Newspapers
Municipal
newpapers are a great resource for Birth,
Death, and Marriage information. They can also
provide listings of ship arrivals, legal notices,
and even an advertisement for your ancestor's
business.
Official
newspapers were produced by most Colonies, and
were called the Government Gazettes. The Trinidad
Royal Gazette was the name of the Trinidad
publication, and it contains much information
valuable to genealogists. For more on the contents
of the Gazette, click here.
The Trinidad Gazette is held at the
PRO
under reference CO
299, and
spans the years 1833 to 1975 (193 volumes). There
is a complete run with the exception of 1918.
(TIP: You will save time at the PRO if you
know the proper catalogue number for the year you
are requesting.) The
PRO also has a limited number of other newspapers.
An extract fromn their catalog can be found here.
Copies are housed at other archives as noted
below.
Here is a list of
newspapers known to have been published in Trinidad
and Tobago, with information noting archives at
which they are known to be located.
Known
Publication Date(s)
|
Title
|
Known
Archive Locations
|
1935
|
The
African Nationalist
|
Univ.
of Chicago
|
??
|
The
Colonist
|
|
??
|
The
Examiner
|
|
??
|
The Free
Press
|
|
??
|
The
Herald
|
|
1898
- 1916
|
The
Mirror
|
The
British Library
|
1962
- 1970
|
The
Nation
|
Univ.
of Florida
|
1964
- 1965
|
The New
Statesman
|
Univ.
of Florida
|
??
|
The
Observer
|
|
??
|
The
Palladium
|
|
1825
- 1956
|
The
Port-of-Spain Gazette
|
The
British
Library,
PRO,
Tulane
Univ.,Univ.
of
Chicago,
Univ.
of Florida
|
1884
- 1888
|
Public
Opinion
|
The
British Library
|
??
|
The San
Fernando Gazette
|
|
??
|
The San
Fernando Reporter
|
|
??
|
The
Sentinel
|
|
??
|
The Star
of the West
|
|
1962-
1964
|
The
Statesman
|
University
of Florida
|
1807
- 1808
|
The
Tobago Gazette
|
AAS,
University
of
Florida,
PRO
|
1864
- 1885, 1956 - 1958
|
The
Trinidad Chronicle
|
AAS,
The
British
Library,
University
of Florida
|
??
|
The
Trinidad Courant and Commercial
Gazette
|
|
??
- present
|
Trinidad
Express
|
|
1820
- 1975
|
The
Trinidad (Royal) Gazette
|
PRO,
T&T
Parliament
Lib,
Univ.
of
Chicago,
University
of Florida
|
1826
- 1831
|
The
Trinidad Guardian
|
PRO
|
1917
- present
|
The
Trinidad Guardian
|
The
British
Library,
Tulane
University,
Univ.
of
Chicago,
University
of Florida
|
??
|
The
Trinidad Reporter
|
|
1845
- 1848
|
The
Trinidad Spectator
|
PRO
|
1837
- 1846
|
The
Trinidad Standard and West India
Journal
|
AAS,
PRO
|
??
|
The
Trinidad Weekly Courant
|
|
1848
- 1853
|
The
Trinidadian
|
PRO
|
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