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One of Jamaica’s most famous citizens, Marcus Garvey, was born in St. Ann’s Bay in 1887, and spent his childhood and early youth in the locality before moving to Kingston in 1903. [6] A statue was erected in his honour in front of St. Ann’s Bay Library.
Parish Name: St. Ann. Capital: St. Ann’s Bay. Land Area: 1,210.25 sq km (467.3 sq mi) Population: 173,232. History. St. Ann was named after Ann Hyde, wife of James II, King of England and is recognized as the largest of all the parishes.
Under English rule, Santa Ana was soon renamed to St. Ann’s Bay after Lady Anne Hyde, the first wife of King James II of England. There has been some historical controversy regarding this, as some have stated that the name Santa Ana was the Anglicized form of St. Ann’s Bay.
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Jamaica’s first National Hero was born in St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann, on August 17, 1887. He was conferred with the Order of the National Hero in 1969 as per the second schedule of the National Honours and Awards Act.
Aug 17, 2016 · Garvey grew up in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica raised by Sarah Jane Richards, who worked as a domestic worker and farmer, alongside his eleven older siblings. Garvey’s ideals were greatly inspired by his father, Marcus Garvey, Sr., who worked as a stonemason and was rumored to have an enormous library.
The history of St. Ann begins with the landing of Christopher Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Caribbean (the ‘New World’). So overwhelmed was he by the beauty of Jamaica’s “garden parish”, that as he pulled into the port at St. Ann’s Bay, he named the place, Santa Gloria.
Jun 7, 2017 · St. Ann – History. The site of the first interaction between Europeans and the native Tainos, St. Ann is where Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica during his second voyage to the region. He christened the place Santa Gloria.
