<—-Aunt Martha, Paddington Olga – A Student Nurse –> When I asked my mother (Olga) how safe she felt in London during the first part of 1939, she said she wasn’t worried because people felt that war with Adolph Hitler had been averted. Maybe the previous war was still fresh in people’s minds (after all in 1939 it was less than 20 [...]
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Sydney comes to London -1939
Posted in Family Historian, Family History, Family Saga, Genealogy, History of my ancestors, Memoirs, tagged Carmen Browne, London 1939, Olga Browney, Olga's diary, paddington, Ross family, St Giles Cottage Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Sydney Browney on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sydney Shoots a Burglar
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, Jamaican folklore, Jamaican Genealogy, Obeah, tagged Browney family, Catholic religion, family story. roots, Holy Trinity Cathedral Kingston Jamaica, Jamaica, Obeah, obeahman, Olga's diary, Ross family, Sydney Browney on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
<– More Spells and Obeah Kingston 1938 A Dangerous Place to Live—> Click to englarge image Once my Mum (Olga) started to talk about her family to me and what her life was like growing up in Jamaica, she told me about the two biggest scandals in the family (and there were quite a few!). [...]
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 [...]
Olga’s Diary (Continued) – Vivie, Sydney and The Den of Inequity
Posted in Family History, Family Saga, Genealogy, Memoirs, tagged Browney family, gambling, Olga Browney, Olga's diary, Olga's story, Sydney Browney on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
<–Siblings, Lodgers & a Gift from God Pops, Aunt Martha & Marcus Garvey -> Up until I was about 12 my Mum, Olga, (although at the time I knew her as Carmen) and I shared a bed. It was when I snuggled up to her at night that sometimes she would talk about [...]
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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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