Hello Gordon: Sorry, no listing of that name or a similar spelling. Georgina ----- Original Message ----- From: <srilanka-request@rootsweb.com> To: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:01 AM Subject: SRILANKA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Struys family (Gordon Allison) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:34:48 +1000 > From: Gordon Allison <gordona@alphalink.com.au> > Subject: [SRILANKA] Struys family > To: srilanka@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4523AA68.5020009@alphalink.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Hi Georgina > > I am writing to ask if you would be so very kind to look up the name > STRUYS for me please. I would be very grateful for information for any > reference to the name in this book please. > > Hoping that you can find the time to have a look. > > Best regards from Downunder. > > Gordon > > > Georgina Watkins wrote: > >>Dear Ann: >> >>In the book "List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon" >>by J. Penry Lewis, published 1913, there are two Kochs listed in the >>section called "Obituary of the uncommemorated". I presume that the first >>line in each case is information in the church burial register, but not >>sure. >> >>No. 1695 Jaffna >>June 13, 1822 at Jaffna, John Godfried KOCH Esq., lieutenant in the Dutch >>E.I. Company's Service, aged 54, leaving behind him nine children to >>lament his loss. >> >>(This second part is Penry Lewis's commentary.) He was the son of Godfried >>KOCH of Alt-Ruppin, Neywork, Brandenburg (now Germany), who was born 1734, >>went out to Ceylon in the ship 'Rosenberg' in 1755 and married, November >>9, 1760, Wilhelmina Magdalena ROVERT. Lt. J.G. Koch married Susanna >>Elizabeth BROHIER. Their son, Cyrus Godfried, married Jacomina Bernadina >>TOUSSAINT. Their son was the late Rev. Charles Alexander KOCH, Colonial >>Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church, Colombo. >> >> >>No. 1697 Jaffna >> >>June 17, 1836 at Jaffna, Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Louis Henry KOCH, only >>daughter of the late Lt. John KENNEDY, C.R.R., aged 20 years 32 days, >>leaving an infant child. >> >>That's all! >> >>Georgina Watkins, Hamburg >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>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 >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.11/460 - Release Date: 10/1/06 > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 1, Issue 5 > **************************************