Looking for information on HAYNES family from British Guiana/Barbados/England
wendyl
My mother was born in Georgetown in 1927. Her parents were Charles Bird Haynes & Elise (nee Texeira). Charles worked at the Daily Argosy most of his adult life & was popularly known as "Cashier Haynes". He was killed by a car in April 1951 in Georgetown. He had definite family connections in Barbados - though seemed to be at odds with the family there? His father was a Captain E S Haynes who was a river pilot for Sprostons. Charles had 3 other siblings - Evelyn, Edwin & Isabel. Edwin was district commissioner of the Rupununi. His 2 sisters never married. If anyone has any information on the Haynes family I would love to hear from them. They also had connections with the Harrogate area in North Yorkshire, England. I've no idea why my Haynes family came to be in BG from Barbados & I've not been able to find anything out beyond my great grandfather Capt E(Edwin?)S Haynes. I don't know his wife's name - my mother seems to think her surname may have been Allison & that she was from Yorkshire. E S Haynes may have been born in Barbados but I'm not sure. If anyone can help in any way please do contact me.
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wendyl , from Born in Trinidad & Tobago, living in Cumbria, England., has been a Family Tree Circles member since Mar 2012.
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Lestery on 2021-12-17 21:34:16Hello Wendy,
My second great uncle was David Young (1857- 1911) b. Grenock d. Georgetown, Guyana. His son was Matthew French Young (1905- 1998) b. Mabaruma Hill, Guyana, author of Guyana, The Lost Eldorado.
In his book MFY describes diamond prospecting in the Upper Potaro 1925:
" In February 1925, I left Georgetown accompanied by Edwin Haynes, a retired government surveyor, who had asked me to accompany him as his assistant into fifty square miles of diamond concession situated at the Potaro River head in the Pakaraima mountains. I travelled up the Demerara River by the S.S. Essequibo, one of Sprostons riverboats to Wismar, some 60 miles from the coast....
"Mr Haynes asked me to accompany him over the river below the falls to a Patagonia Amerindian Village where he thought we might be able to recruit labour. This was my first chance to meet with the real indigineous people of Guyana
Kind Regards
Alistair Young
Lestery on 2021-12-17 21:44:16Hello Wendy
Also reference to Anandaburu Creek 1926, which was to be the base camp for the next 18 months. "....Mr Haynes...instructed me in the art of prospecting for gold and diamonds, what outcrops to be on the look out for and how to make criss cross cuts in the creek flats when tracing for gold".
Lestery on 2021-12-17 22:18:08Correction: should read Patamona Amerindian Village