AT 16 years old, following the death of her mother, Johanna Elenora Fernald left the Dutch-speaking country of Suriname with several ‘excursioners’ on a boat trip to Guyana, to stay with her younger siblings in Georgetown. Earlier, her maternal grandmother, Celes Austin, had brought to these shores, the three youngest of eight siblings, Percy, Olga …
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