Hello Larry and Coreen Happy New Year from Canada! What a wonderful adventure you have had researching, and I am eager to take you up on your offer of a look up, the chances of ever finding BMD info from Sri Lanka (Ceylon days) is very slim! I am looking for: Charles Peter Layard born December 9, 1806 Thank you for your help Regards Jane, Ottawa, Ontario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry & Coreen Andresen" <larry@qldnet.com.au> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:32 PM Subject: [SRILANKA] British Ceylon christening records in The Hague >A number of microfiche with christenings from 1804 to 1840 are located > in the Dutch Genealogy Research library room. > Finding these British era records in Holland, was the jewel in the crown > of a round the world research trip that took in > 1. LDS records and Library in Salt Lake City. > 2. The Dutch Archives and Genealogy library in The Hague. > 3. The India Office Records, British Library, Newspaper Library, > National Archives, and the Society of Genealogists library in England > 4. St Stephen's Church, Negombo, and numerous other derelict churches > and desecrated cemeteries on the west coast of > Sri Lanka. > The English/Dutch records showed 2 entries for Anderson, which is our > primary research target. > One record is directly connected to our family... Captain James Thomas > Anderson and Adriana Gertruijda Toussaint. > The record is in Dutch, but the following information is clearly > decipherable. > the child James Robbert ) born 1 month > son of James Thomas Anderson and Adriana Gertruijda Toussaint > Godparents John Frederick Toussaint , Bernard Hendrik Toussaint, > Elisabeth Robertino vander Sprinkel and .........Willemsz > Jaffanapatnam Sun 22nd March 1810 > Minister signature. J B Palm > There was a report of 4 daughters and 2 sons in the Anderson family in > Lewis's book, but DBU records only ever showed 1 son. > > The second Anderson record is for Sophia, daughter of Jame and Susanna > Anderson born 2nd Nov 1806. > God parents John Prior and Mary Edwards Minister signature ... > Cadenski. Trincomale..10 Nov 1806 > > The records seem to be in a church circuit book which has entries for > Jaffna and Trincomale only > 1806 records > 2 Meeawald > 1 Trip > 1 Anderson > 1807 > 1 Gilbert > 1810 > 1 Anderson > 1814 > 1 von Conrady > 1 Wiltig > 1de Silva > 1 Stomp > 1 van den Driesen > 1 Aldons > We are willing to do lookups and share information with fellow > researchers, and will post further names to the list each week. > Larry & Coreen Andresen (nee Anderson) > > ------------------------------- > 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 Dylan (love that famous name btw) Yes, I believe I am related to Gerard Leembruggen. I am still trying to get all the Leembruggen connections straightened out in my head. It may take awhile ;-) Yes, my husband is Kallberg--two little letters make a world of difference. He is Norwegian and Swedish, though he looks very Dutch. Or at least I thought so until we were in Norway last week and everyone came up to him speaking Norwegian. We smiled and responded in Dutch ;-) Thanks for writing, Dylan. Canada must be cold now, n'est pas? Beth

Hi Beth, My stepdad is Kalenberg (not Kallberg) and his aunt Rachel married Gerald or Gerard Leembruggen. He inquired if you were connected in any way Dylan Modder -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:25 PM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya It's not all that far from the Grand Hotel, down the road a bit, then left, then another left if memory serves. I can't remember any specific landmarks as with your family's holiday cottage and the area has changed alot since we left. We could see Single Tree from the back of the house-- but then lots of people could probably see that from their back gardens ;-) My cousin went to a boarding school where she could look out her window and see us playing in the garden. Does that help? Interesting that the address still remains Lebanon, NE, Sri Lanka, or so it was until 1994. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Where is "Lebanon" located in Nuwara Eliya? > Most of my memories are at "Rosy Lodge" where my wifes family had a > holiday bungalow right behind where he Cargills Store is right now. > > The place was later rented to a bank and its sad to see it so > dilapidated now with concrete business buldings looming upwards from the > flower beds that used to be. > > Fazli > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Beth > Leembruggen-Kallberg > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:36 PM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > This brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes I am > so ,,homesick,, for a touch of our culture, where ever it is. > We celebrated our anniversary in Mel in June. It was wonderful > to be with family, shop for ,,Ceylon,, food stuffs at the > Hindustani import store in Dandenong, to eat Sunday > night hoppers at Greenlands, and just pop ,,up the road,, for > Vattalappam! > Of course, there are good things about the Netherlands and we make the > best > of our life here. But there's no real substitute for those shared > things like N'Eliya, Lanka and that cultural world as it once > was, when we lived together in peace. I'm sure I idealise it. > Wishing you happy holidays and greetings from a very > chilly Holland. Please greet Jayson from me as well, > though we've not met. He would be surprised > to see Lebanon; that area is much changed, > but is still a beauty. Thank you for writing. Blessings. > Beth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:52 AM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Beth, >> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place > esp >> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice > name >> is >> Jayson says: >> >> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Hello Mr Warner, >>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very > beautiful. >>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara > Eliya >>> web >>> site) >>> >>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>> Beth >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Good Morning List, >>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, > as it >>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have > any >>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister > were >>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>> E. Warner >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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Guys, You all kindled my insides too much and I simply couldn't resist the temptation to draft a sample web design titled "The Nuwara Eliya we knew" on Googlepages for review and more input from everyone. Lets hear your comments, suggestions, and also articles, stories, pics and whatever else you can remember or search. Its still a beta site so take it easy on the criticism, smile! The URL is as follows:- http://sgenweb.googlepages.com/home Regards Fazli -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of P.J.Seebregts Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:21 PM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya Hi Fazli, its' a great poem and yes I think it a great idea to have a google page for the group. Beth I am sure this make you long for the old days. regards Pieter > Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), > remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills > upcountry. > > It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back to > old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand > old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and strong, > at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! > > Fazli > ===== > Nuwara Eliya > > Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, > There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. > There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. > There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. > > Drive me round the vast open spaces, > There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. > There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. > There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. > > Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, > There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. > There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. > There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. > > Take me down to the lush green Plains. > There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. > There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. > There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. > > > Fazli Sameer > Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Greetings from Canada! > I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to > Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called > Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were > very > grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post > attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever > owned > it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. > > This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of > Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the > daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six > children, > twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a > well > known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is > mention > of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry > Austin > Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. > > Any information welcome > Best wishes to all > Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >> >> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >> family. The property, the houses known >> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to > Dr >> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, > now >> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >> >> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de > Kretser >> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in > 1994, >> unless she has sold it >> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite > massive >> place at one time, >> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >> snaps >> of Harry >> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending > to >> the >> rose bushes. >> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and > he >> will >> be 90 next year! And >> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >> >> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, > Nesta >> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done > it >> up >> well. I am >> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >> >> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >> >> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>> Regards >>>> Hugh >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Beth, >>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for > its >>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite > place >>>>> esp >>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose > practice >>>>> name is >>>>> Jayson says: >>>>> >>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can > see >>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation > allows-- >>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>> Eliya >>>>>> web >>>>>> site) >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>> Beth >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little > England, as >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone > have >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his > sister >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is > not >>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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Hi Fazli, its' a great poem and yes I think it a great idea to have a google page for the group. Beth I am sure this make you long for the old days. regards Pieter > Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), > remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills > upcountry. > > It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back to > old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand > old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and strong, > at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! > > Fazli > ===== > Nuwara Eliya > > Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, > There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. > There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. > There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. > > Drive me round the vast open spaces, > There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. > There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. > There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. > > Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, > There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. > There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. > There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. > > Take me down to the lush green Plains. > There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. > There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. > There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. > > > Fazli Sameer > Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Greetings from Canada! > I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to > Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called > Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were > very > grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post > attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever > owned > it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. > > This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of > Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the > daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six > children, > twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a > well > known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is > mention > of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry > Austin > Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. > > Any information welcome > Best wishes to all > Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >> >> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >> family. The property, the houses known >> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to > Dr >> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, > now >> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >> >> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de > Kretser >> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in > 1994, >> unless she has sold it >> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite > massive >> place at one time, >> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >> snaps >> of Harry >> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending > to >> the >> rose bushes. >> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and > he >> will >> be 90 next year! And >> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >> >> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, > Nesta >> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done > it >> up >> well. I am >> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >> >> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >> >> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>> Regards >>>> Hugh >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Beth, >>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for > its >>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite > place >>>>> esp >>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose > practice >>>>> name is >>>>> Jayson says: >>>>> >>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can > see >>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation > allows-- >>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>> Eliya >>>>>> web >>>>>> site) >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>> Beth >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little > England, as >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone > have >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his > sister >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is > not >>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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Yes, Beth. Please give me all you've got from N'Eliya and we can put it together and create a great page that will be linked to the Genealogy site. I was thinking wjhether we should create it on GOOGLEPAGES as a separate site? Let me do a beta and send it across for others to view and respond back before we can finalize it completely. Any titbit about N'Eliya, its places, people, events, memories, landscapes, homes, estates, streets, etc will be welcome. Fazli -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:47 PM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya Thank you, thank you, thank you Fazli! It will take a bit for me to scan some of the old photos and the new that I have. You may use as you wish. Do you want us to throw a "memory bone" your way for the webpage ;-) Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Jane, > > Please send me the pics by email attachment and I will have them > uploaded to the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website under a new page that I am > working on, titled "Nuwara Eliya - The Little England in Ceylon" which > will contain stories f places, people, events, homes, and the beautiful > landscapes in Nuwara Eliya. > > Kind Regards > > Fazli Sameer > Webmaster > Sri Lanka Genealogy Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw > > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Greetings from Canada! > I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to > Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called > Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were > very > grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post > attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever > owned > it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. > > This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of > Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the > daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six > children, > twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a > well > known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is > mention > of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry > Austin > Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. > > Any information welcome > Best wishes to all > Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >> >> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >> family. The property, the houses known >> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to > Dr >> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, > now >> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >> >> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de > Kretser >> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in > 1994, >> unless she has sold it >> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite > massive >> place at one time, >> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >> snaps >> of Harry >> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending > to >> the >> rose bushes. >> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and > he >> will >> be 90 next year! And >> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >> >> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, > Nesta >> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done > it >> up >> well. I am >> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >> >> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >> >> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>> Regards >>>> Hugh >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Beth, >>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for > its >>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite > place >>>>> esp >>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose > practice >>>>> name is >>>>> Jayson says: >>>>> >>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can > see >>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation > allows-- >>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>> Eliya >>>>>> web >>>>>> site) >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>> Beth >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little > England, as >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone > have >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his > sister >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is > not >>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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Thanks, Fazli, for sharing this and the info about Ms Nicholas. I was learning that very tune--about the same time in life--on distant shores, an assimulation driven world away. But that's the wonderful thing about culture. "They" can't shame or bully it out of us. For all its short comings, I am happy primary aged children are taught a multi-cultural world view in many countries. We are fighting the Integration v Assimilation battle in NL these days. Our cultural roots are so very important to identity and place in the world, no matter where we end up. (I guess I need to finally publish that dissertation! ;-) Looking forward to the webpage. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), > remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills > upcountry. > > It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back to > old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand > old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and strong, > at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! > > Fazli > ===== > Nuwara Eliya > > Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, > There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. > There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. > There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. > > Drive me round the vast open spaces, > There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. > There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. > There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. > > Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, > There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. > There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. > There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. > > Take me down to the lush green Plains. > There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. > There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. > There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. > > > Fazli Sameer > Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Greetings from Canada! > I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to > Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called > Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were > very > grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post > attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever > owned > it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. > > This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of > Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the > daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six > children, > twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a > well > known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is > mention > of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry > Austin > Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. > > Any information welcome > Best wishes to all > Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >> >> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >> family. The property, the houses known >> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to > Dr >> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, > now >> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >> >> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de > Kretser >> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in > 1994, >> unless she has sold it >> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite > massive >> place at one time, >> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >> snaps >> of Harry >> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending > to >> the >> rose bushes. >> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and > he >> will >> be 90 next year! And >> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >> >> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, > Nesta >> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done > it >> up >> well. I am >> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >> >> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >> >> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>> Regards >>>> Hugh >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Beth, >>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for > its >>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite > place >>>>> esp >>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose > practice >>>>> name is >>>>> Jayson says: >>>>> >>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can > see >>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation > allows-- >>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>> Eliya >>>>>> web >>>>>> site) >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>> Beth >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little > England, as >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone > have >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his > sister >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is > not >>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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Thank you, thank you, thank you Fazli! It will take a bit for me to scan some of the old photos and the new that I have. You may use as you wish. Do you want us to throw a "memory bone" your way for the webpage ;-) Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Jane, > > Please send me the pics by email attachment and I will have them > uploaded to the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website under a new page that I am > working on, titled "Nuwara Eliya - The Little England in Ceylon" which > will contain stories f places, people, events, homes, and the beautiful > landscapes in Nuwara Eliya. > > Kind Regards > > Fazli Sameer > Webmaster > Sri Lanka Genealogy Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw > > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Greetings from Canada! > I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to > Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called > Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were > very > grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post > attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever > owned > it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. > > This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of > Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the > daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six > children, > twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a > well > known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is > mention > of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry > Austin > Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. > > Any information welcome > Best wishes to all > Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >> >> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >> family. The property, the houses known >> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to > Dr >> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, > now >> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >> >> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de > Kretser >> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in > 1994, >> unless she has sold it >> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite > massive >> place at one time, >> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >> snaps >> of Harry >> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending > to >> the >> rose bushes. >> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and > he >> will >> be 90 next year! And >> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >> >> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, > Nesta >> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done > it >> up >> well. I am >> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >> >> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >> >> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>> Regards >>>> Hugh >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Beth, >>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for > its >>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite > place >>>>> esp >>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose > practice >>>>> name is >>>>> Jayson says: >>>>> >>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can > see >>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation > allows-- >>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>> Eliya >>>>>> web >>>>>> site) >>>>>> >>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>> Beth >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little > England, as >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone > have >>>>>>> any >>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his > sister >>>>>>> were >>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is > not >>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are > addressed. 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well done! Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Guys, > > You all kindled my insides too much and I simply couldn't resist the > temptation to draft a sample web design titled "The Nuwara Eliya we > knew" on Googlepages for review and more input from everyone. > > Lets hear your comments, suggestions, and also articles, stories, pics > and whatever else you can remember or search. > > Its still a beta site so take it easy on the criticism, smile! > > The URL is as follows:- http://sgenweb.googlepages.com/home > > Regards > > Fazli > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of P.J.Seebregts > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:21 PM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > Hi Fazli, > > its' a great poem and yes I think it a great idea to have a google page > for the group. Beth I am sure this make you long for the old days. > > regards > > Pieter > > >> Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), >> remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills >> upcountry. >> >> It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back > to >> old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand >> old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and > strong, >> at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! >> >> Fazli >> ===== >> Nuwara Eliya >> >> Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, >> There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. >> There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. >> There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. >> >> Drive me round the vast open spaces, >> There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. >> There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. >> There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. >> >> Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, >> There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. >> There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. >> There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. >> >> Take me down to the lush green Plains. >> There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. >> There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. >> There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. >> >> >> Fazli Sameer >> Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic >> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM >> To: srilanka@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> Greetings from Canada! >> I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection > to >> Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called >> Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were >> very >> grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post >> attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever >> owned >> it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. >> >> This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of >> Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was > the >> daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six >> children, >> twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a >> well >> known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is >> mention >> of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry >> Austin >> Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. >> >> Any information welcome >> Best wishes to all >> Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >> To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Hi Prasanna and Huge, >>> >>> Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my >>> family. The property, the houses known >>> as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to >> Dr >>> Harry Leembruggen. His daughter >>> Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, >> now >>> deceased. Both passed away in the US, >>> having immigrated there in the 1950's. >>> >>> Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de >> Kretser >>> family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon >>> in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in >> 1994, >>> unless she has sold it >>> on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite >> massive >>> place at one time, >>> or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful >>> snaps >>> of Harry >>> walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending >> to >>> the >>> rose bushes. >>> Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and >> he >>> will >>> be 90 next year! And >>> my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. >>> >>> Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, >> Nesta >>> Brohier, who died in 1995. It is >>> now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've > done >> it >>> up >>> well. I am >>> sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! >>> >>> Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. >>> >>> Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM >>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Yet another offering dear Beth: >>>> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>>>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>>>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>>>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>>>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>>>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>>>> Regards >>>>> Hugh >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >>>> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >>>> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Beth, >>>>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for >> its >>>>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite >> place >>>>>> esp >>>>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one >> such >>>>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose >> practice >>>>>> name is >>>>>> Jayson says: >>>>>> >>>>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn > De >>>>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can >> see >>>>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>>>> >> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 >> 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>>>> beautiful. >>>>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation >> allows-- >>>>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>>>> Eliya >>>>>>> web >>>>>>> site) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>>>> Beth >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little >> England, as >>>>>>>> it >>>>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation > of >> Sri >>>>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone >> have >>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his >> sister >>>>>>>> were >>>>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is >> not >>>>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended >> solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are >> addressed. 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Heres a poem titled "Nuwara Eliya" which I wrote last year (2005), remembering the halcyon times we used to spend in those hallowed hills upcountry. It can be sung to the tune of the old negro spiritual, "Carry me back to old Virginy", if any of you still do remember, a tune which the grand old Burgher music teacher, Ms Nicholas, drove into us, hard and strong, at Royal Primary School in the early fifties. God Bless her soul! Fazli ===== Nuwara Eliya Rail me back to Nuwara Eliya, There's where the tea and the pears and berries grow. There's where the streams trickle sweet in the springtime. There's where the mist in the morning hangs low. Drive me round the vast open spaces, There's where the dairy and the meat and veggies grow. There's where the horses neigh snorting in the sunshine. There's where the flowers bloom brightly from their bough. Walk me up old Piduru-tala-gala, There's where the fauna and the wily old fox roams. There's where the rocks are hewn all over nature. There's where true peace reigns calm in our home. Take me down to the lush green Plains. There's where the birds and the bees and fauna go. There's where the world seems to end in its lifetime. There's where the beauty of life seems to flow. Fazli Sameer Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005 -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya Greetings from Canada! I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were very grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever owned it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six children, twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a well known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is mention of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry Austin Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. Any information welcome Best wishes to all Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Hi Prasanna and Huge, > > Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my > family. The property, the houses known > as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to Dr > Harry Leembruggen. His daughter > Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, now > deceased. Both passed away in the US, > having immigrated there in the 1950's. > > Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de Kretser > family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon > in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in 1994, > unless she has sold it > on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite massive > place at one time, > or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful > snaps > of Harry > walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending to > the > rose bushes. > Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and he > will > be 90 next year! And > my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. > > Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, Nesta > Brohier, who died in 1995. It is > now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done it > up > well. I am > sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! > > Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. > > Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <ealk@wxs.nl> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM > Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Yet another offering dear Beth: >> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>> Regards >>> Hugh >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Beth, >>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place >>>> esp >>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such >>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice >>>> name is >>>> Jayson says: >>>> >>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>> beautiful. >>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>> Eliya >>>>> web >>>>> site) >>>>> >>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>> Beth >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as >>>>>> it >>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have >>>>>> any >>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister >>>>>> were >>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 ------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which they are addressed. 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Jane, Please send me the pics by email attachment and I will have them uploaded to the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website under a new page that I am working on, titled "Nuwara Eliya - The Little England in Ceylon" which will contain stories f places, people, events, homes, and the beautiful landscapes in Nuwara Eliya. Kind Regards Fazli Sameer Webmaster Sri Lanka Genealogy Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~lkawgw -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:14 AM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya Greetings from Canada! I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were very grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever owned it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six children, twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a well known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is mention of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry Austin Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. Any information welcome Best wishes to all Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Hi Prasanna and Huge, > > Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my > family. The property, the houses known > as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to Dr > Harry Leembruggen. His daughter > Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, now > deceased. Both passed away in the US, > having immigrated there in the 1950's. > > Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de Kretser > family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon > in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in 1994, > unless she has sold it > on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite massive > place at one time, > or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful > snaps > of Harry > walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending to > the > rose bushes. > Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and he > will > be 90 next year! And > my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. > > Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, Nesta > Brohier, who died in 1995. It is > now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done it > up > well. I am > sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! > > Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. > > Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <ealk@wxs.nl> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM > Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Yet another offering dear Beth: >> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>> Regards >>> Hugh >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Beth, >>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place >>>> esp >>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such >>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice >>>> name is >>>> Jayson says: >>>> >>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 1&picturesize=medium.) >>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>> beautiful. >>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>> Eliya >>>>> web >>>>> site) >>>>> >>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>> Beth >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as >>>>>> it >>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have >>>>>> any >>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister >>>>>> were >>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>> E. 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It's not all that far from the Grand Hotel, down the road a bit, then left, then another left if memory serves. I can't remember any specific landmarks as with your family's holiday cottage and the area has changed alot since we left. We could see Single Tree from the back of the house-- but then lots of people could probably see that from their back gardens ;-) My cousin went to a boarding school where she could look out her window and see us playing in the garden. Does that help? Interesting that the address still remains Lebanon, NE, Sri Lanka, or so it was until 1994. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Fazli" <mfazli@alfaisaliah.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Where is "Lebanon" located in Nuwara Eliya? > Most of my memories are at "Rosy Lodge" where my wifes family had a > holiday bungalow right behind where he Cargills Store is right now. > > The place was later rented to a bank and its sad to see it so > dilapidated now with concrete business buldings looming upwards from the > flower beds that used to be. > > Fazli > > -----Original Message----- > From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Beth > Leembruggen-Kallberg > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:36 PM > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > This brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes I am > so ,,homesick,, for a touch of our culture, where ever it is. > We celebrated our anniversary in Mel in June. It was wonderful > to be with family, shop for ,,Ceylon,, food stuffs at the > Hindustani import store in Dandenong, to eat Sunday > night hoppers at Greenlands, and just pop ,,up the road,, for > Vattalappam! > Of course, there are good things about the Netherlands and we make the > best > of our life here. But there's no real substitute for those shared > things like N'Eliya, Lanka and that cultural world as it once > was, when we lived together in peace. I'm sure I idealise it. > Wishing you happy holidays and greetings from a very > chilly Holland. Please greet Jayson from me as well, > though we've not met. He would be surprised > to see Lebanon; that area is much changed, > but is still a beauty. Thank you for writing. Blessings. > Beth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:52 AM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Beth, >> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place > esp >> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one > such >> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice > name >> is >> Jayson says: >> >> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Hello Mr Warner, >>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>> > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 > 1&picturesize=medium.) >>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very > beautiful. >>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara > Eliya >>> web >>> site) >>> >>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>> Beth >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Good Morning List, >>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, > as it >>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of > Sri >>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have > any >>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister > were >>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>> E. 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By the way, does Mr Hugh know Uncle Dick? (He was Aurthur Richard Ephraums, hence, Dick to family). I would love to chat with someone who knew him from his time on the island. He also had a brother, Roderik. They were blind piano tuners and had an island-wide business before he immigrated. And yes, the family did own hotels on the island, inherited from Dick's parents. Regards, Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Yet another offering dear Beth: > Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >> Regards >> Hugh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <ealk@wxs.nl> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM > Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> >> >> >> >>> Beth, >>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place esp >>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such >>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice >>> name is >>> Jayson says: >>> >>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=21&picturesize=medium.) >>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very beautiful. >>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara Eliya >>>> web >>>> site) >>>> >>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>> Beth >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as >>>>> it >>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have >>>>> any >>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister >>>>> were >>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>> E. Warner >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 Prasanna and Huge, Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my family. The property, the houses known as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to Dr Harry Leembruggen. His daughter Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, now deceased. Both passed away in the US, having immigrated there in the 1950's. Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de Kretser family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in 1994, unless she has sold it on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite massive place at one time, or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful snaps of Harry walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending to the rose bushes. Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and he will be 90 next year! And my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, Nesta Brohier, who died in 1995. It is now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done it up well. I am sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Yet another offering dear Beth: > Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >> Regards >> Hugh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <ealk@wxs.nl> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM > Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> >> >> >> >>> Beth, >>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place esp >>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such >>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice >>> name is >>> Jayson says: >>> >>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>> >>> >>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=21&picturesize=medium.) >>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very beautiful. >>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara Eliya >>>> web >>>> site) >>>> >>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>> Beth >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as >>>>> it >>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have >>>>> any >>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister >>>>> were >>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>> E. Warner >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> > >

Beth, I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place esp when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice name is Jayson says: I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Hello Mr Warner, > I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know > about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my > life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see > a snap of a portion of the house at > http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=21&picturesize=medium.) > NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very beautiful. > Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an > overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- > do visit. It is a wonderful place. > http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) > http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm > http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) > http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara Eliya > web > site) > > Greetings from the Netherlands. > Beth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <e.e.warner@att.net> > To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM > Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Good Morning List, >> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as it >> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have any >> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister were >> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> E. Warner >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >

Greetings from Canada! I am interested in any memories any of you may have of my connection to Nuwara Eliya.........the house which I have an interest in was called Grimsthorpe, though the last pictures I have of it taken in 2004 were very grim.( I could send the pictures but I believe we are not to post attachments to the list?) It was abandoned and in ruins but who ever owned it and the property were then trying to sell it I was told. This home was the residence of Barbara Layard the youngest daughter of Charles Edward Layard and Barbara Bridgetina (nee Mooyaart) She was the daughter of a Dutch governor and she and Charles had twenty-six children, twenty-two of whom lived to adulthood. Barbara, I am told was quite a well known watercolorist. She never married as far as I know but there is mention of her in several web sites, and in the travel memoirs of Sir Henry Austin Layard and his wife Inid (nee Guest) when they toured Ceylon. Any information welcome Best wishes to all Jane, Ottawa Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> To: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com>; <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Hi Prasanna and Huge, > > Actually, I know the story of Lebanon well, because it was part of my > family. The property, the houses known > as Big Lebanon and Little Lebanon were part of an estate belonging to Dr > Harry Leembruggen. His daughter > Gladys, married (Arthur) Dick Ephraums--they are my aunt and uncle, now > deceased. Both passed away in the US, > having immigrated there in the 1950's. > > Lebanon was left to ,,Aunt Dulcie,, who later sold it to the de Kretser > family. I visited the de K's at Lebanon > in 1980. Lebanon is now owned by Iris Jayaweera, whom I also met in 1994, > unless she has sold it > on. There is little book written about the place. It was a quite massive > place at one time, > or so it seemed to me, with large gardens, etc. I have some wonderful > snaps > of Harry > walking about the lawns, playing with the dogs, the gardener tending to > the > rose bushes. > Lebanon been around for sometime as my father lived there as boy and he > will > be 90 next year! And > my parents spent part of their honeymoon there in 1944. > > Dick Ephraums indeed owned the NOH in Galle, along with his sister, Nesta > Brohier, who died in 1995. It is > now owned by a luxury resort complex whose name I forget. They've done it > up > well. I am > sure Aunt Nesta is looking down and smiling, but missing her garden! > > Thanks for this walk down memory lane! Greetings & best wishes. > > Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> > To: <ealk@wxs.nl> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:13 AM > Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Yet another offering dear Beth: >> Prasanna, that house -Lebanon belonged to Arthur Ephraums >>> and when he died in 1941 his wife took up residence >>> there.Arthur Ephraums was a hotelier owning at various times >>> the NOH in Galle, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Globe Hotel, >>> and lived at Yalta on Flower Road. Lebanon was for many >>> years a boarding house after Mrs Ephraums passed on. >>> Regards >>> Hugh >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: " Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> >> To: <ealk@wxs.nl> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:06 PM >> Subject: Fw: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Beth, >>>> I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its >>>> invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place >>>> esp >>>> when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such >>>> chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice >>>> name is >>>> Jayson says: >>>> >>>> I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De >>>> Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> >>>> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello Mr Warner, >>>>> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >>>>> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >>>>> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >>>>> a snap of a portion of the house at >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=21&picturesize=medium.) >>>>> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very >>>>> beautiful. >>>>> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >>>>> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >>>>> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >>>>> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >>>>> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >>>>> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >>>>> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara >>>>> Eliya >>>>> web >>>>> site) >>>>> >>>>> Greetings from the Netherlands. >>>>> Beth >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >>>>> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >>>>> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Good Morning List, >>>>>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as >>>>>> it >>>>>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>>>>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have >>>>>> any >>>>>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister >>>>>> were >>>>>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>>>>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>>>>> E. Warner >>>>>> >>>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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

Where is "Lebanon" located in Nuwara Eliya? Most of my memories are at "Rosy Lodge" where my wifes family had a holiday bungalow right behind where he Cargills Store is right now. The place was later rented to a bank and its sad to see it so dilapidated now with concrete business buldings looming upwards from the flower beds that used to be. Fazli -----Original Message----- From: srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:srilanka-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:36 PM To: srilanka@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya This brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes I am so ,,homesick,, for a touch of our culture, where ever it is. We celebrated our anniversary in Mel in June. It was wonderful to be with family, shop for ,,Ceylon,, food stuffs at the Hindustani import store in Dandenong, to eat Sunday night hoppers at Greenlands, and just pop ,,up the road,, for Vattalappam! Of course, there are good things about the Netherlands and we make the best of our life here. But there's no real substitute for those shared things like N'Eliya, Lanka and that cultural world as it once was, when we lived together in peace. I'm sure I idealise it. Wishing you happy holidays and greetings from a very chilly Holland. Please greet Jayson from me as well, though we've not met. He would be surprised to see Lebanon; that area is much changed, but is still a beauty. Thank you for writing. Blessings. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Beth, > I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its > invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place esp > when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such > chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice name > is > Jayson says: > > I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De > Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hello Mr Warner, >> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >> a snap of a portion of the house at >> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=2 1&picturesize=medium.) >> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very beautiful. >> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara Eliya >> web >> site) >> >> Greetings from the Netherlands. >> Beth >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Good Morning List, >>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as it >>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have any >>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister were >>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>> E. 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This brings tears to my eyes. Sometimes I am so ,,homesick,, for a touch of our culture, where ever it is. We celebrated our anniversary in Mel in June. It was wonderful to be with family, shop for ,,Ceylon,, food stuffs at the Hindustani import store in Dandenong, to eat Sunday night hoppers at Greenlands, and just pop ,,up the road,, for Vattalappam! Of course, there are good things about the Netherlands and we make the best of our life here. But there's no real substitute for those shared things like N'Eliya, Lanka and that cultural world as it once was, when we lived together in peace. I'm sure I idealise it. Wishing you happy holidays and greetings from a very chilly Holland. Please greet Jayson from me as well, though we've not met. He would be surprised to see Lebanon; that area is much changed, but is still a beauty. Thank you for writing. Blessings. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prasanna Mendis" <prasman@bigpond.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Beth, > I just rec'd your e-m re NEliya and fwd'd it to a few people for its > invaluable links as Little England is every Lankan's favourite place esp > when overseas; we are in Melb - a Little Colombo anyway. And one such > chappie, a succ'ful lawyer here called Ana Jayasinghe whose practice name > is > Jayson says: > > I lived next to "Lebanon" for 2 years in N' Eliya boarded at Lyn De > Kretser's house!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a small world? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dr Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg" <ealk@wxs.nl> > To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com>; <e.e.warner@att.net> > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:58 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > > >> Hello Mr Warner, >> I am happy to assist, even briefly, anyone who wants to know >> about lovely Nuwara Eliya. I spent the first months of my >> life living at "Lebanon", our home in the hill country (you can see >> a snap of a portion of the house at >> http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=376&chapterid=958&picid=21&picturesize=medium.) >> NE has changed since my early years there, but is still very beautiful. >> Here are some websites you might enjoy, providing an >> overview. If you can manage it--if the political situation allows-- >> do visit. It is a wonderful place. >> http://www.greatmirror.com/ (select Sri Lanka, then NE) >> http://www.explorelanka.com/places/hill/n_eliya.htm >> http://www.billwood.com/travel/srilanka/ (travelogue) >> http://www.nuwaraeliya.org/mayor.htm (municipal council of Nuwara Eliya >> web >> site) >> >> Greetings from the Netherlands. >> Beth >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <e.e.warner@att.net> >> To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 3:43 PM >> Subject: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya >> >> >>> Good Morning List, >>> Does any one have any information on Nuwara Eliya, Little England, as it >>> was known in colonial times. It is was primarily a hillstation of Sri >>> Lanka/Ceylon. Besides researching through the LDS, does anyone have any >>> information on Nuwara Eilya. My paternal grandfather and his sister were >>> born there. Unfortunately a trip to London to visit the OIOC is not >>> possible financially nor is paying a researcher. >>> Any ideas would be appreciated. >>> E. Warner >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

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Pity you didn't tell me about that map last year! I guess I could have found the Hill Club. Camilla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Hodgins" <glen.hodgins@sympatico.ca> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Nuwara Eliya > Fellow Ceylon Enthusiasts: > > Does any one happen to have (or know where one can find) a fairly detailed > map of Ceylon indicating the various estates? There's a beautiful one > hanging in the Hill Club in Nurawa Eliya, (which, some day, I hope to be > able to photograph), but I've not been able to find one anywhere else. > > Cheers, > Glen Hodgins > Ottawa,Canada > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >