<–Becky’s First Encounter with Obeah Becky & Living in Kingston, Jamaica –> During slavery, the plantation remained the most important unit and a rigid class system existed. You were judged to be important according to the type of work you did, by the colour of your skin and how much money and land you owned. At [...]
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Colonising the “land of wood and water” but Jamaica has it’s own culture
Posted in Family Saga, Jamaican History, Memoirs, tagged Blue Mountains, Catholic religion, Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaican plantation, Obeah, Ross family, superstitious rites, witchcraft on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<—London to Kingston Life on SS Port Morant 1902 Obeah—-> My Great Aunt Lucy’s plantation was called “Mon Repose” situated in the Blue Mountains and accessible by a horse drawn buggy, up rough but scenically beautiful roads, steep hills, past towering coca palms with their feathery plumes waving in the breeze, around sudden sharp bends with waterfalls [...]
London to Kingston, Jamaica : Life on Board the S.S. Port Morant 1902
Posted in Family History, Genealogy, Jamaican History, Memoirs, tagged Avonmouth, banana boats, Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaican tourists, passenger ship, Royal Mail Steamships, S.S.Port Morant, West Indies on February 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
<–Letters between Lucy & Becky 1901 Colonising the “land of wood & water” -> The S.S. Port Morant was for that time, a ‘state of the art’ ship and brand new. She had electricity and refrigeration which kept the bananas that were carried from the West Indies to London, fresh. But that wasn’t all she had…….she had [...]
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Why I Wrote ”Olga – A Daughter’s Tale”
In 1994, my mother, Carmen Browne, was admitted to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton in the UK seriously ill. As she slowly recovered I realized that had she died so too would the chance of my finding out about her past, her family in Jamaica and, of particular importance to me, who my father was information she had consistently refused to share with me. So I decided to find out for myself.My first discovery was that my mother’s real name was Olga Browney, born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and one of eleven children from a close-knit, coloured Catholic family. A kind, naïve and gentle girl, my mother arrived in London in 1939 and lived with a malevolent, alcoholic aunt, intending to stay for only six months. However, world events, personal tragedy and malicious intent all combined to prevent her from returning home to Kingston.
"Olga - A Daughter's Tale" is based on a true story about cruelty, revenge and jealousy inflicted on an innocent young woman and about moral courage, dignity, resilience and, in particular, love. It is the story of a remarkable woman, who because of circumstances, made a choice, which resulted in her losing contact with her beloved family in Jamaica, until nearly half a century later, when her past caught up her.
What I discovered about my mother filled me with such admiration for her that I wanted her story recorded for future generations of my family to read so that they would know about this remarkable woman whose greatest gift to me was her unconditional love. That's why I wrote “Olga – A Daughter’s Tale”.
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