Who is the nurse and Obeah woman who lived in Jamaica during the late 18th and 19th century?
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Cubah Cornwallis Cubah Cornwallis (died 1848) (often spelled Coubah, Couba, Cooba or Cuba) was a nurse or "doctoress" and Obeah woman who lived in Jamaica during the late 18th and 19th Century.
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Obeah Obeah (sometimes spelled "Obi", "Obeah", or "Obia") is a term used by the Igbo tribe in Nigeria and in the West Indies to refer to sorcery and religious practices developed among enslaved West Africans of Igbo origin. Obeah is similar to other Afro-American religions such as Palo, Haitian Vodou, Santería, and Hoodoo. Obeah is practiced in The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, The Virgin Islands, and other Caribbean nations.
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Mary Isabella Lee Mary Isabella Lee (18 June 1871–7 August 1939) was a New Zealand servant, dressmaker, coalminer and homemaker. She was born in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 18 June 1871.
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Robina Thomson Cameron Robina Thomson Cameron (15 April 1892 – 28 June 1971), known as Ruby Cameron, was a New Zealand district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector. She was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 15 April 1892. In 1931, Cameron was appointed as district nurse at Rotorua, by the Department of Public Health. While in Rotorua, Cameron was involved in the establishment of the Women's Health League, and remained its president from its formation in 1937, until her death in 1971. The Women's Health League had strong ties to Te Arawa (a confederation of Māori tribes), and it supported typhoid inoculations and other health initiatives. For her involvement in this, Cameron was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1938.
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Mary Simpson (house servant) Mary Simpson (c.1752-1758, Virginia – March 18, 1836, New York, New York) was a woman who touted herself as a former slave of George Washington. She was credited with originating the tradition of celebrating Washington's birthday in New York City.
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Edith Tennent Edith Penelope Tennent MBE (25 July 1882 – 7 June 1946) was a New Zealand nurse and hospital matron.
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Elsie Smith Elsie Smith (1881–1968) was a New Zealand nurse, Anglican deaconess and missionary. She was born in Kingstone Lisle, Berkshire, England in 1881. She lived and worked in Whanganui River settlements for 33 years.
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Opal Palmer Adisa Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954) is a Jamaica-born award-winning poet, novelist, performance artist and educator. Anthologised in more than 400 publications, she has been a regular performer of her work internationally.
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Louise Bennett-Coverley Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, she worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language").
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Jane Elizabeth Jones Jane Elizabeth Jones (March 13, 1813 – January 13, 1896) was an American suffragist and abolitionist and member of the early women's rights movement.
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Augusta Hejnek Augustinam "Augusta" Hejnik (December 25, 1799 – March 1, 1908) is the centenarian who was the last surviving person from the 1700s.
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Mahsuri Mahsuri was a young woman who lived in Langkawi, an island in Kedah, Malaysia, during the late 18th century. According to folklore, she was accused of adultery and executed by stabbing. Her tomb, "Makam Mahsuri", has become a tourist attraction on the island.
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Harriot Kezia Hunt Harriot Kezia Hunt (November 9, 1805 – January 2, 1875) was an early female physician and women's rights activist.
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Mrs. Pack Mrs. Pack (died 1694) was a wet nurse to the child William, Duke of Gloucester (1689–1700); she was believed indispensable to the boy's health, and because of that, came to exercise considerable control over the household of his mother, the future Queen Anne. She has been called a forerunner of the British nanny.
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Graman Quassi Kwasimukamba or Graman Quassi (also spelled Quacy, Kwasi and Quasi) (1692 – 12 March 1787 in Paramaribo) was a Surinamese healer, botanist, slave and later freedman of the 18th century, who is today best known for having given his name to the plant species quassia.
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Olga Nethersole Olga Isabella Nethersole, CBE, RRC (18 January 1867 – 9 January 1951) was an English actress, theatre producer, and wartime nurse/health educator.
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Susan Cadogan Susan Cadogan (born Alison Anne Cadogan, 2 November 1951 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer best known for her hit records in the 1970s.
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Noeline Baker Isabel Noeline Baker {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (25 December 1878 – 25 August 1958), known as Noeline Baker, was a New Zealand suffragist, wartime women's labour administrator, gardener and peace educator.
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Isaac Delgado Isaac Delgado (1839 – 1912) was a businessman and sugar dealer who migrated from Jamaica to New Orleans in the late nineteenth century. His success in business made him sufficiently wealthy to become a significant benefactor with philanthropic interests in the arts, medicine, and education.
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Evelina Haverfield Evelina Haverfield (9 August 1867 – 21 March 1920) was a British suffragette and aid worker. In the early part of the 20th century, she was involved in Emmeline Pankhurst's militant women's suffrage organisation the Women's Social and Political Union. During World War I she worked as a nurse in Serbia. After the war, she returned to Serbia with her companion Vera Holme to set up an orphanage in Bajina Bašta, a town in the west of the country.
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Julia Brown Julia Brown was an American madam and prostitute active in mid-nineteenth century New York City. Brown has been described as "the best-known prostitute in antebellum America". She became a popular subject of tourist guidebooks, and her name appears often in diaries from the period.
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Georgia E. L. Patton Washington Georgia E. Lee Patton Washington (April 16, 1864 – November 8, 1900) was an American missionary and physician. Following her education, she served as a medical missionary in Liberia. She was the first black woman to become a licensed surgeon in Tennessee.