This site was composed based on information that was compiled over a six year period.  Hopefully,  everyone who visits this site will find it 
 useful and helpful in the search of their ancestors.

Current information about the Harewood and Braithwaite (Brathwaite)  families are listed at this site.  It seems as though 
 General Miles Braithwaite was one of the original members of the family.  He was the reputed  father of Margaret Braithwaite.  
 Margaret Braithwaite married ADDO (meaningof ADDO: "King of the road".  He was  a former African slave from Ghana, West Africa) Addo was renamed Edward  Braithwaite.  Addo and Margaret Braithwaite had eleven children.  James Edward  Braithwaite was their eldest son.  He emigrated from Barbados to Grenada.  Two  of his known siblings were Aaron Braithwaite and Moses Braithwaite. James  Edward Braithwaite had one known son:  Rev. Samuel R. Braithwaite who emigrated  from Grenada to Jamaica.  He was the grandfather of Carol Ifil King who resides  in Barbados.

**NAME MEANINGS...
 HAREWOOD: English: variant of 'harwood'.

HARWOOD:  English and Scottish.  Habitational name from any of various  places for ex. in the Scottish borders and in Cheshire, Lancashire, Lothian,  Northumberland, and North & West Yorkshire called harwood or harewood from Old  English.  Har 'gray' or hara 'hare' + wudu 'wood'.

BRAITHWAITE: Northern English: habitational name from any of the places in  Cumbra and Yorkshire.  Named Braithwaite from Old Norse breior 'broad' +  pveit 'clearing'.

BRATHWAITE:  English: variant of Braithwaite.
  
                           ***SPECIAL THANKS TO...
 RODNEY Harewood (cousin)who resides in Barbados,West Indies. He is known as  the family historian. He has passed down a great wealth of information to me.

MARIAN Braithwaite-Alexander "Gonga" (my maternal grandma) who resides in New  York for sharing family history which helped to shape this research.

DEVERA Alexander-Batson who resides in New York (my mother) for her research on  our descendants that came through Ellis Island.  These unique historical  records provide the port of departure, date of arrival, and name of the ship  which our ancestors used on the voyage to the United States.

CAROL Ifil King (cousin) who resides in Barbados for providing historical  information about our original birthplace-Ghana, West Africa.

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I will continue to update this site with new information as it becomes  available to me and photos will be included.

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