861 10)Jan 1 1862‐Dec 22 1862 11)Jan 2 1863‐Dec 31 1863 12)Jan 18 1864‐Oct 20 1865 13)Jan 1 1866‐Dec 31 1868 14)Apr 1 1869‐Jan 17 1872 15)Jan 29 1872‐Sep 14 1874 16)Dec 15 1874‐Apr 1 1882 17)July 6 1882‐Dec 31 1883 18)Jan 4 1894‐May 31 1906

National Archive Microfiche Sheets: On Loan to the TCNM 1797‐1900, 1926, 1980 1) F. Henry Pusey‐“The Handbook of the Turks and Caicos Islands,” 1900 2) The Royal Standard and Gazette of the Turks and Caicos Islands. 15 Jan 1879 (27 Dec 1873) 70 sheets 3) Dispatches to Governor in Chief, Jan 1853, 11 sheets 4) Dispatches to Governor in Chief, Dec 1857‐Dec 1860, 12 sheets 5) Dispatches to Governor in Chief, Jan 1854‐Dec 1860, 10 sheets 6) Dispatches to Governor in Chief, July 1849‐Sep 1850, 38 sheets 7) Letter book‐ 3 Jan 1866‐14 Jan 1869, 6 sheets Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Microfilm Inventory Appendix 3

8) General Letters‐ March 1898‐Dec 1898, 3 sheets 9) Letter book‐ 26 Apr 1869‐18 Oct 1873, 3 sheets 10) Letters‐ 7 Jan 1870‐Dec 13 1873, 3 sheets 11) Letters, General‐ 1854‐1855, 5 sheets 12) Letter book‐ 6 Apr 1880‐28 Nov 1881, 5 sheets 13) Letter book Commissioner’s office‐ 8 Feb 1872‐21 Oct 1876,6 sheets 14) Letters to the Colonial Office‐ 15 Mar 1850‐10 Dec 1877, 4 sheets 15) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 4 Jan 1854‐12 Dec 1854, 2 sheets 16) Turks and Caicos Islands Council Chamber‐ 13 May 1868‐12 Nov 1873, 6 sheets 17) Hurricane 1926‐ Newspaper cuttings, 1 sheet 18) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 12 May 1854‐26 Sep 1862, 1 sheet 19) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 18 Mar 1856‐16 Oct 1857, 2 sheets 20) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 6 Apr 1852‐31 Dec 1852, 3 sheets 21) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐Minutes of Proceedings of Executive Council during 1980, 3 sheets 22) Colonial Secretary’s Office Grand Turk‐ 30 Dec 1851‐ 2 Jan 1854, 3 sheets 23) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 14 Jan 1859‐23 Dec 1859, 2 sheets 24) Letters, General‐ 1859‐1860, 5 sheets 25) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ July 1852‐11 Dec 1854, 5 sheets 26) Council Chamber‐ 10 Oct 1850‐24 Dec 1851, 4 sheets 27) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐23 Jan 1855‐1 Nov 1855, 2 sheets 28) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐1853, 3 sheets 29) Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands‐ 20 May 1864‐12 Dec 1867, 4 sheets 30) Letter book‐Minutes of the Legislative Board‐1874‐1894, 7 sheets 31) Letters, General‐ 1895‐1898, 1 sheet 32) Board of Executive Council‐11 Dec 1854‐26 Sep 1856, 4 sheets 33) Letter book‐ 8 Nov 1862‐30 Dec 1865, 6 sheets Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Microfilm Inventory Appendix 3

34) Government Notices‐ 5 Jan‐10 July 1878, 4 sheets 35) Board of Executive Council‐25 Aug 1856‐14 Dec 1857, 2 sheets 36) Minutes by Legislative Council‐ 11 Sep 1860‐24 Jul 1863, 4 sheets 37) Council Chamber‐ 6 Nov 1850‐6 Sep 1851, 2 sheets 38) Turks Island Militia‐1847, 1 sheet 39) Dispatches to the Governor‐“Government House, Grand Turk, 2 Sep 1850”, 9 sheets 40) Dispatches to the Governor‐ Feb 1858‐Dec 1858, 14 sheets 41) Minutes of the Council Chamber‐ 4 Jan 1862‐24 Dec 1869, 6 sheets 42) Minutes of the Board of Representatives‐1797‐1805, 23sheets

Colonial Office Records copied from National Archives, London, UK 1717‐1847 Includes various correspondence and letters, memoranda, dispatches, from Secretary of State, Board of trade and other offices. CO23/1‐127 (1717‐1847) CO23/1‐297; 338‐590; 593‐663; 665‐689; 691‐715; 717; 719‐739; 741‐742; 744‐ 749; 751‐811; 814‐899 CO301/1‐23; 24‐27; 28‐66 CO302/1‐8; 9‐13 CO303/1‐16 CO304/1‐95 TCNM.2010.29.1 St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Records: Records for St. Thomas, Grand 1799‐1922 Turk, including: Marriages: 1799 ‐ 1813 Births and Baptisms: 1798 ‐ 1813 Births and Baptisms: 1808 ‐ 1818 Burials: 1804 ‐ 1812 Register of Marriages: 1805 ‐ 1812 Births and Baptisms: 1792 ‐ 1818 Funerals: 1804 ‐ 1812 Marriage Registry: 1822 ‐ 1833; Rev. William Strachan, Rev. Lindsay Marriage Register c. 1870 ‐ 1877(loose sheets) Marriages:1835 ‐ 1922, Baptism 1874 (loose) Births and Baptisms: 1835 ‐ 1922, Index of Registry Endangered Archive Grant Survey Report Turks and Caicos National Museum Archive: Microfilm Inventory Appendix 3

Deaths: 1835 ‐ 1922 Register of Book Divine Service Turks Island: 1847 ‐ 1864 Register of Church Services: 1878 ‐ 1903 (loose) Minutes of Church Meetings: 1879 ‐ 1894 (not inclusive, loose sheets)

TCNM.2010.29.2 St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Records: Baptism Records St. Thomas, 1822 ‐ 1835, 1824 Grand Turk TCNM.2010.30.1 St. John Anglican Church Parish Records: St. John Register of Baptisms, Salt Cay 1865‐1909 TCNM.2011.06 Government Records: Registrar General’s Office: Parish Register Records: 1822‐1835, 1864‐1991 Filmed by Genealogical Society of Utah, 1991. Copies received by TCNM April 2011. 1699981: Registers of Births 1864‐1934 1699982: Registers of Births 1934‐1978 1699983: Registers of Births 1978‐1991, Registers of Baptisms 1864‐1971 1699984: Registers of Baptisms 1971‐1990, Registers of Marriages 1864‐1987, Register of Deaths 1864‐1913 1699985: Registers of Deaths 1914‐1991, Registers of Burials 1864‐1990, Register of Deaths 1955‐1975 (Grand Turk Island, St. Thomas Parish only), Register of Burials 1822‐1835 (Bahamas, Grand Turk Island, St. Thomas Parish only) British Library: Newspapers 1858‐1866 Royal Standard‐Grand Turk, Turks Island, Vol.5, 11‐13 17 July 1858‐29 Dec 1866

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Accession Number Description Dates of Creation TCNM.2009.48.32 Typed transcripts of government correspondence from the years 1763 to 1770 1763‐1770 (1990) Turks Islands: Copies of Official Records connected with the Turks Islands from 1797 1797‐1805, 1846 to 1805: Compiled and Copied into this Book by order of His Excellency G. Benvenuto Mathew Esquire, Governor of the Bahamas, 1846 pp.1‐263 TCNM.2010.10 Government Records: Records of the Presidency, 1854: 1854 January 4, May 30, June 6, June 15, June 20, June 26, June 28, July 18, July 25,August 8, October 12 TCNM.2010.8 Government Records: Minutes of the Legislative Council: 1850‐1894 1850: October 10, October 23, 1852: April 6, June12 , July 7, July 14, July 21, July 27, July 30, August 3, August 6, September 21, November 2, November 11, November 20, 1853:October 11, October 13,October 14,October 19, October 26, October 29, December 23, December 29, November 2, 1855: July 3, October 2, February 5, June 8, February 14, February 22, October 31, 1856: April 1, July 2, June 2, September 14, April 15, October 15, September 16, March 18, July 22, June 24, May 28 1860: September 11, December 13, 1861: July 4, July 10, September 11, November 12, July 17, June 25, November 27 1862: September 3,December 10, May 12, August 14, 1863: May 13,May 21,April 14, July 23,June 23, June 30, 1864: July 8, April 12, May 20 1865: June 8,April 25, 1866: August 31 1867: December 11, June 19, 1868: August 12, May 21, 1869: May 12, May 25, July 27 1870: January 7, January 8, March 23, May 23, April 26, October 26, September 26 1871: January 4, April 11, July 27 1872: May 10, January 12, February 27 1873: July 3, June 3, August 4, January 10, March 10, January 23 1874: August 12

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1876: October 11, September 19 1879: January 6, May 7, 1881: January 10, October 12, 1882: January 9 1883: May 3, January 8, May 29 1884: July 23 1886: February 2, June 6 1887: February 1 1889: February 12 1890: March 17 1891: August 10 1892: April 18 1893: February 7 1894: October 17, February 19 TCNM.2010.10 Government Records: Records of the Presidency: Letter Book 1850‐1864: 1850‐1864 Including Index to Letter Book TCNM.2010.29.1 St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Records: Records for St. Thomas, Grand Turk. 1799‐1922 Partial Transcription of damaged and fragile records only. Marriages: 1799 ‐ 1813 Births and Baptisms: 1798 ‐ 1813 Births and Baptisms: 1808 ‐ 1818 Burials: 1804 ‐ 1812 Register of Marriages: 1805 ‐ 1812 Births and Baptisms: 1792 ‐ 1818 Funerals: 1804 ‐ 1812 Marriage Registry: 1822 ‐ 1833; Rev. William Strachan, Rev. Lindsay Marriage Register c. 1870 ‐ 1877(loose sheets) Marriages:1835 ‐ 1922, Baptism 1874 (loose) Births and Baptisms: 1835 ‐ 1922, Index of Registry Deaths: 1835 ‐ 1922 TCNM.2010.15.3 Government Records: Administrative Records of the Commissioner’s Office: 1829‐1832 Box 10: Turks and Caicos Records Book “D”: includes Index

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Location Reference Number Description Dates of Creation Jamaica Government 1B/5/61 Outgoing Despatches Jamaica to 1850‐1873 Department of Records and Turks Islands; 4 records Archives 1B/5/62 Incoming Despatches, Turks Islands 1849‐1873 to Jamaica; 41 records; 1849 1B/5/63 Turks Islands Circulars, Secretary of 1850‐1867 State for the Colonies to the Governor of Jamaica, 1 record; 1B/5/64 Despatches Turks Islands Miscellaneous Records 1B/5/76/3/14 Turks Islands ‐ Proclamation re 1873 annexation to the colony of Jamaica; 1B/5/76/3/60 Turks and Caicos Island ‐ Rules 1896 under "The Crown Lands Ordinance 1896"; Special Collections and MS 372 The Stubbs Family Papers consists 1790‐1956 Preservation Department of the of personal and business papers National Library of Jamaica spanning approximately four generations of a family based in the Turks and Caicos Islands. They had widespread business connections in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Demerara, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), the United States and Canada. The Stubbs Family Papers are made up of letters, notebooks, deeds, photographs, and other printed and hand‐written manuscripts. The collection contains useful snippets of information including visits to Endangered Archives Project 408 Turks and Caicos Islands Records in other Repositories

Haiti in the mid‐1850s with comments on religion, race relations, and customs. Data on the planting of sugar cane is included. In fact, the notebooks provide daily fragments of information relating to farming and weather. The Stubbs collection is useful because it covers a period of evolving economic and social changes and researchers would be interested in the response of the family to the changing climate. British Library Newspapers 17 July 1858‐29 Dec 1866 Royal Standard‐Grand Turk, Turks Island, Vol.5, 11‐13 17 National Archives( Public CO23/1‐127 (1717‐1847) Colonial Office Records 1717‐1847 Record Office), London, UK CO23/1‐297; 338‐590; 593‐663; Includes various correspondence 665‐689; 691‐715; 717; 719‐739; and letters, memoranda, 741‐742; 744‐749; 751‐811; 814‐ dispatches, from Secretary of State, 899 Board of trade and other offices.

CO301/1‐23; 24‐27; 28‐66

CO302/1‐8; 9‐13

CO303/1‐16

CO304/1‐95 National Archives, Washington United States Consular Records: 1818‐1906 D.C. USA US Consular Office Dispatches: Containing: numbered dispatches, correspondence and letters, memoranda about general matters Endangered Archives Project 408 Turks and Caicos Islands Records in other Repositories

and finances, between the US Consular Office on Grand Turk/Turks Island and the US Government, Washington D.C

University of Manitoba, MSS 188, PC 180 Lewis St. George Stubbs fonds 1890‐1982 Archives and Special Collections Bahamas National Archives Land records 1845‐1879 Birth records 1934‐1960 Birth and Baptism 1963 Deaths and Burials 1822‐35, 1864‐1990 Records re: wills 1842‐1948 Marriage Licenses 1874‐1876 Miscellaneous Public Records (i.e. 1823‐1934 Wills, Deeds, Conveyances, Dower, Land grants etc.) Governor’s Dispatches 1835‐36,1847 Colonial Office Records(PRO, UK) CO23 Votes of House of Assembly(Minutes and Appendices) 1848‐1850 Other records: Blue Book Reports Laws of Bahamas Journal of House of Assembly Chalmes Pages Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Maps 1787 France Depot des Archives d’Outre‐ Piece 543 Description of the Turks Islands 1778‐1795 Mer, Aix‐en‐Provence, D.F.C Amerique meridionale et Antilles etrangeres, GoogleBooks Laws of the Turks and Caicos Comprising the imperial statutes, 1862 Endangered Archives Project 408 Turks and Caicos Islands Records in other Repositories

Islands acts of the General Assembly of the Bahamas Islands, extended to this presidency, and ordinances enacted by the Legislative Council of the same, in force at the date of the publication of this work.