Parish of Saint George (Antigua and Barbuda)

Parish of Saint George St. George
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	St. Peter
surface	24 km²
Residents	7838 (2011)
density	327 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AG-07

Coordinates: 17 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 61 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.

The Parish of Saint George , also St. Georges Parish , usually short St. George is a Parish of the Caribbean island state Antigua and Barbuda .

geography

The Parish covers the east of the northern part of the island of Antigua , it extends about 9 km north-south along the North Sound into the interior of the Central Plains , and about 3 km west-east from the suburbs of Saint John’s to the coast. At 24 km² it is the smallest of the island's parishes, and has just under ¹ ⁄ _{20 of} the land area of ​​the state and ¹ ⁄ _{11 of} the island of Antigua.

The population is a little under 8,000, that is ¹ ⁄ _{11 of} the state residents and almost ¹ ⁄ _{8 of} those Antiguas, of which 7,500 are locals (population, 95%). The Parish has around 2,700 households, the average size is a 3-person household (2011: 2.9), which is the national average (3.0). The population density of around 330 people per km² is very high compared to the national average (around 150) as well as for the main island Antigua (just under 250), the second highest after the Parish of St. John's.

The Parish has no actual main town or regional center, the more important places are Piggotts as the largest town and transport hub, as well as Coolidge with its port and airport.

history

The parishes are the highest administrative units of the monarchy, they represent the historical parish districts that are widespread in the Anglo-Saxon area as a rural administrative division . The main church of this parish was today's church of St. George's Rectory in Fitches Creek . Originally the island only had five parishes, St. George's became independent from St. Philip’s (near Parham ) in 1725 .

Historically, the region was part of the New North Sound Division . The western parts were in 1873 and administratively to the Parish of Saint Peter summarized (Parish Boundaries Act) .

The area was farmland, initially tobacco and then sugar cane plantations. Around 1850, shortly after the abolition of slavery, the Parish included the property ( Estates ) Mount Lucie, Donovan, North Sound, Carlisle, Millar, Barnacle Point, Fitches Creek, Weir, High Point, Date Hill, Giles Blizards, Judge Blizards, Gravenors , Nibbs, Winthorpes, Paynters, Gunthorps - the farms existed as localities until the 1950s, sometimes until today, otherwise they became the core of a settlement - as well as the places Winthorpes Village (abandoned), Barnes Hill , Saint Marks (after the local Anglican Church), Osborns Farm and Sea View Farm (two properties).

Urbanization did not begin until after the Second World War, when the Coolidge Air Force Base (now VC Bird Airport , 1941/42) was built and the sugar industry collapsed - first the private plantations closed, followed by the state-owned Antigua Sugar Factory in 1972 . Today the central area of ​​the Parish already belongs to the suburban area of ​​the capital St. John's, the north is an industrial area (airport area, Texaco docks ) and the location of the US military base Camp Blizzard, including two universities. The population growth was 23.2% from 2001 to 2011, well above the national average (15.6%).

Population, residents and households

Kgr. England					Antigua and Barbuda
1821	1844	1851	1856	1970	1984	1991	2001	2011
3580	3645	2934	3808	-	-	4742	6447	7838
-	-	-	-	4421	4777	4514	6085	7496
-	-	-	1052	1144	1385	1458	2223	2719

Time series only partially comparable

Population:

1. ↑ of which 91 white people, 68 free colored people, 3421 slaves
2. ^ Villages: 2200, Estates: 1608; Black: 3300; White: 176; Colored: 332
3. ↑ according to Census 2001: 6673

Households:

1. ↑ Houses in Villages: 560 (0 unoccupied), in Estates (total 17): 526 (34 unoccupied)

Administrative structure and places

There is no more explicit administrative divisions , but the Parishes are officially-statistically in census tracts ( English enumeration district ) divided. These correspond directly to the districts (quarters) and localities of the larger towns or the smaller towns.

In addition, electoral districts ( English Constituency ) are defined, with the district of St George  (No. 12) comprising the northern part and also Potters , Jonas and the eastern part of Scotts Hill (all St. John 'Rural ), the south-east part of St. Peter  ( No. 13), the south to All Saints West  (No. 11). Villages are also explicitly mentioned there.

place	Village	EW (2001)	ED, Name (S) (EW 2001 )	C.
New Winthorpes	New Winthorpes	882	40100  North  (210); 40200  South  (400); 40300  East  (272)	12
Barnes Hill	Barnes Hill	798	40400  School  (431); 40500  East  (367)	12
Piggotts	Pigotts, Osborne	1478	40600  School  (219); 40700  Hill  (404); 40,800  St. Mary’s  (329); 40900  Moravian  (232); 41000  Central  (294)	12
Sea View Farm	Sea View Farm	837	41100  South  (221); 41200  Zion  (362); 41300  Central  (254)	11
Renfrew		337	41400	11
Upper Lightfoot		510	41501  1  (104); 41502  2  (406)	13/11
Sugar Factory (Gunthorpes ) (Wr)		925	41601  1  (300); 41602  2  (625)	13
Carlisle		358	41700	12
Fitches Creek		151	41800	13
Coolidge	Powells	317	41900	12
Airport		82	42000	12

^(N)The official name of the census district is preceded by the place. The names have been converted into legible spelling, in the 2001 Census they were merged into CamelCaps .

^(Wr)with weirs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Public Administration - Statistics Division: Census 2011 - Preliminary Data Release. St. John's, January 31, 2012, Table 1: Estimated Resident Population Density by Parish. P. 4; Table 2: Total Enumerated Resident Population - 1991, 2001 and 2011. p. 6; and Table 4: Number of Private Households by Parish - 1991, 2001 and 2011. p. 8 (area data in Square miles; antigua.gov.ag [PDF] there p. 6 ff).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Residents are members of a household (“ Enumerated Population (Private Households) ”); “ Resident population ” are the inhabitants including members of institutions, long-term guests of the hotels and non-residents (“ … plus persons in institutions, hotel (long-term guests), vagrants ”). Statistics Division: Census 2011 - Preliminary Data Release. Population Categories. P. 3 and more detailed definitions. P. 12.
3. ↑ All Saints: “ Secondary Center ”, Falmouth / English Harbor: “ District Center ”. Genivar Trinidad & Tobago; Ivor Jackson and Associates, Kingdome Consultants Inc. (Assoc.): Sustainable Island Resource Management Zoning Plan for Antigua and Barbuda (including Redonda) . Self-published, Port of Spain December 2011, 5.2.3 Hierarchical Network of Settlements , especially Settlement Hierarchy Map , p. 103 ff ., there p. 121 ff. ( ab.gov.ag [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2014]). ab.gov.ag ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ An Act for dividing the Parish of Saint Peter in the said Island; and for erecting a new Parish, to be called the Parish of Saint George . Laws of the Island of Antigua, 12th Geo. In O. 184, AD 1725. In: Anthony Brown (ed.): The Laws of the Island of Antigua: Consisting of the Acts of the Leeward Islands, Coming November 8th. 1690 Ending April 21, 1798, and the Acts of Antigua Commencing April 10, 1668, ending May 7, 1804 . Bagster, 1805, p. 245 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
5. ^ The Parish Boundaries Act No. 11 of 1873, Cap. 304, 17th December, 1873 (as amended online, laws.gov.ag).
6. ↑ Boundaries of the divisions in map Antigua . Robert Baker, Thomas Jefferys , 1775 ( File: Antigua 1775.jpg )
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Census 1856; according to The Report of the Registrar General of Births and Deaths of the Census taken November 17, 1856… Enclosure in No. 17. In: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (Ed.): Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons . S. 68 ff . ( Full text in the Google book search - Ordered to be printed 1858, tables from p. 71; penultimate table also Census 1844, 1851).
8. ↑ Census 1821; after Robert Montgomery Martin: History of the British colonies . tape 2 . Verlag J. Cochrane and co., 1834, table Census in Antigua, taken 1821 , p. 362 ( full text in Google Book Search).
9. ↑ ^{a b} J. Campbell: Antigua and Barbuda agricultural census, 1984 . A. Final report. Ed .: Dept. of Reg. Dev., Organization of American States. tape I. . Washington DC 1986, p. oA . Quoted in The Caribbean Conservation Association - CCA (Ed.): Antigua and Barbuda - Country environmental profile . i. A. The Government of Antigua and Barbuda - Historical, Conservation, and Environmental Commission. St. Michael (Barbados) 1991, Table 1.5 (2). Number of households and persons and average household size, 1970 and 1984, by enumeration districts , p. 31 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ] there p. 53).
10. ↑ ^{a b c} [ The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ( Memento of June 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ] , SI 1984, No. 4, 28th day of February, 1984; in particular Schedule 16. (PDF, antiguaelections.com, p. 11 there)
11. ↑ ^{a b c} National Statistics Office: Census 2001. Volume I Summary Social, Economic, Demographic, and Housing Characteristics. St. John's, July 2004, Table 8 Population by Enumeration District and Sex. 2. St. Paul. P. 31 f ( ab.gov.ag (PDF) [PDF] there P. 43 - longer loading time).