Albert Henry ‘Chikki’ Bartlett was born on April 19, 1934, in Nassau, New Providence to Robert Irvin Bartlett (1890-1978) and Lillian Rebecca Burrows (1903-1978). In November 1953, he married Valeria Deloris Campbell. Their children included Tyrone, Kim, Gina, Johnny. He was recognized in the weightlifting and body building community for
In July 1949, groups of Abaconians gathered at docks. Whose gaze into the horizon might first spy the M/V Stede Bonnet as she made her routine port stops around the Abaco Cays? The vessel carried replenishments of flour, sugar, kerosene, lumber and more from the colony’s capital Nassau on the island of New Providence. These essential
On March 15, 1819, Captain Robert Sands was born in Hope Town, Abaco to Charles Sands and Elizabeth Malone. His mother Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Hope Town’s matriarch Suzannah Wyannie Malone. Prior to 1841, he fell in love and married Rhoda Sweeting. The couple established their home in Hope
