Helen Adelaide Wood

(My second great aunt )- Born 17.8.1860 D 25.11.1927 Margaretville and Pembroke Cottage Half Way Tree Jamaica. Helen Adelaide Wood (died 25 November 1927) was a British botanical artist and scientific illustrator best known for the collection of her illustrations held at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica. She is also known for illustrating at least one print and three watercolours in Britton & Rose's The Cactaceae, published between 1919 and 1923. The collection of her artwork in the Natural History Museum of Jamaica has been inscribed on the UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Memory of the World Register. Along with the Natural History Museum of Jamaica, Wood's artwork is also held in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History. She was one of the first women museum workers in the Caribbean and was employed at the Natural History Museum of Jamaica from 1912 to 1927 Our family records show she also did bird paintings, five of which I have, and she was Curator at Hope Botanical Gardens 231 Old Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica. She Is buried at St.Josephs sanitarium, Kingston, Ja.. She was the daughter of JOHN JARRETT WOOD - (my second great grandfather). who wrote:

(Jamaica – Its History, Constitution and Topographical Description With Geological and Meteorological Notes)