Parish of Saint Paul (Antigua and Barbuda)

Parish of Saint Paul St. Paul
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	St. Paul
surface	47.9 km²
Residents	8809 (2011)
density	184 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AG-06

Coordinates: 17 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  N , 61 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  W.

The Parish of Saint Paul , also St. Paul's Parish , usually short St. Paul , is a parish of the Caribbean island state of Antigua and Barbuda .

geography

The parish covers the central south of the island of Antigua . It extends approximately 7 km north-south from the Central Plain to the south coast around Falmouth Bay , and 9 km west-east from the eastern Shekerley Mountains to Willoughby Bay . With almost 48 km² it has ¹ ⁄ _{9 of} the land area of ​​the state and ¹ ⁄ _{6 of} the island of Antigua.

The population is a little under 9,000, a good ¹ ⁄ _{10 of} the state residents and ¹ ⁄ _{8 of} those Antiguas, of which 8,000 are locals (population, 90%). The Parish has around 2700 households, the average size is a three-person household (2011: 2.8), which is slightly below the national average (3.0). The population density of around 190 inhabitants per km² is above the national average (around 150), but comparatively low for the main island of Antigua (almost 250): the flat north of the island is much more densely populated. Most of the Parish, the entire hilly to mountainous south, is Nelson's Dockyard National Park with 41 km².

Regional centers are All Saints inland, which is the second largest city after the capital St. John's, and the port region of Falmouth / English Harbor on the tourist coast (Falmouth is the historic capital ).

history

South coast landscape around Falmouth Bay

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. Paul's Rectory in Falmouth .

Historically, the region was divided into the Falmouth Division (Falmouth, today's Liberta and Swetes) with the Ten Acres Lands (state property around English Harbor, which was parceled out for small farms), Rendezvous Bay Division (the western hill country behind Rendezvous Bay) and Willoughby Bay Division (around Bethesda). Both the West and parts of the former Willoughby Bay Division were in 1873 also administratively as Parish of Saint Paul confirmed (Parish Boundaries Act) .

After slavery was abolished in 1834, Liberta was the first settlement for freedmen here. The region was particularly hard hit by the Great Antilles earthquake in 1843 , so that there were several emigration, especially to Free Town . Around 1850, the Parish included the property ( Estates ) Blake, bodkins, Burke, Cochrane, Delaps, Folly, Laroaches, Lucas, Mathews, Morris Loobiys, Patterson, Richmond, Thomas, Tyrell, Rendezvous Bay, Buck Horn and the already abandoned Barters and Dimsdales - the farms consistently existed as localities until the 1950s, sometimes until today, otherwise they became the core of a settlement - as well as the places English Harbor, Falmouth, The Ridge, Ffreys (today St. Phillip), Victoria, Bethesda, Grace Hill , Liberta, Buckshorns, Edwards, Sweets, Jenny Bush, Spring Hill, Bailey Hill and Ding-a-ding-nook .

The middle south around Falmouth Bay and Shirley Heights is one of the tourist centers, otherwise the area is farmland, once tobacco and then sugar cane plantations, today all kinds of agricultural products. The population growth was 11.5% in 2001-2011, below the national average (15 , 6%).

Population, residents and households

Kgr. England					Antigua and Barbuda
1821	1844	1851	1856	1970	1984	1991	2001	2011
4012	3645	5154	4494	-	-	6496	7779	8809
-	-	-	-	6683	5624	6183	7153	7979
-	-	-	979	1501	1567	1929	2503	2834

Time series only partially comparable

Population:

1. ↑ thereof 259 white people, 727 free colored people, 3026 slaves
2. ↑ Villages: 3694, Estates: 696; Black: 3438, White: 138; Colored: 812
3. ↑ according to Census 2001: 7848

Households:

1. ↑ Houses in Villages: 852 (52 unoccupied), in Estates (total 19, 2 unoccupied and “ uncultivated Estates ”): 193 (14 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 localities and districts (quarters) of the larger towns or the smaller towns. All Saints, the second largest town on the island, belongs to three parishes. ^(AS)

In addition, electoral districts ( English Constituency ) are defined, with Saint Paul representing only one district, St Paul  (No. 16), but the northwest to All Saints  East and Saint Luke  (No. 10), the northeast to St. Phillip South  ( No. 10). Villages are also explicitly mentioned there.

place	Village	EW (2001)	ED, Name (S) (EW 2001 )	C.
All Saints (AS)	All saints	(569)	70100  East  (298); 70200  South  (271)	10
Swetes	Swetes	1837	70300  North West  (451); 70400  North  (320); 70500  Central  (358); 70600  South West  (302); 70700  East  (406)	10
Liberta	Liberta	2080	70800 (325); 70901  West 1  (416); 70902  West 2  (352); 71000  North Central  (423); 71100  South Central  (266); 71200  South West  (298)	16
Green Hill		295	71300	16
Bethesda	Bethesda	488	71400  East  (387); 71500  West  (101)	15th
Falmouth	Falmouth	326	71600	16
Cobbs Cross	Cobbs Cross	296	71700	16
English Harbor	English Harbor, Nelson's Dockyard	500	71800  Town  (203); 71900  Ordnance Bay  (185); 72000  Middle Ground  (112)	16
Marsh Village		278	72100	16
Dow Hill		128	72200	16
Cooks Hill \ Christian Hill	Christian Hill, Picadilly	243	72300	15/16
Table Hill Gardens	Table Hill, Gordon	216	72400	16
Tyrells		361	72500	16
Pattersons		185	72600	16
Dieppe Bay		72	72700	16

^(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 .

^(AS) All Saints is located on the border of the parishes of St. John, St. Peter and St. Paul, it comprises 11 census districts and has a total of over 5000 inhabitants. Only the St. Paul share is given here.

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; 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. ↑ 10  acres = 400  ares = 4  hectares
   cf. Natasha Lightfoot: Race, Class and Resistance: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in Antigua, 1831-1858 . Ed .: New York University. History. ProQuest, 2007, ISBN 978-0-549-42367-6 , pp. 212 ( limited preview in Google Book search). David Barry Gaspar: Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua . Ed .: New York University. History (=  e-Duke books scholarly collection ). New edition edition. Duke University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8223-8177-8 , pp.
    98 ( limited preview in Google Book search - cited in Footnote 9 on Lightfoot).
5. ↑ The Parish Boundaries Act (PDF) 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 . ( Google eBook, complete view - 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 ( Google eBook, full view ).
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. 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 , there p. 53 ( usaid.gov [PDF; 10.6 MB ]).
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; longer loading time; p. 43).