Mr Douglas Pitt Family Group (Kingston, Jamaica, Torres Straits) | Public figure

Mr Douglas Pitt Family Group (Kingston, Jamaica, Torres Straits)

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25.01.2022 Great grandson Seaman Dan at his great grandfather Douglas Pitt's grave on Thursday Island :-) Source: Seaman Dan @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rKjvvOM07I

23.01.2022 This weblink shares information about Douglas Pitt and his relationship to William Pitt the Younger, the Prime Minister of England from 1783 to 1804.

23.01.2022 Torres Strait Islander Migration to Cairns Before World War II https://queenslandhistory.blogspot.com//torres-strait-isla

15.01.2022 Seaman's great-grandfather, the West Indian Douglas Pitt, sailed from Jamaica with the London Missionary Society and spent two years in New Caledonia. There he met a local chief's daughter, Mary-Ann. They married and continued their mission, arriving on Darnley Island on July 1, 1871.... "They brought Christianity to the Torres Strait and that is our special day of celebration: the Coming of the Light," Seaman said. See more information @ http://www.couriermail.com.au//story-fn6ck51p-1226085146869

08.01.2022 Douglas Pitt's great grand daughter Flo Kennedy describes him: 'He used to wear a flowing beard; he used to wear two revolvers and he was said to be a good shot. Old Douglas Pitt followed Bully Hayes in his two-masted schooner; he ran it alongside Bully Hayes' boat, stepped on to it and said: "Name your weapon!" And Bully Hayes said to him: "I own half the Pacific; you join me and we'll take the other half". In the Torres Strait a lot of men had floating stations, and my grea...t grandfather's island was Halfway Island.' When Douglas Pitt came to the Torres Strait with his Lifuan wife in 1870, a year before the missionaries arrived, he first set up a floating station off Mer Island. He lived at Mer for thirteen years during which time he had ten houses built for his family and employees. http://www.nfsa.gov.au/digitallearni//info/DouglasPitt.htm