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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: flst on Friday 22 May 09 20:43 BST (UK)
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My ancestor sailed from Liverpool to Georgetown on 23rd June 1939.He was 19 years old. I'd like to know how a young Scottish man came to find work as a sugar planter. He worked at Plantation de Kindred,West Coast
Demerara,British Guiana. Sadly he died,as the result of a motorbike accident,whilest home on holiday, aged 26. I've been unable to find out much about the plantation but wondered if he worked for the Booker Brothers. Are there any archives available or can anyone suggest where else to search?
flst
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I think your subject heading should read Guiana, not Ghana, which is in West Africa. This may confuse the casual browsing member.
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flst
Done quick search ,the booker brothers were English and it looks like they had a few plantations if you type in
Booker Brothers sugar Plantation Guiana you get quiet a few hits.If that doesn't find what you want just put Booker brothers and the name of the plantation.I used Jeeves my Butler ;D search U.K. So I think they would have spent time in the U.K employing sugar planters Or they put Adds in the papers.Hope you find something useful.
Celia P.S Have tried the second search but nothing came up.
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Thanks Ainslie for putting me right on the spelling. I just copied down the address that was given to me. It may explain why I could n't find out much about the plantation!
Celia, I'm going to do a search as you suggested.Thanks.
flst
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I have also been searching for info. about a Scot working on Bookers brothers sugar plantations. He went out earlier than your ancestor, and I have not been able to discover how he was recruited.
I can't find the reference now, but I recently read somewhere online, that records of workers on Booker Bros.' sugar plantations have not survived.
Information about Guyana is sparse, but there is a Guyana/British Guiana Genealogy Society
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyggbs/index.htm
Isabel
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Thanks Isabel for that link.
Regards,
flst
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Also trying to find my grandfather William Goodridge worked for booker bros till 1899-1900 when he died in Demera .any info on Goodridge would help.
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There was a census taken just before William Goodridge was in British Guiana. Unfortunately it was taken in 1896. I doubt he made a "footprint" there.
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Tales of a Sugar Tramp, by Emile C Freeland, Pelican Pub. Co., 1954.
... the early chapters of this book describe plantation life in British Guiana in the 1920s.
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Thanks, that sounds interesting!
flst
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Candida Virginia Pereria 1847 Madeira isles Portugal
William Goodridge married Candida before 1878
2 children born in Demera British guiania
William Goodridge 11/11/1878
Beatrice Goodridge 12/17/1884
Left Demera about 1900 for USA
Need help in getting records or any info on them!!!
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I think that a lot of UK people worked in the sugar industry. I've got a family member, from Yorkshire, whose obituary included:
Worked in the Sugar Industry for many years including Bookers, Tate and Lyle and H.V.A. in Guiana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and Jamaica.
He was born 1921 and died 2010.
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Looking to hire a British guiania student to find birth records in British guiania .
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Hi,
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Hi,
I am also interested in the West Indies/British Guiana and the Sugar Plantation industry.
My Great Uncle, William McGie from Scotland was involved - you can refer to my message -
Topic ; William McGie – born 1891 in Edinburgh, Scotland - died 1963 in Barbados, West Indies
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=710431.0
I would love to find out more information about him and his life in W.I.
Regards,
Sandir
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I had a cousin of my grandfather's, a Willie Mackenzie from Ross-shire, who served his time in Glasgow between the wars as an engineer with a company which manufactured sugar processing machinery. He went out to Cuba when his time was out & eventually managed a plantation in Oriente province for the British American Sugar Corporation? Tried to find out where he might have served his time but there were several engineering firms in Glasgow engaged in exporting sugar machinery.
Possibly fist this is also the route your ancestor took into the business. Willie apparently drove to Glasgow in an open car & took ship to Cuba with the car. ;D
Bests,
Skoosh.
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My mother's great grandmother, Thulia Pontifex, was born 1841, Georgetown, Demerara. Her father. George Pontifex, was a sugar planter.