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- An excerpt from a research paper prepared by Jeffery Gittens circa 1988. The full paper is included with the sources for this record:
CHARLES ANDREW GITTENS
Charles Andrew Gittens was born on 30th May 1906 in the South Western District of Port of Spain, the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago. His actual place of birth is #7 Philip Street just off the Western Main Road. Two blocks away from this is Tranquility Boys School where he received his early education. His birth certificate is No, A 183 25/253 Volume 2 page 112 of the Register of Births of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago,
Charles' name is not mentioned on his birth certificate. He swore to an affidavit dated 20th June 1962 at the Commissioner of Oaths and Affidavits, Mackenzie, Demcrara, British Guiana that he was the legitimate child of John Thomas Gittens, a Carriage Builder and Matilda Gittens, formerly Tesheia. His birth was registered on 16th June 1906 by a cousin, Elizabeth Regis, also of 17 Philip Street, Woodbrook.
In 1970 Charles applied for Citizenship of the Republic of Guyana under Article 23 of the Constitution on the ground of residence. In his application to the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Oscar Eleazer Clarke, he stated that his father, John Thomas Gittens was a citizen by birth of the British Colony of Barbados.
On 29th March 1988, while on holiday in Barbados, I, Jeffrey Gittens, contacted the Registry of Births and Deaths in Bridgetown by telephone in order to enquire about the date of birth of John Thomas Gittens. I reckoned that if my father, Charles Gittens, was born in 1906 and he had an elder brother, Michael, he may have been born during the 1870's.
The records at the Registry in Bridgetown only carry births from 1884 onwards. They recommended that I go to the Archives in Black Rock in the Parish of St. Michael.
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