Anne Powers
Welcome to A Parcel of Ribbons, a website about Georgian Jamaica named after the parcel that Robert Cooper Lee took with him to Jamaica. Here you will find original articles, family trees, transcriptions of Wills and other documents and links to useful information resources for anyone interested in Jamaican genealogy and the history of the colonial period.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
General Interest Genealogy Jamaica Biographies Jamaican Life London Life London slavery Bristol slave Robert Cooper Lee Spanish Town Kingston merchant smallpox Hannah Glasse workhouse Mary Rose slaves Lady Nugent
28 January 2019
Much work has been done recently demonstrating the presence of people of African origin in the UK for far longer than had previously been thought, notably Miranda Kaufman’s book...
23 November 2018
Regular readers of this website will be familiar with its origins in the letters of the Lee family sent from Jamaica to England. This new book carries on their history...
30 April 2018
You may be aware that data privacy has been much in the news lately. Not only in relation to the mis-use of data gathered via Facebook, but also because on 25 May 2018 new General Data...
The Iniquities of Apprenticeship
14 February 2018
If anyone was ever in any doubt about the iniquities of the Apprenticeship scheme that followed the apparent abolition of slavery in the British colonies this little book lays out in...