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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Den Amstel meh fadduh birth place

You got a roots all over the country!

Where is Den Amstel....East Bank Dem?

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Originally posted by Errol Arthur:

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Originally posted by DaFreak:

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Originally posted by Jansher:
Maida = European
Philipe = European
Kilmornak= irish
Eversham = British
Wellington Park = British
Brighton= British

Mon Repos = French?

La Penitance = Spanish? i barn dea bro

La Penitence belonged to a Frenchmen. He killed his brother in France and escaped to Guyana and bought the estate. The older hre grew he became more and more penitent. Hence the name, La Penitence.

On reflection I retract my explanation. I was talking about Le Lepentir Cemetery. Is the cemetery in La Penitence? If so, my explanation could the be correct.

...yes... it takes you into La Penitence. In the early 70's part of the land was converted to open up South Georgetown Govt' Secondary School; hence it was called the burying ground school...

mo Dutch,

Rosignol?

Weldaad

wut bout Mahaicony

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Originally posted by Dove:
Some Villages past New Amsterdam

Bushlot
Kildonan
Nurney
Friendship
Limlair
Adventure

This is close to me...then comes bushlot village, bushlot farm, maida, philipy, kilmornack, eversham, brighton, bengal, 43....

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Originally posted by Jansher:

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Originally posted by Dove:
Some Villages past New Amsterdam

Bushlot
Kildonan
Nurney
Friendship
Limlair
Adventure

This is close to me...then comes bushlot village, bushlot farm, maida, philipy, kilmornack, eversham, brighton, bengal, 43....

..uh huh... I used to spend time at 51 as a child in August...

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Clonbrook

here's anodda doozy
Beterverwagting(Sp)

= dutch

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
mo Dutch,

Rosignol?

Weldaad

wut bout Mahaicony

..and Mahaica...

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Originally posted by Riya:

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Den Amstel meh fadduh birth place

You got a roots all over the country!

Where is Den Amstel....East Bank Dem?

wut can i say hon, we de spread out whole ovuh GY

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Den Amstel meh fadduh birth place

Dutch

supernaam
wakeenam= what name

Den Amstel is near Vreed en Hoop anodda dutch village

we even had a Harlem in GY

Mocha!

but no latte or cappachino!

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Clonbrook

here's anodda doozy
Beterverwagting(Sp)

You're right in the Dutch here... Beterverwagting

Land of Canaan?

Who asked about Hackney?

Hackney, is a village standing on the eastern bank of the Pomeroon River, about 11 km from the mouth of the river.

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Den Amstel is near Vreed en Hoop anodda dutch village

we even had a Harlem in GY

I think West Bank had a lot of dutch names

I remember Harlem.

There was Mara and Brotherson I think on the East Bank Berbice and Locaber (dutch) in West Canje

Georgetown was founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III. It passed for a while to the French, who largely rebuilt it, and in 1784 to the Dutch, who called it Stabroek. Regaining control in 1812, the British government restored the name Georgetown and made the city the colonial capital of British Guiana. In 1966 it became the capital of independent Guyana. This is where the influence comes from in the village names.

Miconey..
sheet Anchor...

we had a good lil write up on Mara Berbice love when i posted dat article on Rohan Baichu. it's now deleted

this was certainly mucho fun yall but i mus run now.

Happy Mother's Day again

be safe!

Seawell - origin?

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Originally posted by Riya:

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
Den Amstel is near Vreed en Hoop anodda dutch village

we even had a Harlem in GY

I think West Bank had a lot of dutch names

I remember Harlem.

There was Mara and Brotherson I think on the East Bank Berbice and Locaber (dutch) in West Canje

Mara is of old Yiddish, it means bitterness to the Jews.

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
we had a good lil write up on Mara Berbice love when i posted dat article on Rohan Baichu. it's now deleted

this was certainly mucho fun yall but i mus run now.

Happy Mother's Day again

be safe!

Thanks, sweets

This was fun indeed.

Take care

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Originally posted by Dove:

Mara is of old Yiddish, it means bitterness to the Jews.

How did we end up with Yiddish names in Guyana? Do you know?

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Originally posted by DaFreak:
anodda hard to spell village is Strathspey wut de heck is dat one?

Just past Buxton...deh had agas station on the left side. Kar used to lived close by.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
Mocha!

but no latte or cappachino!

just before Agricola....right Terry?

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Originally posted by Riya:

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Originally posted by Dove:

Mara is of old Yiddish, it means bitterness to the Jews.

How did we end up with Yiddish names in Guyana? Do you know?

Sephardic Jews who were known as the Gypsies of the Jews, as the Gypsies of the Jews, sort of like a lower caste Jew... they came from the Moors Regions of Spain, Portugal and even some middle eastern areas... Paula Abul's father is a Sephardic Jew, Actor Hank Azaria is Sephardic, their features are among the charateristics of the sect... again, there's also the more recent in the times of Hitler when people ran from the extinction process. Jews and Germans of Jewish decent as well as someof the killers of Jews. But if you check their history they were once the elit class of Jews for their education, wealth, non-discriminatory manner and ability to live in harmony with Muslim neighbors, it was in North African that the became known as a lower class being outnumbered by Muslims of that continent.

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Where dese name came from?
Eccles,Bogotowns,PetersHall,Herstelling,Soesdyke

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Originally posted by Dove:

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Originally posted by Riya:

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Originally posted by Dove:

Mara is of old Yiddish, it means bitterness to the Jews.

How did we end up with Yiddish names in Guyana? Do you know?

Sephardic Jews who were known as the Gypsies of the Jews, sort of like a lower caste Jew... they came from the Moors Regions of Spain, Portugal and even some middle eastern areas... Paula Abul's father is a Sephardic Jew, Actor Hank Azaria is Sephardic, their features are among the charateristics of the sect... again, there's also the more recent in the times of Hitler when people ran from the extinction process. Jews and Germans of Jewish decent as well as someof the killers of Jews.

As a matter of fact when the Allies were trying to find a homeland for the Jews at the end of WWII, Guyana was nominated by the British for that purpose. I waonder what our history would have been like if the Jews had not insisted on Israel.]

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Originally posted by Jhumbie:
Where dese name came from?
Eccles,Bogotowns,PetersHall,Herstelling,Soesdyke

English and Dutch

Chato-Margot ah think that is how you spell it east coast place with a big chimney.

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Originally posted by Riya:
Seawell - origin?

I was born in Seawell. I suppose it is because it is at the confluence of the Canje and Berbice Rivers and the Atlantic Ocean.