| Scope and Content: | Series consists of data on individuals, families and businesses that were involved in the settlement, fisheries and trade of Newfoundland from earliest settlement to 1850. The files were compiled from a wide variety of English, Irish and Newfoundland records, include parish registers, newspapers, shipping records, customs records, political papers, census records, merchant records, diaries, records of the British Colonial Office, Admiralty and Board of Trade, muster rolls and crew lists etc. Most of the data concerns people from the West of England, but it also includes individuals involved with the Newfoundland trade who resided in London, Ireland, Bristol and the Channel Islands. The collection includes data on 7,300 surnames, arranged by surname and subdivided by given name. Records are arranged by surname. |
