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From: "nancyb" <>
Subject: Re: Mayo's in Barbados (sorry, v. long!)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:14:00 -0500
References: <3.0.1.32.20020414225228.0085fac0@c.imap.itd.umich.edu>, <5.1.0.14.1.20020507192731.00a30ae0@pop.ihug.co.nz>


I appreciate your information Merril. Anything further that anyone finds,
please do post it. I have some things happening as of late that have
prevented me from working on this as much as I would have liked, father
going into a nursing home, etc. By next week, hopefullly will be able to get
back at it full time on getting my book written.
Thanks again for your replies.
Nancy

"merril bourne" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi Christie & Nancy,
>
> Further to your comments on the Mayo family.
>
> I have a copy of an article about the Genealogical Sources in Barabdos
> printed in the ( London ) Society of Genealogists Journal in March 1974.
> This article gives a list of all subscribers to Mayo's Map of Barbados &
> notes the following details about the surveyor William Mayo.
>
> The map made by William Mayo from his surveys between 1717 and 1721,
> published in 1722, was prepared during the days of the immense prosperity
> of Barbados, when it's population of approximately 60,000 included some
> 20,000 white people, nearly all of British origin. Many of these were
> descended from from the settlers of the early 17th Century and the list of
> subscribers to the cost of Mayo's map is a valuable source of genealogical
> information.
>
> The map and William Mayo's personal background, have been described in
the
> late Professor E.M. Shilstone's Descriptive List of Maps of Barbados (
1938
> ), which notes that Mayo subsequently settled in Virginia, where his work
> as a surveyor included a plan of the city of Richmond. His map of Barbados
> shows the position of 976 plantations, all except 3 or four indicated the
> name of the owner at the time of the survey ..............
>
> I hope this is of some interest to you.
> Regards
> Merril
>
>
>


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