GENEALOGY and
Race
John Henry Quirindongo Arroyo Me and Wife
“Race
is a genotypic first attempt to separate into different species.” A theory advanced by: Richard Dawkins,
the professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University has
championed Darwinism for nearly 20 years. “The Selfish Gene” and “The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution,”. Unofficial webpage.
“Race
is an illusion,
a powerful
one since the 1859 ORIGIN
OF THE SPECIES with potent sometimes
irrational
associations
and significant
social consequences.”
The
Hispanic racially mixed people are a major part of the culture and racial
makeup of the
USA in general and the New World in particular
Ethnic phenotypic
composition of present day PR
BIBLE MYTH taken from the BABYLON epic GILGAMESH
Religion Heroes the Power of Myth and Starwars
Noah while drunk and asleep
has a homosexual
experience
with son Ham
then …Noah curses
gson Canaan
the father of the Holy
Land (…and NOT gson Cush
the father of the Hamitic
Black people…gson Mizraim
the father of the Egyptians…and
gson Phut the father of the Berber Libyans.)
(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
RACE, surname, phenotype, ancestry and DNA
DNA free video by mail or
download audio and video
Papiamento = pidgin
Portuguese base later pidgin Spanish in the Netherlands Antilles 1634 to
the present
Guene (Guinea) = 1450-1500 Pidgin Portuguese (precursor to Papiamento?) now extinct
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SURNAMES
It must be stipulated at first that the RACE of present day people (especially for Mestizos, Blacks and mulattos) does not reflect the origin of their surname. Eddie Murphy is not Irish, Richard Pryor is not English, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was not French, Pedro Albizu Campos, Rafael Trujillo and Fulgencio Batista were not Spaniards. One thing is certain.- they all have or had European surnames in spite of not being White, not being Europeans and not being particularly interested in the meaning and origin of their surnames. Europe especially Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and England had the tradition of surnames centuries before the discovery of the New World in 1492. Unbelievably Turkey mandated surnames in 1935 and the Sub Sahara mandated surnames AFTER the establishment of the UN in 1946 and in 2006 the RIGHTS OF THE CHILD was instituted in the Congo. While DNA can determine earlier period migrations and recent tribal-family relation, it cannot adequately determine recent individual Race or phenotype. White phenotypes can have Black DNA and Black phenotypes can have White DNA. Surnames are recent and can sometimes determine work avocations Baker place-name area origins Russo and Race di Chino.
Oral and written history gives us the Phoenicians as an early naval power and the Bible give us the Philistines but few artifacts and little historical corroboration support their overblown existence.
Ancient Genoa and Venice were the first true commercial European NAVAL SUPERPOWERS dealing in spices and commodities very early before the discovery of the NEW WORLD. Most Genoa trade to China and Asia thru’ the Black sea and the SILK ROAD was done mostly over land and continued strong with Venice’s sea monopoly access to Constantinople. Venice and Genoa were also the first European Christians to trade in wholesale transoceanic White and Black slavery. It is no accident that Shakespeare dealt with THE MERCHANT of VENICE and OTHELLO the Moor (little Otto in Italian) also of Venice and TITUS ANDRONICUS who has among others a character Aaron, a Moor beloved by Tamora.
Europe Muslim and earliest Black sub Sahara Slave trade
Altho’ Sub-Sahara
Africa Blacks had migrated in small numbers northwards into Europe since
antiquity, Sub-Sahara Africa Slaves were taken by Arabs to Yemen and Arabia in
small numbers and since before the 7th century to India, East Indies, Australia
and southern Asia. The Muslims crossed the Sahara desert after the 7th century
and true to their ancient custom sent Black slaves in larger numbers to Europe
and Asia. But the Black slave trade became significantly larger numbers during
the 1500-1850 ocean Middle Passage era as servants in Europe and for stoop
labor in the New World to harvest sugar which later included rubber, coffee and
in the USA and Cuba tobacco plantations. Circa 1800 after the invention of the
cotton gin Black slaves were imported largely for the USA cotton plantations.
Surnames for Black slaves were instituted in Europe but surnames were not a
tradition in Brazil, the Caribbean where the death toll from overwork small pox, yellow fever malaria and other tropical diseases was
very high. Black slaves had to be continually replenished. In the USA in spite of
the smaller numbers of slaves needed and the smaller disease rates Slavery was
dramatically increased 1800 AFTER the cotton gin. The birth
rate and yDNA White
miscegenation with Amerindian and Black women in all parts of the New World was
very high.
Since the dawn of time Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks were taken at a LOW quantity to both
southern and northern
Europe and reached CENTRAL
Europe in smaller numbers never making
more than one (1%) of the population and eventually mixed and took on the
general European population phenotype. They,
similar to Canada,
“… Mexico,
Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina,
Paraguay,
and Uruguay
ceased to be counted as
black." Blacks in these
countries complied with the surname tradition and became phenotypically part of
the general population.
In Spain during the Muslim occupation 711-1492
there was racial mixing and today the Moors of Spain appear as a brown Arab
people not Black. Moro
Mohr de
Moor Moor
and Mora
are surnames
ALL over Europe
but their phenotype has changed to White. “The last two
centuries have seen numbers of Jewish, African (initially as slaves in the 18th
century), Brazilian, Vietnamese, Chinese, east and central European, to name
but a few, make Ireland their home.” All complied with the surname
tradition. Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks and Amerindians took on surnames in Europe starting very early in
the 1500s reflecting their Race as the famous surname SCHWARZE NEGGER D'INDIO
TAINO
denotes and suggests that even the
whitest white Europeans can have very immediate and verifiable-by-surname
sub-Sahara Black or Amerindian ancestors and/or other DiCHINO
non-White yDNA.
SCHWARZE = black NEGGER NEGER= Negro
SCHWARZE NEGER SCHWARZE NEGGER
Black Slaves in Portugal,
Italy and Spain prior to 1492 (in Spanish)
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.
Curacao also had a
system of Slaves buying out from their master’s bondage before abolition as
early as 1700 - one hundred
fifty (150) yrs prior to abolition as the Curacao's
pre-abolition manumission register (copy) shows but not for
surnames. The West Indies and especially Curacao in particular did not have a
system for adding an independent surname describing their Race nor their
African heritage.
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 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 eighty-five (85%) of the population.
In 1789 the population of the Whites in Curacao peaked at circa four thousand
(3,964) and the Black population peaked at over sixteen thousand (16,580). Source:
Hartog (1968), p. 222
In Curacao before abolition
it was 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
sometimes misspelled pidgin Papiamento in Curacao or in their new country after
they left Curacao. i.e. CURAZAO
ARUBA
therefore all migrants from Curacao
to PR may not have been relatives but may have been from the KIRINDONGO town
and not
surnamed at first in Curacao before entering another country or in my
case PR during the migration from Curacao to PR peak yrs 1780-1816
giving their place-name of origin KIRINDONGO as their surname and for this
reason some of them did not have the Dutch origin of KIRING DONGO in their oral
history.
ALL
SLAVES MANUMITTED by Nathaniel Ellis
Note: most lack surnames
/////////////////////////////////////
From early on,
racial classifications in Latin
America and the Caribbean
were complex.
The criteria included skin shade, hair texture, and social background..
This classification
would include all non-Whites
in Europe and the New World
during the 400 yr Slave Trade. In eighteenth-century New World America racial
mixture was classified in great detail.
The definition accepted in the United States-the only country with such a categorization-is the so-called one-drop rule, which makes anyone with any known Amerindian blood a half-breed and more so any even “one drop” sub Sahara African ancestry became a black person regardless of phenotype. The one drop rule existed for all non-White mixtures. Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 where Homer Plessy was an octoroon 7/8 White light-skinned phenotype was the one who was used to reinforce the post Civil War Jim Crow laws. In researching DNA if we delve far back enough to our African roots under USA reasoning the “one drop rule” would make us all Black. Surnames on the other hand continued to be European in Latin script for all Races including the very few Asian and Black slaves surnames in the New World. The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945. Sub Sahara Black surnames in Latin script appeared universally in Africa about 1950.
Sub-Sahara Blacks in the New World (and Europe)
In Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile,
Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the black sector constituted less than 1
percent of the population. In Central America, coastal Colombia, Venezuela,
Brazil, and the Caribbean, the black concentration ranged from 2 percent
(Honduras) to 99 percent (Haiti). People of mixed African, European, and Native
American ancestry, however, in an effort of inclusion mixed Black people
according to mixed phenotype were considered Mulatto and ceased to be counted as
"black." This was directly counter to the racist
ethnocentric racially pure ONE DROP
RULE later taken on by the USA previous to 1776
which regarded inter-racial people all BLACK regardless of phenotype. This
“official” rule has lasted until present times. In any case in the real world
phenotype rules. “If you look White, you can pass.”
Man with White phenotype classified as
Black due to “one drop rule” later Mulatto and still later White
Eston Hemings was
indisputably one drop "black" while he was a slave at Monticello, Virginia. In 1832,
he married a free woman of color, Julia Ann Isaacs (1814-1889), daughter of Jewish merchant David
Isaacs and Ann (Nancy) West, a former slave. Years later in 1850, living in
Ohio as a free man, Eston was described by a census taker as
"mulatto." A decade later in Wisconsin, a census taker listed Eston
and his wife as "white.” Both from then on became part of the white
community and his family functioned as White people which represented the general
population of Wisconsin. Wikipedia
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
SYPHILLIS goes from the New World to Europe
SMALLPOX goes from Europe to the New World
SICKLE
CELL GOES TO EUROPE VIA THE BLACK AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE
|
"Hb S is common in some areas of the Mediterranean basin,
including regions of Italy, Greece, Albania and Turkey (Boletini et al.,
1994) (Schiliro et al., 1990). Haplotype
analysis shows that the Hb S in these areas originated in Africa. The genes
probably moved along ancient trading routes between wealthy kingdoms in
western Africa and the trade centers in the Mediterranean basin." (Harvard University, http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/scdmanage.html) |
////////////////////////////
Illiteracy of over four (4) centuries duration that effected the Spanish Papiamento vernacular plays a big factor in finding the origin of the place-name and surname KIRING DONGO because CURAZAO (original Spanish spelling) was such a small unimportant insignificant island that was left to struggle culturally on its own. The Spanish never bothered to name it other than CURAZAO an obvious Amerindian name similar to Aruba and Bonaire.
The reasoning by some that the first spelling name of the island of Curacao was “corazón” (heart) falls apart quickly when we see that the Spanish never misspelled their possessions when named in Spanish script and never but never named a discovered island in Portuguese “coração” (heart) which sounds Spanish and ends in a slight almost inaudible phonetic "n" sound. They are both Latin script spelling false cognates. Especially crucial is the Latin “cor” beginning as in the English “core” both meaning “heart” or “center” which is missing in CURAZAO and easily shoots down any Latin based spelling derivation theory for “heart” for Curacao. Noteworthy is the change of a Spanish “z” in the word previously spelled Curazao the original Spanish spelling to a Portuguese “ç” in the present day spelling of Curaçao although it had become a Dutch possession. It seems that the more educated Portuguese Sephardic Jews named it Curaçao in pseudo Portuguese after 1634. The Spanish had spelled it Curazao in an attempt to mimic the phonetic Amerindian Curazao. The Spanish attempted to decipher the Amerindian phonetics along with the Amerindian Aruba and the Amerindian false cognate Bonaire which sounds like “Buenos Aires” in pseudo French in 1499 before the Dutch takeover. The spelling problem was a unique and understandable difficulty in the Spanish or European spelling attempt to express Amerindian phonetics in the New World in general i.e.
Cuauhnáhuac becomes Cuernavaca, MEXICO
City, capital of Morelos estado
(state), south-central Mexico. It is in the Cuernavaca Valley of Mount Ajusco,
37 miles (60 km) south of Mexico City. As the capital city of the Tlahuica
Indians, it was known as Cuauhnáhuac. There is one CUERNAVACA
surname in Mexico. Three in Chile
and two in USA.
-
There was in particular a
severe pidgin Papiamento non-standardized spelling problem in Curacao then in
the 1600’s – 1700’s and now i.e.
Korsow and Corsou and even Kursow and Cursou was acceptable yesteryear and is
acceptable today in Spanish-Dutch Papiamento by the Netherlands Antilles
“pseudo intelligentsia” who have been resisting standardization for centuries
to appease the functionally literate on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao slanting
everything read historically significant in a self-styled Afro-centric revised
pseudo Spanish Papiamento. The “original” Kiring Dongo spelling of the Spanish
Quirindongo and USA Quiringdongo runs the gamut - Kirindongo, Kerindongo
Girindongo, Curindongo and in Holland Kierendongo, Kierindoongo, Kirindoongo
etc.only the DONGO is constant.
There was a prominent presence of the surname DONCKER in Curacao and the Netherlands Antilles in 1634 and a Jan Doncker called in Papiamento “Juan” WANDONGO was governor in 1673-1679. WANDONGO was also simultaneously a locality barrio now extinct.
Was the WANDONGO locality precursor to KIRINDONGO ABOU? Perhaps! …DONGO easily points to Doncker in 1600’s – 1700’s Papiamento without any problem at all if we follow the same progression of Indo-European Latin Spanish Germanic-old Dutch surname Papiamento spelling logic and indigenous Curacao Papiamento functionally literate phonetic surname analysis in the old-Dutch interpretation of phonetic pidgin Papiamento loosely and vicariously translated into script.
As far as the RACE, it is difficult to ascertain since phenotype can change in one generation (White, sub-Sahara Black, Amerindian, Mestizo, Mulatto or "other" i.e. Malaysian) of the original user of the Papiamento scripted surname KIRING DONGO or KIRINDONGO. My yDNA points to a European. The fact that it was and still is a place-name of long standing puts it more in the realm of being indigenous Amerindian Taino Caiquetio similar to Hayti and Mexico. Surnames were usually European so a mixture of an Amerindian name? place-name? (Possibly false cognate Caiquetio KIRING) and European (possibly Dutch DONCKER-DONGO) is likely. Also possible are two (2) European surnames Kiring and (Doncker) Dongo. Blacks were not given surnames and as a rule never requested a surname at that time. Surnames in European script were mandated in Curacao for Black Slaves two hundred (200) years ten (10) generations later circa abolition in 1863.
It is noteworthy that the ending DONGO never changes in Papiamento script within ALL variations in Curacao since before 1758 while DONCKER in Dutch script later became DONKER. There are no DONCKER in present day Curacao, Aruba nor Bonaire.
Dongo altho' not common in Spanish can be a false cognate surname in European Spanish or for that matter more so a false cognate surname in Italian. DONGHI the plural version is even more popular as a surname than Dongo in Italy. There is a false cognate city DONGO in north Italy near Lake Como where Benito Mussolini was captured and killed in 1945.
An apparent false cognate DONGO surname appears in Ghana Africa in 1921.
Ancient Malaysian surnames are not available on line but present day surnames do exist of Kiring and Dongo.
Kiring is another
matter. If it was a place name before the Spanish arrived in 1499 and I am sure
it was a water well oasis as they are very precious in the tropics KIRING in
Spanish Papiamento must have preceded the Dutch Papiamento DONCKER-DONGO and
the Papiamento WANDONGO locality in 1634 in script as well as phonetically
before the 1499 Spanish presence.
Altho’ we can point to
the Dutch QUIRIJN as Papiamento KIRING… QUIRIJN quickly falls flat because of
the lack of a hard “g” and when a Taino Caiquetio place-name possibility is
superimposed. KIRING or KRING in Dutch has a “g” sound. We know KIRING in the
1758 Maria Magdalena manumission may have been an early attempt at written
Papiamento but why then wasn’t the “g” dropped immediately when first written?
The “g” looms most vital when we point out that an “ing” ending is foreign to the Spanish and Papiamento tongue. The Spanish as well as the Papiamento speaker also changes “m” to “n” when saying for example “William.” … so KIRIMGE or the English “cream” or kreem then a hard “g” phonetically is possible as well as kiringay. All absolutely points to KIRING being Amerindian or a non Hispanic word. Therefore there had to be originally in 1499 a hard “g.” The hard “g” ending of KIRING spelled in Papiamento in 1758 is even more essential in finding the surname starting point when we see that the “g” is dropped quickly in one (1) generation in Curacao and in PR. KIRING DONGO becomes the one word surname QUIRINDONGO and in Curacao KIRINDONGO.a place-name and a surname, a word much easier for illiterate Spanish and Spanish pidgin Papiamento speaking people had combined the split surname to a single surname to make it easier to say.
KRING
is the Dutch word for “ring” but it seems at first to be a false cognate altho’
my Aunt Mercedes told me various times that the KIRING was “old Dutch” for KRING
and yDNA
results (see
Haplogroup) points to
the Holland general area. Kring appears as a surname in Germany Denmark
Sweden
Hungary Switzerland
and Holland. My Uncle Cheo changed his name to
KRINGDON and said it is much closer to the “original Dutch.” Both now deceased
may have meant Dutch Papiamento and therefore truthful. “Kring” with a hard “g”
is difficult to say in Spanish or pidgin Papiamento. The Spanish and Papiamento
speaking people tend to drop the hard
“g.”
KIRING
is a
German surname but seems at first glance far-fetched here, a false German cognate but not when it is pointed out that in July 1740 a German Swiss, Isaac
Faesch was installed as Director of Curaçao, a post he held until his death
in October 1758 while others of German
ancestry were constantly migrating to Curacao before and after 1740. Roberto
Cofresi and some Germans later migrated to PR, Cuba, Mexico and the
West Indies.
QUIRINO ( pronounced keereeno) a popular Spanish surname is ruled out because of lack of the hard “g”.
Also we cannot overlook the Asians from China with the popular
“ing” and “eng” name-surname? And India
and the Dutch East Indies some migrated to and traded with terra firma, the
Antilles, PR and Curacao. We see most with only one name (no surname) from
China in PR in the book ESTRANJEROS
en PR.
Maria Magdalena Black Slave was the first validly documented in manumission in 1758, but why would she make the unusual request of the Dutch pidgin Papiamento spelled patronymic and/or toponymic surname KIRING DONGO? It must have existed prior to her request and KIRING must have been difficult for her to say and to relate to a Dutch manumission scribe. What prompted her? Was it her father? Was it her lover? Was it the locality name? Why was the surname split? The split surname was and still is a Spanish NOT a Dutch surname custom. The Dutch scribe followed the largely accepted procedures and wrote the manumission in Old Dutch. The Dutch scribe reverted to Spanish for her name Maria Magdalena. Most first (“Christian”) names in Curacao in the 1758 slave register of freed slave Blacks were in Spanish and indeed most were not surnamed at all. This is well before the very small and limited PAPIAMENTO dictionary was published over a hundred yrs later and KIRING and/or DONGO do not appear in it. The surname KIRING DONGO appears only once in Papiamento? Why? …or why is she given a pseudo upper-class Spanish split surname? Why? Kiring as written or pronounced under no circumstance could be Spanish linguistically, phonetically or grammatically. The "ing" ending is strange to the Spanish tongue.
99.9% of the
manumissions did NOT annotate a surname since surnames for illiterate sub-Sahara Blacks before the 1863
abolition were not important and not required in Curacao and for that matter
anywhere in the New World. It would just be another word that they would have
to learn and write. Maria Magdalena had bought herself free in 1758. Why was a
surname important in this case? Was Maria semi-literate? Was she, her father or
the father of her children considered a secret lover (a QUERINDONGO?)
and/or did she sell fresh water from the WANDONGO barrio locality which was
also called KIRINDONGO? In 1863, it was the Dutch government five (5)
generations over one hundred yrs later bought and paid the owners for their
slaves freedom as reparation and MANDATED surnames received sometimes
reluctantly by all Blacks freed in exchange for Royal remuneration to slave
owners at that time. The freed slaves remained largely illiterate and never
learned about the multitude of African languages or sub Sahara history for four
(4) more generations after abolition until about 1935 – 1950 in the New World.
We have the universal
New World syndrome of only Europeans having surnames especially in Curacao
notwithstanding the high rate of White illiteracy 1499-1930. The average
Curacao-born White “criollo” including the Jews for the most part were at best
functionally literate and spoke the vernacular Papiamento not Dutch as their
first language until recently circa 1990. People’s names and surnames did not
appear in print unless a major change, marriage, death or catastrophic incident
involving them occurred. Very few ever went to Europe or the USA for advanced
schooling at that time.
It is impossible with
the limited data uncovered so far to specifically determine the RACE as well as
KIRING DONGO’s first use except QUIRINDONGO spelled in Spanish in PR –1780
which is the first Spanish spelling and original only in spelling not in
phonetics. That being the case, we can safely say that back in 1780 there was a
phenotypic Black man from Curacao Black “negro olandes” Pedro
KIRING DONGO and his father Nicolas may have arrived in PR unsurnamed but came
from the locality KIRINDONGO that perhaps began the toponymic surname
QUIRINDONGO presence in PR; but the KIRING DONGO presence in Curacao predates
the presence in PR in that two (2) word form perhaps back to Jan DONCKER’s
Governorship in 1673 or before his tenure. Phonetically the split surname is
derived many generations before in and from Curacao from a European. Many
sundry people fled Curacao during the 1785-1816 time period and it is
conceivable that other perhaps White phenotypic Castizo
DONCKER/QUIRINDONGOs may show up later in other archives that may give us a
better picture of the matter. Until now only Blacks appear scripted as
Kirindongo in Curacao. QUIRINDONGO appears in
Venezuela
whose ancestors i.e. Francisca
Quirindongo also must have
emigrated from Curacao and may have better records.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Maria Magdalena
and ONLY Maria Magdalena requested surname KIRING DONGO and appears in the
freed from bond slave register in 1758, one hundred five (105) yrs - five (5)
generations prior to abolition. Not one other KIRINDONGO in any spelling
variation appears in the freed from bond slave register altho’ free Black women
KIRINDONGO buy real estate and an insurrection
occurs in the town of Kirindongo Curacao 1816-21 fifty eight (58) yrs AFTER Maria Magdalena’s
manumission - and forty two (42) yrs - two (2) generations before abolition.
QUIRINDONGO was a PR Spanish spelling innovation in 1780 - twenty two (22) yrs
one (1) generation after Maria Magdalena was manumitted. Had “negro olandes”
Pedro KIRING DONGO later QUIRINDONGO not gone to PR in 1780, the surname
QUIRINDONGO would have followed the same syndrome as the Amerindian Caiquetio
surname KWIDAMA and not have survived spelled in Spanish. Kwidama appears in Latin script long AFTER abolition and
may have a false cognate/true cognate in Africa.
/////////////////
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?
Other ideas:
(1) was it an Amerindian
village place-name in Curacao when the Spanish had held “Curazao” since 1499
for one hundred twenty three (1634-1499=123) yrs six (6) generations? and
(2) was two hundred fifty
seven (1758-1499=257) yrs thirteen (13) generations in a close Spanish language area and a
mild but controlling Dutch but heavily Sephardic Spanish-Portuguese Papiamento
vernacular presence important? and
(3) does the appearance of KIRING
DONGO so early in 1758, two hundred five (1970-1758=212) years - ten (10)
generations BEFORE African surnames appeared in the New World circa 1970 beg
the four (4) questions:
1.) Is the
pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname KIRING DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO
a Caiquetio Amerindian village place-name word plus a European Dutch surname
DONCKER…?… or
2.) Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname KIRING
DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO a European Dutch surname KRING
or the German surname KIRING
plus a European Dutch surname DONCKER…?…
or
3.) Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname KIRING
DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO a corrupted European French surname QUIRIN
plus a European Dutch surname DONCKER…?…
or
4.) Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname KIRING
DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO two (2) Dutch European surnames QUIRIJN
plus a European Dutch surname
DONCKER corrupted into written Dutch Papiamento in 1758?
Only the absence of a hard “g” mitigates against the
latter two (2) theories.
I know personally that
the entire ten (10) Monserrate
QUIRINDONGO-Carmen ARROYO family of my father Carmelo QUIRINDONGO Arroyo
that arrived in NYC after 1924 were phenotypic
European White but that does not mean that there may not have been a Black or
Mulatto ancestor
somewhere. There seems to have been a White yDNA KIRING DONGO mate of Maria
Magdalena making Pedro QUIRINDONGO a “negro olandes” mulatto would appear
phenotypiically Black or Mulatto while having the all-male European yDNA
Haplogroup and yDNA DYS markers if and only if Magdalena was the mother of
Nicholas Pedro’s father. The Dutch White phenotype by that time was too distant
and any White phenotype Castizo
must have come from the successive 1818 ARROYO-Feliciano-Santiago mtDNA female
ancestry line. I think the Cedula de Gracias land grant of EL RUCIO or the Land
Deed in Penuelas of 1815 may
uncover some truth.
The 1818 WILL of Maria Sabina DIAS possibly Portuguese Jewish specifically
points to a “Negro olandes” husband so we know that there was recent
QUIRINDONGO Black racial mixing in Curacao. But were there two (2) Pedro
QUIRINDONGO – a White father born 1710 and a Mulatto “negro olandes” grandson
born abt 1730? prior to 1760 Pedro “negro olandes” Also the “Jibaro” mountain
people and farmers of PR had much Castiza mtDNA White and Amerindian blood as well as mrDNA/yDNA sub-Sahara Black blood. Zambo (in Mexico Lobo) was a term
for the mixture of African and Amerindian. The usual result characteristic was
a typically dark skinned person with Amerindian facial features and straight
Amerindian or wavy hair. This was widespread in the rural PR mixture mistakenly
called “indio” in PR. The dark skin>non-kinky hair>non sub Sahara Black
African facial features phenotype is more widespread in India.
The present-day
QUIRINDONGO in PR now show all three (3) phenotypes, White, Black and
Amerindian with Mestizo and Mulatto mixed in various
amounts typical of the population of PR at large today. The QUIRINDONGO of NYC
always mentioned Alejandro “el
olandes.” It may have been at first perhaps to identify the White QUIRINDONGO
of El Rucio. The White Monserrate QUIRINDONGO family mixed circa 1924 with
Hispanic Black and Mestizo at first in PR before the family migrated to NYC.
The racially mixed
QUIRINDONGO NYC second generation progeny of which I belong later blended and
mixed by and large with the NYC White-Mestizo-mulatto NYC population. Their
third generation progeny afterwards as they spread throughout the USA mixed
mostly with the White population similar to the Quirindongo in Holland. This
should be expected as White people make up most of the general population in
these two countries. See “my gchildren” and “my ggchildren” near bottom of this
page.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
In the Pedro QUIRINDONGO “negro
olandes”1789 marriage to Sabina DIAS later (Maria) Sabina DIAS (LDS 1818 WILL),
was (Maria) Sabina DIAS originally
Portuguese Jewish?
1785 - 1816 Mass exodus
of (free) people (with money) from Curacao due to Slave Revolt, Politics,
Economic downturn, Disease and weather.
---- “Chaos” Pg 277 and “Emigration” Pg 301 Emmanuel and Emmanuel JEWS
OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES CaribSeek
Books | Economic Stagnation and Decline | Roots of our Future by Linda M.
Rupert
Jews in the West
Indies Jewish
Slave Traders
Jewish
Portuguese DIAS families of Curacao
Dias,
Branca (-)
Dias
Brandao, Benvenida (-1808)
Dias
Brandao, Esther Salomon (-27 APR 1902)
Dias
Brandao, Raphael (-)
Dias
Brandao, Raphael (1686-1735)
Dias
Brandao, Salomon Nathan (-)
Dias
Brandon, Benjamin (-)
Dias
Brandon, Benjamin alias Francesco (1662-)
Dias
da Fonseca, Estevao (-)
Dias,
David (-)
Dias
do Valle, Filipe (Philippe) (ABT 1600-)
Dias,
Ester (-26 DEC 1700)
Dias,
Esther (-)
Dias
Fernandez, Ribca de Isaac (BEF 1764 62-)
Dias,
Isaac (-)
Dias,
Rachel (-)
Dias,
Rephael (-)
Dias
Santilhano, Jacob de Mordechai (-)
Dias
Santilhano, Mordechai (-)
Dias,
Violante (-)
Dias,
Rachael
////////////////////////////////
Jewish
blood diseases mostly Ashkenazi
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TIMELINE
Progression in Curacao of the male KIRING
- QUIRIN
- QUIRIJN
factor after Spanish occupation
1499 –KIRING,
KRING
or a spoken-word by Taino Amerindian KIRINGE or KIRIMGE (fresh water? Oasis?)
Six (6) generations one-hundred
thirty-five (135) yrs under Spanish rule.
1602 EIC
established in Dutch East Indies European Quirindongo eye (I) yDNA spreads
from Europe to Asia.
Spain’s
decline AFTER 1630 Spain's desperate poverty in the 1930s
Progression in Curacao of the Spanish Papiamento DONCKER-DONGO factor after Dutch occupation
1634 Dutch
invade Curaçao European Quirindongo eye (I) yDNA spreads to
New World.
1635
Amsterdam Chamber of WIC granted exclusive authority over Curaçao
1635-46 Curaçao administered from Pernambuco, Brazil
1639 WIC Director first
requests importation of Black slaves to Curaçao
Curaçao administered from New
Netherlands (present day New York)
1648 Peace of Westphalia
ends Eighty Years War; Spain and the Netherlands sign Treaty of Munster
1651 First group of twelve
Sephardic Jews arrives on Curaçao from Amsterdam
1654 Dutch lose colony in Brazil;
WIC personnel stationed there move to Curaçao
1659 Second group of Sephardic Jews
arrives in Curaçao from Amsterdam Holland
1664 Curaçao administered from Ft.
Amsterdam (present day New York)
1673 WANDONGO Jan (Juan) DONCKER becomes a
Curacao Governor also a WANDONGO- now extinct locality a water oasis area
replaces KIRING, KIRINGE or KIRIMGE as a Papiamento place-name temporarily
1674 First WIC disbanded; Second WIC
begins operation in Curaçao;
1675 Curaçao declared a free port
1730 Maria Magdalena Black slave born in Curaçao?
My g ggg gfather free Mulatto Juan
Nicolas with European Quirindongo eye (I) yDNA born in Curaçao
1732 WIC
grants private merchants the right to participate in the slave trade in Curaçao
1750 Slave
uprising at Hato Plantation Curaçao
1758 Maria Magdalena bought
herself free from slavery in Curaçao requested KIRING DONGO as surname
1760 My
g ggg gfather free Mulatto Juan Nicolas QUIRINDONGO and
Maria Catalina living in Curacao
1760 My ggg
gfather Patriarch “negro olandes” Pedro QUIRINDONGO born in Curacao?
1763 (Maria) Sabina DIAS (de QUIRINDONGO) born
scripted in PR 1818 in WILL
1765 Commissioned by Charles
III of Spain to investigate contraband activity, Lieutenant General Alexander
O'Reilly conducted a census. Puerto Rico's population had reached 44,883, of
whom 5,037 were slaves, making an 11.2 percent, a very low ratio because of
poor soil, considered the lowest for the Caribbean.
1770 My ggg
guncle Mulatto Juan
Pedro QUIRINDONGO White phenotype? born in
Curaçao scripted in
PR LDS IGI
1776 Adam Smith claims Slaves are more expensive
to maintain than free laborers WEALTH OF NATIONS
British colonies in North America declare
freedom over issue of “taxation without representation”
1780 Patriarch
ggg gfather “moreno” Pedro QUIRINDONGO
(KIRING DONGO?) carpenter in Tallaboa makes “arrogant” presence in PR
Mayoral archives
1781 Articles of Confederation
USA
1784 American
Revolution ends with the Treaty of Paris
1786 My ggg
guncle Mulatto Alejandro QUIIRINDONGO Dias born in Curacao LDS archive
scripted when died 103 yrs later in Peñuelas PR Sep 1889 LDS Film number 0820716 Item # 2 Folio # 157 Book Entry # 762
1789 My g
ggg gfather Patriarch Mulatto Pedro
Quirindongo “negro olandes?”
marriage in Curaçao to
Sephardic-Jewish? Sabina DIAS LDS IGI scripted in PR
Curaçao's slave population peaks at 12,804; Jewish population peaks at
2000
The French Revolution begins
George Washington
becomes American President veep John Adams
1791 Haiti Revolution begins. White flight set in motion in entire Caribbean. Second
WIC disbanded in Curacao
1794 My ggg
guncle Mulatto Juan Pedro QUIRINDONGO White phenotype? arrives in PR
scripted 1815 in PR Cedula de Gracias
////////////////////////////////////////
Mulatto European
Phenotypic Juan Pedro QUIRINDONGO as well as father free Black phenotype Patriarch
Pedro QUIRINDONGO families seek fortune in PR starting in 1780
‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
Curaçao had twofold free Black Phenotypic KIRINDONGO families and
some QUIRINDONGO with male European yDNA lived in Penuelas. Black QUIRINDONGO
also lived in other parts of PR.
Later in Curaçao after abolition in 1863
Black ex-slaves newly surnamed KIRINDONGO with no European yDNA were archived.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1795
Curaçao's largest slave
uprising at Kenepa Plantation
1796 Patriarch Moreno Pedro QUIRINDONGO, son of a
Mulatto Juan Nicolas and Maria Catalina living in Tallaboa, Penuelas
(The Tallaboa river begins about “el Rucio” Penuelas in the mountains and flows
to the sea to Tallaboa, a distance of over ten (10) miles.)
1797 John Adams
President #2 veep Thomas Jefferson
1800 The cotton gin invented; slavery in the USA booms. Slaves imported from Africa and the West Indies to the USA comes to a total of an estimated four (4) hundred thirty thousand (Charles E. Cobb, Jr in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Aug 2002 BAHIA) to a high of seven (7) hundred thousand (Britannica.) from 1619 to 1865.
1800 Immigration to America
from Europe begins
to boom because of the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1800-02
British 1st Curaçao (and Dutch East Indies) occupation as a result of
the Napoleonic Wars
1800-03
November 28, 1803 Haiti becomes free. White
flight from entire
island of Santo Domingo continues
1801 Thomas Jefferson
President #3 veep Aaron
Burr(1801-1805) George Clinton
(1805-1809
1807-16
British nine (9) yr 2nd
occupation of Curacao again as a result of the Napoleonic Wars
KIRINDONGO appears as surname and place-name in
abstracts of land purchases in Curacao
1809 James Madison
President #4 veep George Clinton (1809-1812) Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814)
1812 The War of 1812-1814
1815 My gg guncle
Juan
Pedro QUIRINDONGO Dias gets land
grant under the Royal Cedula
de Gracias 10 Aug 1815
In the Dutch East
Indies Mount Tambora
recorded as greatest eruption in known history (Sumbawa Island)
documented by Padre Paul Arndt
1886-1962
1817 James Monroe
President #5 veep Daniel D. Tompkins
1818
(Maria) Sabina DIAS dies leaves WILL executor husband Patriarch
Pedro QUIRINDONGO “negro olandes” sic
Patriarch “moreno” Pedro QUIRINDONGO marries “Parda” Andrea de Mathos (Matos?)
Cordero living in barrio Tallaboa Penuelas PR.
1820 gg gfather Mulatto Eugenio
QUIRINDONGO De Mat(h)os born Oct in Penuelas PR Submitted by Jaime Cortes (father to ggfather Mulatto Castizo
white phenotype (El Holandes) Alejandro QUIRINDONGO Feliciano 1841) Submitted by Annie Irizarry
1821
KIRINDONGO “Oost Divisie” east
division has insurrection
in Curaçao
the
alcalde of Peñuelas wrote to the Spanish authorities in San
Juan to complain that Black Pedro land owner and citizen 56 years
old? Quirindongo was “altanero” arrogant. Altanero was the term typically used
by ruling whites to label farmers and free blacks who resisted being
subordinate colonists. 1821-1830 “Relacion de Extranjeros...de color...de
Penuelas,” August 2, 1821, which can be found in: Archivo General de Puerto
Rico, Fondo de los Gobernadores Españoles de Puerto Rico, Emigrados, 1821-1837,
caja 54, entrada 21 submitted
by Jorge Chinea Phd pg.255 RACIAL POLITICS AND COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE
and may be the inspiration of fiesta de Santiago Compostela
in Loiza Aldea
August 2, 1821 Patriarch Pedro QUIRINDONGO age 70? from Tallaboa becomes arrogant
“Relacion de Extranjeros...de color...de Penuelas,”
1825 John Quincy Adams
President #6 veep John C. Calhoun
1829 Andrew Jackson
President #7 veep John C. Calhoun (1829-1832) Martin Van Buren
(1833-1837)
1841 My g gfather Alejandro
Quirindongo Feliciano “El Holandes” born father Eugenio
QUIRINDONGO De Mathos married to Castiza Joaquina Feliciano Submitted by Annie Irizarry
A
statistical commission was created in 1845 conducting a census. The total figures
in PR are:
Whites............................
216,083 Most White Castizo
phenotypes had Amerindian and/or Black mtDNA
Free colored....................175,791
included free blacks, Amerindians, mulattos and mixtures of each.
Slaves................….......... 51,265
included blacks, Amerindians, mulattos and mixtures of each
Total.................…......... 443,139
Mulatto widespread in PR but
Amerindian mingled phenotype and mtDNA in majority
1858 My
gfather (Jose) Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Santiago
a firstborn phenotypic White person born listed “B” blanco (white) in 1910
Census g gfather Alejandro QUIRINDONGO Feliciano b. 1841 (17
yrs old?) when my firstborn gfather Jose Monserrate was born in 1858. g gfather
Alejandro one yr later married in 1859-1862? to CastizaJuana
Genara SANTIAGO b. 1839 IGI LDS
1867 Puerto Rico reaches a population of 656,328; 346,437 whites
most with Amerindian mtDNA and 309,891 "of color" (this category
included blacks, mulattos and mestizos).
1888 My White phenotype Castizo
father
Jose del Carmen (Carmelo)
QUIRINDONGO Arroyo born 5 Nov died 13 Feb1968 listed “B” blanco (white) in 1910 Census
1889 My ggg guncle Alejandro QUIRINDONGO Dias wife Margarita Hernandez dies - born in Curacao 1786 living in Tallaboa? El Rucio? Penuelas PR? lives 103 yrs - LDS Film number 0820716 Item # 2 Folio # 157 Book Entry # 762
1893 Francisco
QUIRINDONGO born PR? died Farmersville NY
1898 Spanish American War
Puerto Rico annexed - general infrastructure suffers many records lost
1906 BARIEDONGO
born in Curaçao –
emigrates to Venezuela
– claims he was previously surnamed
QUIRINDONGO or KIRINDONGO. There are no BARIEDONGO in Curacao nor
PR.
1908 Pablo
QUIRINDONGO born PR? died in NY
1912 Nicolasa
QUIRINDONGO born PR? died in Bklyn NY
1914 Cecilio
QUIRINDONGO born PR died in PR SS# in NY
1924 My father (Jose) Carmelo QUIRINDONGO Arroyo US Army veteran and siblings
seek fortune in NYC starting in 1924. Three (3) Black Kirindongo
arrived at approximately the same time as part of the alien crew making many
trips back and forth from NYC, Holland, the West Indies and Venezuela.
1933 Marie
QUIRINDONGO born PR? died in New
Jersey
1933 Nilda
QUIRINDONGO born PR? died in Yonkers NY
1933 John
Henry QUIRINDONGO Arroyo born in NYC
/////////////////
TIMELINE
of Curacao
Since there was no and still is no African or
Amerindian script, the only History we can garner is from the Spanish script
and some but very little Curacao Dutch Papiamento script records both of which
may contain biased and intentional inaccuracies.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Spaniards
and Canary
Islanders are said to hold the last remnants of the cro-magnon and
are not the focus of my search are conspicuously missing here and also missing
in the Catalogo de
Extranjeros Residentes en Puerto Rico en el Siglo XIX, Ediciones de la Universidad
de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1962 by Dra. Estela Cifre de Loubriel. But
they were “estranjeros” and as Spanish citizens were eligible for the
Real Cedula de Gracias having carte
blanche to move freely within PR
and the Spanish Colonial
Empire. They generated
a written record which
is kept in texts
somewhere in PR, Curacao or in Seville
Spain ARCHIVOS
de INDIAS.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
QUIRINDONGO TRANSITION FROM CURACAO TO PR 1794 AND
TO NYC 1924
Noteworthy
is the fact that Alejandro QUIIRINDONGO Dias appears in the LDS archives as
living 103 yrs born 1786
in Curacao and died
in Peñuelas PR Sep 1889. These yrs cover the time involved here and more.
Alejandro may be cited in marriage records below inadvertently as “el olandes”
or may as well have been known as “el olandes” for his Papiamento speaking of Spanish and his namesakes were erroneously included with the
nickname “el olandes” applied to all later Alejandro.
The children of the first marriage of my g ggg gfather Patriarch Pedro
Quirindongo “negro
olandes” born circa
1730-59? in Curacao. Spouse: Maria Sabina Dias
marriage 1789 born 1730-63? LDS WILL 1818
The Juan Pedro QUIRINDONGO
surname appeared next in PR on the exclusively? WHITE-ONLY land grant,
the CEDULA de GRACIAS of 1815-16 with Juan Pedro (a quadroon?) saying that he
had arrived in PR in 1794.
The Real Cedula
de GRACIAS of 1815:
The Cedula abolished many of the
existing restrictions on trade between Puerto Rico and countries other than
Spain, permitted the tax free importation of sugar-processing machinery, and
invited Catholics from all nations to settle in Puerto Rico. To stimulate
Catholic immigration, incentives were offered. Royal lands would be given free
to these new immigrants, six acres for each member of the family and three
acres for each slave a family brought to the island. The Cedula exempted immigrants from taxation for a
period of ten years after they arrived on the island and offered them Spanish
citizenship after residing in Puerto Rico for five years.
According to the author José
Luis González, the Real Cedula de Gracias was an attempt by Spain to
"whiten" the population of Puerto Rico and represents the second
"storey" (or tier) of the Puerto Rican national identity. Thus, the
Real Cedula de Gracias encouraged a new class of white immigrants to
settle in Puerto Rico. In the years to follow, English, French, Majorcan,
Dutch, German, and Spanish immigrants flocked to Puerto Rico, as did Creole
refugees from the South American colonies. After Napoleon's final defeat in
1815, Corsicans came to Puerto Rico. Later on in the century, the migration of
agricultural laborers from the Canary Islands also increased significantly.
//////////////////////////
BLACK, AMERINDIAN and WHITE PHENOTYPE
mtDNA
genotype changes QUIRINDONGO- Kiring Doncker-Dongo phenotype from White to Mulatto in Curacao circa 1700 and
Mulatto to White in PR circa 1840
Quirindongo pedigree
paper trail
My gg
ggg gfather (no name yet) KIRING DONCKER (DONGO) born in Curacao? 1700?
European yDNA
My g ggg gfather Juan Nicolas
KIRING DONCKER (DONGO) mulatto phenotype born in Curacao? 1730?
My ggg gfather Patriarch Pedro
QUIRINDONGO "negro olandes" mulatto born 1760? in Curacao
scripted in PR 1818
My gg gfather Mulatto phenotype Eugenio QUIRINDONGO De Mat(h)os (mother
Andrea “parda”) born Penuelas Oct 1820 married Castiza white phenotype gg gmother Joaquina Feliciano (this
entry submitted by Annie Irizarry and
by Jaime Cortes)
All
Castizo
QUIRINDONGO Santiago
below listed as White
phenotype USA census 1910-20-30 altho’ obvious Black and Castiza non-White mtDNA.
My
g gfather Alejandro
QUIRINDONGO Feliciano firstborn 1841 was 17 yrs old when my gfather Jose Monserrate was
born? Alejandro QUIRINDONGO Feliciano later married in 1862 to White
phenotype Castiza Juana
Genara SANTIAGO Arroyo de QUIRINDONGO age 20 born 1839
My gfather (Jose) Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Santiago firstborn 1858-1921 Marriage 1888
Seven (7) Siblings
Jose
Raymundo QUIRINDONGO Santiago was
born abt. 1858 in Penuelas PR
Juan Nepomuceno QUIRINDONGO Santiago was born abt. 1864 married Maria de la Paz Arroyo Pabey Gregoria QUIRINDONGO Santiago de Juan Encarnacion VELEZ Crespo 1865 (father Juan Francisco VELEZ 1839) was born abt. 1866 in Penuelas PR children: Juana 1892 Sergio 1895 Monserrate (female) José Encarnación QUIRINDONGO Santiago was born 25 Apr 1867Sauterio QUIRINDONGO Santiago was born Feb 1875 infant death
Monserrate
QUIRINDONGO Santiago de Facundo
Velez Santiago 1875 children: Luis,
Eladio, Aurelia, Armando, Leoncio? Monserrate
VÉLEZ Quirindongo 1904
Juan Gregorio QUIRINDONGO Santiago was born 25 May 1881 in Penuelas PR.
All QUIRINDONGO Arroyo below listed “B” (blanco) white in 1910 Census
although gmother Castiza Carmen ARROYO Torres White phenotype Amerindian Haplogroup A
my
gfather (Jose)
Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Santiago firstborn 1858-1921 married
Castiza Carmen
ARROYO TORRES born 1867-1953
children
1. my father (José del Carmen)
Carmelo QUIRINDONGO Arroyo
firstborn 5 Nov 1888 died 13 Feb 1968 in Ponce PR
2. (José)
Raymundo QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 14 April 1892 in Peñuelas
PR.
3. Maria? Isabel QUIRINDONGO
Arroyo de Alfonso NARVAEZ
was born 5 Dec 1892 in Peñuelas PR died 1942 Bx NY.missing from 1910
1920
1930
census and misspelled in LDS IGI and otherwise omitted from most
records
4. Abel
QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was
born Abt. 1893 in Peñuelas PR. –16 yrs old 1910 census early death.
5. Fernando
QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 1895 in Peñuelas PR. He died in the Bronx NY 1954
6. Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Arroyo
was born Abt. 1896 in Peñuelas PR. –13yrs old 1910
census early
death.
7. Jose A. QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was
born Abt. 1897 in Peñuelas PR. –12 yrs old 1910
census early
death.
8. Marcos M. QUIRINDONGO Arroyo
was born Abt. 1898 in Peñuelas PR. –10 yrs old 1910
census early
death.
9. Maria
FIGUEROA Mercedes de Monserrate
Leoncio
VELEZ Quirindongo nee
QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 1899 in Peñuelas
PR died 1986 in L.A.California
10. Josefa QUIRINDONGO Arroyo de Gasarri was born Abt. 1900 in Peñuelas PR.
died before 1930 early death
11. (Juan) Nepomuceno
QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 16 May 1902 in Peñuelas PR died Jun 1965 in Bx
NY
12. Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born Abt 1896 in Peñuelas PR. record -13
yrs old 1910
census early
death.
13. Juan QUIRINDONGO
Arroyo was born 1903 infant death
14. Maria
JIMENEZ nee QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 1904 in Peñuelas PR died 1986 in
Los Angeles California.
15. José Encarnación. QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 1905 infant death
16. Antonio
Jose QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 23 Apr 1907 in Peñuelas PR died 1931 NYC
17. Jose
Antonio KRINGDON. (Cheo) nee QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was born 23 Apr 1907 in
Peñuelas died 7 Jan 1991 in Bx NY
18. Carmen QUIRINDONGO Arroyo was
born Feb 1909 in Peñuelas PR. 9 mo. old 1910
census infant
death.
It is possible that the main
reason the QUIRINDONGO Arroyo family left the El Rucio farm and PR before 1920 was the
onset of the worldwide GREAT
DEPRESSION. Some QUIRINDONGO Arroyo went to live in Ponce barrio Segundo
but most went to be day
laborers in Santo
Domingo before 1919 (most of the family QUIRINDONGO Arroyo do not appear in
the 1920
census) also:
1.)
the
sudden farm accident death of the head of the house of the aged Jose Monserrate
in 1921
and the death of six (6) children before 1920 of the Spanish flu coupled with
2.)
the
early deep rural depression in PR after WW I which made it unprofitable for any
of the children to profit from continued farming. This condition of high birth
death and poverty was rampant all over PR. It was documented so well much later
in the classic song Lamento Borincano Lyrics
by the Black PR Rafael
Hernandez Marin. Altho’ I never met
my gfather Monserrate who died before I was born every time I hear this song I
have the image of my gfather Jose Monserrate bringing his produce to market
only to see the enormous devastation and dismal economic condition of the 3rd
world PR towns that had lost their job base coupled with the universal high PR
infant and juvenile death rate the SPANISH
FLU and in tandem the
GREAT DEPRESSION had inflicted on the predominantly rural PR resulting in a
desperate QUIRINDONGO diaspora… and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes as
it also did to my father. This happens to ALL PR whether White, Mulatto or
Amerindian and all mixtures possible to feel the strong emotional identity ties
at that moment in time of being all together uniquely a single people a Puerto
Rican.
////////////////////////////////////////////////
We can say that the family of Juan
Pedro QUIRINDONGO first went to Penuelas to work the CEDULA de GRACIAS land
grant in Penuelas barrio EL RUCIO,
(the dew) a big distance over three (3) thousand four (4) hundred ft. upwards
from the center of the Penuelas valley on a high mountain plateau above the
foothills and dales where today altho’ very picturesque with a view of the
far-off Caribbean few to no one go there by dirt road with or without a four
(4) wheel drive jeep. The QUIRINDONGO of El Rucio mixed with the “Jibaro” Amerindian
Black and White tenant
farmers to change phenotype
from Mulatto to White and produce the White European phenotypic QUIRINDONGO
that first emigrated in 1924 to NYC.
The land grant of the CEDULA de
GRACIAS of 1815-16 was in the remote almost inaccessible land in the Penuelas
barrio EL RUCIO was worked
by the Juan Pedro QUIRINDONGO family for six (6) generations (1816-1935?)
before being abandoned and left fallow when the QUIRINDONGO family went to seek
fortune first to Santo Domingo and then to NYC.
Some newly arrived in PR (1780-1800) QUIRINDONGO (mostly Mulatto? Black?) from the Curacao barrio of KIRINDONGO not covered by the CEDULA de GRACIAS land grant or wanted to work in a more urban setting using their work skills slowly at first in the Tallaboa, Ponce area and later the Guayama and Playa de Ponce area then the el Rucio Penuelas QUIRINDONGO (1900) scattered with the US occupation leaving the Penuelas area to wherever their work skills would take them in PR thus now all mixed racial traits of PR are now represented. Some QUIRINDONGO families possibly returned to Curacao as the Spanish spelling QUIRINDONGO survives in Curacao and in Holland in small numbers.
The QUIRINDONGO families slowly had changed to the
phenotype of the general population over time in PR with linkage only by surname and yDNA. The spelled version QUIRINDONGO stayed Spanish in
PR. The incipient root (archaic Spanish, Amerindian locality, or Dutch
Papiamento split surname) and the history of this most unusual surname became
unclear and ultimately lost to nearly everyone except for the direct
Pedro>Eugenio>Alejandro>Monserrate family in El Rucio, Penuelas who
seem to have been long lived and who kept alive their Dutch oral history. Some
QUIRINDONGO are found in Venezuela but we cannot determine if they emigrated
there before abolition in 1863 or if their KIRINDONGO spelling changed much
later to the Spanish QUIRINDONGO independently.
Only the fact that KIRINDONGO in
old Dutch Papiamento was an old village-name and an old pidgin Spanish
Papiamento KIRING DONGO surname in old Dutch pidgin Spanish Papiamento script both
together became an important factor. The history of this surname and place-name
may be found also in an archive, land or deed abstract or in another historical
document in PR, Spain, Holland or Curacao itself in cemetery or church records
pre 1758.
Was the village-name first or was
the surname first? All indications are that it was a village-name first and
that it existed phonetically prior to the Dutch invasion of Curacao in 1634 and
possibly before that as spoken-only Amerindian word KIRINGE or KIRIMGE meaning
FRESH WATER OASIS.
And what was the inspiration for
the diabolical
song KIRINDONGO in Curacao? It must have been a grand historical event that
may have been forever lost leaving behind a place-name, a surname and a song.
All in the Papiamento of the illiterate Spanish pidgin speaking people of the
Dutch island of Curacao perhaps alluding to the insurrection
in Kirindongo “East Division” of free Blacks in militia in 1821.
The Papiamento surname BARIEDONGO
BARRIO DONCKER? …claims father changed surname from QUIRINDONGO or KIRINDONGO) appears (born in Curacao?) in
Venezuela. Was he the inspiration for the circa 1930 song KIRINDONGO who
changed his surname to evade justice?
There are no Bariedongo in present
day Curacao.
QUILILONGO
false cognate found in Chile,
Spain,
Netherlands
and here
and here.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Papiamento as a pidgin Spanish
language for ALL seasons in Curacao invented by Jews
Because of the lower educational level of the absentee-landlord
Dutch government and absence of schooling over three (3) centuries in Curacao,
the same bastardization of language from Spanish to pidgin by illiterate and
functionally literate Jews and Black people occurred in Curacao as it happened
with English in Jamaica only more so because three (3) languages were involved
– Dutch, Spanish and the ever-changing Papiamento 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 Curacao. While Papiamento has
always stayed akin to Spanish phonetically, a new Germanic Dutch script element
had been introduced in 1634. The Curacao “Jewish intelligentsia” minority was
unable and unwilling to change the vernacular of Papiamento. The vernacular
Papiamento was used by Jews and the majority illiterate Black population. The
”hoi poloi” common people promoted unopposed ethnocentrically a pseudo African
element to explain the un-Spanish look of the Dutch Papiamento script. 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 old- Spanish
1500s vernacular of their parents and promote a pseudo Hebraic element versus
the current standardized in 1492 Castilian Spanish of Spain.
It also explains why the
myriad of 1,000 dialects and languages in the sub-Sahara Africa because of
remoteness, primitive culture, the lack for eons of schooling, literacy and
standardization was unable to contribute to the European Spanish-based pidgin Papiamento significantly.
We can see as well that the recent
forced introduction of the forever unstandardized Papiamento unopposed
ethnocentrically in public schools in 1996 has hurt the general public higher
education of Curacao when we point out the added difficulty of learning yet
other standardized European languages or the attractive lure of going abroad to
get professional higher education in Dutch and English or for that matter Spanish
and be in a better position to research advanced scientific writings.
History of Papiamento starts circa
1450
Before 1500 the Sephardic Portuguese Jews first used European Papiamento in the Slave trade in Africa
sub-Sahara Africa Slaves arrived
in the New World after 1500 with no standard language
sub-Sahara Africa Slaves contribute to music
with Guene pidgin
now extinct and
Papiamento
1500 to present the Sephardic Jews
continued using European Papiamento
Before 1600 the Sephardic Portuguese-Spanish Jews used European Papiamento in Brazil and the Caribbean
Before 1700 the Sephardic and Ashkenazy Jews made
Curacao its headquarters
sub-Sahara
Africa Slaves contribution to Papiamento vernacular is meager to non-existent
The oldest document
written in Papiamento is a letter from 1775, a message between two members of a Jewish merchant
family. Altho’ their phenotypes are in doubt most likely they were white
because ability in Latin script at that time in Curacao was not readily
available to Blacks. In 1802 the British Governor Hughes in a report mentioned
the language abroad for the first time. In the 19th century (after over four
(4) hundred yrs) Papiamento was finally recognized. The first
Papiamento-Dutch dictionary (van Ewijk) a small large type very limited
vocabulary and few pages hard cover pocketbook appeared in 1875. It seemed to
be useful as a learning to read children’s book
///////////////////////
KIRINDONGO not listed in LDS IGI
A
search produces no KIRINDONGO
but hundreds of QUIRINDONGO proving
1.)
QUIRINDONGO
became literate before KIRINDONGO
2.)
QUIRINDONGO
surname existed in script before KIRINDONGO surname
3.)
KIRING
DONGO circa 1758 split surname predates ALL variations in script
4.)
KIRING
is Papiamento for unrecognized Amerindian word perhaps meaning “oasis”
5.)
KIRING
may be the Dutch surname KRING
or the German surname
KIRING
6.)
DONGO
is Papiamento for the Dutch DONCKER
7.)
that
there are 40 DONCKER
archived in the Netherlands Antilles 1650-1850
8.)
QUIRINDONGO
was born in PR 1780 but originated in Curacao
9.)
KIRINDONGO
area and surname circa 1800 is peculiar only to Curacao
KRING is the Dutch word for “ring”
but it seems to be a false cognate altho’ my Aunt Mercedes told me various
times that the KIRING was “Dutch for KRING
” My Uncle Cheo changed his name to KRINGDON and said it is much closer to the “original
Dutch.” Both now deceased may have meant Dutch Papiamento and therefore
truthful. Also “Kring” is difficult to say in Spanish or pidgin Papiamento.
No other variations of KIRINDONGO
found originating from any other area but Curacao.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
BLACK CULT curiosity
in predominately Black city Loiza Aldea in PR?
Sacrilegious
and obscene QUIRINDONGO leads
parade (like the MUMMERS in Philadelphia) and uncovers PENIS to various
crazy women representing the laity or non-clergy called “Maximinas” and the
enemy or anti-Christ surrogates called “vejigantes” with everyone in the crowd
chanting along singing rhymed PROFANITIES about the enormous size of the
QUIRINDONGO penis in an annual religious ritual parade to St.James, the
moor-slayer (Santiago matamoros.) The holiday of
St.James.
Why in PR in Loiza Aldea is the lead figure “San Quirindongo” or just “Quirindongo” the “DEFENDER of the Blacks?” The first presence in PR of Patriarch “Black Pedro” QUIRINDONGO was in 1780 so
(1) What when and where were the beginnings of the first festival of 24th of July? and in what particular yr? And the yr if different then
(2) When was the yearly ritual institution of QUIRINDONGO started as a SANTIAGO MATAMOROS surrogate? – both dates of the beginnings are most crucial.
Perhaps QUIRINDONGO was possibly instituted or likely added because Patriarch “Black Pedro” QUIRINDONGO ostensibly an old man of 70? was “arrogant” in the pre-abolition yr of 1830 as per the Mayor of Ponce. Was the 1830 “arrogant” issue the precursor of the yearly Loiza Aldea ritual?
... FLAMINIA: ¡San Culendrón el mártir, Santa Catana virgen, San Pirindongo apóstol! ... Al verle el pirindongo mire cómo me pongo! ...
http://www.elateje.com/0203/teatro%20020301.htm
Discrimination
still exists among Puerto Ricans
////////////////////////////////////////
It can be said that the QUIRINDONGO family of my father and his siblings that came to NYC after 1924 were secure in their European Castizo White phenotype given the RACIAL PREJUDICE notoriety ascribed to the USA and their White Castizo phenotype may have been a factor of their willingness to make the singular step to migrate to a non-Spanish speaking country twenty two (22) yrs or a generation before the 1946 giant PR migration to NYC. Their spouses on the other hand were phenotypically a racially diversely mixed people. Today the Surname appears in various RACIAL variations as a large mixed racial group with a phenotype from the very White in the USA to the very Black in Curacao and all colors in between. This is similar to Geraldo RIVERA who said he stands “somewhere in the middle” in phenotype of his White and Black PR family relatives.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
In Curacao there is a predominant mulatto and Black QUIRINDONGO KIRINDONGO phenotype with no Castizo White phenotype while in PR, the USA and Holland there is a predominant Mestizo and Mulatto phenotype with the White European phenotype being a substantial number if not becoming increasingly predominant. This has occurred as in Geraldo RIVERA‘s case because of the mixing with the general population. (see my Gchildren and Gloria Wiederhold below) If we had settled in China or Africa the phenotypic results would mimic the general population there also. The Law of Proximity took over as applied statistically over time to natural selection and sexual selection as well as cross-cultural and cultural integration. The QUIRINDONGO of PR have become acculturated Spanish-speaking Spanglish-speaking Hispanic but American in allegiance. The KIRINDONGO QUIRINDONGO in Curacao and Holland have become multi-lingual acculturated Curacaon with allegiance to the Netherlands. In the USA, the QUIRINDONGO have become acculturated English-speaking with allegiance to America.
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. Intermixture between the three racial stocks began early -
almost at once after the arrival of the Europeans and their African slaves in
the New World. You can see my mother’s white Castizo 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” mulatta in
the 1910 census
and listed “B” Blanca in the 1930 census which
may suggest a recent Black ancestor perhaps her father my ggfather Juan Cadiz…
while genetic
tests show that in my immediate ancestral family of both my father and my
mother there is one-half (1/2) White yDNA in my case Dutch Haplogroup
”I” KIRING DONCKER-QUIRINDONGO and Spanish Haplogroup
”R1b” (ARROYO) CORTES and one-half (1/2) Amerindian Taino “A” mtDNA VELAZQUEZ and
TORRES.
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 Castizo 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 Castizo phenotype family then g gfather Alejandro “el Holandes” married
g gmother Juana Santiago a Castiza who issued a mostly Castizo White phenotype family then my gfather Jose Monserrate married gmother
Carmen Arroyo a Castiza (I knew her) who also issued a mostly Castizo 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 Castizo phenotype forgot their Black female mtDNA heritage from Curacao and
the Quirindongo of Penuelas also forgot the town of Kirindongo in Curacao and
mistakenly assumed their European whiteness was Dutch from Holland 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 Castiza 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
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
4) the
deliberate surname-change in 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.
Curiosity
Aruba
has a considerably high GDP per capita income
$11,200
more than PR and $16,600 more than Curacao
Aruba’s
ethnology is eighty (80%) White-Amerindian
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $28,000
Unemployment rate: 0.6% (2003 est.)
The Cayman Islands enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita
and one of the highest standards of living in the world.
GDP - per capita: - $32,300 (2004 est.)
British
Virgin Islands enjoy a higher
standard of living
GDP - per capita: - $38,500 (2003 est.)
Bermuda enjoys the highest standard of living in the world
GDP - per capita: - $69,900 (2004 est.)
From Cristobal Colon log
Saturday, 13th of October 1492
"As soon as dawn broke many of these people came to the beach, all youths, as I have said, and all of good (tall) stature, a very handsome people. Their hair is not curly, but loose and coarse, like horse (tail) hair. In all the forehead is broad, more so than in any other people I have hitherto seen. Their eyes are very beautiful and not small, and themselves far from black, but the color of the Canarians. Nor should anything else be expected, as this island is in a line east and west from the island of Hierro in the Canaries.”
Cristobal
Colon was blond blue eyed The word “rubio” sounds like a red ruby hue but
in Spanish it means blond.
Curacao’s ethnology is
(80%) Mulatto and Black
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity $11,500.
Unemployment rate: 12.8% (1997 est.).
Books
about PUERTO RICO Books
on PR from rootsweb Puerto Rican culture the Puerto Rican people
Monserrate QUIRINDONGO family 1910
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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 from Kirindongo Abou when freed in abolition 1863 in
Curacao
2) Some
acquired the surname thru' marriage
3) Some
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 circa 1650
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 Peñuelas PR
which I can trace back to Alejandro circa 1840 and perhaps to before
1780 with Patriarch Pedro “negro olandes” of Curacao.
The surname origin comes from the Papiamento place-name KIRINDONGO in Curacao
when the town was much larger
during or before Governor Jan DONCKER circa 1650. The ethnicity of the split
surname KIRING DONGO and place-name KIRINDONGO seems to be Dutch spelled in
Papiamento. QUIRINDONGO is a PR 1780 Spanish spelling innovation.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Facts stated but not in evidence:
Wandongo and Kirindongo Abou are
the same area
Juan
Pedro is a phenotypic White man
El Rucio is the land grant from
the Cedula de Gracias
Maria Magdalena is Nicolas’s
mother
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
My personal
conclusions in old age
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Comment by Gloria WIEDERHOLD nee D’Isselt nee CARABALLO Quirindongo
I
enjoyed perusing some of the research pertaining to the origin of the
QUIRINDONGO surname.
My mother's maiden name is Gloria
QUIRINDONGO daughter of: Cecilio
QUIRINDONGO RIVERA 24 Nov 1914 - 28 May 1988 Gdaughter
of: Manuel
QUIRINDONGO and Margarita RIVERA,. They are all from the
Penuelas and Ponce region of Puerto Rico.
I
always "imagined" the name to be of (American) Indian origin. My
grandfather looked very Indian, or even Filipino. He could have even passed as
Chinese or Japanese. He was a sheetmetal worker by trade. It was a skill passed
down from a relative that raised him since his parents died when he was very
young.
Maybe
he was descended from the first Quirindongo to have emigrated to PR from
Curacao??? It's frustrating that there is so much that we'll just never know.
Keep
up the good work!!!
Gloria
Wiederhold
Hi,
thanks for your comments and encouragement. Your participation is very valuable
to me and to this Web site.
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
Quirindongo surname when migrating to PR and we cannot say which one of the
many similar surnames 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
is
in our individual ancestry. Only an eight (8) marker yDNA test
with an unexpected Malaysia
connection can prove that phenotypes of the yDNA progeny change even
with the same partner every time a sexual union introduces mtDNA but the yDNA
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 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.
The PR
paper trail for the QUIRINDONGO surname is sparse and sometimes faulty in
Curacao and PR because of illiteracy before 1840. The first arrivals in PR from
Curacao in 1780 of Quirindongo were prior
to the chaotic migration away from Curacao a full three (3) generations or
slightly more before the paper trail of surnames becomes reliable. Also the
town of Kirindongo in Curacao seems to go back to the Governor Jan
DONCKER before 1679 or earlier than that in the Spanish or Amerindian era.
The barrios of KIRINDONGO ABOU and KIRINDONGO ARIBA still exist today but
information requested from Curacao before 1800 about the history of the
Kirindongo town and surname has been ignored by the NAAM museum and the archive
caretakers in Curacao. Perhaps Curacao also has a remarkable historical problem
with old and lost documents of the town of KIRINDONGO and/or surname,
baptismal, marriage and cemetery documents which may be otherwise not
available.
The approximate length of the yDNA migration and the
development of variations of surname QUIRINDONGO after leaving Europe in 1600
was:
1) Twenty (20) yrs and over in Malaysia later spreading to
Indonesia Japan and China1600 to present
2) One-hundred-twenty-five (125) yrs and over in Curacao and terra firma 1634 to present
3)
Two-hundred (200) yrs and
over in PR 1780 to present
4)
Eighty three (83) yrs in NYC and USA
1924 to present
Ethnic phenotypic composition of present day PR
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Comment by John H QUIRINDONGO Arroyo
The Christian Mormon LDS consider Genealogy a religious experience. The Asian Atheist Taosts and Atheist Shintoists believe that as long as our ancestors are remembered they have not died. Altho’ I am an Atheist I can see both their reasonings.
Also recently (2005) I received word from Sweden that my son John impregnated a Taiwanese girl in the USA twenty-two (22) yrs ago. The child’s mother Wendy is a mixture of Chinese and Hindu. Therefore in the present Jet-age I have gdaughter named Carina a mixture of White-Amerindian-Chinese-Hindu growing up in Sweden.
/////////////////////////////////////
Me, Titi Maria and Titi Mercedes QUIRINDONGO in 1980
My ex-wife and my three daughters
My siblings Jim Frank Nancy with my mother
My children John Frank Steve Arlene Rebecca JoAnne
My gchildren: five (5) of seventeen (17)
carry my identical “I” (eye) yDNA
Asheley (Adopted)….……. kittyluv3@hotmail.com December 1981 Los Angeles, Ca mother Ann Wiggle
My Gchildren
1) Melissa……………......January 18, 1982 Astoria NY Secretspirit82@hotmail.com mother Susan Danner
2) Carina (Pettersson)…....February 1, 1982 Stockholm, Sweden Caripett@hotmail.com mother Wendy Chen
3) Jacqueline………..……August 6, 1983 Bethpage NY rosekitten75@hotmail.com mother Susan Danner
4)
John
(Quiles)…………. March 16, 1984 San Diego Calif mother Deborah
Pino… same “I” (eye) yDNA
5) Victoria (Leavens)….....June 25, 1988 Bethpage NY mother Rebecca Q. rebecca@favoriteinvites.com
6)
Franklin Victor………. May 2, 1989 Kissimee Fl mother Susan Danner… same “I” (eye) yDNA
7) Aubrey Steffany…….…1991 Bklyn NY mother Ann Wiggle
8) Rachel (Leavens) .…….October 13, 1992 Long Island NY mother Rebecca Q. rebecca@favoriteinvites.com
9) John Reginald (Quiles).San Diego Ca mother Pattie… same “I” (eye) yDNA
10) Phillip Frank..……… April 22, 1996 Bx NY mother JoAnne Quintana… same “I” (eye) yDNA
11)
Alexander Severiano...June 25, 1996 Bklyn NY mother Ann Wiggle… same “I”
(eye) yDNA
12) Benjamin (Ahlers)….. January 29, 2000 Albuquerque NM mother JoAnne Q. j_quirindongo@yahoo.com
13) Erin (McDonald)…….November 2001 Nesconset Long Island NY mother RebeccaQ. rebecca@favoriteinvites.com
14) Meaghan (McDonald) July 2003 Nesconset Long Island NY mother RebeccaQ. rebecca@favoriteinvites.com
15) San Diego Ca mother Florence Giaquinta
16) Grace McDonald...Sep 8 2006 Nesconset Long Island NY mother RebeccaQ. rebecca@favoriteinvites.com
/////////////////////
GGchildren
Senefra Fey (Brown) born 23 January 2004 Kissimee FL mother Melissa Q. Secretspirit82@hotmail.com
Boy (Brown) Kissimee FL mother Melissa Q. Secretspirit82@hotmail.com
More to come
National Geographic Genographic Project click YOUR GENETIC JOURNEY
Contains map and certificate for twelve (12) yDNA marker - Password: FWMJQM3SPJ for Quirindongo and FWRUK83N3A.for Cortes
More pictures http://www.myfamily.com/
user name………………guestq
password……………….48guest
daily
visits posted on monthly basis since
Web Page inception on May 10th 2004