Ludwig Nikolaus Behn ( country Surinam)

[tilly25]

Hi I am looking for any information or advice where to look for the above named born 11/8/1744 Hamburg Germany but emigrated to Surinam. Parents were Hinrich Urban Behn and Anna Margaretha Schmocke

[sugarbakers]

Behn- West Derby/ Germany

Does this point to sugar refining, I wonder?

I have basic details of John / John Frederick / Stanley, sugar workers / brokers, 1827 through to 1911, in Liverpool, on my database, and also much earlier references to Jurgen Behn 1721 and J J Behn 1799, both Hamburg.
Your Ludwig emigrating to Surinam from Hamburg may be connected, sugar being the main produce of Surinam since 1700, and Hamburg the centre of German sugar refining at the time.

www.mawer.clara.net/sugarbbae.html

[manukarik]

I wonder if this could be him… (maybe not!):

https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/629108

Translation:
Occupation and business with Nicolaas Been
Passenger: Nicolaas Been
Occupation: Soldier
Place of origin: Hamburg
Event: Enlistment
Date: 19-05-1759
Ship: Zuiderburg
Event: Discharge
Date: 24-10-1770
Document type: Occupation and business
Heritage Institution: National Archives
Location of the institution: The Hague
Collection area: Overseas
Archive: 1.04.02, VOC Seafarers Registration number: 6383
Page: 209
Registration date: 1759
Place of record: Batavia
Book: Ship’s pay books Chamber, Amsterdam

Wrong continent though, but might explain the Dutch connection?

NB: Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia.

[tilly25]

Thanks for the replies, as the rest of the family were mainly involved in the sugar industry it would make sense that this happened in Surinam as well,

[KGarrad]

Suriname was a Dutch Colony from the late 17th Century.
Have you tried Dutch records?

[tilly25]

I looked online at some Dutch genealogy sites but they were mainly for the Netherlands and not any colonies

[sugarbakers]

Have you tried this at TNA ...

Reference:   CO 278
Title:   Colonial Office and Predecessors: Surinam Original Correspondence, etc.
Description:   
This series includes correspondence, entry books, shipping returns, accounts and population returns (1811) relating to Surinam.
Date:   1667-1832

... and ... considerable info regarding Suriname Civil Registration on FamilySearch.