Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner worthy inheritors of Martindale, Hylton, Constantine, and Williams.

 Roy Gilchrist, Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith and Lester King.with Collie Smith, Sobers and Gibbs, Ramadhin and Valentine would have been dominant 1957-1970.

Croft and Garner made their international debuts in the same test match. Croft recorded 8-29 in the second test match.  Croft ended the series with 33 wickets, Croft 8-29 is still the best figures for a West indies fast bowler. Holding's 14 wickets is still the best match figures. Roberts, Holding,  Croft and Garner  are the fearsome foursome. 

 

In 1976, Holder, Roberts, Holding,  and Daniel are  the preceding foursome. Learie Constantine, George Hylton, and Manny Martindale formed the triad in 1935. However, at Old Trafford on July 22-25, 1939 Martindale, Hylton, Constantine, and  Floffie Williams formed what must be considered as the original West Indies foursome. 

Tom Dewdney, Roy Gilchrist, Lester King, Chester Watson, Wesley Hall and Charlie Griffith are my favorite fast bowlers of my early childhood.

Andy Roberts replaced the six as my favorite fast bowler. Andy Roberts is the apex of West Indies international fast bowlers. Roberts is a winning cricketer. His batting was competitive. He was a capable fielder.

Roberts, Holding, Croft and Garner were special fast bowlers.  The fearsome foursome were worthy inheritors of Martindale, Hylton, Constantine, and Williams. Andy Roberts is the champion. He led the  fearsome foursome. There was simply no way Malcolm Marshall, Sylvester Clarke,  Winston Davis and Norbert Phillip could have replaced any member of the fearsome foursome, permanently. Marshall, Clarke, Davis and Phillip were introduced to international cricket in Alvin Kallicharran led West Indies second teams. 

What do you make of the quality of South African cricketers, 1961-1995?

I still think South Africans would have buried the Frank Worrell and Gary Sobers teams.  Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Mike Procter and Barry Richards and their supporting casts were tough. Add Basil D'Oliveira, Tony Grieg and Clive Rice - South Africa would have been absolutely dominant. 

Lloyd’s teams during and after WSC was a different breed 

I do not think South Africans would have beaten Lloyd’s teams in a five match’s series. 

Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Mike Procter and Barry Richards were tremendous cricketers

I know Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Mike Procter and Barry Richards merit inclusion in the greatest teams 1960s and 1970s

What are your views?

Lawrence George Rowe was a magnificent timer

 “It is important for us to learn who our friends are and who our enemies are and how to make the best use of both of them.” - John Henrik Clarke

Please check my blog  piece, "Yagga Rowe as National Conversation in 2022 is Distraction."   I first became aware of Lawrence Rowe during the West Indies schoolboys cricket championship, in 1966 or 1967.  At some point either 1968 or 1969 I listened to Robert Adonis talking under the tamarind tree at Nabaclis, about Lawrence Rowe, Samuel Morgan, Basil Williams and Lyndel Wright. I recall Pacer said Rowe was the best batsman he bowled to – at that period. Robert Adonis, Colin Croft and Ajodha Persaud attended cricket academy in England,

Lawrence George Rowe was a magnificent timer at the crease.  Rowe was armed with a wide array of classical strokes. 

I am confident Frank Worrell is the primary influence on “Yagga” Rowe. It was said  Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes tried desperately to beat the leather off the ball. Worrell was the touch batsman supreme. Worrell delighted in giving fielders the illusion of stopping the ball from crossing the boundary. Worrell  advocated tired legs cannot bat. Basil Butcher had an outrageous square drive. Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharran were top class touch batsmen. 

I recall “Yagga” Rowe played an extremely late cut in the March 1974, test match at Bourda, Georgetown, Guyana, Alan Knott was appealing, The ball crossed the boundary.  

Roy Fredericks and Rowe had a first wicket stand of 126.  Rowe’s domination of the partnership was most remarkable. Roy Fredericks scored 32 runs off 92 balls at scoring rate 34.78

Greg Chappell’s presentation Fierce Focus made glowing observations on West Indies cricketers. 1973 -1980. 

Rayfield `Pepe' Beaton, and I are cousins.  `Pepe' Beaton was competing in 800m.  James Wren-Gilkes was expected to win  200m in 1976 Olympics.

Fidel Castro told me to move the GDF squad some 400 yards from the plane. I was in the GDF March 30, 1974 – November 15, 1977. I am aware GDF were in Cuba, I heard GDF were in  Angola.  

Harry Oppenheimer was the handler of Nelson Mandela. I am saying  Harry Oppenheimer and Nicky Oppenheimer of De Beers. Nelson Mandela  is an enemy of melanin dominant humans. Blaise Compaoré, Mobutu Sese Seko, Paul Kagame, Yoweri Museveni, Monrovia Group - William Tubman,  Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Léopold Sédar Senghor  are also major enemies of our people. 

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white. - Bob Marley

Bob Marley is no hero of mine. Bob Marley is a miscegenation. Miscegenations are often on the side of white oppressors. God is a concept. God is fantasy. There is no fence sitting in African cultural tradition. 

Africans heroes during my life birthed home are;  Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral, Cheikh Anta Diop, Olufela Anikulapo Kuti,  Patrice Lumumba, Samora Machel, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Thomas Sankara, Robert Sobukwe, Sekou Touré, Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, Pio Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya 

Africans heroes of recent vintage - Abdourahamane Tchiani, Ibrahim Traore,  Assimi Goïta, Arikana Chihombori-Quao, Julius Malema, Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba

I beg you to wake up. Don’t  be gullible.  Don’t offer your opinions.  Research and be educated to free our people under NATURE.

Once the enemy is defined, then the real war begins. Once the enemy is fully identified, there must be a

commitment to defeating the enemy to the very end. Destroy the enemy or be destroyed by the enemy. No compromise, concession, or conciliation with the enemy. No way out. The masses of oppressed people should not yield one fraction of an inch to the advances of the enemy. “I have to step on the head of that snake every time it rises.” - Leonard Peltier

 #FreeAfrica

Long Live Paternal Ancestors - Long Live Collateral Relatives

  Venerate Ancestors Drop Beliefs  Let's do genealogy networking.

This Mande is truthful. He a truth warrior. He is extremely sincere and loyal to the DNA of his ancestors. During the first nine days of the winter solstice he pays homage to his most recent ancestor,  While numerous imitation Europeans subscribe to fantasy and fiction he choose to call his ancestors and loved ones by the names he is aware of. 

This researcher  needs to be enlightened.  His AIM is  to identify ancestors and relatives of Jacob Martin. In this effort,  He is interested in being made aware of the names of the immediate relatives of the paternal grandfather of this researcher.  The names of the parents, grandparents  and great- grandparents of  Jacob Martin are unknown. 

M'Lilwana Osanku  childrenofsancho@gmail.com 

This researcher needs to ascertain who our common ancestors and other relatives are.

This Martin is  particularly interested in the names of the ancestral villages as per the ancestors. 

This researcher recalls members of prior generations said ancestors and relatives of Jacob Stanley Martin migrated from Barbados to British Guiana. From West Demerara, Martin settled in the basins of Essequebo and Berbice rivers. Jacob Stanley Martin resided at Hopetown, West Coast Berbice.

This Martin is convinced his paternal grandfather, Jacob Stanley Martin, is somehow a relative of Abraham, Small, Reddock, Smith, Mitchell, Mann, Wade, Dodson, Woodruffe,  Hamilton and Sills.  

1. Are you willing for us to explore and exhaust every avenue to ascertain the recent and prior common ancestors?  
2. What are their names and/or surnames pf your Martin relatives?  
3. Are you aware of our Martin relatives in West Demerara, Essequebo and Barbados?
4. What are the names and/or surnames of your parents, grandparents and great-grand-parents and great-great-grand-parents? 
5. What are the names of the rural and other communities in which your ancestors and other relatives reside? 

M'Lilwana Osanku is soliciting information respecting the immediate relatives of  Marion 'Sissy' Martin. this information exhibit Marion 'Sissy' Martin resided at Pouderoyen. She has a son named Simeon King. He was birthed in 1898. Perhaps,  Marion 'Sissy' Martin and her King relatives and other relatives are DNA relatives of M'Lilwana Osanku, other Martin people linked to Hopetown, New Amsterdam, West Demerara and elsewhere in Guyana but also to Martin and Braithwaite and other groups in Barbados. 

1. Akeim Michael Martin
2. Beryl Hartley Martin
3. Kath Yann Martin
4. Kwesi Andray Martin 
5. Denise Alexandra Martin Earle
6. Dudley Brentnol Martin
7. Edwin Alfred Martin 
8. Millicent Enid Martin, Mahaica and Clarence Alfred Roger Martin, Pouderoyen, Demerara

This researcher needs to be enlightened. His primary interests is identifying his Martin ancestors and relatives of his paternal grandfather Jacob Stanley Martin. The names of his immediate relatives of generations prior to Jacob Stanley Martin and his siblings remain unknown. The names of the first cousins of of Claude Martin, Jacob Martin, Johnny Martin and William Martin. Are unknown

This researcher is seeking the following; 

• The family history and genealogy of Jacob Stanley Martin, relatives of George Eleazar Ross, of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice, Evelyn Albertha Martin Caesar of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, Ulric Kendall New Amsterdam and Beryl Martin
• The names of the parents, grandparents, and great-great-grandparents of Claude Martin, Jacob Martin, Johnny Martin and William Martin.
•  The names of the Martin migrants from Barbados into British Guiana
•  The names of the immediate relatives of  the Martin migrants
•   The names of the  communities in which the Martin migrants were resident in Barbados and  British Guiana. Who do you recommend will enlightened this Martin family researcher  respecting the exact family ties  of our Martin relatives linked to Bushy Park,  Hyde Park and Farm and elsewhere on East Bank Essequebo and Den Amstel,  Pouderoyen, and elsewhere on West Coast Demerara
• Identifying DNA relatives who use  AncestryDNA, 23andMem and GEDmatch
• link this Martin family researcher with your Martin family historians. 
•  Dudley Brentnol Martin and Edwin Alfred Martin 
•  John Martin departed August 17, 1838 in Essequebo.
•  Albert Martin, birthed in Barbados, shoemaker, Main Street, New Amsterdam, departed before June 17, 1897 in Berbice.
•   Edward McLaren Martin, of Klien Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara c. 1910
•  Millicent Enid Martin Mahaica and Clarence Alfred and their descendants; Jean Bodkin,  Frank Gaul, Reginald Martin, Yolanda Martin, Martin Gaul, Edgar Martin, Nadia Martin, Monica Martin, Joe Martin, Hilary Martins
• M'Lilwana Osanku  is also seeking  the immediate relatives of Marion 'Sissy' Martin. this information exhibit Marion 'Sissy' Martin resided at Pouderoyen. She has a son named Simeon King. He was birthed in 1898. Perhaps, Marion 'Sissy' Martin and her King relatives and other relatives  and every Martin mention herein  are DNA relatives of M'Lilwana Osanku, Also, other Martin people linked to Hopetown, New Amsterdam, West Demerara and elsewhere in Guyana but also to Martin and Braithwaite and other groups in Barbados. .

 DNA tests results at AncestryDNA, 23andMem and GEDmatch introduced this researcher to Martin and Brathwaite  of Barbados seeking relatives linked to Guyana. Unfortunately, nothing concrete has materialized. 

This Martin expects second and third cousins in the rural communities of West Demerara. He expects to be enlightened respecting the names of his great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather. It is likely the ancestors preceding  great-great-grandfather are in Barbados and West Africa. 

It’s most helpful to have first, second, and third cousin DNA matches to help us identify the possible names of our grandparents.  Most people in the United States will have several DNA matches that fit into these categories. 

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1. What are the names of Martin great-grandparents and prior generations of ancestors?
2. What are the names of the parents and prior generations of ancestors of Noble Ross? 
3. What are the names of the mother and prior generations of ancestors of Mary Maude McPherson?
4. What are the names of the mother and prior generations of ancestors of Richard Semple? 

The ancestors and relatives of Richard “Pa Africa” Semple are likely Brong of the Akan. Certainly if the oral is accurate they are in West Africa.

Long Live Blanche Ross

Long Live Mary Maude McPherson

Long Live George Ross

Long Live Noble Ross

Long Live Jacob Martin 

Long Live Richard Semple

Long Live Richard “Pa Africa” Semple

Long Live paternal ancestors

“Racism isn't resolved in bed no matter who's sleeping with whom." 

"Racism wears different masks in different places at different times, but when the mask is torn away, the same malevolent face of exploitation and greed is exposed." - Jan Rynveld Carew (1920 –2012)

Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England, and the Caribbean. Lawrence Hill Books, 1994 Page 33/35