Suriname Death Certificates 1845-1915 Version 1.0 (hdl:10622/OIFNO1)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Suriname Death Certificates 1845-1915 Version 1.0

Identification Number:

hdl:10622/OIFNO1

Distributor:

IISH Data Collection

Date of Distribution:

2024-07-16

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Van Oort, Thunnis; Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias; Van Galen, Coen, 2024, "Suriname Death Certificates 1845-1915 Version 1.0", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/OIFNO1, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:1lJwGRg+akAYxW+EivMoig== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Suriname Death Certificates 1845-1915 Version 1.0

Identification Number:

hdl:10622/OIFNO1

Authoring Entity:

Van Oort, Thunnis (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Van Galen, Coen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Distributor:

IISH Data Collection

Access Authority:

Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias

Depositor:

Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias

Date of Deposit:

2024-07-16

Holdings Information:

https://hdl.handle.net/10622/OIFNO1

Study Scope

Keywords:

Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Suriname, Civil registry, Colonial population, Death certificates

Abstract:

In 1828 in the Dutch colony of Suriname a civil registry was introduced according to the Dutch civil registration model (which in turn was based on the model introduced during the First French Republic). Suriname is a former Dutch plantation colony on the northern coast of South America, which became an independent country in 1975. During colonial times, it consisted of one city, Paramaribo, and a varying number of rural districts. Unlike in the Netherlands, the civil registry did not immediately apply to the entire population. Two groups of people were not registered. First, people in slavery were excluded, they were noted down in the separate slave registers. Only after they were freed from slavery did the enter into the civil registry, which was for the fast majority of enslaved people after the abolition of slavery on July 1, 1863. Second, people living outside of the colonial context were not registered either. This included most of the inhabitants of the interior who were missing from the civil registry until after the Second World War. Accordingly, maroons and indigenous people were only registered if they had a child or died in Paramaribo or the colonial districts, or if they married someone who was already registered. Free residents of Suriname were legally obliged to report every birth, death, marriage, acknowledgement, and divorce to a registrar. In this database you will find the death certificates issued in Suriname´s capital city Paramaribo (1858-1915) and the certificates issued in the Surinamese districts (1845-1852 and 1864-1880) as recorded by the registrar. The death certificates contain information on the death, the deceased person, the parents of the deceased, the (former) spouses of the deceased, the informant, and the two witnesses. For the interested public, the information from this release has already been made available on the website of the National Archive of Suriname (NAS) in a searchable format, where also the scans of the original certificates may be found. The present release contains additional information in a structured data-base format on for example ages, places, occupations, and (il)literacy.

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Data Access

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  • No. of variables per record: 88

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Variable Description

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Variables

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: character

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Variable Format: character

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Text:

Suriname death certificates version 1.0 dataset description

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