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Cool Babe Registered:: June 01, 2004
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This is an interesting ...but the British influenced were more than the Dutch...at least what I am reading here...but did not the British treat the ppl well in comparsion to how they did in India...(forgive my ignorance, I am now trying to get the hang of this)... another thing Jansher... u refer to a highway naming after Indria Ghandi in Parimaribo...don't they have more of an Indian influence in Nickerie ... per say than in the city? |
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Cool Babe Registered:: June 01, 2004
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Mr. Tezeess... did u lived in Suriname ...u said u were born in Linden, my dad told me that it was a wonderful place esp if one can see the processing of bauxite.. red silt..  |
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I pity the fool Location: London, UK
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Morning doc  . I ended up in Suriname after the local non-black population of Wismar was nearly wiped out.The place was OK, but the red bauxite dust was hell. Try washing clothes and putting them outside to dry. Or try growing vegetables or fruits. Most fruits were easily damaged by the dust. The bauxite ships brought in foreign sailors, which attracted a certain amount of crime. Prostitution and drugs were two of them. Burnham did try to eliminate my family after my grandfather was accused of blowing up one of Burnhams' yachts mored in the "marina". |
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Cool Babe Registered:: June 01, 2004
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U know guys I am really appreciating this thread...there are things here that I did not even know... u refer to Wismar...my dad worked up there at one time but left because probably the same reason...
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...don't forget again that we had Germans who fled the Hitler regime for the South American coasts. My great-grandfather was German, he was a pharmacist who came to Guyana to dispense medicine. |
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Sir, what an honor to have your contribution on this forum after so many long years. It's doubly good to know that we have your support in discussing this topic; many of us do take pride in remembering and sharing what we learned of the history of our homeland. Thank you again we appreciate it immensely. |
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I was a but a tot then but many in my family were a part of the support group for the striking workers. Where's Queenie, to share your nostalgia in her St. Roses uniform getting arrested...  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Dove, |
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Location: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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The Chinese in Guyana... another part of my ancestry... The first batch of Chinese landed in Georgetown, British Guiana in 1853, and for the next few years all were men, most being taken forcibly. To curb the excesses of this trade in human cargo the British and Chinese authorities in Canton agreed to a formal supervised recruitment process and families were encouraged to emigrate. Chinese women began arriving in 1860, but in small numbers. The period from 1860 to 1866 saw a relatively large influx of immigrants, bringing the local Chinese population to a peak of 10,022 in 1866. Subsequently only two boats arrived with Chinese immigrants, one in 1874 and the other in 1879. After this Chinese immigrants came of their own free will and at their own expense. The 39 ships that brought the Chinese labourers were chartered by recruiting agents based in Canton, China, with the cost of shipping shared between the colony's Immigration Fund and the plantation owners. The ships travelled by way of Singapore and Cape Town, arriving at Georgetown after a journey of between 70 and 177 days. The distribution of Chinese labourers to the sugar plantations in the three counties of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequebo was made by the Immigration Agent-General who based his decision on the quotas submitted by the plantation owners several months previously. Families were kept together in the distribution. Passenger lists were maintained by the Immigration Office in Georgetown and an ongoing search is in progress to locate these and other relevant documents that give the names of the Chinese immigrants. The names of some indivduals are presented in this compilation and further names will be added as they become known. By 1900 the Chinese population in British Guiana had dwindled to 2,919 since the majority of Chinese at that time preferred to marry people from their own country but there were too few Chinese women available. Many also left the colony to seek there destiny in other countries, particularly French Guiana, Surinam and Trinidad. See more on Chinese Guyanese here |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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I am not sure.....perhaps Mr T can enlighten us... |
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Junior Member Location: Richmond Hill, New York,USA
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Many Germans including Nazis fled to South America... There were Germans in South America prior to the first world war...then after the second world war there was another flow of Germans into the continent... During both wars Germans and their allies were prevented from entering British Guiana...in 1917 two Lutheran pastors were denied entry be cause they had German names....also from 1939 to 1945 Dr.Gigioli an Italian doctor working on the malaria project was restricted to Georgetown... Your grandfather might have moved there prior to 1914, between 1918 and 1939 or after 1945...just an educational quess... |
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...one that is correct... and he worked mostly on the East Coast not in G/T; and I previously mentioned the Nazis who also feld to South America... many of them however seemed to have setteld in Venezuela or Argentina. |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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Harlem and Pakistan missin |
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Location: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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BK, I'd love a copy of the list you and Raymond are featuring in the article or better yet a copy of the article upon completion. Thanks.
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What do these village names have in common?
Annai Orealla Mahaicony (modern spelling) |
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...tell us of deviant one... |
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New Recruit Registered:: April 25, 2007
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I think one other village after Dorn Hagg was Kingston. Not sure.  |
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Ball,
Kingston was also the name of a section in G/town. In G/Town & Greater G/town are sections named Werk-en-Rust Wortmanville Lemaha/No. Cummingsburg The Ruimvelts The housing schemes in Lodge Albouystown Tiger Bay Albertown Kitty Campbeville Bourda Stabroek Lacytown Cummingsburg Queenstown |
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...rampant sources of waters... as in the Amerindian nomer??? |
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Portuguese and Chinese in Guyana
The Portuguese were among the first indentured workers brought to Guyana. Portuguese indentured immigration began in 1835 and ended in 1882, with most of the immigrants having arrived by the 1860s. Most of the Portuguese came from the North Atlantic island of Madeira. Economically successful in Guyana, the Portuguese nonetheless experienced discrimination. Even though of European origin, they were treated as socially inferior by the British plantation owners and officials because of their indentured past and Roman Catholic religion. Despite discrimination, by the end of the nineteenth century the Portuguese were firmly established as an important part of Guyana's middle class and commercial sector. Indentured Chinese workers first came to British Guiana from the south coast of China in 1853. Relatively few in number, the Chinese became the most acculturated of all the descendants of indentured workers. The Chinese language and most Chinese customs, including religion, disappeared. There were no clans or other extended kinship organizations, and soon most Chinese did not trace their ancestry beyond the first immigrant. Because almost all of the Chinese indentured immigrants were men, they tended to intermarry with both East Indians and Africans, and thus the Chinese of Guyana did not remain as physically distinct as other groups. Like the Portuguese, the Chinese left the plantations as soon as their indenture contracts were fulfilled. Many entered the retail trade. Other Chinese engaged in farming and pioneered wetrice production, using techniques they brought from China. The Chinese tended to live in urban settings. Source: U.S. Library of Congress |
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CEO GGG Location: SugaRi diL
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Where is this?
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