👥 Family name profile

Room

The family name Room occurs on 1 Surinamese plantations, together accounting for 447 registered enslaved people in 1863. Below you see where the name occurs, how often and with which spelling variants.

plantations

Occurrences

447

Registered in 1863

river regions

🗺 Geographic distribution

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

📍 Distribution by region

Beneden-commewijne 1× · 447 registered enslaved persons

🏛 Plantations with family name Room

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Beneden-commewijne

(DE) RESOLUTIE

447 registered enslaved persons

📜 People in the Slave Register

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

Name	Plantation	Period	Source
Ankerstroom	DE GOUDMIJN	1838 – 1848	↗
Maasstroom	HECHT EN STERK	uit Dorothea. – overleden	↗
Ankerstroom	DE GOUDMIJN	1848 – 1851	↗
Ankerstroom	DE GOUDMIJN	1851 – 1 juli 1863	↗
Maasstroom	MAASSTROOM	1851 – Overleden 17 Maart 1851.	↗
Broom	NURSERIJ	1851 – Overleden 6 Dcember 1851.	↗
Anckerstroom	—	1830 – Deze geheele opgave vervalt daar	↗

🗄 Search Room in open archives

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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

External collections are maintained by third parties. Hits are name-based and may not all refer to this specific plantation — always verify in the source.