Hi Ann Thanks for your offer. There could be a mention of Captain Henry Bird. His children later changed that to Bryd. Regards Camilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "athigham" <higham@clara.net> To: "SriLanka-L" <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:00 PM Subject: [SRILANKA] The Kandyan Wars > > For the next two weeks I have access to the book... "The Kandyan Wars : > the British Army > in Ceylon 1803-1818" by Geoffrey Powell 1973 > > Google provides a excellent means of discovering if your "name" appears in > this book .... > http://books.google.com/. > > If your wanted name does appear, then I'd be happy to transcribe full > references. > > regards > Anne H. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Sorry.... no Bird or Byrd in the index. regards Anne H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Camilla Barlow" <ceebee123@swiftdsl.com.au> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] The Kandyan Wars > Hi Ann > Thanks for your offer. There could be a mention of Captain Henry Bird. His > children later changed that to Bryd. > Regards Camilla > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "athigham" <higham@clara.net> > To: "SriLanka-L" <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:00 PM > Subject: [SRILANKA] The Kandyan Wars > > > > > > For the next two weeks I have access to the book... "The Kandyan Wars : > > the British Army > > in Ceylon 1803-1818" by Geoffrey Powell 1973 > > > > Google provides a excellent means of discovering if your "name" appears in > > this book .... > > http://books.google.com/. > > > > If your wanted name does appear, then I'd be happy to transcribe full > > references. > > > > regards > > Anne H. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

For the next two weeks I have access to the book... "The Kandyan Wars : the British Army in Ceylon 1803-1818" by Geoffrey Powell 1973 Google provides a excellent means of discovering if your "name" appears in this book .... http://books.google.com/. If your wanted name does appear, then I'd be happy to transcribe full references. regards Anne H.

Hi Coreen & Larry If you would like to add the name STRUYS to your list I would be eternally grateful for any reference to this rare name you might come across in your travels. The family was based in the northern part of the island around Baticaloa in the mid 1800's and may have been of either Methodist, Baptist or Dutch Reform persuation. I'll keep a look out for James Thomas. Best regards from Melbourne. Gordon Allison Coreen & Larry Andresen wrote: >LDS film transcripts. > >Larry and Coreen Andresen here, back in circulation after a house interior >rebuild after Cyclone Larry damage in 2006. 11 months for the Insurance >Company to come good !! Lucky we have family research and the garden to keep >us sane. >We usually spend 2 hours a week at the local LDS library, this is all our >local..(70 Km away).. library in Cairns is open, and order and view films >from Ceylon, India and the UK looking for clues to the elusive origin of >James Thomas Anderson who married Adriana Toussaint in Jaffna in 1803, and >after her death, married Johanna de Vos on 14th Feb 1831 in Galle. >As Jennifer has pointed out there are over 4000 LDS films on Ceylon and our >reseach has turned up many disappointments when we have looked at the films. >A classic example was the Galle and Jaffna marriage films No 1208266 and >1208262 respectively. Both these films are for Village marriages only and do >not show any Dutch or English marriages at all. >We try to get a hard print of any family related record we find and lately >any that listers are interested in, and have accumulated close to 200 pages >over the years, but at a dollar a copy now this is getting a little >expensive as retirement for us both looms large. >Is it possible for listers to list films that they have searched, or are >viewing and give, a critical review of its worth? >We have just ordered our next 4 films. schooltombo for Negombo 1212893, >Baptism index Dutch reformed church 1806 to 1861,1495574. De Meuron >Regiment.1514780 and Registrations Births and Marriages Ceylon 1677 to 1990, >1610373. Any listers who have a family interest in any of these please let >us know so we can jot down details...We have the list of interests from the >last lookups, so just new ones please. >We have a few answers from our last two films for some listers that we will >put on the site over the next week. We have had to live in a caravan for a >month, and move everything out of the house, and as we have just moved in >again all our books and research material have to be unpacked. > It will be good to get back to the normal routines !! > Thank you David and Anne for the Times Bedfordshire online library. I >spent a good part of last night researching my mothers line, Perrott, with >great success !! There is another great site called www.openlibrary.org >which has old books out of copyright and searchable and printable on it..We >downloaded One Hundred Years in Ceylon, or, The Centenary Volume of the >Church Missionary Society in Ceylon 1818- 1918. >Names being researched by listers noted were Layard and Dowbiggin. It also >lists all CMS Sinhalese and Tamil Clergy too.There is also an interesting >bibliography >list in the front of the book. >Keep up the sharing of information, it is what makes this list so great to >be a part of, L&C. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Camilla Barlow" <ceebee123@swiftdsl.com.au> >To: "List Mail Srilanka" <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:15 PM >Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] LDS file of SL microfilms of Ceylon > > > > >>Goodness me! This is a hard way to go. By the way it doesn't take you back >>to the LDS library. Surely it is easier to go to the Library yourself and >>search for what you want. >>I didn't reply on my behalf. I was trying to help Christopher. I am very >>familiar with the LDS and Sri Lanka research. >>Camilla >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Jennifer van der Greft" <jennifergreft@gmail.com> >>To: <christopher.merry@ntlworld.com> >>Cc: "Camilla Barlow" <ceebee123@swiftdsl.com.au> >>Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:33 AM >>Subject: LDS file of SL microfilms of Ceylon >> >> >> >> >>>Hello Christopher and Camilla, >>>I saw the correspondence just now, attached is the SL list in excel >>>for all the films in the LDS library. I got so tangled up in their >>>many windows I decided to make a list, there are 4232 film titles. >>> >>>After you have downloaded the excel file into your computer, leave the >>>internet on - click on one of the blue lines of the file, it will >>>bring you automatically to the LDS site and to the written information >>>pertaining to the microfilm. >>>Again this is not the genealogy information but it is the file name >>>and number so that you can order it for viewing in whatever city you >>>are living. Your local LDS has to order it from Salt Lake city, Utah, >>>USA. >>>When you want to go back to the excel file you either press on the top >>>left corner BACK, or you on the bottom bar of your screen you press on >>>your excell file tab and you are back into the file. >>> >>>the LDS has many centers around the world, look up if they have a >>>center in the city where you live - IF they do have a >>>center there or close(!) by, call them and tell them you want to order >>>micro films and what is the procedure. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Jennifer >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

As promised, entries found on above film, for current researchers. Anna Guertruida DANIEL, daughter of Attawoede Don Daniel and ? ?Francina de Waas born 07 Dec 1806 Christened 30th Jan 1807. Johanna Dorothea DANIEL, daughter of Attawoede Don Daniel and ? ?Francina de Waas, born 17th May 1809 Christened 15th June 1809. Henry Augustus Frederik SPAAR, son of Cornelius Adrianus Spaar andAnna Henrietta Staats, born 13th February 1811 Christened 03 March 1811 Emelia Elisabeth SPAAR, daughter of Cornelius Adrianus Spaar andAnna Henrietta Staats, born 9th June ?1809 Christened 25th June 1809 Henrietta Magdalina STAATS, daughter of Elias Wilhemus Staats and Wilhelmina Petronella Staats, born 05 Nov 1809 Christened 12 November 1809 Johanna Elizabeth WEERMAN, daughter of Johan Godfried Weerman and Amorentia Elizabeth Staats, born 17th Feb 1810 Christened 04 March 1810 Henry Alexander LEEMBRUGGEN, son of Casper Hendrik Leembruggen and Maria Elisabeth Adelaide De Lassoy, born17th August 1809? Christened 03 September 1809 Charlotte Elizabeth Louiza Van Lynden, daughter of Stephen Baron Van Lynden and Henrietta Magdalena Leembruggen born?, Christened 1st December 1811 John George De VOS, son of Petrus Gerrardus De Vos and Susana Petronella Van Dort, born ? christened 29th Dec 1810 Daniel van TWEST son of Andreis van Twest and Margareta Schockraft, born ? christened 11th January 1807 The films are hard to read at times and the printing of each frame is hit and miss. We have a hard copy of all entries listed but can not email as an attachment as clarity is woeful. We will send a hard copy to interested parties who dont have access to an LDS library. Please send snail mail address off list to us. The individual frame has the Godparents listed, and sometimes a signature of the father. If searching films, be prepared for the unexpected, one frame has a receipt for repairs to a piano stool, and another has a baptismal certificate for Edwin William Toussaint, born 22nd May 1855 parents, James Theodore, and Francis Toussaint. This is in the middle of very early 1800 baptisms. We hope this helps fill in the blanks for some listers, we will list some marriages next time. Coreen and Larry in Sunny Queensland.

Hi Gay, Yep know where you are coming from I did "Bell" in England and OMG its as common as Smith LOL families with the same damn names for there kids and those kids had kids themselves around the same time and all called them the same names as other families. Am sure someone must of decided that any children born that year should be named ?? and they all did BUT in saying that the records are so much easier there than looking for needles in a haystack like we are are doing. My heart goes out to you all that are up the same creek without a paddle Kindest Regards Karen Bell New Zealand

Hi Jennifer, Thankyou very much for that. It is so hard as if I could find out his parents names/birth entries then I feel things would be alot easier to say the least. Kindest Regards Karen

> It is so hard as if I could find out his parents names/birth entries then > I feel things would be alot easier to say the leas Join the Clan Karen, at least you have an unusual name...try finding the parents of John Campbell born in Scotland...or working in Ceylon...Aaagh!!!! Gay

Hi Mary, Had a quick look in the Times for the name SCHOORMAN - no results at all. Regards David Schoorman, Mary wrote: >Hi Coreen & Larry, >If you ever come across the name SCHOORMAN in your searches, I would love to >get the details. >Thanks >Mary Schoorman > > > > >

Hi Coreen & Larry, Thankyou for that and yes have dropped an email and see what I can come up with. If anyone else can help me with my search it would be much appreciated. Kindest Regards Karen Bell New Zealand

Hi Coreen & Larry, If you ever come across the name SCHOORMAN in your searches, I would love to get the details. Thanks Mary Schoorman -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Coreen & Larry Andresen Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 9:58 PM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] LDS file of SL microfilms of Ceylon LDS film transcripts. Larry and Coreen Andresen here, back in circulation after a house interior rebuild after Cyclone Larry damage in 2006. 11 months for the Insurance Company to come good !! Lucky we have family research and the garden to keep us sane. We usually spend 2 hours a week at the local LDS library, this is all our local..(70 Km away).. library in Cairns is open, and order and view films from Ceylon, India and the UK looking for clues to the elusive origin of James Thomas Anderson who married Adriana Toussaint in Jaffna in 1803, and after her death, married Johanna de Vos on 14th Feb 1831 in Galle. As Jennifer has pointed out there are over 4000 LDS films on Ceylon and our reseach has turned up many disappointments when we have looked at the films. A classic example was the Galle and Jaffna marriage films No 1208266 and 1208262 respectively. Both these films are for Village marriages only and do not show any Dutch or English marriages at all. We try to get a hard print of any family related record we find and lately any that listers are interested in, and have accumulated close to 200 pages over the years, but at a dollar a copy now this is getting a little expensive as retirement for us both looms large. Is it possible for listers to list films that they have searched, or are viewing and give, a critical review of its worth? We have just ordered our next 4 films. schooltombo for Negombo 1212893, Baptism index Dutch reformed church 1806 to 1861,1495574. De Meuron Regiment.1514780 and Registrations Births and Marriages Ceylon 1677 to 1990, 1610373. Any listers who have a family interest in any of these please let us know so we can jot down details...We have the list of interests from the last lookups, so just new ones please. We have a few answers from our last two films for some listers that we will put on the site over the next week. We have had to live in a caravan for a month, and move everything out of the house, and as we have just moved in again all our books and research material have to be unpacked. It will be good to get back to the normal routines !! Thank you David and Anne for the Times Bedfordshire online library. I spent a good part of last night researching my mothers line, Perrott, with great success !! There is another great site called www.openlibrary.org which has old books out of copyright and searchable and printable on it..We downloaded One Hundred Years in Ceylon, or, The Centenary Volume of the Church Missionary Society in Ceylon 1818- 1918. Names being researched by listers noted were Layard and Dowbiggin. It also lists all CMS Sinhalese and Tamil Clergy too.There is also an interesting bibliography list in the front of the book. Keep up the sharing of information, it is what makes this list so great to be a part of, L&C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Camilla Barlow" <ceebee123@swiftdsl.com.au> To: "List Mail Srilanka" <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] LDS file of SL microfilms of Ceylon > Goodness me! This is a hard way to go. By the way it doesn't take you back > to the LDS library. Surely it is easier to go to the Library yourself and > search for what you want. > I didn't reply on my behalf. I was trying to help Christopher. I am very > familiar with the LDS and Sri Lanka research. > Camilla > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jennifer van der Greft" <jennifergreft@gmail.com> > To: <christopher.merry@ntlworld.com> > Cc: "Camilla Barlow" <ceebee123@swiftdsl.com.au> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:33 AM > Subject: LDS file of SL microfilms of Ceylon > > >> Hello Christopher and Camilla, >> I saw the correspondence just now, attached is the SL list in excel >> for all the films in the LDS library. I got so tangled up in their >> many windows I decided to make a list, there are 4232 film titles. >> >> After you have downloaded the excel file into your computer, leave the >> internet on - click on one of the blue lines of the file, it will >> bring you automatically to the LDS site and to the written information >> pertaining to the microfilm. >> Again this is not the genealogy information but it is the file name >> and number so that you can order it for viewing in whatever city you >> are living. Your local LDS has to order it from Salt Lake city, Utah, >> USA. >> When you want to go back to the excel file you either press on the top >> left corner BACK, or you on the bottom bar of your screen you press on >> your excell file tab and you are back into the file. >> >> the LDS has many centers around the world, look up if they have a >> center in the city where you live - IF they do have a >> center there or close(!) by, call them and tell them you want to order >> micro films and what is the procedure. >> >> Regards, >> Jennifer >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Karen, the other way of spelling Pyster = Peister, Pijster, Peyster and Peijster Keep an eye out for those names as depending on the clerk who wrote what he heard not what they told him to write the name. regards, Jennifer On 21/04/07, Peter Townsend <petert2@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Coreen & Larry, > > Thankyou for that and yes have dropped an email and see what I can come up with. > > If anyone else can help me with my search it would be much appreciated. > > Kindest Regards > > Karen Bell > New Zealand > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Coreen/Larry, I am going to try this for a missing relative we believe moved from 'Malaya' to India. We've lost track of her children/family. Perhaps this will help. Thanks for the tip. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Coreen & Larry Andresen" <larryadsl@qld.chariot.net.au> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Pyster > Peter, type pyster ceylon in google and there are two contacts for this > family in India and Ceylon with good data. Happy hunting,Cheers, Coreen > and > Larry Andresen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Townsend" <petert2@slingshot.co.nz> > To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:52 PM > Subject: [SRILANKA] Pyster > > >> Hello Listers, >> >> This is the first time I have posted to this list. >> >> I was wondering if anyone could help me with advice etc as to how I could >> find out anything about my GGG Grandfather. >> >> All I know is: >> >> His name was Charles Edward Pyster and he was born on the 2nd November >> 1822 in Colombo. >> >> I have no idea of his parents or if any siblings etc. >> >> I am unable to trace back any further as that is where it ends. Can >> someone please advise me or help me in being able to shed some light on >> this part of our family. My mother is close to 80yrs old and I would >> love >> to be able to tell her of some news on her GG Grandfather. >> >> Many many thanks >> >> Karen Bell >> New Zealand >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 153 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len

Hi David & Camilla, Thankyou for that David, this would be his son born 1855 to his second wife. Have been unable to find out anything on him till your information. Camilla, my GGG Grandfather was a Civil Surgeon. He went to Medical School in Calcutta. He died in 1883 in Assam. Kind Regards Karen

Thanks Karen. I thought I may be able to help if he was a planter. Good luck, Camilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Townsend" <petert2@slingshot.co.nz> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 6:53 PM Subject: [SRILANKA] Pyster > Hi David & Camilla, > > Thankyou for that David, this would be his son born 1855 to his second > wife. Have been unable to find out anything on him till your information. > > Camilla, my GGG Grandfather was a Civil Surgeon. He went to Medical > School in Calcutta. He died in 1883 in Assam. > > Kind Regards > > Karen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello Listers, Still no luck at all in my search for Andrew ORR who was a planter in Ceylon in 1848 when his Son Alexander was born. Being an eternal optimist - thought I'd pop him on the list again 'just in case'. :-)) Best wishes, Christine