On the Track of Great Uncle Charles
Hugh Carleton Greene heads to the Caribbean to find a long-lost relative.
Great-uncle Charles died in St. Kitts at the age of eighteen. That much is clear from his tombstone in Christchurch churchyard:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
HENRY CHARLES GREENE
ESQUIRE
LATE OF NICOLA TOWN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 7TH DAY OF AUGUST 1840
IN THE I9TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
Beside him lies his younger brother, William, my father’s father:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM GREENE
BORN JUNE 6TH 1824
DIED SEPTEMBER 18TH 1881
AT REST
William died on a visit to the family sugar estates, drawn back to St. Kitts forty years after the death of his brother. He had been there, a boy of sixteen, when his brother died, and he had been left for some time to run the estates on his own.
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