Larry and Coreen, Thank you for the information about the Wait's in the "Ceylon Book". It may be a possible link. I also found the following: Pages 421 to 424 of Ferguson's Ceylon Directory for 1884 has some notes on 'Old Ceylon Colonists'. In it Geo Wait is quoted as follows: "I arrived in Ceylon by the good ship 'URGENT' in 1844, and I have never been out of it except about a fortnight in Southern India in 1848 engaging coolies. The passage round the Cape of Good Hope occupied four months.The only incident in the voyage worthy of note is that we came in amongst a number of icebergs. I saw ten around the ship from the foretop, I was the only one of the passengers that ventured up that length, as the ship was under double reefed topsails pitching forecastle under.We crossed the longitude of the Cape five hundred miles to the Southward.Out of the ten passengers viz Ralph Tatham, Mr David Bell and his brother John, John Campbell, A. Hood (the Colonel) Drummond, A. H. Cleland, H. Barnes, A. Dewar and self, all are dead except Mr Tatham and your humble servant.I have kept my health remarkably well, and at present I am as yauld as a two year auld." Geo Wait. I am looking for the A.H. Cleland, also a planter, maybe the husband of Martha Wait, George's sister. By 1861 Martha, a widow, was back in Edinburgh. Her husband, Alexander, must have died in Ceylon. If you find anything about him, I would appreciate it. Sam Wait --