Our Family

In the late 1700 hundreds as the slave trade was still in progress, two people arrived in Barbados one from England and one from West Africa, these two people did not know each other untill they met at Highland plantation St. Thomas in Barbados to work, Louise Rosetta Skeete a white indentured servant from England and Agustus Foster who was renamed as this by his slave owners, Louise had four children from Agustus but they were never married, the four children carried the Skeete name, Mary, John,Herbert and Beatrice.

Mary Skeete and John Skeete had no children and died at a young age, however, Herbert Skeete and Beatrice Skeete had two and three children respectively, not much is known about the three children of Beatrice Skeete but Herbert Skeete had a son name Edmond Skeete and a daughter Louise Skeete named after her grand mother. little is mention about Herbert Skeete's wife her name was Elizabeth Durrant (Skeete)

Edmond Skeete born in 1897, married to Adrianna Corbin-Foster who became Adrinna Skeete at marrage, they went on to have seven children,
Everal, Luton, Darlington, LLoyd, Orleyan, Morgan and Myrl, five of the seven migrated to England in the 1950s, leaving Luton and Morgan as the only two children in Barbados, meanwhile, Edmond the father was a worker at Chance Hall in St. Lucy, took sick and died in 1948.

To be continued