Compiled from Belize National Archives, Registry, Private Records, Magistrate's Minutes, Emancipations, the end of slavery, baptisms, 1868-1880, family records.
This volume marks the second collection of early British genealogical records for Belize compiled by Mrs. Sonia Murray from originals at the Belize National Archives in Belmopan.
This volume contains records of birth, marriage, baptism, and death. The baptisms, for example, give the name of the infant, the date of, or age at, baptism, the names of parents, and, frequently, the names of grandparents. Death records identify the decedent by date and occupation, and occasionally by next of kin. Slaves or free blacks are usually so designated in all record categories. Owing to Belize's large Scottish influence, naming pract...
