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Woman in decades-long search for siblings
Donna Sergeant is seeking to solve a decades- old mystery: the whereabouts of the offspring of the playboy dad she hardly knew.
Donna Sergeant
Donna Sergeant has spent the last several years trying to find two-step-brothers and a stepsister, as well as three of her uncles, who may now be residing overseas.
Ms. Sergeant grew up in Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, with her mother, the now-deceased Gloria Sergeant. Her father was Derek Solomon, a man she seldom saw. Her childhood memories of him are of a tall, handsome dark-complexioned individual with ‘full’ eyes and a ‘good’ smile.
“He was a lady’s man,” Ms. Sergeant recalled. “Whenever I asked my mother about him, she would say ‘you father was a soldier’, and she would say also that he worked at the Co-op Bank.” She remembers her mother taking her to the Guyana National Co-operative Bank, located then in Lombard Street, to meet her father. She also remembers her dad taking her to Hadfield Street, Lodge, to the home of one of his ‘child-mothers.’
But sometime around 1979, fun-loving Derek Solomon collapsed and died in a Robb Street hotel. Donna Sergeant was just 14.
By her early twenties, she had developed a yearning to know her other siblings. “It’s like a part of me is missing…maybe I have passed them on the streets.” She set out to find them.
First, she returned to the Hadfield Street, Lodge house where her dad had lived with his ‘child-mother’, a woman of mixed ancestry that Ms. Sergeant knew only as ‘Cheryl’. Her dad had sired three children by Cheryl; a daughter named Laverne Solomon and two sons, whose names are unknown to Ms. Sergeant.
Residents remembered ‘Cheryl’, who had relatives in Campbellville, but they said that the woman had moved further down Hadfield Street.
After that, the trail went cold. ‘Cheryl’ and the three children had reportedly migrated to Canada.
Undaunted, Ms. Sergeant then travelled to the West Coast of Demerara to seek further information from another step-brother.
He was one of Derek Solomon’s sons from a third relationship with a woman known only as Jean. Ms. Sergeant learned that her paternal grandfather’s first name was Clyde, and that her father had three brothers; Ewart, Owen, and Barton Aubrey Solomon. They had reportedly migrated to the US in the seventies.
She has also been told that her two step-brothers and step-sister (born to the woman Cheryl) now reside in Canada. Those are the only clues she has. An old photograph of her father has been destroyed.
Anyone with information about Donna Sergeant’s relatives can contact her via her mobile number -592-654-0307.
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