Van Cooten Voices

Many people have assisted me and provided information. I'll gradually add to the list below. Thanks go to the following for the assistance in my research:

Tikwis Begbie

For providing extracts from her British Guiana research, and for her hospitality

Geert Kamphuis

For providing numerous translations into English, and for sharing his research on the Van Cooten family around Utrecht

Merle and Graham Van Cooten

For transcribing the John Smith diary

Klaasjan Visscher

For providing discovering the evidence as to which Hendrik Van Cooten ended up in the Demerara colony, and for sharing his research

John Wilmer

For the amazing job on transcribing the Guyana Colonial Newspapers and the snippets of Van Cooten information that these have revealed