Talk:History of Bermuda

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Contents 1 Needs more content 2 Parish names 3 Posseives in Bermudian Place Names 4 Sir Richard Sharples 5 natives 6 No Indigineous Population

[edit] Needs more content

This is still woefully short of material. Needing to be covered in detail are the years under the Somers Island Company, the growth of trade, the British military building boom after the Revolutionary War, etc. Then we get to the civil rights movement in Bermuda and the political changes of the 1960s. Etc, etc.... Noel (talk) 04:05, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Parish names

For St. George's, see Talk:St. George's, Bermuda. For Smith's, Smith's is the common form used by Bermudians when speaking (although I suppose one can't be sure if its "Smiths" or "Smith's" that is being said); however it is also given as "Smith's" in most books (e.g. Terry Tucker, Bermuda: Today and Yesterday, etc). Noel (talk) 02:52, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Posseives in Bermudian Place Names

The use of possessives in Bermudian place names is not only the tradition in Bermuda, but is grammatically correct. The Parish is the Parish of Smith, Smith being the person for whom it was named, hence, literally, Smith's Parish. The same is true of St. George's, which non-Bermudians are always trying to convert to St. George (though nobody ever writes St. David, curiously). The Town of St. George is St. George's Town, not St. George, himself, and the same is true of St. George's Island and St. George's Parish. Unfortunately, Bermudians have to contend not only with the habits of non-Bermudians, today, to re-name their places, but also must contend with the fact that most historical maps and texts dealing with Bermuda were produced by non-Bermudians, who often had never set foot on the islands (note Captain John Smith's General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles).

Aodhdubh 02:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sir Richard Sharples

Added in the link to the page on Richard Sharples along with a brief description of the assassination.--Vannin 01:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] natives

Is it right to assume that Bermuda was uninhabited prior to European discovery? --86.135.216.24 17:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, something should be in the article either way! If there were its a really bad attitude that they don't even warrant a mention 79.64.24.161 (talk) 15:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No Indigineous Population

No, Bermuda had no population prior to its discovery by Spaniards around 1512. Despite numerous visits by passing vessels, and many seafarers being wrecked on (and subsequently being rescued, or affecting their escapes, from) the archipelago during the course of the following century, no attempt was made to settle the islands until the wreck of the Sea Venture, which began Bermuda's permanent and continuous settlement in 1609. Although often thought of as part of the Americas, Bermuda is an Atlantic archipelago, formed in the same way, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, as other Atlantic islands (such as the Azores). Although the nearest land mass to it is North Carolina, Bermuda is quite remote from North America. Given that remoteness, the small size of the archipelago, the storminess of this part of the Atlantic, the level of Pre-Columbian North Americans' (the likliest source of a hypothetical aboriginal population) seafaring technology, and the sophistication of their overwater navigational skills, the settlement of Bermuda by North American natives prior to European settlement would have been highly unlikely. In any case, there is no written or archaelogical record of any indigenous human population at any time prior to the arrival of Europeans.

Aodhdubh (talk) 19:52, 17 January 2008 (UTC)