John Henry Quirindongo Arroyo
GENEALOGY
(Holland) 1400 Kiring and Doncker
(Curacao) 1650 Kiring Dongo (Puerto Rico) 1780 Quirindongo
Spanish language and Papiamento used by functionally-literates
in 99% of PR and 99% of Curacao 1493-1950
Quirindongo and variations now living in Holland
My father’s brothers and sisters (all unmistakably White phenotype) always maintained QUIRINDONGO was “a corruption of two (2) surnames from DUTCH into SPANISH.” They further mentioned that their grandfather (my great grandfather) ALEJANDRO was called “el Holandes” because of his whiteness. I found three (3) Alejandro including one born in Curacao who lived 103 yrs and now that my father and his siblings are all dead I have found out that the son of Mulatto Eugenio QUIRINDONGO 1818 and Castiza Joaquina Feliciano was the extra-White phenotype “el Holandes” Alejandro QUIRINDONGO Feliciano 1841. All died in Penuelas PR leaving a paper trail.
My QUIRINDONGO Uncles and Aunts always had pride in their European phenotype. One Uncle Raimundo had blue eyes and one cousin Fernando Luis had blue eyes as well as his beautiful daughter Ana Milagros De Angel nee QUIRINDONGO. My cousin Sara has hazel eyes and White phenotype altho’ she was Quadroon. My Aunt Mercedes who had three (3) daughters with a Mulatto-mestizo phenotype cousin-husband Leoncio VELEZ Quirindongo, was a bit of a racist in her speech, while my father who married my mother Sara a distant white-skinned Castiza -2nd cousin and my Uncle Nepomuceno who married Ana, a Black Hispanic woman from the Dominican Republic didn’t show this trait either. Her son Eric had White skin although his mother was Black. My Titi (Aunt) Ana was actually brown skinned with slight freckles. My mother’s brother Tio Peto was brown-skinned. He was often mistaken for Hindu. Titi Ana and My uncle Tio Peto, both quite good looking, were the same brown in skin color where they could be mistaken for siblings. The only difference was their hair. Ana’s hair was kinky while Peto’s hair was straight slightly wavy. My gmother, Peto’s mother, Angela CADIZ VELAZQUEZ is listed as “MU” mulata in 1910 census and later “B” Blanca White in the 1930 census but to a large extent confirmed Amerindian by oral history, mtDNA and photo phenotype. The Cadiz family I personally know all have brown-skin-Amerindian straight hair non-Negroid phenotype but it may perhaps mean because of their brown skin color a Cadiz family yDNA Black and/or Black-Amerindian mixture exists with Angela’s father my ggfather Juan? CADIZ. A common mistake by PRs is to classify Race phenotypically by hair texture and general facial features solely and disregard brown skin color. PRs as a group are a very racially mixed people and phenotype may sometimes hide a recessive Black ancestral genotype that can be discovered not only by genotypic examination but also by logical phenotypic observation and extended family mahogany or brown skin somatic scrutiny. When I was young growing up in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, I noticed that some Jews had kinky hair and some were quite dark. Most likely the surname Schwartz (Black) a very common Jewish Ashkenazy surname shows racial mixing.
My cousin Eric, Titi Ana’s son, and I were often mistaken for each other by strangers when we were in our teens and early twenties although his skin was white and mine was a sallow tan. I was the most dark skinned of my immediate family siblings. We, Eric and I were both thin at the time. Eric had two (2) sisters Carmen and Nellie who had skin approximately the same color as mine but they had kinky hair. Altho’ Eric’s hair was kinky his phenotype was White while my phenotype was more Caribbean-Latin-Mestizo and my hair more straight curly. My face was big and wide while his was smaller. Strangers seemed to see something similar that overcame all our obvious differences. Thus was the perceptible dissimilarity and similarity amongst Mestizo (me) and white phenotype mulatto (Eric.) But in spite of this, all dissimilar phenotype was overcome by outsiders who saw only the Quirindongo phenotypic similarities. Today, over fifty yrs later we don’t look anything alike and Eric looks more like Uncle Cheo (White phenotype) at the same age and Cheo’s son our cousin Jose Luis KRINGDON, Uncle Cheo’s son, now; all who stayed thin. I guess that it proves more or less that the QUIRINDONGO ancestry has strong phenotypes which are perceivable by absolute strangers.
The phenotype of the various Races in my family and any
family in PR are difficult to discern by genotype and the tracking of recessive
phenotype in each of the three (3) Races (Amerindian, Black and White) may
closely resemble Mendel’s
Law with the dominant/recessive
genes color of peas. You can see my mother’s white phenotypic skin color but Mestizo
genotype revealed phenotypically in me at 20
44 64
and as a baby
versus my brothers
6, 7, 8 at Brighton Beach NY (I am on the left) and my sister Nancy at 30 (Nancy
is the smaller one at 5 with cousin Carol Rotger at 10), So our phenotype runs
the gamut when Titi
Mercedes and Titi Maria’s obvious white skin color and phenotype compared to my
darker skin color and my mother’s brother my uncle Tio Peto’s
mahogany skin
color. Tio Peto’s mother Angela CADIZ VELAZQUEZ was listed “MU” mulata in
the 1910 census
and “B” Blanca in the 1930 census
which may suggest she was a Zamba
with a recent Black male ancestor perhaps her father my ggfather Juan?
CADIZ. Genetic
tests show that in my immediate ancestral family of both my father and my
mother there is one-half (1/2) White yDNA (my father Carmelo QUIRINDONGO
Arroyo and my maternal gfather Juan Arroyo should be CORTES and one-half (1/2)
Amerindian mtDNA (my mother and my paternal gmother Carmen Arroyo TORRES and my
maternal gmother Angela Cadiz VELAZQUEZ). A common mistake by PRs is to
classify Race phenotypically by hair texture and general facial features solely
and disregard brown skin color. PRs as a group are a very racially mixed people
and phenotype may sometimes hide a recessive ancestral genotype that can be
discovered not only by genotypic examination but also by logical phenotypic
observation and extended family somatic scrutiny.
My aunt Isabel was more or less my color and she was the darkest in her immediate family. She married a mulatto-Black Amerindian Alfonso NARVAEZ in PR and didn't show racist attitudes of any kind. All the Narvaez QUIRINDONGO family turned out very successful people altho’ their father Alfonso was never home. He was alcoholic and tried suicide because of the difficulty in adapting to the USA and American racial prejudice. Altagracia Narvaez QUIRINDONGO (1944) who went to live in San Antonio Texas most of her adult life was the only exception. She died prematurely of Alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. My Aunt Isabel had seven (7) children and they mostly all looked like Indian from India with maybe the exception of one who had kinky hair but no Negroid features. All of them, my cousins, (1980) who grew up on welfare and extreme poverty without a father most of the time developed into upstanding middle-class suburban citizens and their (Angelo's) families also. Some neighbors who grew up in NYC and never needed welfare had both parents in the house but didn’t do as well. No QUIRINDONGO from the NYC progeny and immediate PR progeny who never left PR ever became criminals or derelict alcoholic drifters, altho’ most our fathers were functional alcoholics … mine included. All QUIRINDONGO progeny born in the USA still are upstanding citizens and productive people who became well schooled and in some cases professionals in the USA and in PR in the first generation after WW II with a dual language, dual culture and functionally literate parents who could not correct our homework.
My Mestiza mother had white skin and features with beautiful straight wavy hair but she had a brother called Perfecto who was brown as I mentioned before with the same beautiful straight wavy hair and non-Negroid features. She told me her mother was an Amerindian and said QUIRINDONGO came from the Spanish word love “QUERER.” And now both Amerindian and Spanish surname origins I believe after research are possible false cognates. My mother was illiterate and didn’t know her ancestry origin and much less my father’s QUIRINDONGO ancestry…. and perhaps her brother was too brown skinned to be totally Amerindian. My Uncle Jose “Cheo” now deceased changed his surname to KRINGDON before 1932. He claimed the spelling was closer to the “original Dutch” but he must have meant Dutch PAPIAMENTO. All my QUIRINDONGO relatives as far as I remember never mentioned a village KIRINDONGO in Curacao. QUIRINDON appeared in 1910 PR census - possible error, now extinct. My Uncle Cheo also mentioned an American schoolteacher from the USA when he was a child in the 1920s who said the surname originally came from the Spanish QUERENDON (teacher’s pet) and this stayed with him when he combined all theories into KRINGDON. Also there are two (2) KRINGDON arriving in NYC Name: Mary Kringdon and Name: W. Kringdon Arrival Date: May 23, 1834 Age: 28 Age: 27 Port of Departure: Bideford England Ship: Brig Ebenezer Microfilm Serial Number: M237 Microfilm Roll Number: 23 List Number: 320 and a Crindon in the PR 1910 census. This may be a variation of the more popular English CRAMDON.
When I was about 5 yrs old, (1938) my family went to Spanish Harlem in NYC to see my Uncle Nepomuceno. A Black man bought me a MABI and was talking to my father. After he left, my father said, “He is a QUIRINDONGO from Guayama and says we’re related but I think not.” I believe now with genealogical research that it was Avelino QUIRINDONGO and there was a possibility we were related distant cousins. And if the Dutch Papiamento origin of KIRING DONGO in oral history were in the QUIRINDONGO family of my father why wouldn’t the more recent Black Avelino QUIRINDONGO from Guayama be included? Black, Mulatto and Amerindian Mestizo QUIRINDONGO from Penuelas were acknowledged. I say this because I believe that my father knew that some unsurnamed free Black people from the KIRINDONGO barrio of Curacao because of their lack of surname would be surnamed in Spanish QUIRINDONGO (no K) after abolition or later upon arrival in PR. This would prove that all QUIRINDONGO were not related and that only the Ponce-Penuelas-El Rucio QUIRINDONGO in spite of some who have Black phenotype are my European yDNA blood ancestors.
While there is no evidence that KIRING DONGO was a Plantation or Slave owner many slave owners are mentioned along with the number of slaves in the Cedula de Gracias decree when they received land. Juan Pedro qualified for the Cedula de Gracias land grant along with them. My QUIRINDONGO ancestors all claimed to be White and looked White especially when compared to my Mestizo appearance. All evidence points to some interracial mixing after or before the manumission in 1758 (copy) and that Juan Pedro in 1816 to be eligible for the CEDULA de GRACIAS land grant must have been a phenotypic White man but he may have been in reality a quadroon with father Mulatto Pedro a “Negro olandes” sic with European yDNA. Pedro’s wife (Maria) Sabina DIAS who died in 1818 made out a WILL and may have had land in Curacao. Pedro’s 2nd wife “parda” Andrea de Mat(h)os not Sabina DIAS is in my ancestral lineage.
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ALL
SLAVES MANUMITTED BY Nathaniel Ellis note: the lack of surnames
The fact that Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks had taken on surnames (not their
master’s surname) in Europe, Peru and Mexico before 1600 shows that a system
was in place very early in these countries for Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks and others to gain their freedom.
This means that in Europe, Mexico, Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay where Blacks were less than
one (1%) of the population surnames were required from first and second
generation illiterate Blacks who remembered Africa in the various European and
New World countries circa 1550 three hundred (300) yrs before abolition unlike
Curacao where Blacks were more than four hundred (400%) of the population. In
1789 the population of the Whites peaked at circa four thousand (3,964) and the
Black population peaked at over sixteen thousand (16,5800). Source:
Hartog (1968), p. 222
In Curacao before abolition there seems to be
the custom of manumitted Blacks taking on no surnames and of the few that chose
surnames they are in either European Dutch, Jewish, Portuguese, Spanish or
perhaps also in indigenous Amerindian Caiquetio place-names all in Papiamento.
i.e. CURAZAO
ARUBA
therefore all migrants from Curacao to PR surnamed KIRINDONGO may have been
from the KIRINDONGO town and not
surnamed at first in Curacao before entering PR especially those of the insurrection in 1821 of the Kirindongo town of
Curacao and for this reason did not have the Dutch origin of KIRING DONGO in
their oral history.
I went to Peńuelas in 1965, and on the Bus, I approached a very old White man inquiring if he had ever heard of a family of Carmelo QUIRINDONGO. I mentioned my Uncles and Aunts. He said yes, that they were tall white people but they had moved a long time ago and he thought they were in New York. I believe he saw them as very tall because the old man was a small boy at the time the QUIRINDONGO left thirty…forty…even fifty yrs before.
Before 1955, I remember I asked my White phenotypic father (1888-1968), the meaning of the surname QUIRINDONGO and he said, “It’s Indian for FRESH WATER.” The David RUMSEY map collection 1775 online shows many salt-water and fresh water ponds in Curacao but there is a “well of fresh water” north of St. Ann’s Bay in the general direction of Kirindongo Abou. One thing that was a mistake on my part was not questioning my father further. I was not interested in Genealogy at that time and never wrote anything down when ancestors were mentioned. All I remember is therefore hearsay in a sense but with an authoritative origin so to speak from a Quirindongo family speaker. My father born 1888 said the surname meant FRESH WATER to me in English.He never mentioned a Curacao Governor Jan Doncker-Dongo connection and neither did the rest of the Quirindongo family. My father generally spoke to me in English when I was older (past 18). On the other hand, I always spoke to my mother in Spanish. My mother and father spoke to each other in Spanish ALWAYS.
I remember my father saying that he walked many times to Ponce and Peńuelas barefooted from El Rucio where he lived on a farm and to San Juan on more than one occasion. He said it was a long walk and rather spooky at night. And that he always went barefoot when younger. I asked no further questions as I thought he was joking about FRESH WATER because my Uncles and Aunts always maintained KIRING DONGO was originally Dutch. They would mention KRINGLE or KRINGEL and DONK or DONCKER but they were semi-literate and notorious for misinformation. My father's brothers and sisters (all unmistakably White phenotype) always maintained it was "a corruption of two (2) surnames from DUTCH into SPANISH." They further mentioned that their grandfather (my great grandfather) ALEJANDRO because he was blond blue eyed was called "el olandes."
When my father arrived in NYC he befriended a Spaniard who had been a long time resident in NYC. The Spaniard told him that since my father was a veteran of the US Army and a US citizen being born in Puerto Rico that if he would go to the Democratic Party Tammany Hall they would find him a job in the Post Office. So that was what my father did and he was able to hold a job in the Post Office and together with credit for his US Army time which added to 30 yrs worked there until he retired at age sixty-five (65.)
My father started the exodus when he enlisted in the US ARMY in 1917. My father arrived in NYC in 1924 with a three (3) yr elementary education. He and his family were illiterate “Jibaro” farmers victims of the 1918 Spanish Flu and later the GREAT DEPRESSION which had struck very early in PR before 1920 and lasted much longer and deeper than in the USA well into the 1960s. He was desperate for a job having been disappointed along with his younger siblings in Santo Domingo (My cousin Angelo NARVAEZ QUIRINDONGO remembers when very young (circa 1923) bringing a “fiambrera” - a stack of small white kettles of food one on top of the other to keep different kinds of food warm held together with two (2) metal rods and a handle - to the QUIRINDONGO family working in the fields.). Finally then alone my father went from Cuba to the USA and NYC in search of “the American dream,” at age 35 alone, with no money, not knowing the language, not knowing the extremes of weather, from a rural life to build a better future for his family of brothers and sisters in the ultra urban NYC to start a family of his own in a new foreign land; and it is to him Jose del Carmelo QUIRINDONGO ARROYO that I dedicate this Web page.
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Monserrate QUIRINDONGO family 1910
The surname BARIEDONGO BARRIO DONCKER? appears in Curacao and
Venezuela. (claims father changed surname from KIRINDONGO) There are no
Bariedongo in present day Curacao.
Dongan
hills in NYC Staten Island from the Dutch Doncker
YONKERS from the
Dutch Van der Donck
near NYC is a similar sounding Dutch word
Dongo, AKA Paul van Dongen,
in Curacao
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Papiamento as a pidgin Spanish language for ALL
seasons in Curacao invented by Jews
Because of the lower educational level of the
government and absence of schooling over three (3) centuries in Curacao, the
same bastardization of language from Spanish to pidgin by illiterate people
occurred in Curacao as it happened with English in Jamaica only more so. The
added introduction of a distinct lettering of old Dutch to the Spanish pidgin
vernacular quickly destroyed the written Spanish root in 1634 in only one sense
(the written Papiamento form) and gave the impression of a new different
dialect or language when seen in print by the intelligentsia of the later
generations of Curacao. While Papiamento has always stayed akin to Spanish
phonetically, a new Germanic Dutch script element had been introduced. The
Curacao intelligentsia an important minority was unable and unwilling to change
the vernacular of Papiamento. The vernacular Papiamento became the lingua
franca used by the majority illiterate Black population. The ”hoi poloi” common
people promoted a pseudo African element to explain the un-Spanish look of the
Dutch Papiamento script unopposed. This is similar to “old Spanish” of the
Sephardic Jews in the Middle East and America if we leave out the Race and
illiteracy issue who only know and use the phonetic vernacular of their parents
and promote a pseudo Hebraic element versus the current standardized Spanish of
Spain.
It also
explains the myriad of 1,000 dialects and languages in the sub-Sahara Africa
because of its remoteness and the lack for eons of schooling, literacy and
standardization.
We can see that the recent forced introduction of Papiamento in public schools has hurt the general public higher education of Curacao when we point out the difficulty of learning yet another European language or the attractive lure of going abroad to get professional higher education and research advanced scientific writings in a standardized language.
A search produces no KIRINDONGO but hundreds of QUIRINDONGO proving
1.) QUIRINDONGO became literate before KIRINDONGO
2.) QUIRINDONGO surname in script existed before KIRINDONGO surname in script
3.) KIRING DONGO circa 1758 split surname predates ALL variations in script
4.) KIRING is Papiamento for unrecognized Amerind word perhaps meaning “oasis”
5.) DONGO is Papiamento for the Dutch DONCKER
6.) that there are 40 DONCKER archived in the Netherlands Antilles 1650-1850
7.) QUIRINDONGO was born in PR 1780 but originated in Curacao
8.) KIRINDONGO area and surname circa 1800 is peculiar only to Curacao
No other variations of KIRINDONGO found originating from any other area but Curacao.
Altho' all QUIRINDONGO from Curacao are included and
listed here, we must stress that they did not obtain their surname from the
same place or procedure.
1) Some were given the surname when freed in abolition 1863 in Curacao
2) Some acquired the surname thru' marriage
3) Some can say they can trace their lineage with no documentation to before Maria Magdalena 1758 in Curacao
4) Some have the oral history of QUIRINDONGO being a combination of two (2) Dutch surnames
5) Others say that Quirindongo is the combination of a place-name (Amerindian) and the surname Doncker
In any case there is no unifying family origin uncovered so far except for the Quirindongo of El Rucio in Peńuelas PR which I can trace back to Alejandro circa 1840 and perhaps to before 1794 with Juan Pedro of Curacao. The surname origin comes from the Papiamento place-name KIRINDONGO in Curacao during or before Governor Jan DONCKER circa 1650. The ethnicity of the split surname KIRING DONGO and place-name KIRINDONGO seems to be Dutch. QUIRINDONGO is the PR 1780 Spanish spelling innovation.
Because piped
water was of dubious quality, the town water vendor remained an important part
of daily life until well into the twentieth century. An artifact of a branding
iron “KD” could have been for a fleet of water toting donkeys.
Kirindongo
may have been the word loudly used by the women selling a better brand of water
from the wells of the town of Kirindongo as the water carrying donkeys traveled
the streets of Willemstad.
KIRING DONGO BRANDING IRON shown by NAAM in Curacao?
The oldest documented European yDNA Quirindongo in PR was g ggg gfather (Juan) Nicolas 1740? (wife (Maria) Catalina.) g ggg gfather (Juan) Nicolas may have been 18 yrs old in Curacao when Maria Magdalena Kiring Dongo was manumitted in 1758. He could have been manumitted without surname and not related at all to Maria Magdalena. (Juan) Nicolas died in PR circa 1820. He was father of patriarch ggg gfather Pedro who died circa 1840 who was father of gg ghalf-uncle Juan Pedro of the 1815 Cedula de Gracias who died circa 1850. All were Mulatto born in Curacao with Black or mulatto phenotype but white yDNA and all three (3) died in Penuelas. The European yDNA Quirindongo did not take on the White phenotype until 1840 by mixing with the Castiza females of Penuelas. This began in 1818 with Patriarch ggg gfather Pedro who married ggg gmother Andrea de Matos a Parda after his first wife (Maria) Sabina Dias died. The marriage document shows his father (Juan) Nicolas was still alive in 1818. Their only issue a son gg gfather Eugenio married gg gmother Joaquina Feliciano a Castiza who issued a mostly White phenotype family then g gfather Alejandro “el Holandes” married g gmother Juana Santiago a Castiza who issued a mostly White phenotype family then my gfather Jose Monserrate married gmother Carmen Arroyo a Castiza (I knew her) who also issued a mostly White phenotype family. Thus this singular branch of Quirindongo had mixed with female Castiza of PR over four (4) generations before migrating to NYC. During that time there were some Black and Mulatto Quirindongo around in PR and especially Curacao but the European yDNA Quirindongo of PR with White phenotype forgot their Black mtDNA heritage from Curacao and they also forgot the town of Kirindongo and mistakenly assumed their European whiteness was a Dutch not a Spanish phenotype because of the rare and unusual surname Quirindongo.
Family and neighbors went as far as nick-naming g gfather Alejandro “el Holandes” because of Dutch oral history (they were at most functionally literate) but mostly because of his whiteness with blond hair and blue eyes when in reality he was far removed by time and space from the Curacao pre-1758 White Dutch phenotype. Only the yDNA in reality without question after DNA analysis points to Dutch yDNA of a bygone era many yrs ago in Curacao when for the first time the surname Kiring Dongo was written in Papiamento and before that when written as Doncker in Dutch in Malaysia and Holland, all areas where my yDNA is found long before 1758. The mtDNA had changed the Quirindongo phenotype to Castizo four (4) times in four (4) consecutive generations in PR with four (4) different Castiza females of White phenotype but Amerindian mtDNA. Although there were “throwbacks” and “skipped generations” phenotypes to Mulatto and to Amerindian the darker Quiirindongo became fewer and fewer and the Quirindongo phenotype changed to White in or about 1860 after being Black phenotype and Black mtDNA in or about 1758 Curacao. This change of phenotype syndrome was mimicking the world-wide syndrome that effectively changed phenotype to the concentration of extremes of the colors of skin and texture of hair and the observable differences in the Races of Mankind especially in the isolated areas of China and Africa. For example 1. John D'Isselt 5/15/91 2. Richard D'Isselt 4/25/94 3. Barbara D'Isselt 1/16/98 All three (3) are children of White phenotype father and White phenotype Gloria CARABALLO Quirindongo Wiederhold. Note: the Carabali the African tribe member of the New World Cabildo guild is the genesis of the surname Caraballo. The surname Caraballo is spread worldwide showing a high rate of yDNA miscegenation.
The Quirindongo family of el
Rucio upon being forced into an economic depression diaspora in 1920 to Ponce,
Santo Domingo and ultimately to NYC mixed with Mestizo, Mulatto and
Negro/Amerindian to a large extent rendering a mixed racial identity and
reverting to an observable diverse phenotype in the first and second generation
NYC Quirindongo residents of which I belong.
miDNA “Eve” female always mutated each time thousands of years before the yDNA “Adam” male. All mtDNA which controls phenotype and Race is contributed 2x by the female and 1x by the male consequently my yDNA is linked in tandem throughout the male genetic ancestry lineage and has remained relatively unchanging and traceable concurrently for twenty (20) to forty (40) thousands of yrs or more regardless of ever-changing Racial phenotype and is also connected recently (1,000 yrs) by following my male surname Quirindongo/Kirindongo/Doncker.
History Timeline (1,000 yrs) Quirindongo true and false cognates
1100? surname Doncker appears in Holland in Latin script
1400? surname Kiring found in France in Latin script
1499? Querindongo (lover) word (never a surname) appears in Latin script in Spain
1500? Amerindian Caiquetio-Spanish phonetic word for fresh water “Kirin” found in Curazao
1601? tribal-names Kiring and Dongo found in Malaysia later becoming surnames and names in Latin script
1634? Amerindian-Dutch phonetic word “Kiring” for fresh water? or oasis? found in Curacao
1640? Wandongo/Jan/Juan Doncker short-lived place-name (never a surname in Curacao) appears as a water oasis in Curacao
1645? Kirindongo phonetic place-name appears in Curacao in Spanish Papiamento as a water oasis
1650? Kiring Dongo in Dutch Papiamento Latin script appears as a surname and water oasis in Curacao
ALL
DOCUMENTED DATA
1673-79 Jan/Juan Doncker (Wandongo) quits governorship to continue selling fresh well-water
1750 Slave rebellion Hato Plantation in Curacao
1758 Maria Magdalena manumitted in Curacao surname Kiring Dongo given
1780 Patriarch Pedro Quirindongo migrates from Curacao to PR
1791 WIC finally goes Bankrupt in Curacao after many yrs running in the red
1794 Juan Pedro Quirindongo arrives in PR from Curacao
1795 Tula and Carpata slave rebellion - names as legacy don’t survive
1800-02 British occupation in Curacao
1807-16 British occupation in Curacao
1821 insurrection in Kirindongo “East Division” of free Blacks in militia.
1863 Kirindongo surname in Latin script given to freed slaves in Curacao when owners compensated
1865 Some 1/5 USA Black slaves take on European surnames owners NOT compensated
1873 Slavery abolished in PR - surnames in Latin script given to freed slaves when owners compensated
1881-1889 Bismarck institutes Social Security and surnames in Germany
1914 More USA African-Americans get European surnames as soldiers in WW I
1924 Quirindongo family migrates from PR to NYC
ALL RECENT FALSE COGNATES
1930? Dongo surname food-name religious-name and tribal-name appear in Latin script in Africa
1935 Turkey mandates all citizens use surname in Latin script
1935 official banner yr for European surnames in Latin script covers 100% USA under Social Security for Black, Amerindian, Asian and all Americans
1940? Wandongo surname (never a place-name in Africa nor surname in Curacao) appears in Latin script in Tanzania Africa
1945 Mussolini captured and killed near Dongo Italy
1991 Kiryandongo place-name (never a surname) appears in Latin script in Uganda Africa
Therefore my yDNA in spite of phenotype which
is Mestizo is found in
profusion in Europe followed by smaller quantities in sequential date order
Malaysia then Curacao on to PR then to NYC and USA… and curiously similar in
Mongolia, Siberia, Korea, the China coast and interior and Japan. Yet no
significant amounts of yDNA of my Quirindongo “I” (eye) Haplotype nor any close
or near close variation is found in the area of Sub Sahara Africa slave coast
in spite of the large historic Dutch Slave Trade there and a heavy Dutch influx
further south.
The
“Djan” in the song
Kirindongo Wandongo/Jan/Juan Doncker after quitting his job as Governor quietly
followed the most profitable Curacao syndrome called the Asiento an
outgrowth of the New
Netherlands Company - a contract with Spanish and/or Portuguese Slave
traders of buying and caring
for ill slaves that had sickened in
route to the New World for further shipment to Brazil or other West Indian
countries because the Kirindongo/Wandongo oasis had plenty of healthy potable
well-water.
With the bankruptcy
of the WIC in 1791 who during its 2x bankruptcy in multi-centuries old
piratical and criminal existence could never keep its head above the RED INK of debt the
use of the Kirindongo/Wandongo oasis for rehabilitating slaves was slowly
phased out and a larger volume of well-water resumed to be sold from Kirindongo
by donkey continually for three (3) hundred yrs 1640 – 1940 to Willemstad and
beyond with women loudly shouting KIRIND0NGO (Fresh water from the wells of
Jan/Wandongo) ensuring Kirindongo kept its unusual place-name in spite of
two British occupations (1800-02 and 1807-16) and an insurrection
in Kirindongo “East Division” of free Blacks in militia in 1821.
The Kirindongo
oasis was an important semi-autonomous or autonomous area that was always
profitable selling water to the Slave trade and later combining with the Jesurun Fa. and
later still with
Senior & Co. to produce
Curacao liqueurs
for over one hundred fifty (150) yrs from the time of Wandongo/Jan/Juan Doncker
in 1680 until the militia insurrection in 1821 and today KIRINDONGO ABOU
remains in a smaller and less important way a continuous populated area of
people who forgot there own recent history because of the widespread world-wide
Black illiteracy of the pre-1930s. A slave rebellion of
lower class impoverished Blacks can be expected but an insurrection of free
Black middle-class people in the Kirindongo militia who seemed to be in charge
of a large water supply during the slavery years two (2) generations before
abolition is hard to explain.
I
think I prove the surname KIRING DONGO and the yDNA Haplogroup “I” came from
Europe and shipped out as DONCKER from Holland to Curacao where they stayed for
one hundred twenty five (125) yrs (after a short preliminary twenty (20) yr
stop in Malaysia) and were compelled to go to PR by the CEDULA
de GRACIAS free land. Since there is in Curacao localities named Kirindongo
Abou and Kirindongo Ariba many Slaves and people with no surname took on the
Kirindongo/Quirindongo surname when migrating to PR and we cannot say because
of illiteracy which one of the many similar surnames is in my individual
ancestry including:
1) the KIRINDONGO
in Curacao and QUIRINDONGO
worldwide
2) the
more recent “misspelling” QUIRINGDONGO
QUIRINDINGO
in the USA and
3) the
recent AFTER WW II in Holland KIERINDONGO
KIERINDOONGO
QUIRINGDONGO
KERINDONGO
QUIRINDOONGO
“misspellings” and the USA
KRINGDON
Only
an eight (8) marker yDNA test
with an unexpected Malaysia
connection can prove that phenotypes of the yDNA progeny can and
will change phenotype even with the same partner every time a sexual union
introduces mtDNA. The yDNA, which is my main focus, on the other hand remains
constant with rare minor mutations together with the surname if married.
Therefore phenotype and yDNA-mtDNA unions are separate unique entities working
independently and a European yDNA can’t assure a European phenotype and vice
versa; a European phenotype cannot assure a European yDNA. We must think about Mendel’s Law
in which all varieties are possible in numeric
distribution. A mixture of Amerindian and Black may very well
produce in profusion a not too dark-skinned child with straight hair. PRs in
general can have white blue-eyed children together with very dark mulatto
semi-straight-haired not-quite-Black facial featured children and every color
of skin in between from the same father and mother.
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