Petersfield, Jamaica

Hamlet in Westmoreland, Jamaica

Petersfield

Hamlet

Petersfield

Location within Jamaica

Coordinates: 18°15′43″N 78°04′08″W﻿ / ﻿18.261876°N 78.0688906°W﻿ / 18.261876; -78.0688906
Country| Jamaica
Parish| Westmoreland
Founded| 18th century
Named after| Peter Beckford
Population

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• Estimate

(2009)

| 2,252
Time zone| UTC-05:00 (EST)

Petersfield is a small town in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. It shares its name with five other places in Jamaica.[2]

The town was founded in the 18th century and named after Peter Beckford, a slave owner who settled the Roaring River Estate.[3] Petersfield was a dormitory community for workers on that estate.[citation needed]

To the south of the town's main junction lies the neighborhood locally called "Carawina" which was the original name given to the plantation which predated it. According to an estate record proved in 1723, the original owner of the land that would be called Carawina was Rowland Williams of Glamorgan west of present-day Cardiff.[4][5] The name "Carawina" given to the estate highly suggests its founders were of Welsh origin. Carawina appears to be the Anglicization of the Welsh name "Carwyn" which is a combination of the Welsh word caru "to love" and gwyn "white, fair, blessed."[6] By 1764, John Wedderburn of Ballendean was listed as an associated owner of the estate.[7] This is the same Wedderburn who was a litigant in the  Knight v. Wedderburn court case.[7]

Today Petersfield is a one street town with a community health centre at one end and a cemetery at the other. It is the home of many of the workers at the Frome Sugar Estate as well as many other business people with interests in the nearby coastal cities of Savannah La Mar, Negril and even Montego Bay to the North.

The reggae artist Winston Hubert McIntosh was born in Petersfield, and later on, when he lived in Jamaica's capital Kingston, he changed his name to Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh).

## External links

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## References

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1. ^ "World Gazetteer - Jamaica - Petersfield". Stefan Helders. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
2. ^ Higman, B W; Hudson (2009). Jamaican Place Names. B J (1st ed.). Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. p. 79\. ISBN 978-976-640-217-4.
3. ^ "Petersfield". Jamaica Tourist Board. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
4. ^ Carawina [1] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, https://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1604 [accessed 21 December 2017]
5. ^ "A Day Trip to Abeokuta Paradise". negril.com. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
6. ^ "Carwyn - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity". Nameberry. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
7. ^ a b John Wedderburn of Balindean', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, https://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146634306 [accessed 21 December 2017].6

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