Was Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott a VR-descendant?

Source: http://nobelprize.org

For some time we have been searching for mr. Derek Walcott. After trying several telephone numbers we got in touch with mr. Derek Wallcott at his residence in Manhattan, New York U.S.A.

We are so sorry to inform you that mr. Derek Walcott was not really happy with our call and mentioned that it has never been proven that he is a descendant of the van Romondt family and doesn't want anything to do with this research. We were so shocked with his reaction since many documentations have been found of his relationship to the van Romondt Family such as letters from his mother to cousins all Van Romondt descendants.

We still want to think that we might have catch him at a wrong time and hope someone who knows him personally can explain him a little more of the research. If you know anyone who knows mr. Walcott personally please let us know.

WHO IS DEREK WALCOTT?
Derek Walcott is won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1992

Biography
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott's life and work. Both his grandmothers were said to have been the descendants of slaves. His father, a Bohemian watercolourist, died when Derek and his twin brother, Roderick, were only a few years old. His mother ran the town's Methodist school. After studying at St. Mary's College in his native island and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where he has worked as theatre and art critic. At the age of 18, he made his debut with 25 Poems, but his breakthrough came with the collection of poems, In a Green Night (1962). In 1959, he founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop which produced many of his early plays.
Walcott has been an assiduous traveller to other countries but has always, not least in his efforts to create an indigenous drama, felt himself deeply-rooted in Caribbean society with its cultural fusion of African, Asiatic and European elements. For many years, he has divided his time between Trinidad, where he has his home as a writer, and Boston University, where he teaches literature and creative writing.

Source: From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997
This autobiography/biography was first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1992

Source: this week's edition of The New Yorker magazine has an interesting article on Derek Walcott, the nobel laureate from the Caribbean island of St Lucia. Here's an excerpt:

As a young man, Warwick [Derek's father] worked as a copyist at the Education Office. (Subsequently, he worked for St. Lucia's Attorney General and Acting Chief Justice.) At night and on weekends, Warwick painted, read Shakespeare and Dickens, and gathered around him like-minded friends, who put on amateur theatricals. One of the members of this group, which Warwick christened the Star Literary Club, was Alix Maarlin [subsequently Derek's mother], the daughter of Johannes van Romondt, a white estate owner on St. Maarten, and Caroline Maarlin, a brown woman. Alix had moved to St. Lucia as a young girl, apparently to finish her schooling. Her guardian, a Dutch trader, was part of a small clan who helped establish the Methodist presence on St. Lucia. Alix, too, practiced Methodism, which was practically a cult on the Catholic-dominated island. Many of my paternal ancestors were prominent Methodists in the Caribbean. It's amusing to think that they were at the centre of a "cult". It explains a lot!


To learn more of his work please vist the following websites:
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/walcott_derek.html#bio/biblio