Scottish Jamaicans

Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaican people of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European and mixed Asian and African 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 1200 prisoners of war were deported by Oliver Cromwell.^[1] There was also a later migration at the turn of the 18th century, after the failed Darien colony in Panama.^[1] In 1707, when the Act of Union took place, Scots gained access to England's preexisting colonies.

People of Scottish Jamaican descent

William Davidson, radical^[2]
Stewart Faulkner, British retired athlete of Jamaican and Cuban parentage
Goldie, British disc jockey of Scottish and Jamaican parentage
Harry J, record producer
Lewis Hutchinson, Scottish immigrant to Jamaica; owned a castle; one of the world's first known serial killers
Ms Dynamite, British singer and rapper
Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage^[3]^[4]
Mary Seacole, father was a Scottish soldier
Gil Scott-Heron, late American soul and jazz poet
Robert Wedderburn^[5]
Salena Godden Poet and Author, Jamaican Irish parentage, Scottish ancestor Lieutenant General James Robinson, (1762-1845) who is buried at Edinburgh University.

References

^ ^a ^b http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/online/scottish_jamaica_testaments.htm
^ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdavidson.htm
^ Branigan, Tania (2004-05-12). "Colin Powell claims Scottish coat of arms". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
^ http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0420.htm#ColinPowellsScottishAncestry
^ Chase, Malcolm (2008). "Wedderburn, Robert (1762–1835/6?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help). Retrieved on 17 August 2008.

External links

[Dobson-1] ttp://www.scotsgenealogy.com/online/scottish_jamaica_testaments.htm

[2] ttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdavidson.htm

[3] Branigan, Tania (2004-05-12). "Colin Powell claims Scottish coat of arms". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-05-23.

[4] ttp://www.eogn.com/archives/news0420.htm#ColinPowellsScottishAncestry

[5] Chase, Malcolm (2008). "Wedderburn, Robert (1762–1835/6?)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help). Retrieved on 17 August 2008.

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Scottish Jamaicans

People of Scottish Jamaican descent

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