Amongst disused burial-grounds are the Stranger’s Burial-Ground
(earliest tomb is dated 1753) and the Spring Path Burial-Ground, both by
the Railway Station (earliest tomb is dated 1794); the Baptist Ground,
in the Windward Road (earliest tomb dated 1801); the Wesleyan Methodist
Cemetery at the corner of Windward Road and Elletson Road (earliest tomb
dated 1791); the Jewish Cemetery in Elletson Road (the earliest tomb
dated 1797); the Jewish Cemeteries at the south-east and south-west
corners of Church and North streets (in the former the earliest tomb
dated 1719), all contain monuments of historic interest.
In view of recent interest evinced in the question of wharf
accommodation it may be well to republish a “List and Situation of the
Public Wharves in Kingston, running East and West,” which appeared in
the “Columbian Magazine” (Kingston) in 1800—one hundred and fifteen
years ago.
I. Welsh & Son’s: bottom of John’s Lane.
I. Harriot’s: between John’s Lane and Duke Street.
G. Douglas & Co., and I. Sewell’s: bottom of Duke Street.
John Davidson’s: between Duke Street and Mark Lane.
Donaldson & Heron, and M’Bean & Bagnold’s: bottom of Mark Lane.
Jaques, Laing, & Ewing’s: between Mark Lane and Church Street.
Duncomb & Pownal, and Bogle & Cathcart’s: bottom of Church Street.
Thomas Hyne’s: between Church Street and Temple Lane.
Kinkhead & Sproull; and Hardy, Pennock & Brittan’s: bottom of Temple
Lane.
John West & Co.’s: between Temple Lane and King Street.
Willis & Waterhouse; and Bogle, Jopp & Co.’s: bottom of King Street.
Joseph Teasdale; and I. Robertson & Co.’s: bottom of Peter’s Lane.
Burnett, Stirling & Co.; and W. Cleland’s: bottom of Orange Street.
Cowgill & Co.’s; between Orange Street and Luke Lane.
Henry West & Co.; and Donaldson, Forbes, Grant & Stewart’s: bottom of
Luke Lane.
Dick, McCall & Co.’s: between Luke Lane and Princess Street.
Shaw, Holy & Co.; and Lindo & Brothers’: bottom of Princess Street.
Ordnance; and R. Sutherland & Co.’s: bottom of Matthew’s Lane.
W. B. Bryan & Co.; and Fairclough & Barnes’s: bottom of West Street.
Dick, McCall & Co.’s Lumber Wharf: next on the Westward; and further
on.
Liddle & Rennie’s.
IV
ST. ANDREW
The parish of St. Andrew was originally called Liguanea, and the name
still lingers round the plain. It now consists of what before the
passing of law 20 of 1867 comprised the parish of Port Royal and the
parish of St. Andrew, less the parts known as Smith’s Village, Hannah’s
Town, Fletcher’s Town, and the town of Port Royal. There are no towns in
St. Andrew; the principal villages being Halfway Tree, Gordon Town and
Stony Hill.
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