Henry Graham - There is strong evidence that Henry was born a mustee slave (These terms varied by clerk and period, but in Jamaican sources ‘mustee’ is often used as a near-white mixed category), around 1823, on the Thetford estate in Lludas Vasle, St. John’s parish, Jamaica (very near to Herondale where our Henry Graham settled and raised his family).
My reasons for this thinking are that I’ve not been able to find any other Henry Graham’s recorded in christening, marriage or death records at the time (1820 - 1850). I’ve not found any records of Graham’s settling in St John who Henry could have been descended from, and misstepped the recording process. There is also the connection that our Henry Graham gave his children middle names Heron & Smith which were last names of the enslaved Henry’s grandmother and mother respectively. As a mustee the enslaved Henry Graham could have easily been mistaken for European and his children could also follow suit. We know from the recorded descriptions of Henry Graham & Elizas children through out their lives (especially US immigration records) that they variously had colouring from light to tan skinned and bold - dark hair, green, blue, brown and dark eyes.
We know our Henry married a woman named Eliza confirmed in the recording of the mother’s name in all baptism records of their children. Now I have found only one marriage record for a union of any Henry Graham & Eliza in the whole of Jamaica and that is a marriage by licence in 1849. Marriage by licence was a common practice amoung aspiring couples, allowing the marriage to go ahead without public scrutiny about their family or situation. The norm for most residents was for marriage by banns where the union was announced in public church reading on successive Sundays, before the ceremony allowing for anyone with objections to come forward and also allowing for buzz and gossip. Marriage by licence although a more expensive option, offered speed and discretion.
The fact that the first concrete record of our Henry & Eliza Graham in 1850 records the birth of their first child in Herondale St John, the exact same area as the above mentioned marriage record, and are the only Henry & Elizabeth Graham in the area to do so, connects some dots. Also I haven’t found any immigration records for a Henry Graham & Eliza, and Henry’s profession of schoolmaster indicates he was Jamaican born, as the church tended to train locals for rural mission stations like St John.
So with that in mind here is what I believe is the life story of our Henry Graham.
Henry Graham born c. Sept-Oct 1823, first appears in the 1826 Slave Register as a three-year-old with racial categorisation “mustee”. Henry was the son of Mary Smith, herself a quadroon slave.
It is notable Henry and his maternal line were consistently recorded in various slave registers with surnames, irregular for the time and could have denoted some level status, but as these situations were never formally recorded it’s hard to tell what the reality on the ground was. It is also notable that by 1828 Thetford was being managed by attorneys due to the death of owner Peeke Fuller and subsequent legal battles between his heirs who were all by this time back in England. This meant that Thetford was suspended in a legal bubble during the tumultuous Emancipation and apprenticeship period which could have affected the administration and day to day running of the property and the daily lives of its enslaved population.
Despite his beginnings under slavery, Henry survived into adulthood, coming of age around the time of emancipation. Henry would have been about 11 when slavery formally ended. At the age of eleven, in 1834, he would possibly have entered the apprenticeship system, and by 1838, at age 15, he would have been legally free. Freed children of lighter complexion were often singled out by the Anglican mission for education, and Henry’s trajectory fits this pattern. By 1850s he was established as a catechist and schoolmaster, roles designed precisely for literate Jamaican men who could serve communities in the absence of ordained clergy.
Henry proceeded to work as a catechist and schoolmaster later becoming a vestryman (part of the local parish council governing body) for the parish of St John. He was attached to the Jamaica Home and Foreign Missionary Society (established c. 1860) at Point Hill. In 1852 Henry was the schoolmaster at Lluidas Vale earning 20 pounds a year with 40 students (https://archive.org/details/jamaica-blue-book-1852/page/n250/mode/1up); 1866 https://archive.org/details/jamaica-blue-book-1866/page/n139/mode/2up
(marriage record https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68L7-CHDK?lang=en)
15 months later Eliza gave birth to their first child Mary Elisabeth Graham, who tragically died in childhood at age 3. However Henry and Eliza went on to have eight other children, who all miraculously for the time survived childhood, including Archdeacon John Henry Heron Graham, Rev. William Thomas Heron Graham, and Adam Alexander Heron Graham, who became clergymen, teachers, and professionals at the forefront of Jamaica’s late nineteenth-century church and civic life.
Henry died of fever, age a relatively young age of 53, at Pusey, Kingston, on 3 April 1876, and was buried in the churchyard.
15 months later Eliza gave birth to their first child Mary Elisabeth Graham, who tragically died in childhood at age 3. However Henry and Eliza went on to have eight other children, who all miraculously for the time survived childhood, including Archdeacon John Henry Heron Graham, Rev. William Thomas Heron Graham, and Adam Alexander Heron Graham, who became clergymen, teachers, and professionals at the forefront of Jamaica’s late nineteenth-century church and civic life.
Henry died of fever, age a relatively young age of 53, at Pusey, Kingston, on 3 April 1876, and was buried in the churchyard.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-DCQ1-Y?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A66K8-HLKB&action=view&cc=1827268&lang=en&groupId=)
vestryman - St John, 1857, 1861 (https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/alm1857_02.htm)
Registered to vote - St John, 1860
Registered to vote - St John, 1860
1. Mary Elizabeth Graham
2. John Henry Heron Graham (Archdeacon)
3. Catherine Ann Rossetta Graham
4. Margaret E Graham
5. Rev William Thomas Graham
6. Adam Alexander Heron Graham
7. George Fraser Heron Graham
8. Daniel Smith Graham (Henry)
9. Christiana Eliza Graham
A bit of context around the political and cultural systems in Jamaica at the time of Henry’s life:
Colour-coding
Among the enslaved in Jamaica, planters used a colour-coded system to distinguish degrees of African ancestry:
- Negro meant African-born or of full African descent.
- Mulatto was half African, half European.
- Quadroon one-quarter African (one African grandparent).
- Octoroon one-eighth African.
- Mustee one-sixteenth African, sometimes treated as nearly white.
These gradations were recorded in slave registers and plantation inventories, reflecting how enslaved people were literally catalogued by “blood fraction.” The closer someone was classified to white, the more likely they were to be given domestic or skilled roles, manumission opportunities, or slightly better treatment, though they remained enslaved until formally freed. Thus leading to a post colonial issue of colourism that still remains on the island to this day.
Among the enslaved in Jamaica, planters used a colour-coded system to distinguish degrees of African ancestry:
- Negro meant African-born or of full African descent.
- Mulatto was half African, half European.
- Quadroon one-quarter African (one African grandparent).
- Octoroon one-eighth African.
- Mustee one-sixteenth African, sometimes treated as nearly white.
These gradations were recorded in slave registers and plantation inventories, reflecting how enslaved people were literally catalogued by “blood fraction.” The closer someone was classified to white, the more likely they were to be given domestic or skilled roles, manumission opportunities, or slightly better treatment, though they remained enslaved until formally freed. Thus leading to a post colonial issue of colourism that still remains on the island to this day.
Thetford Estate
This is a good example of how sugar estates have left their very visible mark on the parish of St Catherine (Thetford was located in St John’s parish which later got merged into St Catherine in 1866-67). Located slightly south-east of Worthy Park Estate in Lluidas Vale, Thetford had a long history dating back to the 1650s when Colonel Thomas Fuller was given the Thetford property as a reward for his contribution to the 1655 capture of Jamaica. The estate remained with the Fuller family for a long while, being owned by Peeke Fuller and Charles Beckford Fuller from 1774 to 1777 and then by Peeke Fuller from 1798 to 1825. Over time, the property grew to 3,253 acres, with the average number of slaves ranging from 262 in 1809 to 299 in 1832.
This is a good example of how sugar estates have left their very visible mark on the parish of St Catherine (Thetford was located in St John’s parish which later got merged into St Catherine in 1866-67). Located slightly south-east of Worthy Park Estate in Lluidas Vale, Thetford had a long history dating back to the 1650s when Colonel Thomas Fuller was given the Thetford property as a reward for his contribution to the 1655 capture of Jamaica. The estate remained with the Fuller family for a long while, being owned by Peeke Fuller and Charles Beckford Fuller from 1774 to 1777 and then by Peeke Fuller from 1798 to 1825. Over time, the property grew to 3,253 acres, with the average number of slaves ranging from 262 in 1809 to 299 in 1832.
The ruins of the original Thetford Great House still mark the landscape of what was once a thriving estate. In the late nineteenth century, a new two-storey residence was built in the vicinity of where the original great house stood, but this has not hidden the ruins of the original building. Thetford had no consistent source of water to power a watermill and so the estate had both a windmill and an animal mill to crush the canes for the making of sugar. Although its sails have long since disappeared, the windmill tower remains till today, very visible in the landscape of the area. To the left of the windmill tower, the remains of two animal mills can clearly be seen.
https://www.parishhistoriesofjamaica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Parish-History-of-St.-Catherine.pdf
At the time of emancipation, Thetford belonged technically to the Trustees of Greenwich Hospital in London, but being long decayed it was heavily squatted on by the freed slaves. It reverted to the Crown for the persistent nonpayment of quit rents under the Jamaican Land Law of 1867, from which time it was surveyed and attempts made to evict squatters in order to establish clear title to the property. It was purchased from the Jamaican government by the Talbots in 1881, for <£1,300, after which further evictions were made. John Scarlett was the Talbots' overseer. The Clarkes bought Thet¬ ford, along with the rest of Worthy Park, in 1918, though apparently the last Thetford evictions had occurred during the regime of their predecessors, the Calders (1899-1918); Craton and Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation: The History of Worthy Park, 1670-1970 (London, W. H. Allen, and Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1970), pp. 234-258.
Emancipation of Slaves and it's effect on Clergy
After emancipation in the 1830s, the Anglican Church turned to lighter skinned free Jamaicans to serve as catechists, vestrymen, and schoolmasters rather than bringing Europeans, who often succumbed to illness and found rural work isolating. These men were better suited to local conditions and were viewed as a respectable intermediary class who could promote ideals of civilisation and Christianity among the wider population. Backed by mission societies, parish vestries, and British philanthropic support, their families gained access to schooling and sponsorships that enabled the next generation to study abroad and become doctors, clergy, or other professionals, creating the foundation of an educated Afro Jamaican middle class
- 1824 marked the establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica, and on July 24 the consecration of the first Bishop, Dr. Christopher Lipscomb, one day later. The new Diocese was to provide religious instruction to the enslaved population – which the Anglican Church had failed to do for over 200 years. Bishop Lipscomb established over 50 national schools, which emphasized religious education, and trained "coloured Jamaican" catechists who were responsible for teaching the principles of the Christian religion. The Church then moved to wider “indigenization of clergy,” with Bishop Nuttall later establishing a theological college (St Peter’s College) to train local workers.
- (https://diocesan200thanniversary.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/beyond-the-obstacle/?utm)
- (https://www.anglicandioceseja.org/?p=29097&utm)
- (https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art-leisure/20201206/dudley-mclean-anglican-church-and-150-years-education?utm)
- (https://yesterdaypeopleja.com/people/in-the-churches/church-of-england/)
"In that year (1860) the Bishop of Kingston and some of the leading Clergy founded the Home and Foreign Mission Society which was soon able to sustain 20 mission stations in the more remote and spiritually destitute portions of the interior. These stations were served on Sundays by Catechist Schoolmasters who resided in the midst of the people, and were superintended by the nearest Clergymen. Sunday schools were also held at these stations, and the Catechists acted as Schoolmasters of the day schools, all of which were under Government inspection." (https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/handbk17.htm)
As a catechist how did Henry's sons afford further education? A son entering Codrington in 1885 could have come through the standard local route: literate boy in parish schools, catechist–schoolmaster employment with a church stipend, then seminary at Codrington with institutional support on the college side. The documented church pay, SPCK grants, USPG funding, and Codrington’s regional mandate together explain how Jamaican-born families advanced sons into the clergy.
(https://anglicanhistory.org/wi/jm/ellis1913/14.html)
A brief history of post slavery Jamaica - https://www.jamrockmuseum.com/education/emancipation-and-post-slavery-jamaica-1834-1880s-a-time-of-transition-resistance-and-resilience/?utm
Thetford Slave Returns
1817 - https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1817_133564-00262?queryId=98c84df2-2bab-430b-a1f6-4ed12d8ebe3c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=qeA26&_phstart=successSource&pId=210458
"In that year (1860) the Bishop of Kingston and some of the leading Clergy founded the Home and Foreign Mission Society which was soon able to sustain 20 mission stations in the more remote and spiritually destitute portions of the interior. These stations were served on Sundays by Catechist Schoolmasters who resided in the midst of the people, and were superintended by the nearest Clergymen. Sunday schools were also held at these stations, and the Catechists acted as Schoolmasters of the day schools, all of which were under Government inspection." (https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/handbk17.htm)
As a catechist how did Henry's sons afford further education? A son entering Codrington in 1885 could have come through the standard local route: literate boy in parish schools, catechist–schoolmaster employment with a church stipend, then seminary at Codrington with institutional support on the college side. The documented church pay, SPCK grants, USPG funding, and Codrington’s regional mandate together explain how Jamaican-born families advanced sons into the clergy.
(https://anglicanhistory.org/wi/jm/ellis1913/14.html)
A brief history of post slavery Jamaica - https://www.jamrockmuseum.com/education/emancipation-and-post-slavery-jamaica-1834-1880s-a-time-of-transition-resistance-and-resilience/?utm
Thetford Slave Returns
1817 - https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1817_133564-00262?queryId=98c84df2-2bab-430b-a1f6-4ed12d8ebe3c&usePUB=true&_phsrc=qeA26&_phstart=successSource&pId=210458
Henry's Mother was named Mary Smith - born 1815, is first recorded age 12, quadroon - Thetford - 1817
**Interestingly… From 1803 Thetford’s overseer was a man named William Smith
Mary Smith's mother was Eliza Heron - born 1777, recorded as her mother at age 40, mulato - Thetford - 1817 Slave return
Other children of Eliza Heron
Susannah Smith born 1808, age 9 quadroon
Ann Smith born 1800, age 17, quadroon
Margaret Smith born 1801, age 6. quadroon
William born 1814, (no last name), quadroon age 3
Eliza Heron's mother was Dolly (no surname) born 1754, a negro slave, creole, meaning born on the island, aged 63 in the year the Thetford slave return was completed in 1817 -
Other Children of Dolly
Nelly born 1785, age 32, a sambo
Peggy born 1788, age 29, a sambo
Henry born 1790, age 27 a negro
Dary born 1803, age 14, a sambo
- Thetford slave return 1817; It seems an unfortunate and inhumane aspect of slavery on this plantation that negro and sambo children were not afforded the right of a surname.
On Jamaican plantations, surnames were not passed down in a fixed way. They might come from owners, white fathers, or other associations. Henry’s surname “Graham” could possibly suggest recognition from a Graham man who was working on the property or near by, since his mother was Mary Smith. Through Mary, and her mother Eliza Heron, we see how the maternal line carried descent, enslaved status, and family continuity. Even when surnames changed, the mother’s line gave stability, and distinctive names like Heron or Trimbugh hint at preserved threads of African, creole, or owner-linked heritage within the disruption of slavery.
Eliza Fraser - was possibly Eliza Fraser - born c. May 1826, age 1 month, quadroon - Thetford 1826, born to Elizabeth Pengilly - mulato age 19 - Thetford - 1817
Elizabeth Pengilly was born a mulatto at Thetford in 1798. This was the same year a man named William Pengilly started working at the estate, I believe he later worked at Worthy Park as a book keeper and later overseer. It seemed common practice for workers to bounce around neighbouring estates in St John (https://archive.org/stream/searching4theinvisible/searching4theinvisible_djvu.txt)
Other children of Elizabeth Pengilly were:
Catherine Pengilly, quadroon, aged 1 in 1817 slave return (b. C 1817 - d. 1820)
Georgehannah Fraser age 1-3/4, quadroon (b. 1818)
Molly (Margaret) Fraser age 2 months, quadroon (b. 1820 d. 1823)
Jane Fraser age 1-11/12, quadroon (b. 1823 - d. 3-6/12 1829)
Thomas Fraser age 1-6/12, quadroon (b. 1824)
The children of Henry Graham & Eliza Fraser were:
1. Mary Elizabeth Graham
2. John Henry Heron Graham (Archdeacon)
3. Catherine Ann Rossetta Graham
4. Margaret E Graham
5. Rev William Thomas Graham
6. Adam Alexander Heron Graham
7. George Fraser Heron Graham
8. Daniel Smith Graham (Henry)
9. Christiana Eliza Graham
1. Mary Elizabeth Graham - born 29 Aug 1850 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica, died 20 June 1854 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica at age 3yrs 10 months.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7102-6?cc=1827268)
(death record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-18747-51?cc=1827268&wc=12962310)
2. Archdeacon John Henry Heron Graham (1852–1935)Born on 10 June 1852 at Heron Dale, Roaring River, St Catherine, John Henry Heron Graham followed in his father’s footsteps into the Anglican Church. He was ordained a deacon in 1879 and advanced to priesthood in 1881.
His first clerical appointment was as Rector of St Andrew’s Church, Golden Grove (St Thomas) from 1881 to 1883. He then served as Rector of St Peter’s, Lluidas Vale, and St George’s, Point Hill (1883–1886), during which time he oversaw the restoration and enlargement of the parish church in Port Maria. (https://www.parishhistoriesofjamaica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/St-Mary-History.-Complete.pdf)
He also founded mission stations in Bonny Gate, Allson Mountain, and Mason Hall, and worked as a schoolmaster at the Theological College in Jamaica (Jamaica Family Search)
Both an educator and writer, Graham authored Outlines of the Geography and History of Jamaica, a widely used textbook for schools. He also wrote Eucharistic Hymns for Use at Holy Communication. In 1917 he was appointed Honorary Canon of the Cathedral, and in 1919 elevated to Archdeacon of Middlesex, a senior ecclesiastical post in the Jamaican Anglican hierarchy.
He continued to serve with distinction until his death on 9 December 1935. The Kingston Daily Gleaner marked his passing as a great loss to the Church, recognising him as the senior Archdeacon of the diocese. His legacy endures in the Graham Memorial Chapel at St Mary’s Parish Church, Port Maria, erected to honour the nearly four decades of service he dedicated as its rector.
John married Jessie Bethune Stamers, in 1881. She was second daughter of Benjamin Henry Stamers, Esq., M.D. of Spanish Town. They didn't have any children.
References:
Graham, Rev. John Henry Heron. Born at Herondale, St. Catherine 6/10/1852. Son of the late Henry Graham and wife. Married in 1881, Jessie Bethune, second dtr of the late Benjamin Henry Stainer, Esq., M.D. of Spanish Town. Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Golden Grove, St. Thomas, Bath, 1881-1883; St. Peter's, Lluidas Vale and St. George's, Point Hill, 1883-1886; St. Mary's, Port Maria, 1886. Add: The Rectory, Port Maria. - (Jamaca Who's Who - https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/whoswh02.htm)
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7099-20?cc=1827268)
(marriage https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K5MC-MCG)
(death record https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS5-PGS9)
other sources:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123756620/john_henry_heron-graham
https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1935-12-11/page-18/
3. Catherine Ann Rosetta Graham - (born 15 December 1854 at Roaring River, St Catherine) married the twice widowed civil servant and editor Augustus Constantine Sinclair on 18 May 1886 at St Peter’s, Lluidas Vale. Her brother, Rev. J. H. H. Graham, officiated, she was 31 and he about 51. Before his death on 27 January 1891 the family were based in central Kingston, East Street, then King Street, near the Government Printing Office where Augustus worked; after she was widowed, the available records and context suggest Catherine stayed within that same downtown orbit while raising Amy (1888) and Cyril (1890). With her father Henry already a decade gone by her wedding, the marriage looks like both affection and pragmatism: a respectable Anglican match offering companionship, stability, and a place in Kingston’s civic-literary world.
References:
born 15 Dec 1854 at Roaring River, St Catherine, Jamaica. She married Augustus Constantine Sinclair on 1886.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13841-2289-18?cc=1827268)
"May 25, 1886 married at St. Peter’s Church, Lluidas Vale, on Tuesday the 18th May, 1886, by the Rev. John H. H. Graham (brother of the bride) Augustus Constantine Sinclair, of the Government Printing Establishment, to Catherine Rosetta Graham of Herondale, St. Catherine." Daily Gleaner
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12312-7335-73?cc=1538386)
Catherine's husband Augustus was editor and compiler along with LR Fyfe of the Handbook of Jamaica which was published by the Government Printing Office
"Handbook of Jamaica. (Kingston: Gov't Printing Office) 1880 1st ed. Travel. Descriptive. Jamaica. A guidebook for tourists. Published 1880-1939, 1946 to date. The successor to "Jamaica Almanac." From 1882-89 edited by AC Sinclair and LR Fyfe; 1890-91 by AC Sinclair and SP Musson; 1892-97 by SP Musson and TL Roxburgh; 1898-1902 by TL Roxburgh and JC Ford; 1903-06 by JC Ford and AAC Finlay; 1907 by JC Ford and F Cundall; thereafter by F Cundall, later by WA Cover, and after by the Jamaica Information Service. See also, “Jamaica in [1895] . . .” See below for various examples. All issues scarce. Bay, BL, LOC, Rag, RES"
He also wrote a Chronological History of Jamaica, Jamaica in 1889. And was a main instigator for the Great Exhibition of 1891 in Jamaica. For details of the exhibition and Augustus' involvement visit http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0018.html. Unfortunately Augustus Sinclair never saw the project through to completion as he dies a few days before it opened.
Catherine and Augustus had two children
1. Amy Louise Graham Sinclair - born 16 May 1888 at 139 East St, Kingston, Jamaica. She never married.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12375-85533-70?cc=1538386)
2. Cyril Augustus Graham Sinclair - born 18 Sept 1890 at 106 King St, Kingston, Jamaica. He married first Rachel Menagh in 1909 and they had a son Boswald Augustus Sinclair born in 1911 in Montreal, Canada. Cyril's second wife was Beatrice May Carson on 30th June 1920 and they has a son Harold Graham Sinclair born in 1921. (birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12312-7335-73?cc=1538386)
Catherine, Amy & Harold Sinclair
Catherin Rossetta Sinclair
Cyril Sinclair with Boswald Sinclair
4. Margaret E Graham - (b. 27 May 1857, Roaring River https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13872-6920-65?cc=1827268) grew up in a church-school household. Her father Henry was a catechist/schoolmaster, so her teens and twenties likely revolved around parish life: helping her mother run the home, teaching little ones their letters, leading Sunday-school or sewing classes, and keeping household accounts. Henry’s death in 1876, when Margaret was nineteen, would have deepened those responsibilities; in families like hers it was common for one daughter, eldest or simply the most capable, to delay marriage to steady the household and support a widowed mother. Add the realities of “respectable” Anglican matchmaking; small circles, careful choices, a later marriage stops looking unusual and starts looking typical. By the late 1880s Margaret’s world overlapped with that of Charles Thomas Rickard, then a schoolmaster who married first in 1887 under the eye of her brother, Rev. J. H. H. Graham; one of Charles’s sons was even named Charles Graham Rickard, a hint of longstanding closeness. When Margaret finally married Charles at St Mary on 28 December 1899, she was 42 and he 40, now a clerk in holy orders and a widower with two boys (Alfred Josias, 1888; Charles Graham, 1889). By 1917 they were at “The Cliffs,” Watson’s Hill, with land known as “Boucher’s Tank,” and Charles’s probate in 1922 named Margaret as executrix, showing she survived him. Another child from his first marriage, Mary Jane (b. 1892), died in 1921 and was buried at Nain, St Elizabeth. Seen in its milieu, Margaret’s “late” marriage reads as affection braided with prudence, ripening out of years of family duty and a trusted Anglican school-and-church network, and leading into a life of parish service and family care that suited her experience.
2. John Henry Heron Graham (Archdeacon)
3. Catherine Ann Rossetta Graham
4. Margaret E Graham
5. Rev William Thomas Graham
6. Adam Alexander Heron Graham
7. George Fraser Heron Graham
8. Daniel Smith Graham (Henry)
9. Christiana Eliza Graham
1. Mary Elizabeth Graham - born 29 Aug 1850 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica, died 20 June 1854 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica at age 3yrs 10 months.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7102-6?cc=1827268)
(death record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-18747-51?cc=1827268&wc=12962310)
2. Archdeacon John Henry Heron Graham (1852–1935)Born on 10 June 1852 at Heron Dale, Roaring River, St Catherine, John Henry Heron Graham followed in his father’s footsteps into the Anglican Church. He was ordained a deacon in 1879 and advanced to priesthood in 1881.
His first clerical appointment was as Rector of St Andrew’s Church, Golden Grove (St Thomas) from 1881 to 1883. He then served as Rector of St Peter’s, Lluidas Vale, and St George’s, Point Hill (1883–1886), during which time he oversaw the restoration and enlargement of the parish church in Port Maria. (https://www.parishhistoriesofjamaica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/St-Mary-History.-Complete.pdf)
He also founded mission stations in Bonny Gate, Allson Mountain, and Mason Hall, and worked as a schoolmaster at the Theological College in Jamaica (Jamaica Family Search)
Both an educator and writer, Graham authored Outlines of the Geography and History of Jamaica, a widely used textbook for schools. He also wrote Eucharistic Hymns for Use at Holy Communication. In 1917 he was appointed Honorary Canon of the Cathedral, and in 1919 elevated to Archdeacon of Middlesex, a senior ecclesiastical post in the Jamaican Anglican hierarchy.
He continued to serve with distinction until his death on 9 December 1935. The Kingston Daily Gleaner marked his passing as a great loss to the Church, recognising him as the senior Archdeacon of the diocese. His legacy endures in the Graham Memorial Chapel at St Mary’s Parish Church, Port Maria, erected to honour the nearly four decades of service he dedicated as its rector.
John married Jessie Bethune Stamers, in 1881. She was second daughter of Benjamin Henry Stamers, Esq., M.D. of Spanish Town. They didn't have any children.
References:
Graham, Rev. John Henry Heron. Born at Herondale, St. Catherine 6/10/1852. Son of the late Henry Graham and wife. Married in 1881, Jessie Bethune, second dtr of the late Benjamin Henry Stainer, Esq., M.D. of Spanish Town. Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Golden Grove, St. Thomas, Bath, 1881-1883; St. Peter's, Lluidas Vale and St. George's, Point Hill, 1883-1886; St. Mary's, Port Maria, 1886. Add: The Rectory, Port Maria. - (Jamaca Who's Who - https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/whoswh02.htm)
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7099-20?cc=1827268)
(marriage https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K5MC-MCG)
(death record https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS5-PGS9)
other sources:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123756620/john_henry_heron-graham
https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1935-12-11/page-18/
3. Catherine Ann Rosetta Graham - (born 15 December 1854 at Roaring River, St Catherine) married the twice widowed civil servant and editor Augustus Constantine Sinclair on 18 May 1886 at St Peter’s, Lluidas Vale. Her brother, Rev. J. H. H. Graham, officiated, she was 31 and he about 51. Before his death on 27 January 1891 the family were based in central Kingston, East Street, then King Street, near the Government Printing Office where Augustus worked; after she was widowed, the available records and context suggest Catherine stayed within that same downtown orbit while raising Amy (1888) and Cyril (1890). With her father Henry already a decade gone by her wedding, the marriage looks like both affection and pragmatism: a respectable Anglican match offering companionship, stability, and a place in Kingston’s civic-literary world.
References:
born 15 Dec 1854 at Roaring River, St Catherine, Jamaica. She married Augustus Constantine Sinclair on 1886.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13841-2289-18?cc=1827268)
"May 25, 1886 married at St. Peter’s Church, Lluidas Vale, on Tuesday the 18th May, 1886, by the Rev. John H. H. Graham (brother of the bride) Augustus Constantine Sinclair, of the Government Printing Establishment, to Catherine Rosetta Graham of Herondale, St. Catherine." Daily Gleaner
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12312-7335-73?cc=1538386)
Catherine's husband Augustus was editor and compiler along with LR Fyfe of the Handbook of Jamaica which was published by the Government Printing Office
"Handbook of Jamaica. (Kingston: Gov't Printing Office) 1880 1st ed. Travel. Descriptive. Jamaica. A guidebook for tourists. Published 1880-1939, 1946 to date. The successor to "Jamaica Almanac." From 1882-89 edited by AC Sinclair and LR Fyfe; 1890-91 by AC Sinclair and SP Musson; 1892-97 by SP Musson and TL Roxburgh; 1898-1902 by TL Roxburgh and JC Ford; 1903-06 by JC Ford and AAC Finlay; 1907 by JC Ford and F Cundall; thereafter by F Cundall, later by WA Cover, and after by the Jamaica Information Service. See also, “Jamaica in [1895] . . .” See below for various examples. All issues scarce. Bay, BL, LOC, Rag, RES"
He also wrote a Chronological History of Jamaica, Jamaica in 1889. And was a main instigator for the Great Exhibition of 1891 in Jamaica. For details of the exhibition and Augustus' involvement visit http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0018.html. Unfortunately Augustus Sinclair never saw the project through to completion as he dies a few days before it opened.
Catherine and Augustus had two children
1. Amy Louise Graham Sinclair - born 16 May 1888 at 139 East St, Kingston, Jamaica. She never married.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12375-85533-70?cc=1538386)
2. Cyril Augustus Graham Sinclair - born 18 Sept 1890 at 106 King St, Kingston, Jamaica. He married first Rachel Menagh in 1909 and they had a son Boswald Augustus Sinclair born in 1911 in Montreal, Canada. Cyril's second wife was Beatrice May Carson on 30th June 1920 and they has a son Harold Graham Sinclair born in 1921. (birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12312-7335-73?cc=1538386)
Catherine, Amy & Harold Sinclair
Catherin Rossetta Sinclair
Cyril Sinclair with Boswald Sinclair
4. Margaret E Graham - (b. 27 May 1857, Roaring River https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13872-6920-65?cc=1827268) grew up in a church-school household. Her father Henry was a catechist/schoolmaster, so her teens and twenties likely revolved around parish life: helping her mother run the home, teaching little ones their letters, leading Sunday-school or sewing classes, and keeping household accounts. Henry’s death in 1876, when Margaret was nineteen, would have deepened those responsibilities; in families like hers it was common for one daughter, eldest or simply the most capable, to delay marriage to steady the household and support a widowed mother. Add the realities of “respectable” Anglican matchmaking; small circles, careful choices, a later marriage stops looking unusual and starts looking typical. By the late 1880s Margaret’s world overlapped with that of Charles Thomas Rickard, then a schoolmaster who married first in 1887 under the eye of her brother, Rev. J. H. H. Graham; one of Charles’s sons was even named Charles Graham Rickard, a hint of longstanding closeness. When Margaret finally married Charles at St Mary on 28 December 1899, she was 42 and he 40, now a clerk in holy orders and a widower with two boys (Alfred Josias, 1888; Charles Graham, 1889). By 1917 they were at “The Cliffs,” Watson’s Hill, with land known as “Boucher’s Tank,” and Charles’s probate in 1922 named Margaret as executrix, showing she survived him. Another child from his first marriage, Mary Jane (b. 1892), died in 1921 and was buried at Nain, St Elizabeth. Seen in its milieu, Margaret’s “late” marriage reads as affection braided with prudence, ripening out of years of family duty and a trusted Anglican school-and-church network, and leading into a life of parish service and family care that suited her experience.
In an immigration record for travel to the Baltimore in the US in 1917, both Charles and Margaret are noted as a clergyman & gentlewoman and recorded as both negros. - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SD-HL9D?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A2CSB-1ZD&action=view&cc=2018318&lang=en&groupId=
Charles Thomas Richard’s parents were Thomas Rickard and Frances Clunes (married by banns 31st Dec 1858 - both of the parish of St John https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-JF3M-C?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A6K5L-PJ3R&action=view&cc=1827268&lang=en&groupId=M9N2-PPS ) Thomas Rickard’s occupation was 1844, Laborer; Occupation (2): Bet. 1847 - 1862, Mason; Residence: Bet. 1841 - 1844, Thetford, St. John; Residence (2): Bet. 1847 - 1860, Roaring River; Residence (3): 1862, Pusey - https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Rp-r.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
5. Rev. William Thomas Heron Graham - (1859–1956) Born at Herondale (Roaring River), St John, St Catherine, to Henry and Eliza Graham, he trained for holy orders at Codrington College in Barbados in 1885 and began as curate at Highgate, St Mary. Over the next five decades he led parishes including Retreat (two terms), Milk River, Kemp’s Hill, Prat(t)ville, St Alban’s Stanmore, St Mary’s Southfield, St Mark’s Mayfield, and later St Cyprian’s, Highgate. In 1880s he married Florence Geraldine Constantine, daughter of Rev. M. G. Constantine (island curate 1858); they raised eight children, two sons serving “at the front” in the First World War. Graham’s vocation spilled beyond the vestry: he was a Justice of the Peace, sat on church and agricultural boards, and represented St Mary in Legislative Council from 1920 to 1925, where he backed practical schemes such as parish reservoirs during drought years. Retiring in 1938, he continued faithful attendance at Half-Way-Tree from his home at 153 Constant Spring Road. Remembered as one of the island’s most senior clergymen, he died in Kingston on 1 March 1956, aged ninety-six.
Parish & Public Service Timeline (selected)
1885–1886 — Curate, Highgate, St Mary.
1887–1904 — Rector, Retreat (St Mary).
1904–1907 — Rector, Milk River, Kemp’s Hill, and Prat(t)ville (St Catherine/Clarendon region).
1908–1910 — Rector, St Alban’s, Stanmore.
1908 — Rector, St Mary’s, Southfield (St Elizabeth).
1910 — Rector, St Mark’s, Mayfield (St Elizabeth).
1913–1916 — Rector (return), Retreat (St Mary).
Later — Rector, St Cyprian, Highgate; residence Highgate P.O.
1914–1918 — Two sons served “at the front” in WWI.
1920–1925 — Elected Member for St Mary, old Legislative Council; continuing work on church/educational and agricultural boards.
1938 — Retirement from active parish duties; continued worship at Half‑Way‑Tree.
1 Mar 1956 — Died in Kingston (aged 96), residence noted as 153 Constant Spring Road.
Contemporaries described him as one of the island’s most senior Anglican clergymen, widely respected for both pastoral steadiness and practical civic engagement.
References:
Graham, Rev. William Thomas. Born at Herondale, St. Catherine (St. John's) 8/23/1859. Son of the late Henry Graham and Eliza, his wife. Married Florence, dtr of the Rev. M. G. Constantine; issue, eight children, 2 boys gone to the front. Curate, Highgate, St. Mary 1885-86; Rector Retreat 1887-1904; Rector Milk River, Kemp's Hill and Pratville, 1904-1907; Rector St. Alban's, Stanmore 1908-10; Rector St. Mary's, Southfield 1908 and St. Mark's, Mayfield, 1910; Rector Retreat 1913-1916. Rector of St. Cyprian, Highgate. Add: Highgate P.O. (Jamaica Who'd Who - https://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/whoswh02.htm)
birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13872-7479-25?cc=1827268
William entered the ministry at Codrington College in Barbados in 1885.
"Graham, Rev. William Thomas. Born at Herondale, St. Catherine (St. John’s) 8/23/1859. Son of the late Henry Graham and Eliza, his wife. Married Florence, dtr of the Rev. M. G. Constantine; issue, eight children, 2 boys gone to the front. Curate, Highgate, St. Mary 1885-86; Rector Retreat 1887-1904; Rector Milk River, Kemp’s Hill and Pratville, 1904-1907; Rector St. Alban’s, Stanmore 1908-10; Rector St. Mary’s, Southfield 1908 and St. Mark’s, Mayfield, 1910; Rector Retreat 1913-1916. Rector of St. Cyprian, Highgate. Add: Highgate P.O." Who's who 1916
"Services will begin at 5 pm. today for the Rev. Willam T, Graham JP., BA, (Durura) who died in the Kingston Public Hospital 9 o'clock on Thursday night. He was 96 years old. The Rev. Mr. Graham bad been ill for some months. On Saturday night last his condition became grave and he was taken to the hospital from his home at 153 Constant Spring Road. Oldest and most senior of Anglican clergymen, he served the Church fd Ht had b«an Rector, in parishes throughout the'island, and served' on the Parochial Boards of St. Mary and St. Elizabeth where he was associated with .the movement: which led to the establishment of public reservoirs to alleviate the terrible drought conditions then prevailing in the parish.
birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13872-7479-25?cc=1827268
William entered the ministry at Codrington College in Barbados in 1885.
"Graham, Rev. William Thomas. Born at Herondale, St. Catherine (St. John’s) 8/23/1859. Son of the late Henry Graham and Eliza, his wife. Married Florence, dtr of the Rev. M. G. Constantine; issue, eight children, 2 boys gone to the front. Curate, Highgate, St. Mary 1885-86; Rector Retreat 1887-1904; Rector Milk River, Kemp’s Hill and Pratville, 1904-1907; Rector St. Alban’s, Stanmore 1908-10; Rector St. Mary’s, Southfield 1908 and St. Mark’s, Mayfield, 1910; Rector Retreat 1913-1916. Rector of St. Cyprian, Highgate. Add: Highgate P.O." Who's who 1916
"Services will begin at 5 pm. today for the Rev. Willam T, Graham JP., BA, (Durura) who died in the Kingston Public Hospital 9 o'clock on Thursday night. He was 96 years old. The Rev. Mr. Graham bad been ill for some months. On Saturday night last his condition became grave and he was taken to the hospital from his home at 153 Constant Spring Road. Oldest and most senior of Anglican clergymen, he served the Church fd Ht had b«an Rector, in parishes throughout the'island, and served' on the Parochial Boards of St. Mary and St. Elizabeth where he was associated with .the movement: which led to the establishment of public reservoirs to alleviate the terrible drought conditions then prevailing in the parish.
Formerly Elected Member for St.Mary in the old Legislative Council (1920-25), Mr. Graham served on various public committees, including the Church Theological College Committee. He was also a member of the Board of Management of the Jamaica Agricultural Society.
Retired since 1938, he nevertheless took, a keen interest in the Church of-England, and regularly attended the Halfway Tree Church up to the time of his illness. Born in St John, St Catherine, he spent most of his life in St Mary. .He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Graham, 96 four sons, John, William, Thomas and Herbert Graham; three daughters. Mrs. Reginald Aquart, Mrs. Jesse Buckley and Mrs. Owen F. Rutty, as well as a family of 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was a brother, of the late Ven. Archdeacon John H. Graham, of Port Maria, St Mary." Daliy Gleaner 03/03/1956
William married Florence Geraldine Constantine and they had eight children.
1. John Anglin Graham born 15 Nov 1888 at St Ann's Bay, St Ann, Jamaica
2. William Gregory Graham born 22 Sept 1890, Jamaica, died 1970, Jamaica. He married Agnes Louise Graham and they had four children, Agnes Joyce Graham, John Beltine Graham (Demi), Keneth Daniel Graham (Don) and Anthony Graham (Tony).
3. Thomas Heron Graham born about 1890, Jamaica died 1981. He married Kathleen Mae Walter and they had four children, Walter Thomas Graham, Danny Graham, Michael Graham and Jeffrey Graham.
4. Herbert Graham
5. Charlotte Eliza Graham (Lottie) born about 1890 Jamaica, died 1977. She married William Regionald Aquart and they had three children, Barbara Collette Aquart, Florence Colina Aquart (Jimmie) and Peter Reginald Aquart.
6. Jessica Graham (Jessie) born 1901, Jamaica, died 1988. She married Harold Buckley and they had three children, Patricia Buckley, Kay Buckley and Joan Buckley.
7. Marguerite Geraldine Graham born 1903, Port Maria, St Mary, Jamaica, died 1964 St Mary, Jamaica. She married Frank Owen Wood Rutty and they had three children, David Rutty, Noel Raymond Wood Rutty and Gerald Rutty.
8. Frank Graham (John) born 1918, Jamaica.
William Thomas Heron Graham
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Florence Geraldine Graham nee Constantine centre, Margurite right, Jessie left
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from left, Agnes (wife of William Gregory), Jessie, Margurite, Frank and Edna Gauntlet
6. Adam Alexander Heron Graham - (b. 8 July 1861) was the sixth child of Henry Graham and his wife Eliza. He worked as a dispenser of medicine in Kingston; at the 1886 birth of his son Cyril he’s recorded at 40 Harbour Street, a commercial address in downtown Kingston. He married Agnes Mary Jane Croft (b. 30 Oct 1860, Rose Hill; d. 1945, Highgate), daughter of William Ross Croft Jr. and Elizabeth Mary Ann King.
References:
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-8217-28?cc=1827268)
Children:
1. Harry Croft Graham born 25 March 1886 in Kingston, Jamaica, died on 23rd April 1936 after a long illness and buried at St Mary Parish Church. Harry was a prominent figure in the public life of St Mary and Treasurer of many of the philanthropic organisations of the parish.
2. Cyril Croft Graham born 25 March 1886 at 40 Harbour St, Kingson, Jamaica.
3. George Ross Graham born 9 June 1888 in Clarendon, jamaica, died 9 June 1958, Port Antonio, Jamaica. George married Phylis Burnett and they had four children, George Graham, Mary Elizabeth Graham, William Henry Heron Graham and Peter Robert Burnett Graham.
4. Agnes Louise Graham born 28 June 1889, Jamaica, died 1970, Jamaica. She married William Gregory Graham and they had four children, as listed previously.
5. Isabelle Graham born 15 June 1890, Jamaica, died 1 Jan 1965, Kingston, Jamaica. She married Leicester Stanley Hendricks and they had four children, Osra Graham Hendricks, Burton Hendricks, Leslie Croft Hendricks and Samuel Hendricks.
6. Authur Heron Graham born 1894, Jamaica, died 22 Aug 1972, Kingston, Jamaica.
7. Wilmot Graham, born Jamaica died 8 Jan 1922, Jamaica at an early age.
Adam Alexander Heron Graham
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Back row George, Isabel, Arthur, Agnes Louise, Harry (Henry) front Adam with Wilmot on knee and Agnes Graham (nee Croft)
7. George Fraser Heron Graham - was born on 28 July 1863 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica. Surviving records for George are few: his birth entry and, seventeen years later, his death registration in Saint Catherine on 1 September 1880. The certificate lists “fever, ulcerated throat and blood poisoning,” which in modern terms points to a severe bacterial throat infection that progressed to sepsis.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7965-67?cc=1827268)
8. Daniel Smith Graham (Henry) - Born at Pusey in the parish of St John. Daniel who prefered the name Henry was a rural proprietor. By the 1890s he was settled in St Mary, working as a planter in the Highgate district, part of a belt then known for bananas, pimento, citrus, and coffee. His marriage to Frances Eleanore Constantine, daughter of the Rev. Michael Gregory Constantine and Charlotte Anglin Tate (and sister to Florence Constantine, who married Daniel’s brother the Rev. William Thomas Heron Graham). The couple had no children, but Daniel’s name appears in local notices as “Mr H. D. Graham,” marking him out as one of the district’s established planters and a man with family responsibilities that extended beyond his own household.
In the early 1910s Daniel’s health began to fail. The illness was prolonged enough that the family sought treatment abroad, and he was taken to a sanatorium in New York, almost certainly for suspected tuberculosis, the leading reason for sanatorium care at the time. He died there on 9 August 1915, aged 50. His brothers rallied around the repatriation of the body: W. T. Graham accompanied his remains back to the island by steamer and Rev. J. H. Graham met them on the Kingston pier. Daniel was carried home to St Mary and laid to rest at St Cyprian’s Church, Highgate, the parish church that had anchored so much of the family’s life.
Daniel and his wife unofficially adopted their neice Agnes Louise Graham, paying for her to be educated in a European finishing school. Upon return to the island Agnes was expected to make a socially and monetarily advantageous marriage befitting her educated status however much to the dismay of the family she married her cousin William Gregory Graham, remaining in St Mary.
born 23 May 1865 at Pusey, St John, Jamaica, died 9 Aug 1915, New York, USA. Daniel died in New York after he travelled there for treatment of a prolonged illness perhaps TB, his body was transported back to Jamaica after his death and he was buried at St Cyprian's Church, Highgate.
"Mr H D Graham or Mr Henry Daniel Graham, a St Mary planter, who died a few days ago in a New York Sanitorium, where he had been taken in an effort to .... his life, was bought back to the island last night on the SS Almirauie. WT Graham, a brother of the deceased accompanied the body, and was met on the peir by Rev JH Graham, another brother and other members of the bereaved family. The remains were taken to Highgate for internment this afternoon." Daily Gleaner: 17/08/1915
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-13620-87?cc=1827268)
8. Christiana Eliza Graham - was born on 10 December 1867 at Roaring River in St Catherine, Jamaica. Raised in a large, close-knit Graham clan, she came of age in the decades after Emancipation, when parish life revolved around church, school, and the rhythms of rural life. In the 1890s she married Earnest McLarty Morales, an engineer in the island’s Public Works Department. His government postings pulled the young couple along the north-western parishes, St James, Hanover, and Trelawny, where new roads, bridges, and civic buildings were changing the face of the island.
Between 1892 and 1909 Christiana and Ernest welcomed six children. Their son Charles would go on to distinguish himself both in the classroom and on the cricket field, becoming a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar in 1917 and later representing the island at first-class level. Ernest Jr. made his career in Jamaica as well, while the girls, Dora, and Nina, represented Jamaica in swimming and diving respectively.
Agnes, their eldest daughter, married Denis Hylton Lynch.
Charles McLarty Morales shows up in the cricket records as a Jamaica player (ESPN has his player card).
Children:
1. Agnes McLarty Morales born 1892, Jamaica
2. Charles McLarty Morales born 1895, Jamaica
3. Earnest McLarty Morales born 1897, Jamaica
4. Dora McLarty Morales born 1901, Jamaica
5. Boyde McLarty Morales born 1908, Jamaica
6. Nina McLarty Morales born 1909, Jamaica
Retired since 1938, he nevertheless took, a keen interest in the Church of-England, and regularly attended the Halfway Tree Church up to the time of his illness. Born in St John, St Catherine, he spent most of his life in St Mary. .He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence Graham, 96 four sons, John, William, Thomas and Herbert Graham; three daughters. Mrs. Reginald Aquart, Mrs. Jesse Buckley and Mrs. Owen F. Rutty, as well as a family of 20 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was a brother, of the late Ven. Archdeacon John H. Graham, of Port Maria, St Mary." Daliy Gleaner 03/03/1956
William married Florence Geraldine Constantine and they had eight children.
1. John Anglin Graham born 15 Nov 1888 at St Ann's Bay, St Ann, Jamaica
2. William Gregory Graham born 22 Sept 1890, Jamaica, died 1970, Jamaica. He married Agnes Louise Graham and they had four children, Agnes Joyce Graham, John Beltine Graham (Demi), Keneth Daniel Graham (Don) and Anthony Graham (Tony).
3. Thomas Heron Graham born about 1890, Jamaica died 1981. He married Kathleen Mae Walter and they had four children, Walter Thomas Graham, Danny Graham, Michael Graham and Jeffrey Graham.
4. Herbert Graham
5. Charlotte Eliza Graham (Lottie) born about 1890 Jamaica, died 1977. She married William Regionald Aquart and they had three children, Barbara Collette Aquart, Florence Colina Aquart (Jimmie) and Peter Reginald Aquart.
6. Jessica Graham (Jessie) born 1901, Jamaica, died 1988. She married Harold Buckley and they had three children, Patricia Buckley, Kay Buckley and Joan Buckley.
7. Marguerite Geraldine Graham born 1903, Port Maria, St Mary, Jamaica, died 1964 St Mary, Jamaica. She married Frank Owen Wood Rutty and they had three children, David Rutty, Noel Raymond Wood Rutty and Gerald Rutty.
8. Frank Graham (John) born 1918, Jamaica.
William Thomas Heron Graham
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Florence Geraldine Graham nee Constantine centre, Margurite right, Jessie left
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from left, Agnes (wife of William Gregory), Jessie, Margurite, Frank and Edna Gauntlet
6. Adam Alexander Heron Graham - (b. 8 July 1861) was the sixth child of Henry Graham and his wife Eliza. He worked as a dispenser of medicine in Kingston; at the 1886 birth of his son Cyril he’s recorded at 40 Harbour Street, a commercial address in downtown Kingston. He married Agnes Mary Jane Croft (b. 30 Oct 1860, Rose Hill; d. 1945, Highgate), daughter of William Ross Croft Jr. and Elizabeth Mary Ann King.
References:
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-8217-28?cc=1827268)
Children:
1. Harry Croft Graham born 25 March 1886 in Kingston, Jamaica, died on 23rd April 1936 after a long illness and buried at St Mary Parish Church. Harry was a prominent figure in the public life of St Mary and Treasurer of many of the philanthropic organisations of the parish.
2. Cyril Croft Graham born 25 March 1886 at 40 Harbour St, Kingson, Jamaica.
3. George Ross Graham born 9 June 1888 in Clarendon, jamaica, died 9 June 1958, Port Antonio, Jamaica. George married Phylis Burnett and they had four children, George Graham, Mary Elizabeth Graham, William Henry Heron Graham and Peter Robert Burnett Graham.
4. Agnes Louise Graham born 28 June 1889, Jamaica, died 1970, Jamaica. She married William Gregory Graham and they had four children, as listed previously.
5. Isabelle Graham born 15 June 1890, Jamaica, died 1 Jan 1965, Kingston, Jamaica. She married Leicester Stanley Hendricks and they had four children, Osra Graham Hendricks, Burton Hendricks, Leslie Croft Hendricks and Samuel Hendricks.
6. Authur Heron Graham born 1894, Jamaica, died 22 Aug 1972, Kingston, Jamaica.
7. Wilmot Graham, born Jamaica died 8 Jan 1922, Jamaica at an early age.
Adam Alexander Heron Graham
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Back row George, Isabel, Arthur, Agnes Louise, Harry (Henry) front Adam with Wilmot on knee and Agnes Graham (nee Croft)
7. George Fraser Heron Graham - was born on 28 July 1863 at Roaring River, St John, Jamaica. Surviving records for George are few: his birth entry and, seventeen years later, his death registration in Saint Catherine on 1 September 1880. The certificate lists “fever, ulcerated throat and blood poisoning,” which in modern terms points to a severe bacterial throat infection that progressed to sepsis.
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13842-7965-67?cc=1827268)
8. Daniel Smith Graham (Henry) - Born at Pusey in the parish of St John. Daniel who prefered the name Henry was a rural proprietor. By the 1890s he was settled in St Mary, working as a planter in the Highgate district, part of a belt then known for bananas, pimento, citrus, and coffee. His marriage to Frances Eleanore Constantine, daughter of the Rev. Michael Gregory Constantine and Charlotte Anglin Tate (and sister to Florence Constantine, who married Daniel’s brother the Rev. William Thomas Heron Graham). The couple had no children, but Daniel’s name appears in local notices as “Mr H. D. Graham,” marking him out as one of the district’s established planters and a man with family responsibilities that extended beyond his own household.
In the early 1910s Daniel’s health began to fail. The illness was prolonged enough that the family sought treatment abroad, and he was taken to a sanatorium in New York, almost certainly for suspected tuberculosis, the leading reason for sanatorium care at the time. He died there on 9 August 1915, aged 50. His brothers rallied around the repatriation of the body: W. T. Graham accompanied his remains back to the island by steamer and Rev. J. H. Graham met them on the Kingston pier. Daniel was carried home to St Mary and laid to rest at St Cyprian’s Church, Highgate, the parish church that had anchored so much of the family’s life.
Daniel and his wife unofficially adopted their neice Agnes Louise Graham, paying for her to be educated in a European finishing school. Upon return to the island Agnes was expected to make a socially and monetarily advantageous marriage befitting her educated status however much to the dismay of the family she married her cousin William Gregory Graham, remaining in St Mary.
born 23 May 1865 at Pusey, St John, Jamaica, died 9 Aug 1915, New York, USA. Daniel died in New York after he travelled there for treatment of a prolonged illness perhaps TB, his body was transported back to Jamaica after his death and he was buried at St Cyprian's Church, Highgate.
"Mr H D Graham or Mr Henry Daniel Graham, a St Mary planter, who died a few days ago in a New York Sanitorium, where he had been taken in an effort to .... his life, was bought back to the island last night on the SS Almirauie. WT Graham, a brother of the deceased accompanied the body, and was met on the peir by Rev JH Graham, another brother and other members of the bereaved family. The remains were taken to Highgate for internment this afternoon." Daily Gleaner: 17/08/1915
(birth record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-13870-13620-87?cc=1827268)
8. Christiana Eliza Graham - was born on 10 December 1867 at Roaring River in St Catherine, Jamaica. Raised in a large, close-knit Graham clan, she came of age in the decades after Emancipation, when parish life revolved around church, school, and the rhythms of rural life. In the 1890s she married Earnest McLarty Morales, an engineer in the island’s Public Works Department. His government postings pulled the young couple along the north-western parishes, St James, Hanover, and Trelawny, where new roads, bridges, and civic buildings were changing the face of the island.
Between 1892 and 1909 Christiana and Ernest welcomed six children. Their son Charles would go on to distinguish himself both in the classroom and on the cricket field, becoming a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar in 1917 and later representing the island at first-class level. Ernest Jr. made his career in Jamaica as well, while the girls, Dora, and Nina, represented Jamaica in swimming and diving respectively.
Agnes, their eldest daughter, married Denis Hylton Lynch.
Charles McLarty Morales shows up in the cricket records as a Jamaica player (ESPN has his player card).
Children:
1. Agnes McLarty Morales born 1892, Jamaica
2. Charles McLarty Morales born 1895, Jamaica
3. Earnest McLarty Morales born 1897, Jamaica
4. Dora McLarty Morales born 1901, Jamaica
5. Boyde McLarty Morales born 1908, Jamaica
6. Nina McLarty Morales born 1909, Jamaica
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I understand he was from St Mary.I heard that we are related to the Grahams from Palace Amusement Company.
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