HI Grace, Thanks for that information- it sounds very interesting. I have been wondering if there are Cuban records on line and about the connection of English settlers in the Caribbean and Cuba. I have seen where Seymour men have been travelling between Guyanilla and New York in the 1820-'s -1840's and felt that it might have just been a leg of the journey from Barbados or elsewhere south. Have you any ideas?? Joan. Joan T.Seymour, Consultant Grace wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I have been researching the Duany(s) who came to Jamaica from > Santiago, Cuba during the 1860’s through to the early 1900’s. My > reason for posting this is two fold: > > one, to ask my fellow searchers if they have any information on > Duany(s) from Cuba who lived in Jamaica or had holdings or interests > on the island. My great grandfather was Jose Duany. I am still trying > to pin down the date of his arrival in Jamaica and the date on his > return to Cuba. > > Two, to share some very interesting books and articles, that I > recently discovered, on historic connections between Jamaican & Cuba, > as well, many Jamaican family names are mentioned within the books and > articles. > > (1) ‘Political Idealism and Commodity Production: Cuban Tobacco in > Jamaica, 1870-1930’ by Professor Jean Stubbs, Cuban studies > course. > Gives accounts of many Cuban families who fled Cuba for Jamaica and > started the tobacco industry on the Island. > An example - Page 65 gives a 1907 article “Tobacco in Jamaica” where > the Hon. W. Fawcett Director Of Public Gardens. > ‘. . . . Fawcett mentions several Cubans in connection with tobacco > in Jamaica. Among them were Count Jose Duaney, owner of the “Hall > Head” estate; O.M. Feurtado (sic), owner of “Bellevue”, Pedro Cisneros > (from Manzanilla), a grower at Cherry Garden; General Vijegas (sic), > an extensive grower at Colbeck’s plantation; J. C. Espin, who > published a treatise on tobacco in the 1889 Jamaican Bulletin; and > Antonio Leon, a planter who advised Hope Gardens on cutting and > curing. They all contributed to the dramatic transformation of the > late nineteenth-century Jamaican tobacco economy. . . > http://books.google.ca/books?id=QDYm8ESk60kC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=1870's+cubans+in+Jamaica&source=bl&ots=-posFktjeK&sig=hUZyUKu9oqYY-11kI6ZmpygCPjA&hl=en&ei=QOMYTPiTO4K8lQeh2bn9Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA# > > > (2) In the book ‘To Jamaica and Back’ Published in 1876’ by James > Sibbald David Scott (sir, 3rd. bart.). Very interesting journal with > details on many families, individuals, estates, local politics etc. > On pages 288-289 mentions Jose Duany. > http://books.google.ca/books?id=InQBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=Count+Duany,+Jamaica&source=bl&ots=IernJwllmO&sig=c0JvFoUi-c_MyWX4puuvFtDk_jM&hl=en&ei=LmEVTN_nL4S0lQeTlp3zCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Count%20Duany&f=false > > (3) CUBA AND THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM - James Hyde Clark > Gives ‘ … the insurrection of 1868 and the compromise of 1878, and a > full and vivid account of the present struggle of the people for > liberty and independence ([1896]) ‘ > A good account is given on the part Jamaica played in the Cuban war of > independence. The capture of the steamer " Virginias " in 1873 off the > coast of Jamaica reads like a movie script. > > http://www.archive.org/details/cubafightforfree00claruoft > > http://www.archive.org/stream/cubafightforfree00claruoft#page/n1/mode/2up > > > (4) The Irish Presence in the History and Place Names of Cuba > http://www.irlandeses.org/0711fernandezmoya1.htm > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >