New York Times, July 3, 1906
Mr Charles Kenroth
1866-73
3rd headmaster
[I am attempting to confirm the information contained in these obituaries.]
Who was Charles Henry Kenroth, and how did he come to be in Jamaica in the 1860s? I have been unable to find any clear answers to these questions.
I found this information online at http://www.rootdigger.de/
Emigration from Schleswig-Holstein
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Name: Kehnroth, Carl Hinrich |
Born: ? |
Details: son of Johann Christian Friedrich Married and three children by 1889. |
Destination: USA |
In B B Ward's notes, lodged in the Jamaica Archives, he wrote 'I am told that he was a Russian, others say that he was a Prussian . . .' - so it is possible that Carl Heinrich Kehnroth was, in English, Charles Henry Kenroth.
There is minimal reference to Kenroth in Jamaica; the first reference is seen in this advertisement: >>>>>>>>
[A P Rowe was presumably Arthur Panton Rowe, a son of Archdeacon Rowe; A P R was later ordained and probably went to live in the UK]
He had obviously already established useful contacts in the island, but it is surprising that he should be pursuing a career as a schoolmaster if he really had graduated as a doctor at the University of Erlangen in 1860. According to B B Ward's notes he was taken on as second master at Potsdam to replace L G Richards, but very shortly the headmaster, Rev Thomas Robinson, had resigned, in November 1866, perhaps as a result of disagreement with Kenroth. This presumably left the latter in charge.
Daily Gleaner, November 16, 1866
