<—Home is a Refuge for Friendless Girls Life in a Wartime Nursery—> Olga’s Diary (Continued) Dear Diary Marie: So many people were in the labour room of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, three medical students watching as part of their training, two nurses, Sister and a doctor. After eighteen painful hours it was it [...]
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Marie
Posted in Family Historian, Family Saga, Memoirs, tagged Carmen Browne, Marie Campbell, Olga, Olga Browney, Olga's diary on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Refuge for Friendless Girls
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, Nursing during the War, tagged nursing WW2, Olga, Olga Browney, Olga's diary, refuge for unmarried mothers, St Giles Cottage Hospital, women's refuge on February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
<—The Rape of an Innocent (Continued Olga’s Diary) Dear Diary Matron called me to her office. I’m not surprised. I know my work has not been good lately. I was hoping she would tell me I could go home. Dr Randall, who carries out some of the three monthly student medical examinations, was sitting behind [...]
Christmas in Jamaica with John Canoe
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, Genealogy, History of my ancestors, Jamaican folklore, tagged Browney family, Christmas in Jamaica, christmastime, Holy Trinity Church, Jamaican folklore, John Canoe, Olga, Olga's diary on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<—-Kingston 1938 – A Dangerous Place to Live London 1939 —-> I couldn’t help but be amused when I discovered this Christmas card that my Uncle Sydney used to send to his customers in Jamaica. It depicts snow – in Jamaica!! Olga’s Diary (Continued) Dear Diary Christmas Eve: Ruby, Dolly, Pearl and [...]
Kingston, 1938 – A Dangerous Place to Live
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, Jamaican History, Obeah, tagged Alexander Bustamante, Browney family, diary entries, Jamaica, Jamaica 1938, Kingston Riots 1938, Obeah, Olga, strikes and demonstrations, The Gleaner, unemployment on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<—- Sydney Shoots a Burglar Christmas in Jamaica with John Canoe —-> 1938 was a very diffcult and dangerous time for the Browney family living in Kingston. In May of that year workers all over Jamaica went on strike and the unemployed joined them marching and demonstrations. The banana trade had declined drastically and unemployment was [...]
Sydney and the Cook
Posted in Family Historian, Family History, Family Saga, Genealogy, Jamaican Genealogy, tagged Olga, Olga's diary, Ross family, Sydney Browney, Vivie on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<—Aunt Lucy & Anancy Stories More Spells and Obeah —-> Olga’s Diary (Continued) Letter to Vivie, Miami, USA from Olga, Kingston, Jamaica. Dearest Vivie There’s been a terrible scandal in the family. You just won’t believe what happened last Saturday morning when we came down to breakfast. “That’s strange; I can’t smell [...]
Pops, Aunt Martha and Marcus Garvey
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, History of my ancestors, Jamaican Genealogy, Marcus Garvey, tagged Annie Palmer, Browney family, family story. roots, Garvey, Jamaica, Jamaican society, Marcus Garvey, Obeah, Olga, Olga's diary, Rose Hall on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<-Vivie, Sydney & The Den of Inequity A Loose Cannon & The Catholic Church–> Some might say that dysfunctional would be an appropriate word to describe my mother’s family, but I prefer the word colourful! Mum had described her family to me as high Catholics, a phrase I have never understood the meaning [...]
Olga’s Diary Continued : Siblings, Lodgers and a Gift from God
Posted in Family Historian, Family Saga, Genealogy, History of my ancestors, tagged Browney family, Browneys, Diary, family story. roots, geneology, Jamaica, Jamaican ancestory, Maroons, memoir, Obeah, Olga, slavery on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<—Olga’s Diary Vivie, Sydney & the Den of Inequity—> Dear Diary When we were little, Mammie used to take in lodgers and we still have one, Mr Delgado who has one of the rooms downstairs. He is a salesman, from the Cockpit Country and a direct descendent of the Maroons, who, by the way, [...]
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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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