http://leerfuturo.com/seville-great-house/ ...to read the future Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://leerfuturo.com/seville-great-house/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Joan Elizabeth Benjamin Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:32:23 +0000 http://wpdemo.ashleylawrence.com/?p=41#comment-604 It saddens me to see only 300 acres left of the Estate. I am the first granddaughter of Doris Hoskins Robinson. Doris was the daughter of the last Hoskins male who is buried there and his black housekeeper. His 2 spinster sisters wanted my great grandmother to hand over her white skinned child for her to be raised by the two spinster Aunts and sent to school in england. My great grandmother took her child and fled and raised her by herself. Sadly when notices were posted in the 50's to 60's re this estate my aunt Leonie Robinson Woodstock who worked in a lawyers office, did not want it known that her mother was a blow by/illegitimate daughter. She never spoke up and when my father Norman Robinson eventually found out it was too late as the lands had gone back to the crown. My younger brother has a dossier of all information proving this all except my grandmothers marriage certificate and birth certificate. My Aunt destroyed her mothers marriage certificate and the birth certificate was destroyedin a fire in Spanish town. Some years ago after my fathers death his brother Sydney Robinson was advised by a Minister in charge of Seville that each decendant would receive 10 acres of land. Nothing every materialized and we understood much of the land had been captured by small parties and we would face injury to try to reclaim it. Sad that my Jamaican Government made no attempt at restitution especially after changing laws that no child would be termed "illegitimate". For the record, Old Mr. Hoskins was an epileptic, a health problem which has manifest itself in several descendants. It saddens me to see only 300 acres left of the Estate. I am the first granddaughter of Doris Hoskins Robinson. Doris was the daughter of the last Hoskins male who is buried there and his black housekeeper. His 2 spinster sisters wanted my great grandmother to hand over her white skinned child for her to be raised by the two spinster Aunts and sent to school in england. My great grandmother took her child and fled and raised her by herself. Sadly when notices were posted in the 50′s to 60′s re this estate my aunt Leonie Robinson Woodstock who worked in a lawyers office, did not want it known that her mother was a blow by/illegitimate daughter. She never spoke up and when my father Norman Robinson eventually found out it was too late as the lands had gone back to the crown. My younger brother has a dossier of all information proving this all except my grandmothers marriage certificate and birth certificate. My Aunt destroyed her mothers marriage certificate and the birth certificate was destroyedin a fire in Spanish town.
Some years ago after my fathers death his brother Sydney Robinson was advised by a Minister in charge of Seville that each decendant would receive 10 acres of land. Nothing every materialized and we understood much of the land had been captured by small parties and we would face injury to try to reclaim it. Sad that my Jamaican Government made no attempt at restitution especially after changing laws that no child would be termed “illegitimate”.
For the record, Old Mr. Hoskins was an epileptic, a health problem which has manifest itself in several descendants.

]]> http://leerfuturo.com/seville-great-house/comment-page-1/#comment-597 CWildman Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:53:54 +0000 http://wpdemo.ashleylawrence.com/?p=41#comment-597 I'd be interested in speaking with you about Seville. I’d be interested in speaking with you about Seville.

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