Many people have assisted me and provided information. I'll gradually add to the list below. Thanks go to the following for the assistance in my research:
- Tikwis Begbie
- For providing extracts from her British Guiana research, and for her hospitality
- Geert Kamphuis
- For providing numerous translations into English, and for sharing his research on the Van Cooten family around Utrecht
- Merle and Graham Van Cooten
- For transcribing the John Smith diary
- Klaasjan Visscher
- For providing discovering the evidence as to which Hendrik Van Cooten ended up in the Demerara colony, and for sharing his research
- John Wilmer
- For the amazing job on transcribing the Guyana Colonial Newspapers and the snippets of Van Cooten information that these have revealed
