by bimjim » Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:13 pm
Vere Langford Oliver was British, trained to be a doctor, apparently, but became so fascinated with his family affairs in the eastern Caribbean that he moved out there and started writing books on genealogy.
It is clear that he was very much a busybody's busybody, probed into everyone's affairs and families, and wrote voluminously on his own family as well as many other families in the eastern region, plus Jamaica.
He wrote two sets of books that I know of, one is three large volumes titled "History of Antigua" (it is genealogy, not history), the other a set of bound newsletters titled "Caribbeana" which made up seven books of full page size. Both had been published by the year 1900, and are fully indexed as to names.
Most of Oliver's writings are centered on Antigua, but as I said he also had some info on Jamaica and Barbados, and may well have done some on Trinidad. And there is no way he could have known if some of his subsequent family members were to emigrate there. If you can get back that far, and you find Olivers in your family tree elsewhere than Trinidad - such as Antigua, Barbados, St. Kitts or Jamaica - those sets of books may well help you take a huge leap backwards.