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Woordtsburg

British Guiana | Berbice

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1823 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
L. F. Gallez

Notes

Berbice - not yet traced in the compensation records.

Estate Information (5)

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1794
[Name] Woordstburg  
 

Plantagie Woordtsburg. Eigenaar [owner] Jan Van der Woordt; Adminis. [attorney] G. Hobus; Directeur [manager] G. Hobus.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.10
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot) 28(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Woordtsburg  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Woordtsburg situated on East Bank of River Berbice, the property of A. H. Bonn Esq at Amsterdam return by W. Helden attorney 08/12/1817.

 
T71/437 40
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Woordtsburg  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Woordsburg [sic], the property of L.F. Gallez. 93 + 2 (1m 1f) - 6 (3m 3f) = 89

 
T71/442 355-356
1825
[Name] Woordtsburg  
 

Return of slaves the property of A. H. Bonn Esq at Amsterdam attached to Plantation Woordtsburg, return by H. Mittelholzer. Previous total 82; 15 additions (9M 6F), 4 (2M 2F) deductions; 'the number remaining say 93 slaves were sold to L.F. Gallez together with the plantation on the fourth day of July 1823.

 
T71/442 181-182
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Frederick's Lust formerly called Woordtsburg  
 

Return of slaves the property of L.F. Gallez attached to Pln Frederick's Lust formerly called Woordtsburg

 
T71/443 489-490