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Hanover Parish

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The small north-western parish, capital Lucea, where Walter Jekyll settled and died after leaving the church, and where he collected the songs and stories that became the first substantial printed record of Jamaican folk music.

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standard Jamaican parish geography; individual town records cited on their own entities.

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