G. Douglas Cheyne

     G. Douglas Cheyne was born, about 1892, in Jamaica, British West Indies.

G. Douglas Cheyne and Gwendoline Cheyne were listed on the 1910 US Census as having immigrated to the USA in 1898.¹

Douglas Cheyne and Constance Cheyne were found on a passenger list, dated 26 September 1904, at New York, New York, USA. They were on a Manifest of Alien Passengers aboard the Baker out of Port Antonio, Jamaica. They were traveling with their aunt, Agnes B. Sharpe, to join her at her permanent address 360 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York. Constance was 22, single, and had been in the US for six years. Douglas was 10 and had been in the US 4 years. Agnes Sharp, was 34, single, had been in the US for 18 years and a missionary. All were British Subjects of English race.²

G. Douglas Cheyne was listed as the nephew of and in the household of Janet Sharpe on the 1910 United States Census at 502 Clinton Avenue, in New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He and both his parents were said to have been born in Jamaica, British West Indies.¹

George Cheyne, M.D. (13501) was found on the 1930 US Census in San Francisco. He had a son named Douglas. Was this George Cheyne and G. Douglas Cheyne (13244), the son of George Edward Cheyne, M.D. (4061), in Jamaica, the same person? George (13501) had his place of birth as Ohio. But no George Cheyne has been found born in Ohio on earlier censuses. He may have said Ohio, in order to minimize other questions that had to be answered of immigrants. Or perhaps other family problems may have wanted him to find a new identity.