Saint Thomas Middle Island Parish – resting place of Sir Thomas Warner
Saint Thomas Middle Island, the third-largest parish on Saint Kitts, has deep roots in the island's colonial beginnings. Its parish church at Middle Island is known as the burial place of Sir Thomas Warner, who led the first English settlement on Saint Kitts in the 1620s, making the parish closely tied to the early history of the English Caribbean.
In the following centuries, sugar plantations spread across the parish, and the enslaved Africans who worked them and their descendants shaped its culture and communities. Today the parish is a rural area of villages, farmland and coastline, with Middle Island as its capital. Do you know a story or family memory from this parish? Share it with the community!