Talk:History of Bermuda

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)

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)

Possessives 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)

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)

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)

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 likeliest 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)


 * Um... okay. Don't you think we should at least mention that it was originally uninhabited SOMEWHERE in the article, rather than leave it to the reader to assume it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.172.155 (talk) 08:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

"So-called slaves"?
This phrase is repeated over and over in the article, and I find it... odd.

Either these people were or were not slaves. If they were, then "so-called" should be removed. If they were not slaves, then they should not be referred to as slaves. 70.171.113.214 (talk) 17:21, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Indigenous peoples of North America
Since Bermuda was uninhabited prior to its discovery by Europeans, I am puzzled by the category placed in the article calling it an unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America article. Perhaps somone can explain, or else can remove the category. --DThomsen8 (talk) 03:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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por que o artigo em portugues diz que houveram guerras raciais nivel eua mas aqui nada diz — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.211.74.156 (talk) 09:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)