GHANADutch surnames (Vanderpuye, Plange, van Hien)
Elmina:
Fort Sao Jorge, Fort Conradsburg (St. Jago) (1652-1665), Dutch reformed church. Axim: Fort Santo Antonio. Sekondi: Fort Oranje (1670-1675). Shama: Fort St. Sebastian (1665). Mouri: ruins of Fort Nassau (1612-1634). Beraku: Fort Goede Hoop (1705-1706). Cormantin: Fort Amsterdam (1665-1685). Princestown: ruins of Fort Hollandia or Brandenburgher
Gross-Friedrichsburg. Commenda: ruins of Fort Vredensburg. Butre: ruins of Fort Batenstein. Akwida: Fort Dorothea. Accra: Fort Crevecoeur (F. Ussher) the original Dutch fort is now almost
invisible, just north of the fort is the so called Dutch Accra (Ussher Town) with
some old family houses of merchants of African and European descent. Apam: Fort Patience or Leydsaamheid (1697). Takorady: insignificant remains of Fort Witsen and of another Dutch fort.
MAURITIUS
Ferney: remains of Fort
Frederick Hendrick and a small museum about the Dutch settlement; monument (1998)
commemorating the place where the Dutch landed in 1598 at Vieux Port.]
My thanks to Ivo van de
Moosdijk for this information.
NIGERIA
Bonny: Dutch cannons with Dutch inscription,
they were on some wall just like a fort but only one meter high on the shoreline; there
were also some prison cells, may be the remains of a small village typical dutch ]
(eye witness of about 30 years ago)
My thanks to Ap (P. Muts)
for this information.
SENEGAL
Goree: A few ruins of Fort Nassau (1628). Goree
is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
SIERRA
LEONE
Freetown: The
Dutch Admiral De Ruyter carved his name, naval rank, and the date (1664) into the bedrock
at a place now called "King Jimmy Market" (a fish and produce market on the
waterside near downtown Freetown). The "De Ruyter Stone," as it's called
in Sierra Leone, was uncovered early in the 20th century by workmen digging for a sewer
line.
Because the inscription is in the bedrock, it could not be removed, and was covered over
again for its protection. The De Ruyter Stone is still covered today, though the Sierra
Leone National Museum has put a wall around it to mark the spot. In the early 1960s,
an American Peace Corps volunteer, named Gary Schulze, exposed the De Ruyter Stone for the
first time in many years, and made a latex mould of the inscription. From that, he
prepared a plaster cast which is now a permanent exhibit in the Sierra Leone National
Museum. It's on display beneath a portrait of Admiral De Ruyter, Holland's greatest naval
hero.
My thanks to Joseph Opala
for this information.
SOUTH AFRICALanguage (Afrikaans, Fly Taal Creole, Oorlans Creole), Boer or Afrikaner Community, Coloureds Community, Dutch
surnames.
Cape Town, Kaapstadt: Castle of Good Hope
(1666-1679); Slave Lodge (1679); Church of Groote Kerk (1704)with a carved pulpit dates
from 1779 and remains of the six governors of the Dutch East India Company including those
of Simon van der Stel and Ryk Tulbagh ; Koopman de Wet House (A classic example of a Cape
townhouse, dates from 1701); Martin Melck House; Company Gardens (with a sundial dating
from 1787); Old Town House (1755); Rust en Vreugd House; Groote Constantia; Mostert’s
Mill (1796); Fort Wynyard; Lutheran Church (the old church which was converted from a
warehouse in 1780); Old Malay Quarter; Bo-Kaap Museum is located in a house (built in
1760); De Tuynhyus (the President's office, which has been restored to its original
appearance in 1795); Old Supreme Court the tombstones of Jan van Riebeeck and his wife
Maria de la Quellerie can be seen on a wall of the courtyard. Simon’s Town: Historical Town, Admiralty House (1740). Stellenbosch: Historical Town: Dutch Reformed Church the church
incorporates the walls of the original church built in 1722. It contains the burial vaults
of old Stellenbosch families.
Burger House (Burgerhuis) (1797), Schreuderhuis (1709), the oldest restored townhouse in
South Africa. VOC Arsenal (Kruithuis) This is the oldest surviving powder magazine in
Southern Africa and was built by the Dutch East India Company in 1777. It houses 17th
century cannons, flintlock muskets, VOC memorabilia and accessories of the Stellenbosch
Regiments. Franschhoek: Historical Town. Tulbagh: The Oude Kerk Volks Museum (1743) Paarl: Historical Town, the Dutch Reformed Strooidakkerk (church) was
built in 1805. The graveyard contains several famed gable vaults. The Old Pastorie
(Vicarage) was built in 1714 and was also declared a museum, with displays of Cape Dutch
antiques, and relics of the Huguenot and early Afrikaner era. Swellendam: Historical Buildings, Official residence and Landdrost seat
today Drostdy museum complex (1747).]
If you know or you have photos of Dutch colonial remain around the
world, let me know, I'll add it to the list.
Thank you. Marco.
