Contents

1. Abraham Simmons - a patriarch?

.. and thy name shall be Abraham!

The name form

Tabel. The use of given names - an example

Scattered references - a survey

Tabel. The name of Abraham Simmons on Saba

Tabel. ib. Statia

Tabel. ib. St Martin

Tabel. ib. miscellaneous

Saban references pre 1800

On Statia

Tabel. Statian households of Abraham Simmons

18th century branches of Abraham ....

2. Simmons' Families of the former Danish Virgin Islands

Saba connection

Derivations of a family name

Simmonds - a Jewish heritage

Picture - Carl & Wolff Hauser Simmonds

On St Thomas

Figure. The ancestry of the Swedish branch - a tentative sequence

On St Croix

On St John

The Edward case

Odd references

Tabel - Excerpt from St Thomas' Matrikel of 1800

Tabel. Simmons' burgher-oaths on St Thomas, pre 1800

Tabel. Arrivals of the "Collector" into St Thomas' Harbour