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Grenada Overseers Returns
Project 06 · 2016 — present

Grenada Overseers Returns

Index of overseer movement across Grenada estates between 1820 and 1838, drawn from estate inventories and parish burial registers.

Estate IndexPlantation PapersSurname Index
Kenneth Macleod — index pages from the Grenada Overseers Returns, working portrait.

Overseers moved more often than proprietors and were recorded less consistently than enslaved labour. This makes a name-by-name index difficult and uneven by construction.

The index uses estate inventories as the primary spine, with parish burial registers and shipping arrivals as the cross-check.

Several overseers appear in three or four parishes within a single decade. The index does not assume these are the same person. It records each appearance and links them only where a separate source confirms the connection.