Sugar Planter in British Guiana

[flst]

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?
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[ainslie]

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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[celia]

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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 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.

[flst]

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.
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[Isabel H]

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

[flst]

Thanks Isabel for that link.
Regards,
flst 

[kirkmanknapp]

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.

[barryd]

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.

[sugarbakers]

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.