Elvira Jane Leacock, better known as Sarah Gilkes was born on June 7, 1874, in Lamberts, St. Lucy. “Sasa”, as she was familiarly known moved to 5th Avenue, New Orleans with her daughter, Leonora Scantlebury in the 1930s, where she resided until her passing in...
Leonora Frankcilla Scantlebury was born on June 6, 1896, and resided at 5th Avenue New Orleans, St. Michael. In 1985, she moved in with her only daughter, Elsie Forde, at Deighton Road, St. Michael. “Gran” as she was familiarly called was a housewife who was married...
Elvira Mary Rock was born on July 22, 1878 to Eliza Ann Burnett and John Rock in St. Lucy, Barbados. She was the eldest of six children. She married at St. Clement’s Anglican Church in St. Lucy on February 22, 1898 at the age of 19 to 23-year-old Isaac Henry Newton...
Vivian Ursula Blenman, born February 15, 1913 to parents Mildred and Joseph Blenman, resided in Licorish Village, My Lord’s Hill, St. Michael, for all of her 101 years. Vivian was the eldest of seven children educated at the Belmont School and Carrington Village...
In her early years Gertude worked at Mount Wilton in the factory and later she went on to be a hawker where she retired. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.
