Sligoville
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Named after Howe Browne, Marquess of Sligo and Governor of Jamaica in 1834, the year that freedom came to the enslaved people of Jamaica.
Proper noun
[edit]Sligoville
- A village in Saint Catherine parish, Jamaica.
- 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 336:
- Benjamin left to join his minister-man to work his own piece of land in a place called Sligoville.