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Paramaribo, Surinam

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Paramaribo grew up around Fort Zeelandia on the Suriname River. The English had built the fort as Fort Willoughby. After the Dutch conquest of 1667 the town became the capital of the colony of Suriname. The governor and the colonial administration sat here. The slave ships also arrived here, and enslaved people were sold to planters. A large part of the population was enslaved and worked in the town as domestic servants, craftsmen and porters.

Source: Atlas of Mutual Heritage

People

  1. 1818
  2. 17 February 1833
  3. 1836
  4. 27 November 1775
  5. 18 October 1778
    Jan Wicherides
    Baptised as an illegitimate child; mother Adijeba, free carboeger
  6. 27 April 1780
    Johanna Elisabeth Roepel
    Baptised (Walloon/French service) as Jeane Elizabeth, daughter of Cristian Roepel and Anna Fontane
  7. 8 October 1727
  8. 26 October 1727
    Johan Alexander van Sandick
    Baptised (French service) as Jean Alexander, son of Jean van Sandyk and Marie Drouilhet
  9. 1763
    Johan Alexander van Sandick
    Died; gravedigger's fee for announcement in Paramaribo paid 23-11-1763
  10. 8 October 1778
    Wicher Wichers
    Buried in the Nieuwe Oranjetuin (church fee f 50, paid from the estate)
  11. 31 July 1780
    Wicher Wichers
    Gravestone laid on his grave in the Nieuwe Oranjetuin
  12. 19 December 1783
    Bartha Johanna Veldtman
    Marriage banns with Johan August Wohlfahrt (31, Lutheran, from Halle); she the widow of Willem de Groot, given as 23 years old, born Groningen
  13. 1783
    Bartha Johanna Veldtman
    Resident in the colony of Suriname
  14. 5 April 1780
    Clara Elisabeth Wicherides
    Buried in the Nieuwe Oranjetuin; church fee f 20,15 paid by Mr J.G. Wichers
  15. 29 April 1779
    Clara Elisabeth Wicherides
    Baptised as the illegitimate child of the mulatto woman (mulattin) Maria van Arlaud; held at baptism by Madame Arlaud née Yver
  16. 27 February 1701
    Jan van Sandick
    Baptised; son of Gerbrand van Sandijck and Judith Britton (index reads 'Gerrit(?)')
  17. 6 June 1784
    Johan August Wohlfahrt
    Buried in the Nieuwe Oranjetuin
  18. 13 August 1781
    Willem de Groot
    Buried in Fort Zeelandia
  19. 28 October 1726
    Benine Marie van Sandick
    Baptism Paramaribo (French congregation), presented by Benine Walraven
  20. 9 February 1781
    Pieter Willem Snijders
    Baptism Paramaribo (Reformed, French-language register); mother the mulatto woman Mimi of fiscal councillor Wichers
  21. 21 May 1786
    Johan Godfried
    Baptism Paramaribo; mother the free mustee Rosa van J.G. Wichers; godfather G. Ackerman
  22. 11 December 1791
    Johan Coenraad
    Baptism Paramaribo; mother the free Rosa van Wichers; godfather Willem Petrus Prins
  23. 12 March 1702
    Gerbrand van Sandijck
    Baptism Paramaribo (witnesses Joan Meunikx and Alarda van Sandyk)