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Title: Brazil sugar planters - Thomson Low 1880s-1890s
Post by: cabrach on Friday 08 October 10 16:38 BST (UK)

Does anyone know of sources of information on sugar planters in Brazil during the late 19th century?

Thomson Low was born 1847 in Forgue, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  In his early twenties he headed off to the West Indies and became a sugar planter in British Guiana (Guyana).  His childhood sweetheart, Barbara Alexander, joined him there and was married to him in 1877.  He is listed as manager of the Aurora plantation in trade directories for 1880 and 1882 but not for 1890.  He is said to have also gone to Brazil - presumably after 1882 and before 1890.  Later (about 1894) he went to Queensland, Australia setting up his own plantation at Mossman in the Far North and dying there in 1902. 

I'm keen to trace his movements in Brazil, if that is possible (given I speak no Portuguese).

Title: Re: Brazil sugar planters - Thomson Low 1880s-1890s
Post by: Skoosh on Friday 08 October 10 16:48 BST (UK)

Cabrach, I had a rellie Mackenzie who was manager of plantations in Cuba. I think it was the British or British American Sugar Corporation he worked for, maybe Guyana was the same.