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