Jamaicanos en Cuba

J doree <comelately@hotmail.com>	4 January 2020 at 09:49
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Good Morning Mr. Richards: This morning I came across your article " Jamaicans in Cuba" and I found it to be very informative. I have shared  it with friends. Your article is timely for me.  I was born in Jamaica but I now reside in Canada.  For several years now, my siblings and me have been trying to locate relatives we know who moved to Cuba.  We do not have specific information as to their whereabouts. This is what we know:   Miranda Eubertine Louisa Brandford DOB: 23 April 1904, St Paul's, Westmoreland, Jamaica Miranda is our grandmother.  Our mother Esperina Victoria Myrie is her daughter. Miranda we know had a son but he died at a very young age. Miranda left for Cuba when my mother was very young. Apparently there was some correspondence from her in the early years but we have been unable to find out her whereabouts in Cuba. She never returned to Jamaica.  We wonder if we have relatives in Cuba.  Henrietta Gordon DOB: 27 January 1888, Catherine Mount, St. James, Jamaica Henrietta is the sister of our Grandmother Mary Ann Gordon. She had one child that we know of before she left for Cuba. We know that Henrietta lived in Cuba and then migrated to the United States on the Governor Cobb to Key West Florida.  She is on the passenger List of a vessel arriving at Key West 1898 - 1945. We believe that she travelled with her employer and family, who might have been in the cigar making business. We do not know in which city in Cuba she lived. We do not know if Henrietta had a family in Cuba.  We believe that from Key West the group moved to New York or New Jersey. The family had little contact with Henrietta after her move to Cuba. We have searched online for Henrietta but some of the immigration records are not accessible to us. How would I find out about Miranda and Henrietta using Cuban resources?  I am not a Spanish speaker. Any help you can provide would be most helpful as we are working on our family tree and we would like to add Miranda and Henrietta and perhaps make contact with children they may have had. Regards,