Metadata: Working papers of W. S. Samuel
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Holding institution (official language):
- University of Southampton Special Collections
- Postal address:
- Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
- Phone number:
- 02380 592721
- Web address:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives
- Email:
- archives@soton.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS 158 AJ163, AJ223
- Title:
- Working papers of W. S. Samuel
- Title (official language):
- Working papers of W. S. Samuel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Samuel, Wilfred S
- Date(s):
- 1936
- Date note:
- circa 1936
- Language:
- English
- Spanish; Castilian
- Portuguese
- Extent:
- 0.06 linear metres: 0.5 box
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Copies of wills of the Jewish residents of Barbados, 17th and 18th centuries; manuscript notes and pedigrees prepared by Wilfred S Samuel, including those of the Valverde, Namias and de Mercado families; certified copies of thirteen births and two deaths of Jews in Barbados, 1702-98: source material used by W.S.Samuel for 'Review of the Jewish colonists in Barbados' Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions 13 (1936) pp. 1-111.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Wilfred Samuel (d 1958) was a prominent scholar of Jewish history, and a co-founder of the Jewish Museum in London.
- Access points: locations:
- Barbados
- West Indies
- Access points: persons/families:
- de Mercado family
- Namias family
- Samuel, Wilfred S
- Valverde family
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the archive requires a prior written appointment. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/about/access.page
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/cataloguedatabases/webguide1.page
- Yerusha Network member:
- University of Southampton Special Collections
