Portuguese Guyanese

A Portuguese Guyanese is a Guyanese whose ancestors came from Portugal or a Portuguese who has Guyanese citizenship.

Portuguese Guyanese people
Regions with significant populations
Georgetown, New Amsterdam
Languages
English (Guyanese)  · Portuguese
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Portuguese diaspora

Demographics

Many Portuguese Guyanese now live in London, Toronto, other parts of the Caribbean and the United States. There may be a higher birthrate among them in present.

Some have advanced the idea that the Portuguese presence in the Guianas predates 1834. Portuguese Sephardic Jews had settled in neighbouring Dutch Guiana in the 17th century before the Dutch arrived. Portuguese Jewish communities also exist in Aruba, Barbados, and Curaçao. Some of the Portuguese in Guyana may have their origins in these Dutch-speaking Portuguese groups. They were known as the "Curaçao Portuguese" within the larger Portuguese community.

The number of Portuguese Guyanese (4.3% of the population in 1891) has been declining constantly over the decades.[1]

Notes
  • Ivor Mendonca is a descendant of Madeiran immigrants to Guyana.
  • A reliable reference for the afformed information is "The Colony Of British Guyana and Its Labouring Population" by H. V. P Bronkhurst.

References
  1. "Portuguese emigration from Madeira to British Guiana"
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