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Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European, mixed African, and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish European colonisation.
An early influx of Scots came in 1656 when Oliver Cromwell deported 1200 prisoners of war.[1] There was also a later migration at the turn of the 18th century, after the failed Darien colony in Panama.[1] In 1707, Scots gained access to England's preexisting colonies when the Act of Union took place.
People of Scottish Jamaican descent
[edit]- Alison Hammond, British TV celebrity
- Akala, British rapper and poet
- Harry Belafonte, American musician
- William Davidson, radical[2]
- Paul Douglas (Grammy Award-winning drummer and bandleader of Toots and The Maytals)
- Ms. Dynamite, British singer and rapper
- Stewart Faulkner, British retired athlete of Jamaican and Cuban parentage
- Salena Godden, poet and author of Jamaican Irish parentage, descendant of Scottish ancestor Lieutenant General James Robinson (1762–1845) who is buried at Edinburgh University.
- Goldie, British disc jockey of Scottish and Jamaican parentage
- Harry J, record producer
- Lewis Hutchinson, Scottish immigrant to Jamaica; owned a castle; one of Jamaica's first known serial killers
- Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage[3][4]
- Mary Seacole, nurse during the Crimean War; her father was a Scottish soldier
- Gil Heron, Jamaican football player
- Gil Scott-Heron, late American soul and jazz poet
- Robert Wedderburn, radical and abolitionist[5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Scottish Genealogy Society - Scottish Jamaica Testaments". 7 March 2003. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "William Davidson". 21 February 1999. Archived from the original on 21 February 1999. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Branigan, Tania (2004-05-12). "Colin Powell claims Scottish coat of arms". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- ^ "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - May 17, 2004". Eogn.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ Chase, Malcolm (2008). "Wedderburn, Robert (1762–1835/6?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47120. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). Retrieved on 17 August 2008.
Further reading
[edit]- Besson, Jean Martha Brae's two histories: European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica (The Scottish and Creole planters around Martha Brae - Google books version)
- Karras, Alan L. Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Google books version)
