This website page was updated on 23 October 2004
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The Lord Elgin had taken on 115 adult men and 39 boys at Amoy and departed on 23 July 1852. The voyage to Singapore took 62 days during which time 4 Chinese died. Then on 24 October the ship sprang a leak which allowed sea water to enter the hold. The rice stored there began to ferment and generate clouds of steam and poisonous hydrogen sulphide which made the people sick. By the time the ship arrived at the Cape of Good Hope there were 45 more deaths to report. Lord Elgin finally reached its destination on 17 January 1853 after a journey totaling 177 days, with 69 fewer Chinese that it started with, a mortality rate of 44.8%. The ship�s round trip journey from Georgetown brought back fewer passengers than had departed on it and the effort sustained a loss of £1,500. It was a disastrous venture to all concerned. [ From Cane Reapers: Chinese Indentured Immigrants in Guyana by Trev Sue-A-Quan.]
Mr. B. Trotman, the manager of the "Blankenburg" estate, was so satisfied with his Chinese labourers that he reported on the 23rd June, 1853:- "I am willing to take 50 or 100 more Chinese on the terms I got the last, or if any planter may be dissatisfied with his batch I will be glad to take them over, with the consent of the representative of this property." [From The Chinese in British Guiana by Cecil Clementi, 1915.]
Allocation to plantations
Allotted to |
|
|
Allotted to |
|
Blankenburg |
83 |
|
Died |
2 |
Immigrants
|
Name |
Age |
Surnames of descendants (to the 4th generation) |
86 |
Lim Kon |
32 |
-- |
-- |
Ang Yioh |
40 |
-- |
-- |
Chee Buing |
35 |
-- |
-- |
Chu Ching |
30 |
-- |
14 |
Chung Chi |
32 |
-- |
25 |
Gin Seam |
36 |
-- |
-- |
Hin Swan |
41 |
-- |
-- |
Hong Chie |
24 |
-- |
44 |
Koh Chay |
33 |
-- |
28 |
Koh Poon |
34 |
-- |
86 |
Lim Kon |
31 |
-- |
47 |
Li Gin |
48 |
-- |
31 |
Li Kun |
35 |
-- |
13 | Lim Kiau |
-- | -- |
37 |
Lim Hin |
29 |
-- |
9 |
Lim Pian |
57 |
-- |
1 |
Lim Poh |
28 |
-- |
24 |
Lim Tseng |
33 |
-- |
335 |
Ng Yu |
24 |
-- |
19 |
Ong-a-im |
25 |
-- |
142 |
Pie Tsing |
40 |
-- |
31 |
Poh Koh |
28 |
-- |
71 |
Sie Siung |
27 |
-- |
50 |
Sin Tuh |
20 |
-- |
79 |
Tan Chiong |
32 |
-- |
76 |
Tan Koh |
32 |
-- |
81 |
Tan Koon |
23 |
-- |
70 |
Tan Ling |
28 |
-- |
98 |
Tan Tin |
33 |
-- |
120 |
Tsung Yam |
29 |
-- |
33 |
Tsu Liang |
51 |
-- |
43 |
Ung Hin |
24 |
-- |
38 |
Yap Ng |
22 |
-- |
3 |
Yau Loh |
36 |
-- |
62 |
Yu Oo |
30 |
-- |
38 |
Yu Pion |
38 |
-- |
8 |
Yu Pioh |
20 |
-- |
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