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    1. [SRILANKA] Marriage Registers Dutch Churches cont
    2. Larry & Coreen Andresen
    3. Schokman-Ebert Kellar-Wallace Pritchett-Collette Hunter-Spendewinde Pollocks-Jansz Archer-Keyt McClaine-Town Schokman-Kelaart Ohlmus-Speldewinde Heyzer-Heyzer Joseph-van Geyzel Koch-De Silva Ebert-Ebert Martenstyn-Ohlmus de Vos-Austin Daviot-Aldons de Kretsner-Schokman Metzeling-de Run Mack-Toussaint Grabau-de Kretsner Kelly-Gauder That is the Marriage Register Entries for the moment, we think there are two more churches to go on this film . Remember, this is the ...PRIMARY SOURCE... the Honest to God, Ridgey Didge, Fair Dinkum entry which has the signature of the blushing bride and eager groom as well as their age, address, occupation, and fathers occupation,( whether working, retired or dead.) These are the only British Ceylon marriage entries we have seen that are not just the Reverends' entry in a Circuit Visitation Book, which is then transcribed by hand into the main Church register ,which was then typed into a GROOM ALPHA LIST in the early 1900s, which then appeared on LDS film 1496387 and others, in the 1990s. The Research worth of this film is PRICELESS, and again we plea that someone gives us guidance how to put this information out there for FREEEE, for all researchers to access, before it is Commercially exploited. There is a huge project on at the moment by the LDS and Ancestry.com to transcribe all records that the LDS have. This may mean complete commercialisation of the site, pay for viewing in the near future. for more information see The EASTMAN Letters. We know that by putting this plea on this website the lurkers, shirkers, and the ancestral arboreal tea leafs have already used information supplied to grow their databases and family forests, with no time, effort, or verification of facts. This doesn't deter us from helping others, and sharing our original research which is all aimed at finding out who was Captain (of what?) James Thomas Anderson. He turns up in Jaffna in 1803, to marry a Toussaint girl, has several children with her, she dies, he remarries in Galle, a young de Vos lady,( widow van Alken) and has one child by her. He has variously been called an Englishman, a Scotsman, and a Dutchman. We have looked at Church records from England, Scotland, Holland, Batavia, Mauritius, and the Cape Colony to name a few. We have Anderson Wills from England, Scotland, and Holland, but no advancement made. We have seen websites that change the Ceylon Army Captain James Anderson to Captain James Thomas Anderson, we know he was only James Anderson as we have his baptism, military record, death in Scotland and Will, but still he shows as Captain James Thomas Anderson on a revamped website, touting financial gain from unsuspecting viewers. The Military lists, embarkation lists, EIC ships list, and Madras and Ceylon Civil Service lists have been scoured for the period 1800 to 1840, but no clues !! The breakthrough last year at The Hague with the then unknown child James Robbert Anderson ( yes that is how the Rev Palm spelt it) gave us renewed hope that we can further our research beyond Ceylon for the Anderson line, and leave a lasting research legacy to our children, and their children, and ad infinitum. KOSAH !! KEEP ON SEARCHING AND HOPING !!! And Sharing Original Research !! Coreen&Larry, in a warm, wet North Qld.

    06/03/2007 04:22:00