LUCEA, Hanover Z— AN Australian documentary team visited Jamaica recently doing filming and research work for an Australian documentary series “Who do you think you are?”

Filming was done at the national heritage site, Fort Charlotte in Lucea, and zeroed in on the ancestral background of Australian actor, Richard Roxburgh.

Roxburgh featured in a popular Australian television series “Rake” in 2000. He has also acted in several other movies including “Mission Impossible II” in 2010.

The 51-year-old Roxburgh has family connections to the Caribbean and his great- great-grandparents lived in Jamaica in the 1800s before relocating to Australia .

Historians say Roxburgh’s great-great-grandfather, Rev James Watson who was a missionary, arrived in Jamaica from Scotland in 1827 and started three churches, including the Lucea United Church .

Watson is also said to have been a key player in the start-up of several schools in Jamaica .

According to Matthew O’Donnell, Research and Field Producer with the documentary team, several sources where used in doing background checks.

“We used some of the institutions here like the Registrar’s Office, and we have been to the National Library in Kingston . So we used a lot of the resources here. We did a lot of research online as well, and obviously we spoke to a lot of historians here…,” O’Donnell told Observer West.

Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies , Dr Daive Dunkley said he provided background information on James Watson.

Dunkley said a book recently published by him “Agency of being Slaved” which deals at length with the Sam Sharp Rebellion of December 1831 may have led to him being approached as a research source.