Trelawny was formed from St James in 1770. According to William Beckford who wrote “A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica ” published in 1790. Trelawny is described as possessing 16,000 slaves, 69 sugar-estates, about 90 settlements of which the towns of Martha Brae and Falmouth each contain about 80 houses each. Below are a list of some settlers to the parish during the 18th century
Last names of families settled in the parish. Names obtained from entries in baptismal records before 1800
Barnett Brissett Brown Campbell Foord Gaynor Graves Linton Littlejohn McDonald Morris Parris Reid Scarlett Stewart Tharpe Thompson Turnbull Virgo Wedderburn Woulfe Copyright Sharon Tomlin 2007
Family Histories of Jamaica 