Clarendon

Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica. It is located on the south of the island, roughly midway between the island's eastern and western ends. Located inside the county of Middlesex, it's miles bordered with the aid of Manchester on the west, Saint Catherine within the east, and in the north via Saint Ann. Clarendon changed into named in honour of the Lord Chancellor Sir Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. The maximum recent parish changed into fashioned from a aggregate of three parishes: St. Dorothy's, Vere and the old parish of Clarendon. Before the merger, the capital became Chapelton.

Clarendon Parish become one of the unique seven Anglican parishes of Jamaica installation with the aid of Sir Thomas Modyford in 1664, and it has been reorganized severa instances when you consider that. Parish registers, that are information saved with the aid of the parish church of spiritual occasions along with baptisms, marriages, and burials, are nevertheless extant from Clarendon parish almost as far again as its foundation, with the primary recorded baptism dated in 1666.