Sancho of NabaclisUpdated December 4, 2005 |
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| An Account of the Story of the Sancho family of Guyana by M'lilwana Osanku. The information which has survived, by means of the oral traditions, states, in the era of the British Slave Emancipation and Apprenticeship, three Black men, biological brothers; Christopher Bentick Sancho, John Sancho, and Tuckness Sancho, were born in London. A forefather, born to enslaved parents, on a slave ship on its way to the West Indies. The child, at a very young age, was taken from the West Indies to England and there was raised by three white women. The three brothers, left England, and arrived in colonial British Guiana, prior to January 5, 1848. The Sancho brothers were employed in the sugar industry, at Plantation Enmore, located on the East Sea Coast, in the county of Demerara, in the colony of British Guiana. Bentick Sancho, John Sancho, and Tuckness Sancho, resided, for a while in the Golden Grove -Nabaclis community, on the East Coast of Demerara. Bentick Sancho, and Tuckness Sancho, are among fifty shareholders who purchased two plantations; Golden Grove, and Nabaclis, on January 5, 1848. The following are the names of the proprietors:- Prince Grant; Jupiter Quashey; Lina Hercules; John Sumner; Bentick Sancho; Filbert Horatio; Cheesewright Josiah; Ben Conwright; Sophy David; Leah Giles; James Smith; Rowland Chester; Job Timmany; Luke Philip and Gotina Stout; Bristol Newport; Philip Daniel; Tuckness Sancho; Quashey Luke, and Prince Asan; Benjamin Solomon; Robert Europe; Wellington Rogers; Sambo Sumner and Quammy David; Andrew Lexey; Joseph Beard; Sam Sarrabo; Blackwell Simon; Frederick Hope; Billy George; Frank Seaforth; Grenville Green; Billy Billieson; Duke Cato; George Jack; Charles Christmas; Diamond Chester; Stewart Smith; Daniel Virgil and Margaret McArthur; Sam Dick and Jack Newport; Sammy Richard; Sampson Collins; Douglas Hector and James Simon and George Timmany. John Sancho was an Overseer of the Golden Grove and Nabaclis district, c. January 1872. An atmosphere, of women related problems, led John Sancho to abandon British Guiana. It is understood, John Sancho migrated to Trinidad, and there, lived a settled life. It is known Catherine Elizabeth Sancho who married Mr. Thomas Arthur Archer on August 9, 1888, is one of John Sancho's children. Thomas Arthur Archer was a Second Class certificated schoolmaster at the following institutions; Golden Grove Wesleyan, ca. 1888, Anna Catharina Scots, ca. 1902, and Philadelphia Scots ca. 1917. Catherine Elizabeth Sancho is an ancestor of the academically and musically talented and renown Loncke family. Information has reached Sanchos of Guyana - relating that a Mr. John Sancho, and his wife, Elizabeth Sancho, are resting in peace in the Anglican Cemetery in Princes Town, Trinidad. It is quite possible - that John Sancho of Fifth Company Village, Moruga - is John Sancho, brother of Bentick and Tuckness Sancho. The opinion is the Afro-Sanchos of Fifth Company Village, Moruga, Princes Town, and Point Fortin in Trinidad and Grenada, are principally descendants of John Sancho. Tuckness Sancho relocated in Buxton- Friendship district. Tuckness Sancho was a landed proprietor in Friendship Village, on the East Sea Coast of Demerara. It is believed members of the following families; Gill, Luke, Riley, Smith, Paul, Yaw, Blair, Lewis, and Sancho of the Buxton- Friendship Village District, are numbered among the descendants of Tuckness Sancho. Tuckness Sanchoï¿SSs date of death and his place of burial remains unknown. It is believed Tuckness Sancho died prior to January 1873. Edmond Sancho left Demerara, and was never seen or heard from again in Nabaclis and Golden Grove Village District. It is believed Edmond Sancho lived a settled life, in Rose Hall Village on the Corentyne Coast, in the county of Berbice, in the colony of British Guiana. It is believed Edmond Sancho is Ed. Sancho, Member of the Local Authorities of Rose Hall Village District on the Corentyne Coast, 1918-1922. |
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