Associated with the British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories Project.
Bermuda Project
The mission of the project is to add and improve profiles of early and significant Bermudans. Project members take primary responsibility for relevant profiles or family groups and work on merging duplicates, cleaning up profiles, adding sources, removing incorrect information and offer research assistance as needed.
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How to Join
To see our current members, please see the list below
To join the project:
- Answer this question on G2G.
- Add Bermuda to your G2G tag feed. In Process.
- Check out the To-Do list below to find something to help us work on, and add yourself (or ask one of us to) to that task.
Goals
- For each person:
- All duplicates merged into lowest number
- PPP added
- pertaining categories added
- templates added
- biography cleaned up and written, using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help)
- Attached family meets these goals, too
- Attached to the main WikiTree family tree (ask the GFR for help)
Bermuda Sub-Project Google Community
See: Google Community for a location for project members and others to comment or raise issues regarding the project. Our G2G location is the best place to post queries regarding research.
Participants
- M. Gaulden, Mags is interested in the early settlers of Bermuda and is possibly a descendant of William Goulding.
- Leanne Cooper, Leanne has deep roots in Bermuda, through her paternal grandfather, Hugh Donovan Cooper, a male-line descendant of Thomas Cooper. Other names include Albuoy, Beek, Ingham, Masters, Moore, Newbold, Spencer, Stowe, White, Whitter, Young
- Edward Dunscombe - Bermuda Project. Bermuda surnames include Dunscomb(e), Seon, Greatbatch, Outerbridge, Manley, Pitt, Tucker, Godfrey, Sherlock, Burrows, Appowen, Stowe.
- Stuart Ward - My closest Bermuda ancestor is Alfred Smith. I'm lucky enough to share many common ancestors with C.F.E. Hollis Hallett's husband.
- Samantha Robinson
Bermuda Project Sticker
Usage instructions can be found here : Bermuda Project Sticker
{{Bermuda Sticker}} will result in:
... ... ... was an early or significant Bermudan.
Tasks
- Identify Profiles in need of project treatment
- Add resources to the lists below
- Add information for Parishes
- Add (or find) Governors of Bermuda to (on) WikiTree, give profile project treatment - listed here: Governors of Bermuda. Please fill in the table when the work has been completed.
Resources
- Bermuda on WikiPedia
- A guide to the records of Bermuda by Helen Rowe
- Bermuda on Family Search
- All sorts of information
- Genforum, Bermuda Genealogy Forum
- Find a Grave - Bermuda
- Ancestry Message Boards on Bermuda
- Bermuda National Library
- Bermuda Biographies
- Bermuda's Historical Homes
- Witchcraft in Bermuda
- Legacies of British Slavery
- WWI Participants
- Bermuda Archives
- Government Administration Building
- 30 Parliament Street
- Hamilton, HM 13, Pembroke
- BERMUDA
- 441-297-7737; fax 441-295-8751
- reference.archives@gov.bm
- Bermuda Archives Website
- Bermuda Registry - (Birth and marriage records are available from 1866 to the present. Death records are available from 1865 to the present)
- Registry General
- Ministry of Labor and Home Affairs
- Government Administration Building
- 30 Paliament St.
- Hamilton, 5-24, Bermuda
- West Indies
- (809) 295-5151
- Bermuda Registry Website
The Sea Venture
- The Sea Venture on WikiPedia
- Sea Venture on PackRat
- The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, by Lorri Glover, Daniel Blake Smith, Macmillan, Aug 5, 2008
- A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?, Virginia Bernhard, University of Missouri Press, Dec 1, 2011
Resources Literature
- Bermuda's History from 1500 to 1699, How it is linked to events in Europe, the United States of America, United Kingdom and Canada By Keith Archibald Forbes.
- Memorials of the discovery and early settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1685 By Sir John Henry Lefroy
- Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782 by Virginia Bernhard
- Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century: Genealogical Notes from Bermuda by Julia Mercer (This information may need further investigations as some claims have been proven to be incorrect)
- In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783, Michael J. Jarvis, UNC Press Books, 2010
- Bermuda and Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative View, by Virginia Bernhard, Journal of Social History, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Autumn, 1985), Published by: Oxford University Press
- Jamestowne and Bermuda, Virginia Company Colonies
- PDF - Colonial Bermuda: hierarchies of difference, articulations of power - Introduction
- Bermuda Past and Present, by Walter Rutherford & Thomas Moore, Second Rev. and Enleaged Edition, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1933.
- Maverick Guide to Bermuda, Catherine Harriott, Pelican Publishing, 2003.
- Ancient Planters: Wreck of The Sea Venture, 1609
- The Web of Empire : English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660, by Alison Games & Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History Georgetown University, Oxford University Press, USA, Jun 14, 2008.
Governors
Edit the information in the table when the profile has been added. Once added a project leader will delete. Thank You!
| # | WTID/Name Change when done | Project Protected | Photograph | Profile Manager |
| 1 | 1612–1616 Richard Moore | yes/no | yes/no | Peter Thorn |
| 2 | 1616–1619 Daniel Tucker | yes | yes/no | Brown-24104, Fritz-504 |
| 3 | 1622–1623 Capt. John Bernard | yes/no | yes/no | Bermuda Project |
| 4 | 1623–1626 Capt. Henry Woodhouse | yes | no | Lindsay Coleman |
| 5 | 1626–1629 Capt. Philip Bell | yes | no | Merry Ann Palmer |
| 6 | 1629–1637 Capt. Roger Wood | yes | no | Bermuda Project |
| 7 | 1637–1641 Capt. Thomas Chaddock | yes | no | Bermuda Project |
| 8, 9,11,12,18 | 1641–1642 Capt. William Sayer | yes | no | Bermuda Project |
| 10,13,17 | 1642–1643, 1645, 1650–1659, Capt. Josias Forster | yes | no | Bermuda Project |
| 14 | 1645–1647 The Triumvirate, William Sayle | yes | no | Bermuda Project |
| 14 | 1645–1647 The Triumvirate, Stephen Paynter | yes/no | yes/no | Bermuda Project |
| 14 | 1645–1647 The Triumvirate, William Wilkinson | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 15 | 1647–1649 Capt. Thomas Turner | yes | no | Peter Roberts |
| 16,33 | 1649–1650 John Trimingham (Elected by the People) | yes/no | yes/no | Dom Swinkels |
| 19,22 | 1663–1668 Capt. Florentius Seymour | yes | yes/no | Bermuda Project |
| 20 | 1668–1669 Samuel Whalley | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 21 | 1669–1681 Sir John Heydon | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 23 | 1682-1683 Henry Durham (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 24 | 1683–1687 Col. Richard Coney | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 25 | 1687–1690 Sir Richard Robinson | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 26 | 1691–1693 Isaac Richier | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 27 | 1693–1698 Capt. John Goddard | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 28 | 1698–1700 Samuel Day | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 29,31 | 1701–1713 Capt. Benjamin Bennett | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 30 | 1713–1718 Henry Pulleine | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 32 | 1722–1727 Sir John Hope | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 34 | 1728–1737 Capt. John Pitt | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 35 | 1737–1738 Andrew Auchinleck | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 36 | 1738–1744 Alured Popple | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 37,39,41 | 1744–1747 Francis Jones | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 38,40 | 1747–1751 William Popple | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 42 | 1764–1780 George James Bruere | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 43 | 1780 Thomas Jones | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 44 | 1780–1781 George Bruere the younger | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 45 | 1782–1788 William Browne | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 46 | 1788–1794 Henry Hamilton (Lt. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 47 | 1794–1796 James Crawford | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 48,50,52,54 | 1796 Henry Tucker | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 49 | 1796 William Campbell | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 51 | 1798–1803 George Beckwith | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 53 | 1805–1806 Francis Gore (Lt. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 55 | 1806–1810 John Hodgson | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 56 | 1810–1811 Samuel Trott | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 57,60,62 | 1811–1812 Sir James Cockburn | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 58,61,62 | 1812 William Smith | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 59 | 1812–1816 George Horsford (Lt. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 64.66 | 1819–1822 Sir William Lumley | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 65,67 | 1822–1823 William Smith | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 68,70,72 | 1826–1829 Sir Hilgrove Turner | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 69,71,75 | 1829 Robert Kennedy (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 73,76 | 1832–1835 Sir Stephen Remnant Chapman | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 74 | 1835 Henry G. Hunt (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 77 | 1839–1846 Major General William Reid | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 78 | 1846 W.N. Hutchinson | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 79,85 | 1846–1852 Sir Charles Elliot | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 80 | 1852–1853 W. Hassell Eden (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 81 | 1853 George Philpots (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 82,84 | 1853 Soulden Oakley (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 83 | 1853 Thomas C. Robe (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 86 | 1854 Montgomery Williams (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 87,90 | 1854–1859 Col. Freeman Murray | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 88 | 1859 AT. Heniphill (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 89,92 | 1859–1860 William Munroe | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 91,94 | 1861–1864 Col. Harry St. George Ord | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 93,95 | 1864–1865 W.H. Hamley (Lt. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 96 | 1867 Arnold Thompson (Act. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 97 | 1867–1870 Sir Frederick Chapman | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 98 | 1870 W. F. Brett (Lt. Gov.) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 99 | 1871–1877 Maj. Gen. Sir John Henry Lefroy | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 100 | 1877–1882 Robert Michael Laffan | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 1-1 | 1882–1888 Lt. Gen. Thomas L. J. Gallwey | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 102 | 1888–1891 Lt. Gen. Edward Newdegate | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 103 | 1892–1896 Lt. Gen. C. Lyons | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 104 | 1896–1901 Lt. Gen. Sir George Digby Barker | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 105 | 1902–1904 Lt. Gen. Sir Henry LeGuay Geary | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 106 | 1904–1907 Lt. Gen. Sir Robert M. Steward | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 107 | 1907–1908 Lt. Gen. Sir Josceline Wodehouse | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 108 | 1908–1912 Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 109 | 1912–1917 Lt. Gen. Sir George M. Bullock | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 110 | 1917–1922 Gen. Sir James Willcocks | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 111 | 1922–1927 Lt. Gen. Sir J. J. Asser | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 112 | 1927–1931 Lt. Gen. Sir Louis Jean Bols | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 113 | 1931–1936 Lt. Gen. Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 114 | 1936–1939 General Sir Reginald Hildyard | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 115 | 1939–1941 Lt. Gen. Sir Denis John Charles Kirwan Bernard | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 116 | 1941–1943 The Rt. Hon. Viscount Knollys | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 117 | 1943–1945 Lord Burghley | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 118 | 1945-May 1946 William Addis (acting) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 119 | May 1946–1949 Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 120 | 1949–1955 Lt. Gen. Sir Alexander Hood | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 121 | 1955–1959 Lt. Gen. Sir John Woodall | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 122 | 1959–1964 Maj. Gen. Sir Julian Gascoigne | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 123 | 1964–1972 The Rt. Hon. Lord Martonmere | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 124 | 1972–1973 Sir Richard Sharples (assassinated) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 125 | 1973 – 7 April 1977 Sir Edwin Leather | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 126,128 | 7 April 1977 - 6 September 1977 Peter Lloyd (acting - 1st tenure) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 127 | 1977–30 December 1980 The Hon. Sir Peter Ramsbotham | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 129 | February 1981 – 15 March 1983 Sir Richard Posnett | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 130 | 14 Feb. 1983 – July 1983 Mark Herdman (acting) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 131 | 1983–1988 The Rt. Hon. Viscount Dunrossil | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 132 | 1988–1992 Major-Gen Sir Desmond Langley | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 133 | 25 August 1992 – 4 June 1997 The Rt. Hon. Lord Waddington | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 134 | 4 June 1997 – 27 November 2001 Thorold Masefield | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 135 | 27 November 2001 - 11 April 2002 Tim Gurney (acting) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 136 | 11 April 2002 – 12 October 2007 Sir John Vereker | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 137 | 12 October 2007 – 12 December 2007 Mark Andrew Capes (acting) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 138 | 12 December 2007 – 18 May 2012 Sir Richard Gozney | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 139 | 18 May 2012 – 23 May 2012 David Arkley (acting) | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
| 140 | 23 May 2012 – Present Hon. George Fergusson | yes/no | yes/no | [[|]] |
Instructions for finding Governors of Bermuda:
- Do a search for the name in the list above via Find a Person. Check spelling variables (Smith, Smyth)
- Leave a message like this on the profile if the profile has a manager:
Hey thier name,
I am working on the Bermudas Project here on WikiTree. Currently we are looking for or adding Governors of Bermuda, this profile matches in name and dates of one of the governors.
Is this profile for a governor? Let me know so we can get this profile connected to the project. The profile will get the Project Treatment - merging duplicates into lowest ID with correct LNAB, cleaning up profiles, adding sources and project protecting them.
Thanks,
Your Name
Then:
- Post the WikiTree ID to the list above (follow the example of others already found).
- Post The Profile manager WikiTree ID
If you do not find a match:
- go ahead and add the profile (may need some research) with you as profile manager
- Go to the privacy tab and add the project to the trusted list - email is wikibermuda@googlegroups.com
- make the Project the profile manager and remove yourself as manager
- Post the WikiTree ID to the list above (follow the example of others).
- Post The Profile manager WikiTree ID
Historically Significant People
| # | WTID/Name Change when done | Project Protected | Photograph | Profile Manager |
| 1 | 1609 Sea Venture, Gov. Sir Thomas Gates | yes | no | J. Slasberry |
| 2 | 1616–1619 [[|]] | yes | yes/no | [[|]], [[|]] |
| 3 | 1616–1619 [[|]] | yes | yes/no | [[|]], [[|]] |
| 4 | 1616–1619 [[|]] | yes | yes/no | [[|]], [[|]] |
Current Parishes and Municipalites
Devonshire
Hamilton
Hamilton (Municipality)
Paget
Pembroke
Saint George's
Saint George's (Municipality)
Sandys
Smith's
Southampton
Warwick
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Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory located in the North Atlantic 1,030 miles east of the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC. It has an area of 53.2 km². It's current capital is Hamilton. It's population in 2013 was 65,024.[1]. Bermuda is named for the first known European to land there in 1503, Juan de Bermúdez . It is also called the Somer Isles for Sir George Somers.[2]