Greetings Alba Yes the churchyard still exists. When we were filming our Jamaica sequences on the West India Regiment's role in the events at Morant Bay in 1865, we recorded pieces in front of the court house and in the churchyard. We also met and recorded an on camera interview with one of Paul Bogle's descendants - a teacher, currently living and working about two miles up the road from the court house. At her request we recorded the interview in the churchyard. Best wishes Tony T Rebecca Goldstone On 6/11/09 3:56 am, "Alba Dunlop" <adunlop9@cogeco.ca> wrote: > Alba Dunlop wrote: > My great great grandfather Thomas Blakely who died in > 1832, is buried in the Morant Bay church yard. The ironic part is that > the minister that preformed the burial service was the Rev. S. H Cooke > and they were quite unaware that their families would merge in the > future. My half brother Harry Dunlop was descended from both these > people. Does anybody know if that church yard still exists?. The grave > yards in Jamaica on a whole have not feared too well with the passage of > time. > Alba Dunlop > > > *************************** > 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

Thanks ever so much for this information now to see if my ThomasBlakely has a gravestone marker. Alba. > >Yes the churchyard still exists. > >When we were filming our Jamaica sequences on the West India Regiment's role >in the events at Morant Bay in 1865, we recorded pieces in front of the >court house and in the churchyard. > >We also met and recorded an on camera interview with one of Paul Bogle's >descendants - a teacher, currently living and working about two miles up the >road from the court house. At her request we recorded the interview in the >churchyard. > >Best wishes > >Tony T >Rebecca Goldstone > > > > > >