Leonora posted:Iguana posted:Leonora posted:Hey Gil, I heard some Irish people conversing, then turned around to give them a second look because it sounded like Guyanese Creole.
Likely Scottish. My grandfather used to tell us that a lot of the plantation overseers and whites in Guyana were mostly Scottish. He was a teacher and had a lot of contact with them.
Gaiutra Bahadur did much research, then wrote an excellent book 'Coolie woman'. She went to Scotland too to trace some overseers' families and explain about them. She said lots of Guyanese village and town names are still in existence in Scotland, e.g. Alness, Rosehall, etc.
I believe my copy of the 'Coolie Woman' is still around the house, that I did not read yet. Regarding my Scottish background, I have to read it.
I have a number of photos of the logies and an aerial photo of Albion in 1945. This is now a vacant area, after the people moved to new settlements.
During my travels in the UK last summer, I was told the models for logie row houses in Guyana were from Scotland. The slaves first lived in it and also myself, doing my earlier years.
My great grand mother was from India and my G grandfather was a Scottish plantation manager. After witnessing sexual abuse of weeding gang women in the 1950s, I doubt that my great grandparents had a mutual relationship and she have been abused, when my grandmother Mary Murray was born.
Near Albion school was a guava field where we had lunch and filled our sauce pans with guavas. Many times the managers would abuse the women. Even if they pleaded that their husband might leave them, if they become pregnant, this did not prevent the assault.
Since our knowledge today indicate that Scotland don't have a great relationship with England, why were there so many people of Scottish heritage in Guyana ?