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John Nixon (Jamaica)
John Nixon (died by 1774) was a landowner in colonial Jamaica. He owned Albion plantation in Saint David Parish, Mullet Hall Mullet, mullets, The Mullet or The Mullets may refer to: Fish * Mullet (fish), or "grey mullet", of the family Mugilidae ** Flathead grey mullet, or striped mullet, ''Mugil cephalus'', a food fish species in the family Mugilidae * Goatfish, o ... plantation in Saint Thomas in the East parish, and the land that eventually became Mavis Bank plantation. He left over £32,000, making him the third richest person in Jamaica according to an inventory taken in 1774.John Nixon. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 28 May 2019. References External links Jam ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion Plantation
Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used. By the early 20th century, however, its cane sugar could not compete with cheaper European beet sugar, and it produced its last sugar crop in 1928. It subsequently became a banana farm for the United Fruit Company. Albion gave its name to Albion Cane, Albion Sugar and the settlement of Albion Estate. Location Albion was about 16 miles east of Kingston in Saint David Parish, now Saint Thomas Parish, on the south coast of Jamaica. It was irrigated by the Yallahs River in the east and had its own port facilities at Cow Bay. The road from Kingston to Windward ran through the southern part of the plantation. History Among the earliest owners of Albion plantation wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mullet Hall
Mullet, mullets, The Mullet or The Mullets may refer to: Fish * Mullet (fish), or "grey mullet", of the family Mugilidae ** Flathead grey mullet, or striped mullet, ''Mugil cephalus'', a food fish species in the family Mugilidae * Goatfish, or "red mullet", of the family Mullidae; in particular, red mullet of the genus ''Mullus'' * Malagasy mountain mullet, ''Acentrogobius therezieni'', a species of fish in the family Gobiidae endemic to Madagascar * Pearl mullet, ''Chalcalburnus tarichi'', a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae native to Turkey * Shorthead redhorse, ''Moxostoma macrolepidotum'', a freshwater fish of North America, also known as common mullet, mullet, redhorse mullet Hairstyle * Mullet (haircut), a hairstyle that is short in the front, top, and sides, but long in the back Media * ''Mullet'' (film), a 2001 Australian film * '' The Mullets'', a UPN TV sitcom *Mullets (comic strip), a short-lived comic strip Places * Mullet, Albania, a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Thomas In The East
Saint Thomas, once known as ''Saint Thomas in the East'', is a suburban parish situated at the south eastern end of Jamaica, within the county of Surrey. It is the birthplace of the Right Honourable Paul Bogle, designated in 1969 as one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes. Morant Bay, its chief town and capital, is the site of the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865, of which Bogle was a leader. Representative George William Gordon, a wealthy mixed race businessman and politician from this district, was tried and executed in 1865 under martial law on suspicion of directing the rebellion. Governor Eyre was forced to resign due to the controversy over his execution of Gordon and violent suppression of the rebellion. Gordon was designated in 1969 as a National Hero. Brief history Saint Thomas was densely populated by the Taíno/ Arawak when Christopher Columbus first came to the island in 1494. The Spaniards established cattle ranches at Morant Bay and Yallahs. In 1655, when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Bank Plantation
Mavis is a female given name, derived from a name for the common Old World song thrush. Its first modern usage was in Marie Corelli's 1895 novel '' The Sorrows of Satan'', which featured a character named Mavis Clare (whose name was said to be "rather odd but suitable", as "she sings quite as sweetly as any thrush"). The name was long obsolete by the 19th century, but known from its poetic use, as in Robert Burns's 1794 poem ''Ca' the Yowes'' ("Hark the mavis evening sang/Sounding Clouden's woods amang"); and in the popular love song "Mary of Argyle" (c.1850), where lyricist Charles Jefferys wrote, "I have heard the mavis singing its love-song to the morn." ''Mavis'' had its height of popularity between the 1920s and 1940s. Its usage declined thereafter, and it has been rather unfashionable since the 1960s. Notable people * Mavis Adjei, Ghanaian actress * Mavis Akoto, Ghanaian sprinter * Mavis Batey, MBE (1921-2013), English code-breaker during World War II * Mavis Biesanz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaican Landowners
Jamaican may refer to: * Something or someone of, from, or related to the country of Jamaica * Jamaicans, people from Jamaica * Jamaican English, a variety of English spoken in Jamaica * Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole language * Culture of Jamaica * Jamaican cuisine See also * *Demographics of Jamaica *List of Jamaicans *Languages of Jamaica This is a demography of the population of Jamaica including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Population According to the total population w ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaican Planters
Jamaican may refer to: * Something or someone of, from, or related to the country of Jamaica * Jamaicans, people from Jamaica * Jamaican English, a variety of English spoken in Jamaica * Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole language * Culture of Jamaica * Jamaican cuisine See also * *Demographics of Jamaica *List of Jamaicans *Languages of Jamaica This is a demography of the population of Jamaica including population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Population According to the total population w ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770s Deaths
Year 177 ( CLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 930 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 177 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls. * Commodus is given the title '' Augustus'', and is made co-emperor, with the same status as his father, Marcus Aurelius. * A systematic persecution of Christians begins in Rome; the followers take refuge in the catacombs. * The churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism. * Forty-seven Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
