About this Project Centenarians of Barbados: The Foundation Builders is a project co-developed by the former National Committee on Ageing, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and the Barbados Government Information Service. It aims to celebrate Barbadian...
Gileon Lescar Carrington grew up in Crab Hill, St. Lucy where he still resides today. Educated at Selah School, he was a fisherman and worked as a Van Attendant at the School Meals Department. Mr. Carrington is still quite an active senior. In recent...
Baptized Angela Sylvia Browne but always referred to as Sylvia Angela, she was the second child of Stanley Browne, a seaman and Camilla Browne, a seamstress. She had one younger brother (Lester Browne) and one sister (Monica Elaine Wilkins). She also had two older...
Courtesy of the Barbados Ball Canada Aid: http://www.barbadosballcanada.com/bajan-centenarians.html Born in Glebe Land, St. George in 1914, Mrs. Gwendoline Eileen Thorne attended Belmont Girls School, St. Michael. She came to Canada in 1959 and settled in...
Courtesy of the Barbados Ball Canada Aid: http://www.barbadosballcanada.com/bajan-centenarians.html Born in Barbados on January 28th, 1914, Mrs. Lydia Richardson was one of seven children of Herbert and Lydia Johnson. In 1934 she moved to Aruba where she became a...
