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Reflections of a Jamaican FatherByDonald J. Harris
My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).
.....Miss Chrishy was the disciplinarian, reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’.....
Donald J. Harris
Donald J. Harris. Wow, just like President Donald J. Trump. What a coincidence. I wonder if the J stands for John--like with the president.