Viola Haynes was born in Parish Land, St. Philip in 1913 and was a housewife, an accomplished organist and caregiver at Sam Lord’s Castle. She married DaCosta Bindley Haynes and had three children. Viola was a member of the Christian Mission Church where she held many...
Born in 8th Avenue, New Orleans, St. Michael, Gwendolyn was a pupil of Westbury Elementary School. In adulthood, she worked as a laundress for private homes and then later as a domestic. Two of the prominent families for whom she worked at the time were...
Lilian Hackett was born in the parish of St. Andrew, the fifth of six children born to Millicent Forde and Ellet King. As an adult, Lilian resided in Welchman Hall, St. Thomas, and was an agricultural labourer at several plantations in the parish. Although...
Lilian Downes was born in Leadvale, Christ Church and moved to 4th Avenue Hart’s Gap, in the same parish in her early 30’s. She worked as a domestic in her younger days and in the early 1950’s she opened a small shop at her home and sold dry goods, kerosene oil...
Ismay Weekes was the mother of six children, three of whom are still alive. One with a sharp memory, she remembered the birthdays of all 19 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 45 great-great grandchildren. Daughter Erma Rivers described her mother as...
