Curaçao Genealogy

Netherlands Caribbean  Netherlands Antilles  Curaçao

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

See also Netherlands Antilles (dissolved in 2010).



To find out more about the history of this island, please see: Curaçao where you can also find the link to 'churches'. When you click on that link you will find the addresses of all the churches on Curaçao in case you need to contact them for your genealogical research. Curaçao is a part of the Netherlands Antilles a territory of Netherlands.

The capital city of Curaçao is Willemstad

Jurisdictions
Spain 1499, Netherlands 1634, Great Britain 1800, Netherlands 1803, Great Britain 1807, Netherlands 1816.

Towns on Curaçao


 * Bapor Kibra
 * Barber
 * Julianadorp
 * Nieuwpoort
 * Santa Catarina
 * Santa Cruz
 * Santa Maria
 * Santa Rosa
 * Soto
 * St. Willibrordus
 * Westpunt
 * Willemstad

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Tula, executed 3 October 1795, was a slave on Curaçao and a leader of a 1795 slave revolt that convulsed the island for more than a month. He is revered on Curaçao today as a fighter for human rights and independence.

George John Lionel Maduro, born in Willemstad, Curaçao, 15 July 1916; died Dachau concentration camp, 9 February 1945, was a Dutch student that served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in the attack on The Hague.

The famous miniature city of Madurodam in The Hague, the Netherlands, is named after him, as well as the Maduroplein a street square in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague.

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