👥 Family name profile

Africa

The family name Africa occurs on 1 Surinamese plantations, together accounting for 109 registered enslaved people in 1863. Below you see where the name occurs, how often and with which spelling variants.

plantations

Occurrences

109

Registered in 1863

river regions

🗺 Geographic distribution

Points show plantations where this family name occurs. Size = number registered in 1863.

📍 Distribution by region

Boven Suriname 1× · 109 registered enslaved persons

🏛 Plantations with family name Africa

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Boven Suriname

L'ESPERANCE

109 registered enslaved persons

📜 People in the Slave Register

36 entries in the National Archives Slave Register 1830–1863.

Name	Plantation	Period	Source
Africa	A LA BONHEUR	Verbonden aan de P. W I. Bank – 1848	↗
Africa	BRONSWIJK	1838 – 1848	↗
Africa	HOOIJLAND	van plantage Louisenburg – 1848	↗
Africa	HUWELIJKSZORG	1838 – 1848	↗
Africa	KATOENPLANTAGE DIAMOND	geboren uit Quashiba – 1838	↗
Africa	WATERLOO NEDERDISTRICT	1838 – 1848	↗
Africa	MUNNIKKENDAM	uit Teuntje – overleden	↗
Africa	HAZARD NEDERDISTRICT	Uit Bridget. – 1848	↗
Africaan	NIEUW ACCONORIBO	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa / kleine/	ANNASZORG	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa / groote	ANNASZORG	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa	A LA BONHEUR	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa	ELLEN	1848 – overleden 5 November 1851.	↗
Africa	HOOIJLAND	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa	RAC A RAC	1848 – 1851	↗
Africaan	NIEUW ACCONORIBO	1851 – van dit hoofd af- en overgeschre	↗
Africa	A LA BONHEUR	1851 – overleden 11 April 1853.	↗
Africa	NIEUW CLARENBEEK	1851 – overleden 25 Septbr 1860.	↗
Africa	ELLEN	1851 – Overleden 5 November 1851.	↗
Africa	HOOIJLAND	1851 – overleden 31 Augs 1855.	↗
Africa	JAGTLUST	1851 – 1 juli 1863	↗
Africa	RAC A RAC	1851 – afgeschreven als weggelopen Zie	↗
Africa	WATERLOO	1851 – 1 juli 1863	↗
Africa	BERLIJN	Ingeschreven krachtens de Gouv . – 1 juli 1863	↗
Africaan	HOOIJLAND	Van den naam van plantage Nieuw – 1 juli 1863	↗
Africa	POELWIJK	Verkregen van P. Maij qq de Erve – 1 juli 1863	↗
Africa	—	1830 – overleden	↗
Africa	—	1830 – 1838	↗
Africa	—	gekocht van A van Merten – 19. April 1836 verkocht R. O Fe	↗
Africa	—	19. April 1836 gekocht van D. Me – 1838	↗
Africa	—	1838 – overleden	↗
Africa	—	1838 – overleden	↗
Africa	—	1848 – 1851	↗
Africa	—	Bij Aankoop van A. van Meerten. – 1838	↗
Africa	—	1851 – overgeschreven op naam van plant	↗
George African	—	7 februari 1862 – 1 juli 1863	↗

🗄 Search Africa in open archives

Directly searchable collections from Dutch archives and museums.

Slavery & emancipation

📜 Slave register 1830–1863 (NA) ⛓ Emancipated 1863 (NA) 📃 Manumissions 1832–1863 (NA) 🌴 Maroons & Bushinengue (NA) 🚢 Slave Voyages (TASTD)

✡️ Jewish/Sephardic (Robles de Medina, Nassy, Pinto, da Costa, ...)

🕯 Jewish Cultural Quarter 🏛 Jewish Historical Museum ⚱ Beth Haim Ouderkerk 🏛 Jodensavanne Foundation 🌐 JewishGen — worldwide

Civil registry, church & notarial records

🏛 Civil registry Suriname ⛪ DTB registers Suriname ✝ EBG / Moravian Brethren (Utrecht) 🗄 Amsterdam City Archive (notarial)

Indentured labour & immigration

🇮🇳 Hindustani immigrants (NA) 🇮🇩 Javanese immigrants (NA) 🇨🇳 Chinese immigrants (NA)

International databases

🌐 FamilySearch 📂 Open Archieven 🗃 Archieven.nl 🔎 WieWasWie 🏛 CBG · Centre for Family History

Genealogy & community

👪 SurinameseGenealogy.nl 📖 Surinamistiek — family names 📚 Surinamica.nl 🌴 Suriname Heritage Guide 🕊 NiNsee 🗺 Mapping Slavery 👤 Denie Kasan 💬 Stamboek Forum

Newspapers & other sources

📰 Delpher newspapers (1700–1995) 🗄 National Archives Suriname 📕 West-Indische Gids 📖 Buku Bibliotheca ✒ Caraïbische Letteren

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