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Charles C Douce

   
   

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The Rev Charles Christopher Douce

 

W Ralph Hall Caine: 'Mr. Douce has enlisted the esteem of the white without forfeiting the confidence of the black, and his admitted success is one of the facts with which we have to reckon .... His success is indisputable.'

 
 
Jamaica Churchman, May/June 1911
 
 
 
 

[Unfortunately no picture/photograph of the Rev C C Douce has so far been found]

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Jamaica Post 1893 April 18 p5 col 1
St Andrew Parish Church: The sermon on Sunday morning at the St Andrew Parish Church was preached by the Right Revd. Enos Nuttall, D.D., Bishop of Jamaica, and the lessons were read at both the morning and evening services by the Rev C. C. Douse [sic], Rector of Manchioneal. Mr. Douse is a black gentleman of education and culture, and his impressive reading of the beautiful service of the Church of England was much admired by the congregation.

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Jamaica Churchman 1900 February 2 p4

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
Daily Gleaner 1916 November 1 page 13
 
A L 'Teacher' Walcott, the Black headmaster, and Anglican catechist, speaking on the history of West Branch School.
 
References to C C Douce's early career as a teacher.
 
 
 

 
Daily Gleaner 1911 May 18 p1
 
Announcement of the death of the Rev C C Douce

 

Diocese of Jamaica:

 

Synod reports:

 

1874 Appendix H  pp xlix-li

          Catechists - 26 Douce, C C        

                               Albert Town, Trelawny        

                               not licensed

 

1876  Appendix G   p lx

          Ordinations - 1876 Aug 24  

                             Mr C C Douce Deacon

 

1877 Appendix I p lxxi

          Clergy list with P O addresses

              Douce, C C  Stewart Town

 

           p lxxxiii   clergy listed in order of seniority -  

                         Douce, Chas. C

 

1886 p15  Rev C C Douce on Finance Committee

 

1887 p77  Addresses of Clergy   

                  22  Douce, C C   Manchioneal, Rural Hill

                                         and Boston

                 p 111    Maximum salaries

                   Rev C C Douce  Manchioneal    £60

                                                                            Rural Hill           £60

                                      Boston          £40

 

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Reports in the Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Churchman in March 1881 make it clear that in the very first ordination of his episcopate Bishop Nuttall ordained two Black men - C L Barnes and C C Douce - to the priesthood, although no mentioned is made of the colour of any of those ordained.
 
(The Gleaner misspelt 'Douce' as 'Dowce'; a more common misspelling was 'Douse'.)

 

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Daily Gleaner 1881 March 14 p2

 

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Jamaica Churchman March 15 1881

References to the career of the Rev C C Douce found in the
Daily Gleaner

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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