This chapter examines the concept of ‘archival silences’ and how archive catalogues can help or hinder researchers in locating relevant material. It goes on to examine the principle of provenance and how its application to the archives of landed families and estates may obscure the lives and voices of many of the people represented within these collections. It proposes that the concept of provenance can be enlarged to include multiple creatorships by taking into account not just the people who created (or caused to be created) the records, but also the people whose actions and existence were necessary for their creation. A case study of the Peru and Green Vale estate papers held at Hull University Archives, which relate to the ownership of two plantations in Jamaica at the turn of the nineteenth century, then demonstrates the possibilities opened up by rethinking provenance. Redefining ideas of provenance to take into account not just the plantation owners but the people whose labour was required for these records to exist—namely, enslaved people—helps to envisage new ways of presenting the collection.