Thankyou Ann The reference you gave is one of my Tolfreys. William is a very interesting man - son of Samuel. Gay ----- Original Message ----- From: <srilanka-request@rootsweb.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: SRILANKA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Passenger Lists (Peter Townsend) > 2. Re: The Kandyan Wars (athigham) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:54:38 +1200 > From: "Peter Townsend" <petert2@slingshot.co.nz> > Subject: [SRILANKA] Passenger Lists > To: <SRILANKA@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002b01c78bd6$bbee5750$7f01a8c0@PETERT1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Chris, > > Thankyou for your message trust my luck another I can cross off my endless > long list :) > > Regards > > Karen, NZ > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:28:07 +0100 > From: "athigham" <higham@clara.net> > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] The Kandyan Wars > To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <00c101c78bf4$90460ee0$0a07a8c0@win2k> > > > Nothing for Christie & there's just the one brief ref to Tolfrey.......... > > The Kandyan Wars. the British Army in Ceylon 1803-1818 > Chapter 13: The Third War: Rebellion > pp 242 & 243 > > "At the enquiry that followed Eknelligoda's allegation, only two men were > incriminated, a > chief called Madugalle and the Malay Mohandiram who had fled from Sri > Wikrama's wrath at > the time of Pilima Talauva's death in 1811. The Malay was deported to > Batavia and a court > of his fellow chiefs found Madugalle guilty. He was sentenced to two > years' imprisonment > and the confiscation of his goods, but Brownrigg released him at the time > of the 1817 > Perahera. There were further rumours of unrest in 1816 also, but the > reports on this > occasion originated from William Tolfrey, the probable author of > 'Gentleman on the Spot', > who had replaced D'Oyly in the post of Chief Translator. Tolfrey, > however, died insane in > February, with the result that Brownrigg discounted the truth of his > warnings." > > regards > Anne H. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gay Williams" <gayw@ihug.co.nz> > To: <SRILANKA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:34 AM > Subject: [SRILANKA] The Kandyan Wars > > >> Hello Anne H >> >> My ancestors in Ceylon were Dr Thomas Christie and Samuel Tolfrey. I >> would be most > grateful for any Christie or Tolfrey data from the book. >> >> Gay >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 contact the SRILANKA list administrator, send an email to > SRILANKA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SRILANKA mailing list, send an email to > SRILANKA@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of SRILANKA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49 > *************************************** > >