Martha Brae, Trelawny Jamaica, is the name of the river which has its source at Windsor and flows into the sea at Rock after passing the village of the same name. The name appears to be a corruption of the Spanish Rio Para Matar Tiberon shown on a Spanish map dated 1680. It was a main artery in Trelawny and links many of the sugar plantations (see Tour of the Martha Brae -in prep-)

The town of Martha Brae was created by Henry Cunliffe in 1762 out of the eastern portion of his sugar estate, Holland. He named the town Lyttelton, after the then-Governor of Jamaica, William Lyttelton, but this name was gradually lost and the town reverted to the older name of the nearby river.

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