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I am researching any Ghent/Gent families who may have had ancestors or descendents from the West Indies who migrated from the West Country or Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

These people are presently living in Trinidad W.I., Canada, U.S.A., UK, Australia.

Our name had originally been Gent. It changed to Ghent to distinguish between another line of Gent.

One or more Gent/Ghent families have migrated from the ports of Liverpool, Southampton, or Bristol to the West Indies in the early 1800's to seek their fortunes in the Sugar Industry, and have settled in Trinidad.

It is to my belief that they may have had links with the company Tate and Lyle. The earliest record I have come across of a Ghent or Gent in Trinidad, W.I. is of a Ghent family in the 1840's who sold a young negro woman to a family in Virginia USA.

My grandfather, Herbert Charles Beresford Ghent b. 1878 d. 1965
had two brothers and one sister - to my knowledge the first generation of British migrants bearing the Ghent name in Trinidad.

The Beresford Ghents of Port of Spain, Trinidad W.I.
Updated October 19, 2001

Harold Victor Beresford Ghent
50 Mucurapo Road
St. James
Port of Spain, West Indies P.O.S
Trinidad and Tobago
868 622-3871
data_craft@hotmail.com

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This is what I gathered from my Father's memory (9 KB) Ghent families spanning from the mid 1800's to present 2000

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George and Earnest Ghent & Family (18 KB) This is the 2nd and 3rd generation of Ghent's, born in Trinidad, children of the familiy that arrived in Trinidad in the 1800's to work for The Caroni Sugar Factory in St. Augustine Trinidad W.I. The gentlemen are the brothers of my grandfather - Herbert Charles Beresford Ghent (George Ghent and Earnest Ghent) Herbert Charles Beresford Ghent (10 KB) This is my Grandfather. Couldn't be more than 12 years old Marie Therese D'Espaulx and her mother (15 KB) Great grandmother D'Espaulx's father, a soldier in Napoleon 1st's Army, had a french musket which she sold to go to Panama to sell cakes and pastries during the construction of the Panama Canal

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