Original Name

This comes from the name of a Chinese immigrant named Tjin A Djie, who would help birth a prominent Surinamese family. After he arrived, he earned a license to start developing grocery stores on a plantation. His two sons would eventually start opening their own grocery stores and greatly expanded the family wealth.

Joseph Tjin-A-Djie

It is technically pronounced [chihn-uh-jee]. In the more technical origins, Tjin is actually the original Chinese surname, however it eventually became part of the new surname Tjin-A-Djie, whereas Joseph may have been adopted within the process of Christianization as well as Surinamization.

His son, Rudolf Tjin-A-Djie, would go on to become a proprietor of the gold mines that were discovered in the border between Suriname and French Guiana. He would eventually marry Elizabeth, a Vietnamese-French woman and had nine children.

I could not find any sources that are beyond the English translations, which are scarce because they are mostly in Dutch. However, I would hope that there is more focus within the Anglophonic world on this particular family, because they are a testament to the strength of immigrant power and industry.