- one of my earliest sites, now in need of updating and revision.
- a brief biography of a significant Jamaican for each day of the month of February 2004
- 28+ Jamaicans, from the 18th to the 21st centuries, are featured on this site; as with too many of my sites I still have work to do to complete it properly!
. . . pioneer generations . . .
Jamaica's early Black Anglican clergy
- some account of the lives and significance of Black Anglican
clergy in the second half of the 19th century.
Much more work needs to be done.
alternative site - . . . pioneer generations . . .
Jamaica's Maroons, as others saw them
- accounts of the Maroons by writers mostly in the 18th and 19th
centuries
Susan Agnes Bernard
- a site about the incredible life of the Jamaican woman who married the most important politician in Canada
- one of Jamaica's most remarkable sons - a chess genius known world-wide in the age of the penny post and the telegraph. He succumbed to one of Jamaica's plagues which was only defeated in the 20th century.
- the Belgian astronomer Jean Houzeau lived for some years in the Mamee River Valley in St Andrew in Jamaica. This site provides an account of his life, especially his stay in the island.
the Phang Sisters of Balaclava
- an account of the remarkable lives of a Chinese Jamaican family from the West of the island.
Father Raphael or Father Raphael
- basically the same site twice over; Fr Raphael was an intriguing Black Jamaican who was probably the first Black priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church [not to be confused with the Coptic or Ethiopian Orthodox Church.] I have more material I must get on the site.
- Maxwell Hall, born in England of Scots ancestry, came to Jamaica in 1872 and died in Jamaica in 1920. In the intervening years he put Jamaica on the map meteorologically and contributed many astronomical observations from his observatory at Kempshot in St James. Today he is virtually forgotten, in Jamaica at least, though he can be tracked quite easily on the Web!
- a site dealing with the career of an important early Black educator in Jamaica.
- most of these articles deal with individual Jamaicans.
- an introduction to an important Jamaican, whom I once met, a long time ago.
(still working on this, as usual!)
- Sylvester Leon is a remarkable figure in early 20th century Jamaican history - he was an entertainer both in Jamaica and the UK, where he seems to have been the first to introduce Jamaican patois onto BBC Radio.There is also some information on this site about the 'Famous Jamaica Choir' which toured the UK in 1906-8.
- pages about a number of interesting Jamaicans about whom little information has been readily available.
- this site is a remake of one of my early sites on another host; I am transferring material from that site, and I hope to add more material about other great teachers, chiefly from the period 1850 to 1950.
Jamaica/British Museum
- on this site the stories are told of two men who linked Jamaica with the British Museum - Hans Sloane, from Ireland, whose collection from the island was part of the foundation of the Museum, and Edward Maunde Thompson, a Jamaican, who was Director of the Museum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
the Minot[t] family of Allman Town
- the Minot[t] family lived in Allman Town in Kingston, and had a strong connection with St Matthew's church; John T Minot[t] was an important player in Masonic history in the island; his daughter Adena had a remarkable career as a therapist in New York in the first four decades of the 20th century.
- I have just started work on this site, but there is already interesting information, with more to come, I hope! I will deal chiefly with dentists who were practising before World War I.
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