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From: LyleH29423< >
Subject: Re: 19th Century British Guiana newspapers
Date: 11 Jul 1997 21:28:29 GMT
References: <33c5eef6.14676497@news>


I tried contacting the original author of the following posting, bobnich,
but attempts to do so resulted in a prompt that the address was incorrect.
If anyone can help me with the email address of bobnich I would be
grateful. I want to find out about my g.grandfather, Henry Murphy, who
died in Guiana or Demerara sometime between 1874 and 1886

A recent posting appeared as follows:

On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 12:12:10 -0700, Trev Sue-A-Quan
<> wrote:

>bobnich wrote:
>> I have access to two indexes for BDMs for the following newspapers:
>> 1. The Colonist Newspaper - Georgetown, British Guiana 1864-1880
>> 2. The Argosy Newspaper - Georgetown, British guiana 1880-1896
>>

>These documents sound very useful. For the last few years I and others
>have been compiling the family trees for the Chinese who have origins in
>British Guiana.
<snip>
>The current generations of Chinese descendants now have surnames as
varied as Arrizza, de
>Freitas, Dumont, Ghafur, Khan, McKay, Mihelich, Neilsen, O'Toole,
>Prohaska, Reimer, Smith, Van Alts, Vazquez, Yamada etc.
<snip>
>particularly for the Argosy.

<<Trev Sue-A-Quan,

Checked the Argosy index for all of the above names. The index only
provides the name and the year in which the BD or M notice appeared in
the newspaper.

Of the names you mentioned the only one in the index is McKay in
1885 and 1892.

The Argosy index is just 7 pages that I photocopied for my own use. I
am not sure of the politics of making copies and distributing them
around the world. However If I can help with any other names, just
ask.

Regards
Tikwis>>


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