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Barrett Family:
First arriving in Jamaica from England in the seventeenth century, the Barrett family were wealthy plantation owners who owned much of the land on which Falmouth developed. Edward Barrett subdivided land into lots and developed a large wharf in Falmouth Harbour, used for loading sugar onto ships bound for England, in the 1770s and 1780s
Some of the historic lot boundaries remain visible today. At his death in 1799, he bequeathed his Falmouth property holdings to his grandson, Samuel Barrett Moulton Barrett, who further developed Falmouth into the 1830s and 1840s. An aside, the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a cousin of the Barretts of Jamaica. |