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[[Image:Trichinopoli&Ceylon.jpg|thumb|250px|Ceylon, to the South East of [[Madras Presidency]]]]
[[Image:Trichinopoli&Ceylon.jpg|thumb|250px|Ceylon, to the South East of [[Madras Presidency]]]]
"'''Ceylon''', a large island and British colony in the Indian Ocean, separated on the N.W. from India by the Gulf of Manaar and Palk Strait. It lies between 5° 55' and 9° 51' N. and between 79° 41' and 81° 54' E. Its extreme length from north to south is 2 712 m.; its greatest width is 1371 m.; and its area amounts to 25,481 sq. m., or about five-sixths of that of Ireland. In its general outline the island resembles a pear, the apex of which points towards the north."<ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Ceylon "Ceylon"], LoveToKnow 1911 [accessed 21 October 2009]</ref>  The island is now called '''Sri Lanka'''.
'''Ceylon''', a large island and British colony in the Indian Ocean, separated on the N.W. from India by the Gulf of Manaar and Palk Strait. It lies between 5° 55' and 9° 51' N. and between 79° 41' and 81° 54' E. Its extreme length from north to south is 271.5 miles  (approx. 445 km); its greatest width is 137.5 m. (approx. 225 km); and its area amounts to 25,481 sq. miles, or about five-sixths of that of Ireland. In its general outline the island resembles a pear, the apex of which points towards the north.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabrit05chisrich#page/778/mode/1up "Ceylon"] page 778 ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'', Volume V, 11th edition 1910. Archive.org.</ref>  The island is now called '''Sri Lanka'''.
 
== History ==
== History ==
The [[Portuguese]] arrived in the early 16th century, followed by the [[Dutch]] in the 17th Century with the British, as usual, arriving late - 1796 - when the British [[East India Company]] established control.  In 1802 Ceylon became a British Crown Colony.  The island was unified in 1815 (previously there had been three kingdoms) and the island finally gained its independence in 1948.
The [[Portuguese]] arrived in the early 16th century, followed by the [[Dutch]] in the 17th Century with the British, as usual, arriving late - 1796 - when the British [[East India Company]] established control.  In 1802 Ceylon became a British Crown Colony.  The island was unified in 1815 (previously there had been three kingdoms) and the island finally gained its independence in 1948.
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*[[:Category:2nd Kandyan War|2nd Kandyan War]] - 1815
*[[:Category:2nd Kandyan War|2nd Kandyan War]] - 1815
*[[:Category:3rd Kandyan War|3rd Kandyan War]] (Uva Rebellion) - 1817-18
*[[:Category:3rd Kandyan War|3rd Kandyan War]] (Uva Rebellion) - 1817-18
====Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps====
The '''Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps''' was a Volunteer Corps established  in 1861. Initially the movement consisted of the Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers but by the 1900s also had Artillery, Medical, Engineers and Supply and Transport units. 
The CPRC sent a contingent to South Africa in 1902 along with a detachment of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry. In 1910 the force became known as the Ceylon Defence Force.
A Corps of 150 ‘fine young Englishmen’ left Ceylon in 1914, comprised not only of planters but also Government servants, Colombo businessmen and others. They served in Egypt and were then attached to the Wellington infantry Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the ANZAC division at Gallipoli.  The high standard of the men led to virtually all of them receiving commissions and they went on to serve in other regiments  which meant this Corps then ceased to exist. <ref> ''Great War Forum'' thread [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/943-ceylon-planters-rifle-corps/ Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps] (retrieved 19 January 2019).</ref>
A number of men who were members of the Ceylon Volunteer Force, who were in Britain at the outbreak of WW1 were granted commissions by the War Office in the late-Summer/Autumn of 1914. Many went into the [[Rifle Brigade]]. These men,  almost all of whom were involved in the plantation section, were sometimes referred to as Ceylon's "Home Contingent", to distinguish them from the "Ceylon Contingent",<ref> Dominion-of-the-North [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/191395-war-diary-8th-rifle-brigade-post-may-1918-does-it-exist/?do=findComment&comment=1877338  War Diary: 8th Rifle Brigade; Post-May 1918; Does it Exist?] ''Great War Forum'' 10 March , 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2019.</ref> those in the paragraph above.


== Records ==
== Records ==
Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]], but at [[The National Archives]] at Kew. For example, the description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) and  reference WO23/158 finds the admission books for rhe Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period  May 1868-Sept 1876.  
*Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]], but at [[The National Archives]] at Kew. For example.
**Description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) Free digital download at March 2021.
**Reference WO23/158 includes the admission books for the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period  May 1868-Sept 1876.
**Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's Administrative Records of [[Ceylon]] (Sri Lanka).
:Records for 1796-1802 perhaps may be located in  Madras records. As an example, there is one marriage record for 1798 at Colombo on page 102, ''Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras'' by F. E. P., (very likely Fanny Emily Penny), published 1907, see [[Madras (City)]].
*''The Ceylon Civil List''. The title of some editions includes the wording ''showing the names and designations of the civil, military and other servants of government ...''. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000649015 where the catalogue record states "... 1863 (1870-1876, 1878, 1879, 1881 [etc.]). Prepared in the Colonial Secretary's Office. Imperfect; wanting the issues for 1864-1869, 1877, 1880. Not published in 1938, when its place was taken by “Civil Establishments,” pt. 1." Also available at the Library of Oxford University, where the holding, over 2 catalogue entries, is  1899-1948, but missing 1901; 1952-1962. (Examples of information available.<ref>[https://defonseka.com/front-page/reference/the-ceylon-civil-list/ "The Ceylon Civil List"] defonseka.com. [http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/scrapbooks/5A15.pdf "Ceylon Civil List with Record of Service for Reginald Tyler"] by Kathleen Townsend astro.wisc.edu</ref>)
*''Ceylon Government Gazettes'' may be a source of information and are available at the National Archives in the series [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4249  CO 58] 1813-1946. Some editions are available online, refer below.
*''Ceylon Blue Book''. Available at the National Archives, Kew in the series CO 59/30 to CO 59/159, 1821-1945 in the series ''Blue Books of Statistics''. The ''Blue Books'' for some countries contain information about Civil Service staff  and this information may possibly be available in the earlier editions of the ''Ceylon Blue Book'', prior to the separate publication ''The Ceylon Civil List'' from 1863. Limited online availability, refer below.
*Some birth marriage and death information in respect of civil registration from 1867 may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
:FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search Catalogue Search], using keyword Sri Lanka contains multiple records from digitised microfilms from the Registrar General's Office, arranged according to Registration Division, then District. The language for  most of these is categorised as Sinhalese and Tamil, although the Notes indicate some records may be in English.  However, of the sample records viewed, no English records were seen, although the complete files may be very large, so there could be records in English included.
*In Holland, located in the same building as the National Archives at The Hague but a separate organization, is the 'Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie' (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG) , the Dutch information and documentation centre for genealogy, family history and related sciences. Researchers visiting this centre found some copies of  records relating to British era Ceylon christenings, 1804 to 1840.<ref> Andresen, Larry & Coreen [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122062739/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/srilanka.rootsweb.com/thread/4877182/  British Ceylon christening records in The Hague] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List'',  01 January 2007  and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200814235255/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/srilanka.rootsweb.com/thread/4837756/ 02 January 2007], now archived</ref>
 
*See [[General Register Office]], UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources.
*See [[Chaplains Returns]] for British Army and (some) RAF personnel and their families.
===Online and other databases===
====Findmypast/Kabristan Archives====
Findmypast contains the database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-in-ceylon-parish-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "British In Ceylon Parish Records"] located in Life Events (BMDs)/Parish Registers, consisting of  records "collected and transcribed by the Kabristan Archives". Mainly these appear to be index records only. Currently (2023/04/15) within these records there are five sub databases: Colombo Burials;
Colombo General Cemetery Anglican Burial Register 1909-1919;
Colombo Kanatte Cemetery War Dead; Miscellaneous Births Marriages Burials; St Pauls Baptisms 1877-1901 (from the Kabristan website this is St Paul's Kandy). The details provided varies - The last category, St Paul's is quite detailed but some of the other  categories provide dates only.


Some information may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
See the Kabristan Archives, [[Ceylon#External links|External links]], below. Search  on the Kabristan Archives website for free, for baptismal, marriage and burial records,  and pay to obtain full details. If you want more details for a record you have found on Findmypast, it is '''possible''' that you may be able to obtain  more details, by either purchasing a Kabristan Archives publication, or with a payment for a specific record.


===LDS Records===
Alternatively, many publications are available at the [[British Library]] in London, [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1452928171364&vid=BLVU1&fromLogin=true Search the British Library main catalogue] for "Kabristan Archives" or "Eileen Hewson", the author.
For general details about LDS records, including microfilms, refer [[IGI]].


[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=waypoint&s=waypointsOnly&c=fs%3A1780708&w=0 '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990'''] are available with images online on the LDS pilot search site, and also on the LDS beta site. Note, the webpage takes some time to load. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-02/1297851646 post] gives some hints for browsing these images.
====FamilySearch (LDS) Records====
For general details about FamilySearch (LDS) records, including microfilms, see [[FamilySearch]].


The LDS Library Catalogue contains these entries for keyword search [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=Sri+Lanka+Church&prekeyword=Sri+Lanka+Church  Sri Lanka Church]  and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&keyword=Sri+Lanka+Registrar&prekeyword=Sri+Lanka+Registrar Sri Lanka Registrar].
FamilySearch database '''Sri Lanka, Colombo District, Dutch Reformed church records, 1677-1990''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1780708 catalogue entry]. Click though to transcribed '''index records''' and film images. The indexes may also be located through the FamilySearch Records page [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927054?region=Sri%20Lanka Sri Lanka]. Note, it appears not all images have been indexed. For hints searching these images see [[IGI#India records|FamilySearch - India records]].


The North Parramatta [[Family History Centres|Family History Centre]] in Sydney, Australia has the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These are not LDS microfilms but are spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library in Melbourne.
The North Parramatta Family History Centre in Sydney, Australia previously had the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These were not FamilySearch microfilms but were spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library<ref>[https://www.vmsl-library.com/index.php Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library in Melbourne]</ref> in Melbourne. '''Update''' October 2019. Parramatta FHC appears to have closed, see
[[FamilySearch Centres]] for possible current location of this material.
 
FamilySearch digitized item "Tombstone information from Sri Lanka cemeteries" [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1185486 catalogue entry]. Contains inscriptions from the following cemeteries in Sri Lanka: St. Mark's Church in Badulla, St. Andrews Church in Haputale, Christ Church in Bandarawela, Ragalla Church in Halgranoya, Holy Trinity Church in Pussellawa, Christ Church in Matale and St. James Church in Nallur, Jaffna.
 
Also see [[Ceylon#Historical books online|Historical books online]] below, for the book ''Lapidarium-Zeylanicum : being a collection of monumental inscriptions of the Dutch-Churches and churchyards of Ceylon'' by Leopold Ludovici, published 1877.
 
[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search Search] the FamilySearch catalogue, using Keywords such as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, and filtering by Availability online, and language. There are many databases available classified as English language, of records from the Registrar-General's Department where the notes indicate the language to be “Sinhalese,  English,  Tamil”.  Of a sample of records viewed, no records in English were sighted.
 
====Also see====
*Historical books online below. As an example Inscriptions.
 
==Online newspapers==
*See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories - South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922]] for details of a Readex subscription website which includes ''Ceylon Observer'' Colombo 1864-1922.  This database is available at the [[British Library]] and is available on their home computers for individuals who are holders of a British Library Reader's pass.
* ''The London and China Express'', published in London, with target readership  those outside the Indian Empire, including Ceylon, is available on [[Findmypast]], category  "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#London and China Express|Newspapers and journals online]].
 
==Churches and cemeteries==
A researcher advised a trip to Sri Lanka  in 2010 "uncovered masses of records in churches in Kandy, Colombo, Galle and Matara that need to be photographed ASAP... The Methodist Church seems to have centralised all records prior to 1982 in Colombo".<ref>ceylonsearch (Larry and Coreen) [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.asia.srilanka.general/2009.10.1/mb.ashx  Early British Ceylon military records] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Message Board'' 20 Oct 2010 8:56AM Retrieved 15 September 2014</ref> "The Anglican church records are at the Diocesan library in Colombo. The records are from churches all over the Island."<ref>Andresen, Larry and Coreen [http://genforum.genealogy.com/srilanka/messages/2343.html Anglican Church Records repository] May 13, 2014 ''GenForum: Sri Lanka Genealogy Forum''. Retrieved 28 September 2014</ref>
 
Several kinds of registers of the Dutch Reformed Church at Galle and Matara are  to be found in the main office of the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka, in Colombo. The volumes include baptismal (1677-1807), marriage (1744-1847) and burial registers (1770-1840s), all for Galle, and a baptismal register for Matara 1776-1800. No inventory is available and some of the material is heavily damaged. In the future, the collection may be transferred to the Wolvendaal Church<ref>[http://www.academia.edu/1787722/_Gold-Leaf_Flattery_Calcuttan_Dust_and_a_Brand_New_Flagpole._Five_Little-Known_VOC_Collections_in_Asia_on_India_and_Ceylon_Itinerario_36_1_2012_  "Gold-Leaf Flattery, Calcuttan Dust, and a Brand New Flagpole: Five Little-Known VOC Collections in Asia on India and Ceylon"] by Lennart Bes ''Itinerario''  Volume 36  Issue 01  April 2012,  pp 91 - 106. Scroll to page 95, to the section "Galle Books, Christian Reformed Church (Colombo)" The address is given on page 106. academia.edu. '''Note''': May be slow to open. Retrieved 18 November 2014.</ref>
 
The Galle Face Burial Ground was opened in 1803 and located on the south side of the Fort.<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n44/mode/1up Page 27] ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon'' by J. Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org.</ref>  Trying to locate this cemetery which appears to have also been the Garrison cemetery,  a researcher was told that a Roman Catholic church had been built on the site and all the tombstones moved to the Kanatte cemetery. She also visited the Garrison cemetery in Kandy which has been restored <ref> Williams, Anne Winter [http://boards.ancestry.com.au/localities.asia.srilanka.general/585/mb.ashx Galle Face burial ground/Garrison cemetery] ''Rootsweb Srilanka Message Board'' 13 February 2004. Retrieved 15 September 2014</ref>
 
==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=267 Monumental Inscriptions from Columbo Cemetery, Ceylon]
*FIBIS database [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1623&s_id=975 ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis
*FIBIS database: [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1203&s_id=369 Establishments of Ceylon, Military Promotions] (British Army) transcribed from the ''Asiatic Annual Register'' for the year 1802.
*[[:Category:Ceylon images|Images of Ceylon]]
 
==Also see==
*[[Dutch]]
*[[The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon]]


== External links ==
== External links ==
'''Maps'''
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra131-s30 1850 Map of the Diocese of Colombo], with Plantations marked. ''The Colonial Church Atlas 3rd Edition 1850''  National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3667361 Catalogue entry]
*From University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia
**[http://purl.umn.edu/200776  c 1865 Map of the hill country of Ceylon showing the positions of the principal coffee estates, &c]
**[http://purl.umn.edu/200846 Map of the Island of Ceylon : (corrected to the beginning of 1868), exhibiting the principal roads, rivers & mountains with the Colombo and Kandy Railway and the proposed extensions].
**[http://purl.umn.edu/200777 1873 Map of the central province of Ceylon : exhibiting the situation of coffee estates]
**1909 Map of Ceylon in 4 sections [http://purl.umn.edu/229001 N-W],  [http://purl.umn.edu/229000 N-E], [http://purl.umn.edu/229178 S-W], [http://purl.umn.edu/229002 S-E].
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn239444 1956 Diagram of  the planting districts of Ceylon showing the principal estates]:  tea, rubber, coconut, cacao, cinnamon, cardamom and citronella plantations, roads, railways, hospitals, rest houses, post offices and police stations. National Library of Australia Digital Collections-Maps  [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn239444 Catalogue entry]
'''Other'''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] has a section  "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
*[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/sri-lankan-genealogy Kabristan Archives-Ireland- Ceylon- India Genealogy] Includes a Search, with a partial transcription of records. In addition to baptismal, marriage and burial records, there is a database ''Ceylon Roll Of Honour World War 1 1914-18'' (in two parts), with (two) Index of names [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/183-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-1-a-k A-K], [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/184-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-2-l-z L-Z],  sourced from ''The Ceylon roll of honour and record of service in the Great War 1914-1918'', published c 1919. See Records above for more comments.
*Publications by [http://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-archives-publications/sri-lanka-ceylon.html Kabristan Archives-Old Irish and Indian Graveyards] relating to Ceylon are
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] lankalibrary.com, has a section  "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
**''Graveyards In Ceylon'' by Eileen Hewson
*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - movinghere.org
***''Colombo Volume I , Nuwara Eliya Volume II, Tea Country Volume III, Kandy Region Volume IV, South & West Volume V''
*[http://www.rgd.gov.lk/web/index.php/en/  Registrar General’s Department, Colombo].  Registration of births, marriages and deaths from 1867.
**''Protestant Marriages Nuwara Eliya Ceylon'' by Eileen Hewson
*[https://cbg.nl Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG)] The Hague, The Netherlands. Dutch language website. For an English language version, use [https://translate.google.com.au Google Translate]. See Records above, for comments about this organisation.
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/under/research.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160528193352/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/ Sri Lanka Genealogy Website], rootsweb,  archived version at 28 May 2016.  To navigate the internal links in the Menu, depending on your browser, you may need to click on "Open Link in New Window". Possibly there may be a current rootsweb website with a different URL.
*[http://www.gol27.com/HistoryTeaCeylon.html History of Tea in Ceylon]
*[http://www.genealogysrilanka.com/ Genealogy Sri Lanka].  Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw Sri Lanka Genealogy Website] including
* Kyle Joustra’s [http://ceylondatabase.net/genealogy.html International Ceylon Database], includes [http://ceylondatabase.net/military.html  Military], with regiments and names
**[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/index2.html Family Tree Data of Sri Lankan Communities-Burgher Family Genealogy] including
*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon] - Website contains much information including journals containing various family history. [http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2040%20No%202%20-%201950(1).pdf Example: Genealogy of the Family of Andree of Ceylon] Volume 40, No 2 April 1950.
***[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/burcont1.htm Genealogical Charts of Sri Lankan Burgher FamiliesFamilies with Portuguese, Dutch & British Colonial ancestry
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] Includes information about tea plantations. Also includes the category Publications & Articles which consists of many  online publications, refer below, including  ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range).
***Genealogy information from the Journals of the [[The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon|Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon]]
*[https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14604 Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka] Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. Includes images.
**links to the Rootsweb Sri Lanka [[Mailing lists|Mailing List]], to Rootsweb Sri Lanka Message Board and to [http://genforum.genealogy.com/srilanka GenForum Sri Lanka Message Board]
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030223/plus/10.html "Rubber, rain and rat snakes"] by Michael Speer  c 2003 sundaytimes.lk  The author was born in Ceylon in 1938 and after the war, from 1946, his father managed rubber plantations, as  a PD (periadurai or "big master") until the family left in 1959.
* Kyle Joustra’s [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/Genealogy.html International Ceylon Database], includes [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/military.html  Military], with regiments and names
*Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]
* Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]  
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/sets/72157632233299175 Collection of photographs: Colonial Buildings, Colombo] by DBHKer flick.com. Includes some churches. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.dioceseofcolombo.lk  Church of Ceylon - Diocese of Colombo]. Anglican. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.archdioceseofcolombo.com/index.php Archdiocese of Colombo [Roman Catholic<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://kermeey.blogspot.com/2006/02/colombo-fort.html Colombo Fort]  February 19, 2006 ”F's Place” Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.yamu.lk/place/st-peters-church-mission-to-seafarers.html St Peters Church – [now<nowiki>]</nowiki> Mission To Seafarers]. Retrieved 16 September 2014. Previously known as St Peter’s, Fort, or the Garrison Church
**[http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowUserReviews-g293962-d3653274-r147043027-St_Peter_s_Church-Colombo_Western_Province.html#photos Photographs: St Peter’s Church, Colombo]. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.wolvendaal.org/churches-monuments/wolvendaal-church-colombo The Wolvendaal Church, Colombo].  Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/041128/funday/2.html "The country’s oldest Christian church"  [and other churches in Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Gaveshaka. ''The Sunday Times Newspaper'' in Sri Lanka. Sunday 28 November 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915133504/http://amazinglanka.com/wp/garrison-cemetery/  "British Garrison Cemetery of Kandy"] October 18, 2013 amazinglanka.com, archived. With images. If text does not display, reload the page.
*[http://www.ceylonmedals.com/ceylon_medal.htm The Ceylon Medal 1818] from [http://www.ceylonmedals.com/outline.htm Orders, Decorations and Medals Relating to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from 1795] ceylonmedals.com
*[https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/under/intro.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mossvalley/mv4/95th-ceylon.html The 95th Regiment In Ceylon] 1838-1847 “Moss Valley”. Retrieved 28 August 2014
*Volunteer Corps
**Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
***[http://www.scribd.com/doc/92059022/Short-History-of-the-Ceylon-Planters-Rifle-Corps Short History of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps]  Compiled by Major Anton Edema, 2(V)SLLI scribd.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014
***[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28253510/The-Ceylon-Planters-Rifle-Corps-Commanding-Officers The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps – Roll of Commanding Officers and Adjutants]. Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15701762 "Tea Leaves." Ceylon Planters Corps]. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 6 September 1916 trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 16 September 2014
***[https://web.archive.org/web/20160328014847/http://www.collectorsclubchicago.org/pdf-doc/ceylon-planters-rifle-corps.pdf "Ceylon Planter's Rifle Corps Correspondence on OHMS Postcards"] by Kathryn Johnson collectorsclubchicago.org, archived.
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28892357/Brief-History-of-the-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles Brief History of the Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[https://www.scribd.com/document/47347072/Ceylon-Mounted-Infantry-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles  Ceylon Mounted Infantry -Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Xmas Number of the ''Times Of Ceylon'', 1906. "C.M.I. - C.M.R. 1892. 1906" (by the officer Commanding Ceylon Mounted Rifles) scribd.com
***[https://www.scribd.com/document/28707116/The-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles-Regimental-Roll The Ceylon Mounted Rifles -  Regimental Roll]. Compiled by Major Anton Edema SLLI. scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/24692730/Ceylon-Light-Infantry-Officers-Since-1881  Ceylon Light Infantry Officers Since 1881] by Anton Edema scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/38832696/Ceylon-Light-Infantry-Bibiliography1 Ceylon Light Infantry Bibiliography1] Compiled by Brigadier AER Abeyesinghe and Major Anton Edema scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/document/24687800/Ceylon-World-War-1-Dead Ceylon World War 1 Dead] Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI. scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/document/38833344/Ceylon-Roll-of-Honour-World-War-1  Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1] Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI. scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/123922906/Ceylon-Defence-Force-Commandants-Updated Ceylon Defence Force Commandants]  Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI. scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/document/24687123/The-Ceylon-Volunteer-Force The Ceylon Volunteer Force] ''The Ceylon Army Journal'' Volume 1- 1952 -Number 11 "The Volunteer Force" by Cyril van Langenberg scribd.com
**[https://www.scribd.com/document/91913151/Ceylon-Defence-Force-Urugasmanhandiya-Annual-Camp  Ceylon Defence Force Urugasmanhandiya Annual  Camp] compiled by Brigadier AER Abeyesinghe. A Description of the Annual Camp Venue at Urugasmanhandiya [better known as 'Urugas'] and the Governor’s address at the first camp 1890 – 1902 (From the ''History of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery formerly Ceylon Artillery Volunteers'' published 1927 with a List of Members, and available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01000649204 . There is a reference to a further edition by V Wijeyesekera, published Colombo, Times of Ceylon Press Ltd, 1952 with history to 1952.) The Annual Camp site was subsequently moved to Diyatalawa, see below.
**[https://www.scribd.com/user/6429333/Anton-Edema Further documents by Anton Edema on scribd.com].
**[http://www.ceylonmedals.com/project_2.htm Decorations and Medals for Long Service in the Volunteer Force of Ceylon] ceylonmedals.com
**[http://www.angloboerwar.com/indian-units/1990-ceylon-mounted-infantry Ceylon Mounted Infantry in the Boer War]  AngloBoerWar.com
*Boer Prisoners of War. Also see [[POW Camps in India|POW Camps in India-Boer War]].
**[http://www.geni.com/projects/Anglo-Boere-Oorlog-Boer-War-1899-1902-POW-Ceylon/14300 Anglo Boere Oorlog/Boer War (1899-1902) POW Ceylon] geni.com
**[http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=2068081 Sri Lanka, Diyathalawa, Boer War Memorial] eggsa.org Click on images for larger version and list of names, if available
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/24687734/Diyatalawa Diyatalawa] by Major Anton Edema. POW Camp for Boers in Ceylon, which subsequently became the site of the Volunteers Annual Camp. scribd.com
**Transcriptions by Pieter van der Merwe [https://web.archive.org/web/20130911224538/http://www.boekmakierie.co.za/GENDATA%20(2).pdf relating to Boer Prisoners] boekmakierie.co.za, now an archived webpage. Contains
***Articles from the ''Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon'': "The Boers At Diyatalawa" by E. H. Van Der Wall Volume XVIII January 1929 No 3. "The Boer Prisoner-Of-War In Ceylon (1900 – 1902)" by R. L. Brohier in Five Parts. Volume XXXVI July 1946 No 1 to Volume XXXVIII July 1947 No 1. The last Part includes a list of deaths. "Addendum.The Boer Prisoners Of War In Ceylon" by L.G. Poulier. List of Boer War Prisoners who died in Ceylon received from the Anglo Boer War Museum
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=85&sid=3ba2b45b2204fd1fd9352f5813c23bd1  HMS Highflyer [Royal Air Force and Royal Navy  In Ceylon c 1943<nowiki>]</nowiki>] lankalibrary.com.
*[https://www.rmindianoceanww2.co.uk/index.htm Royal Marines in the Indian Ocean]. A subset of the website ''Burma Campaign''.  This web site presents histories of Royal Marines units that served on islands in the Indian Ocean, in Ceylon, India, Burma and South-East Asia during World War 2.  Few Royal Marines came face-to-face with the Japanese in combat but they played a vital role in constructing and defending bases important to the success of the campaign in Burma.
*1941-1945 Eastern Travels, Parts 1-9 by Cecil John Callis, [[Royal Corps of Signals]]. in India and Ceylon. WW2People’s War. The author's  posting to Ceylon is covered in [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a4427985.shtml Part 3], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a4428038.shtml Part 4], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4428083.shtml Part 5], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/73/a4428173.shtml Part 6].
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/499443.html A tale of two Mutinies: The Indian Ocean 1942] by Harry Fecitt from Harry’s Sideshows.  Includes the mutiny by a detachment of No 1 Coast Regiment of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island, one of the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
*[http://www.shakariconnection.com/ceylon-hunting-books.html Bibliography of Ceylon Hunting Books]  shakariconnection.com
*[http://www.aisls.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ceylon-photograph-guide-2014-edition.pdf  "A Guide to Locating Photographs of Colonial Ceylon"] Compiled by Benita Stambler, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies,  November 2014. aisls.org
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130818/education/trinity-kandy-has-been-looking-to-the-end-since-its-beginning-57997.html "Trinity Kandy has been ‘Looking to the End’ since its beginning"] by Sujitha Miranda August 18, 2013 sundaytimes.lk. Includes history of the school.  [http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=101841 "The Trinity College Kandy Archives"] by Nanda P Wanasundera April 19, 2014. island.lk
*[http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12569  A review of  the National Archives of Sri Lanka] by  Nadeera Rupesinghe, PhD Candidate, Institute of History, Leiden University, posted  January 4, 2016. dissertationreviews.org
*[http://www.dlir.org/fdasl-home.html The Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka]  from  [http://www.dlir.org Digital Library for International Research]. These collections primarily consist of furniture from the Portuguese, Dutch and British Periods (17th to 19th centuries). Images and essays, including "Woods Used in Sri Lanka Furniture".
*[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33723/1/11010495.pdf ''The Development of the Ceylon Civil Service 1802-1833''] by Premasiri Dharmapriya Kannangara PhD Thesis University of London, December 1964. eprints.soas.ac.uk
 
===Historical photographs and images online===
*''A series of fifteen Views of Ceylon illustrative of Sir J.E. Tennent's work, from sketches made on the spot by Capt C. O'Brien, late Assistant Surveyor General, Ceylon'', London 1864. Lithographs by Jonathan Needham . Available online from the British Library, but separately, not as collection. Examples are [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001584u00000000.html Town and lake of Kandy] plate 1; [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001593u00000000.html Peacock Hill, Coffee Estate - Gampola in the distance] plate 10; [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001595u00000000.html Nuera Ellia] plate 12. Use Jonathan Needham as the search term in the Search at the top of the  web pages for these images to locate  the remaining images.
*University of Cambridge Digital Library contains the [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rcs Royal Commonwealth Society Collection] which contains many images/collections of Ceylon including
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-A/1 Faviell Collection of Ceylon  Railway views, 1867]  relating to  the construction and opening of the Colombo-Kandy line.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-B/1 Views of Ceylon]  circa 1860-circa 1899. Classmark: Y303B “This is an important collection whose subjects include the Colombo-Kandy railway construction; the tea industry; views of Colombo;” etc. See Contents for details
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-P/1 Ceylon 1886] Classmark: Y303P
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-00303-F/1 Plumbago in Ceylon] c 1886. Plumbago or graphite was an important mineral export from Ceylon.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-QM-00002/1 The Royal visit to Ceylon, April 1901] Classmark: QM 2
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-FISHER-00001/4 Fisher Volume I : Outward journey and Ceylon October-December 1907] Classmark: Fisher 1
**[https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03022-C-E/146 Photographs of India (Y3022C-E)] Classmark: Y3022C-E . A collection of photographs by Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, and Charles Shepherd. Images 146-155 were taken in Ceylon c 1871, or earlier.
*''One hundred best views of Ceylon from photographs taken by the publishers'' Plâté (Plate) & Co, Colombo. c 1900 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422468 Jstor.org version]-to read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images, download possible; [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u1307861 University of Virginia version] same digital file, scroll down to "Download PDF".


===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70788/page/n171/mode/2up "Books on Ceylon"] [a Bibliography] by Biblio page 159, ''Volume VI, Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register'' January 1921 Archive.org.
*[https://diglib.natlib.lk/home  National Digital Library Sri Lanka] including [https://diglib.natlib.lk/communities/86a43aa6-efe4-4e85-9190-a97b94cba751  ''Ceylon Government Gazettes''] from 1889  (as at 2023/04), but only some publication may be available for any given year. The website contains a Search, then relevant editions may be downloaded as a pdf. In the past some other publications required prior registration, and then a pdf had to  be requested, but it is unclear if this still applies, but the ''Gazettes'' appear to be available without prior registration.
*''Ceylon Calendar'', published 1814-1830 was followed by ''Ceylon Almanac and Compendium of Useful Information'', published 1833-1839 and 1844-1850. Continued as ''Ceylon Calendar and Compendium of Useful Information'' 1840-1843 and ''Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register'' 1851-1862.
:Available on Archive.org [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Almanac%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Almanac''] and [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Calendar%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Calendar''], (together) a  broken range  '''1818 to 1868''', and includes most editions following.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=5  '''1818'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=259 page 217, MBD for 1817] HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/b28742680 '''1827'''] Archive.org;  [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 '''1829'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=316 page 264, MBD in 1828] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=2H8w57Ra1VcC&pg=PT4 '''1830'''] Google Books;  [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102333835 '''1834''' and '''1835'''] Hathi Trust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=oGk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 '''1836'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnybq7?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1836] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com/books?id=BIbYsr345xAC&pg=PP5 '''1837'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822043012707?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 1837] HathiTrust; [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24738158#page/n2/mode/1up '''1839'''] Scroll to [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24744009#page/n47/mode/1up digital page 48] for  The Companion” which contains the Civil List etc. nla.gov.au; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GFFJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 '''1847'''] Poor quality print. Google Books; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MenJ_aEHy20C&pg=PA1 '''1855'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914372?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1855] HathiTrust; [https://www.scribd.com/document/331196165/Ceylon-Almanac-And-Annual-register-1856-William-Skeen-Government-Printer-Colombo-Ceylon '''1856'''] scribd.com, [https://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/ 1856] Scroll to listing and read online. historyofceylontea.com.
:The [[British Library]] holds similar publications under various titles such as  ''Ceylon Calendar'' and ''Ceylon Almanac'' from 1814 to 1862 (broken range), see UIN: BLL01002830047 . In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill (IDC Publishers), I-900/2  (132 microfiche) which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
*''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from '''1871 to 1999''' (broken range) and other online publications are available on  [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/thackers-med-directory-1915/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma, and Ceylon 1915. Third year of publication''] Archive.org. Also includes a list of Nurses and Midwives.
:In the late 1930s, the full title of ''Thacker's Indian Directory'' was''Thacker's Indian Directory including Burma and Ceylon'', and included information about Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n15/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95891/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938''', 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n13/mode/2up '''1938-1939'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n15/mode/2up Contents]  All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonportuguese00pier ''Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658''] by P E Pieris, Ceylon Civil Service 1920 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023650959/page/n5 ''Ceylon and the Hollanders, 1658-1796''] by P E Peiris, Ceylon Civil Service 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31997/page/n7 Reprint,  of 3rd edition [1930<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fatalhistoryofpo0000wini/page/n5 ''The Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon; transition to Dutch Rule''] by George Davison Winius 1971 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/dutchinceylonacc0000anth/page/n9 ''The Dutch in Ceylon: An Account of Their Early Visits to the Island, Their Conquests, and Their Rule Over the Maritime Regions During a Century and a Half, Volume 1''] by R G Anthonisz, Formerly Government Archivist, Ceylon. Reprint edition, first published 1929. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/instructionsfro00maetgoog  ''Instructions from the Governor-General and Council of India to the Governor of Ceylon, 1656-1665''] Translated by Sophia Pieters. [The Government of Netherlands India]. 1908 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yFpTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East-Indies: together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and…''] by Robert Knox , a Captive there near Twenty Years. 1681 Google Books
**Article about the book and its author: [http://roar.lk/identities/knox-knox-robert/  "Knox-Knox: Robert Was Here!"] by Rukshani Weerasooriya 3 May 2016 roar.lk
*[https://archive.org/details/trueexactdescrip00bald ''A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon….''] by Philip [or Philippus] Baldaeus, Minister of the Word of God in Ceylon. 1703. Archive.org Translated from the High Dutch printed at Amsterdam 1672.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44 "Ceylon"]  page 54 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/b28774723_0001#page/182/mode/2up "Ceylon"] page 183 ''The View of Hindoostan.  Volume I Western Hindoostan'' by Thomas Pennant 1798 Archive.org.
*''An account of the Island of Ceylon : containing its history, geography, natural history, with the manners and customs of its various inhabitants; to which is added, the journal of an embassy to the court of Candy'' by Robert Percival of HM 19th Regiment of Foot. [https://archive.org/details/accountislandce00perc/page/n1/mode/2up 1st edition 1803]; [https://archive.org/details/accountofislando00perc/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd edition 1805] ''with an Appendix containing some Particulars of the recent Hostilities with the King of Candy''. Author is described of H M 18th or Royal Irish Regiment. Archive.org
*''A description of Ceylon, containing an account of the country, inhabitants, and natural productions‬: ‪with narratives of a tour round the island in 1800, the campaign in Candy in 1803, and a journey to Ramisseram in 1804. Illustrated by twenty-five engravings from original drawings''‬ by Rev James Cordiner, late Chaplain to the Garrison of Columbo. 1807 Google Books. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=I0g7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4Uc7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9  Volume II] The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804
:There are chapters on Ceylon from [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CTVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA139 page 139] ''A Voyage To India'' by Rev James Cordiner  1820 Google Books The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZpdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Narrative of the operations of a detachment in an expedition to Candy in the island of Ceylon in the year 1804''] by Major Johnston, of the Third Ceylon Regiment 1810 Google Books. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yhNhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 New edition 1854], with a biographical "Memoir" of the author. Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JqsaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''‪The History of Ceylon: From the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV; with Characteristic Details of the Religion, Laws, & Manners of the People and a Collection of Their Moral Maxims & Ancient Proverbs‬''] by Philalethes (pseud) Google Books 1817. The author is generally identified as Rev Robert Fellowes. <ref>[http://dl.sjp.ac.lk/dspace/bitstream/123456789/309/1/New%20Light%20on%20the%20Identity%20of.pdf  "New Light on the Identity of Philalethes"] by Breden WM Gooneratne and Yasmin Gooneratne, 1971</ref>
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uZleAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''A Vocabulary, with Useful Phrases and Familiar Dialogues, in the English, Portuguese and Cingalese Languages''] by  John Callaway, Wesleyan Missionary 1818. Google Books
*"Observations on the Campaign in Ceylon" ''The Naval and Military Magazine'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/navalmilitarymag02londuoft#page/564/mode/2up  "Part 1: the Dutch War ending 1764"] Volume 2, page 564 1827 Archive.org; [http://books.google.com/books?id=PYcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA204 Part 2: The British Campaign from 1803], involving  the  [[19th Regiment of Foot|19th]] and [[65th Regiment of Foot |65th Regiments of Foot]], together with Royal Artillery and troops from Bengal. Volume 3, page 204 1828 Google Books
*"Observations on the Campaign in Ceylon" ''The Naval and Military Magazine'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/navalmilitarymag02londuoft#page/564/mode/2up  "Part 1: the Dutch War ending 1764"] Volume 2, page 564 1827 Archive.org; [http://books.google.com/books?id=PYcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA204 Part 2: The British Campaign from 1803], involving  the  [[19th Regiment of Foot|19th]] and [[65th Regiment of Foot |65th Regiments of Foot]], together with Royal Artillery and troops from Bengal. Volume 3, page 204 1828 Google Books
* ''The Golden Age Of Military Adventure In Ceylon 1817-1818'' 1933.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66468 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India.  Full title: ''The Golden Age of Military Adventure in Ceylon. An account of the Uva Rebellion, 1817-1818'', etc. by Richard Leslie Brohier.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005B9DA ''A Description of Castes in the Island of Ceylon, their trades, and their services to Government (supplied to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton on the 24th January. 1832) ... To which is appended a description of the dress of native headmen, according to their different castes copied from an old Ceylon almanac dated 1811''] by A De Saram [1888]  British Library Digital Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=66Hu-9OPWL4C&printsec=frontcover ''The Ceylon Gazetteer; containing an accurate account of the districts, provinces, cities, towns, principal villages, harbours, rivers, lakes &c. of the Island of Ceylon, together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history of its various inhabitants''] 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=66Hu-9OPWL4C&printsec=frontcover ''The Ceylon Gazetteer; containing an accurate account of the districts, provinces, cities, towns, principal villages, harbours, rivers, lakes &c. of the Island of Ceylon, together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history of its various inhabitants''] 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=zB9YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Appeal to the British Government in behalf the British Colony and Province of Ceylon: with an appendix containing various notices of the island by authors and travellers of the early and middle ages''] by William Peter  2nd Edition with Additions 1836. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SiBYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 1st Edition 1835] Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=h2APAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Slave Trade (East India). [Also<nowiki>]</nowiki> Slavery in Ceylon'']. Correspondence between the Directors of the East India Company and the Company's Government in India, on the subject of Slavery. Communications relating to Slavery in the Island of Ceylon. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers  31 July 1838. Google Books
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HbknAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Slavery and the slave trade in British India: with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents''] Published 1841 Google Books
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by  Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA369 "Chapter II Ceylon"] pages 369-402
*[https://archive.org/details/oldceylonsketche00capp ''Old Ceylon, Sketches of Ceylon Life in the Olden Time''. ''With Illustrations''] by John Capper 1877 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059E20  British Library Digital Collection] where images may be better. Generally refers to a period 30 to 40 years prior ie c 1840s.
*''Excursions, Adventures, and Field-sports in Ceylon: Its Commercial and Military Importance, and Numerous Advantages to the British Emigrant'' by Lieut,-Colonel James Campbell 1843 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w6Q5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SaU5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E080 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005347E Volume II] British Library Digital Collections.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9ENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition'']‬ by William Knighton 1845  Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyceylonfr01kniggoog Archive.org version]
:''Forest Life in Ceylon'' by W Knighton, formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society  1854 [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl01knig  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl02knig Volume II].  This work has been described  as a novel, (but somewhat against  this view see further comments.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzVCfoQorHwC&pg=PA144 Page 144] ''Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden'' by Sharae Deckard 2009 Google Books</ref>) [http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/198.html William Knighton], biographical details, djo.org.uk
*''Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'': [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ceylon%20Asiatic%20Society Archive.org] Multiple volumes  from Volume 1 1845. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000638474  HathiTrust] multiple volumes including '''restricted access''', some of which, to c 1926, are probably available to those in North America.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+antiquary+and+literary+register+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register'']  multiple volumes  from Volume III 1917 to Vol. X 1924. Archive.org. Includes a section "Notes and Queries". [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100732322 HathiTrust editions], restricted to some areas such as North America.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HAM3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 ''The History of the Rebellion in Ceylon During Lord Torrington's Government: Affording a Comparison with Jamaica and Governor Eyre''] by  Captain John MacDonald Henderson (late 78th Highlanders.) 1868 Google Books. The rebellion of 1848.
*''An historical, political, and statistical account of Ceylon and its dependencies'' by Charles Pridham 1849 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BaVHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-aZHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA483 Volume II]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DEFYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''98° versus 130°, or, the Infantry Soldier in the Tropics''] by ‪Jones Lamprey  Assistant Surgeon, H M’s 15th Regiment. 1852 Google Books. [Remarks on the dress worn by the army in Ceylon].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YJdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Ceylon, Past and Present''] by Sir George Barrow 1857 Google Books.
*''Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical, with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions''‬ by Sir James Emerson Tennent 4th edition, thoroughly revised 1860 [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi01tenn Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ceylonaccountofi02tenn Volume II] Volume II includes [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/222/mode/2up "Gampola and the Coffee Regions"] page 222  and [https://archive.org/stream/ceylonaccountofi02tenn#page/n261/mode/1up Map of  Coffee Estates], between pages 234-235 which requires strong magnification. Archive.org. Additional version of the same map  [http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN669705136&DMDID=DMDLOG_0016 Staatsbibliothek Berlin], select digital page [257] and enlarge.
:[https://archive.org/details/sketchesofnatur00tenn/page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, etc. including a monograph of the elephant ...''] by  Sir J Emerson Tennent 1861. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.27094/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file, with images correctly rotated]. Both Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JQZXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 ''A Brief Account of Ceylon''] by L.  F. Liesching [Louis], Ceylon Civil Service 1861 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ogVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR6-IA1#v=twopage ‪''The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon''‬] by Sir J Emerson Tennent 1867 Google Books
*''The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon. A book of elephant and elk sport ... Illustrated with chromo-lithographs, etc.'' by John Capper 1871. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036960 British Library Digital Collection],  [http://access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv393e806f British Library’s pdf version].
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034530 ''A Handbook of Directions to the Ports in the Presidency of Madras and Ceylon''] by T. E. Marshall, First Assistant Master Attendant, Madras.  1874. British Library Digital Collection.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035E32 ''A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon'']  by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*''Ceylon. A general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. ...'' by an Officer, late of the Ceylon Rifles. [The preface is signed H. S. (i.e. Horatio John Suckling)]  1876. [https://archive.org/details/ceylonagenerald02suckgoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/ceylonagenerald00suckgoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv01unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "The Eurasians of Ceylon"] ''Calcutta Review Volume 63, 1876'', page 173 Archive.org
*Inscriptions
**[https://archive.org/details/lapidarium-zeylanicum/1LapidariumZeylanicum/page/1/mode/2up ''Lapidarium Zeylanicum being a Collection of Monumental Inscriptions of the Dutch Churches and Churchyards of Ceylon''] by Leopold Ludovici 1877 Archive.org.  Article [http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_11_20/JDBU%20Vol%2018%20No%202%20-%201928%281%29.pdf "Leopold Ludovici"] by J R T. ''Journal of The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume 18, Part 2, October 1928 pages 79-85 (scroll down). He was variously, a surveyor, journalist and newspaper editor.
**Comments regarding two deaths by J P L: [https://archive.org/details/s9notesqueries11londuoft/page/372/mode/2up  Page 372 (scroll to bottom of page) and  page 373]  ''Notes And Queries A Medium of Intercommunication'', Series 9, Volume 11, January-June 1903. Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n7/mode/2up ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org. Note the records from this book have been transcribed to a  FIBIS database, refer above.
*''The Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon'' by Hume and Marshall 1879. With coloured plates. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia01hume Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia02hume Volume II]. [https://archive.org/details/gamebirdsofindia03hume Volume  III].
*''A History of the Birds of Ceylon'' by Captain  W Vincent Legge, R. A. 1880. With coloured plates. [https://archive.org/details/historybirdscey1legg Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historybirdscey2legg Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/historybirdscey3legg Volume III] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/grandtourbritis00edwagoog ''The “Grand Tour” of the British Princes: the visit of ... Prince Albert Victor and Prince George to Ceylon'']  Reprinted from the ''Ceylon Observer'' 1882 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cruiseofhermajes02albeuoft ''The Cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Bacchante", 1879-1882, Volume II- The East''] Compiled from the Private Journals etc of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales 1886 Archive.org. Includes China, Singapore, Ceylon.
*''Ceylon in xxxx'' with a  number of  online editions from 1883 to 1903, the latter title is ''Ceylon in 1903 describing the progress of the island since 1803, its present agricultural and commercial enterprises, and its unequalled attractions to visitors'', with upwards of one hundred illustrations, by John Ferguson.
:[https://archive.org/details/ceyloninleading01ferggoog 1883 Archive.org], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005B09E 1883 British Library Digital Collection].  [https://archive.org/details/ceyloninleading00ferggoog  1884 Archive.org],[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000362E2 1884 British Library]. [https://archive.org/details/ceyloninjubileey00ferg ''Jubilee Year'' 1887 Archive.org], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005B9CE ''Jubilee Year'' 1887 British Library]. [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10250911_000 1893 Archive.org], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000000BD6 1893 British Library]. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924050044159 1903 Archive.org]. British Library images may be better, and they can be rotated if required.
*''Orient Line Guide'' by W J Loftie [https://archive.org/details/orientlineguide00unkngoog 3rd edition 1888] Archive.org [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000560B2# 5th edition 1894] British Library Digital  Collection.  Covers the voyage to Ceylon, including Suez,  (then on to Australia).
*[http://archive.org/stream/journalceylonbr00unkngoog#page/n48/mode/2up "A brief sketch of the medical history of Ceylon"] by J L Vanderstratten page 306 ''The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 1886 Volume IX, no 32'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/palmspearlsorsce00waltrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Palms and Pearls: or Scenes in Ceylon''] by Alan Walters  1892 Archive.org. 
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000007CEC  ''Manual of the Province of Uva''] by Herbert White, of the Ceylon Civil Service. 1893. With a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000007CEC#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=192&z=-776.6513%2C0%2C4236.3026%2C4179 Map of the Province of Uva] page 169. British Library Digital Collections
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E41C  ''Manual of the Nuwara Eliya District of the Central Province, Ceylon''] by Cecil John Reginald Le Mesurier 1893. British Library Digital Collections
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000036168 ''Manual of the Vaṇṇi Districts, Vavun̤iya and Mullaittívu, of the Northern Province, Ceylon''] by J. Lewis, (John Penry) 1895. British Library Digital Collection.
*''A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane)'' by Archibald Campbell Lawrie  Archive.org
*''A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane)'' by Archibald Campbell Lawrie  Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr01lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up  Volume 1, A-K] 1896, [http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr00lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up  Volume 2, L-Z] 1898
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr01lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up  Volume 1, A-K] 1896, [http://www.archive.org/stream/agazetteercentr00lawrgoog#page/n9/mode/1up  Volume 2, L-Z] 1898
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n7/mode/2up ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059BAA ''The Visitor's Guide to Kandy and Nuwara Eliya'']  by S. M Burrows, Ceylon Civil Service, Fourth edition, revised and  enlarged. Colombo 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofceylon00lebl/page/n7 ''History Of Ceylon''] by L. E. Blaze. Reprint of 1933  9th edition, Revised and Enlarged, first published 1900. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924088807106  ''A Guide to Kandy, with maps. A handbook of information, useful alike to the visitor and the resident''] by  George J.A Skeen 1903 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924088807106#page/n14/mode/1up Map of the Town of Kandy]
*[https://archive.org/details/goldentipsdescri00caverich ''Golden tips. A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry''] by Henry W Cave 3rd edition 1904, first published 1900. With illustrations. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/bookofceylonbein00cave ''The Book of Ceylon; being a guide to its railway system and an account of its varied attractions for the visitor and tourist''] by  Henry W Cave 1908 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023977659 ''The Ceylon Government Railway : a descriptive and illustrated guide, mainly extracted from the author's larger work "The Book of Ceylon"'']  By Henry W Cave 1910 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b24758450 ''Around the world via India : a medical tour''] by Nicholas Senn 1905. Contains chapters on India and Ceylon, including hospitals. Archive.org
*''Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources'' by Arnold Wright, reprint edition, first published 1907  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22966 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.22966/2015.22966.Twentieth-Century-Impressions-Of-Ceylon#page/n863/mode/1up '"Military and Volunteers"] page 857.      Sample pages are also available on [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eUF_rS8FEoIC&pg=PP7 Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13829 ''A New Geography Of The Indian Empire And Ceylon''] by Cameron Morrison. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1915, (first published 1906).  Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A%20New%20Geography%20Of%20The%20Indian%20Empire%20And%20Ceylon%29 Additional digital files available] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/inoldceylon00farr/page/n7 ''In Old Ceylon''] by Reginald Farrer 1908 Archive.org. The first chapter includes a description of Colombo.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaburmaceylon00thom/page/n4 ''India, Burma, and Ceylon. Information for travellers and residents''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 1912 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/memorandumuponre00pererich ''Memorandum Upon Recent Disturbances in Ceylon''] by Edward Walter Perera 1915 Archive.org. The 1915 Ceylon Riots.
*[https://archive.org/details/riotsmartiallawi00pram/page/n8 ''Riots and Martial Law in Ceylon, 1915''] by P. Ramanathan. Reprint edition, first published 1916. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*''The Empire at War''  edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a  [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Vol-vth Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Ceylon Roll of Honour and Record of Service in the Great War 1914-1918'' by Thomas Southorn, Publisher: Colombo : Times of Ceylon Company, [1919?] is available in a reprint ebook edition to purchase under the title ''Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1 1914-18''. <ref> ''Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1 1914-18''  [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/sri-lanka-publications/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-1-a-k-pdf-format/ Part 1 A-K] contains 1218 records; [https://www.kabristanbookshop.com/product/sri-lanka-publications/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-2-l-z-pdf-format/ Part 2 L-Z] contains 1133 records. Kabristan Archives</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.17644/page/ii/mode/2up ''Ceylon Past and Present''] by  Major C. M. Enriquez. c 1927 (not 1812, as catalogued) Archive.org, mirror from Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
*[https://archive.org/details/romanticceylonit00rhba/page/n9 ''Romantic Ceylon: Its History, Legend And Story''] by R. H. Bassett. Reprint edition, first published 1929, 2nd edition 1934. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*''Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information'' published by League of Nations. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556028984169?urlappend=%3Bseq=176 "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean"] includes Ceylon, page 176  ''First Year 1924, 2nd Edition'' HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KXAAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193 "Asia"] page 193 ''1937 edition''. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/realceylon0000elli/page/n9 ''The Real Ceylon''] by C. Brooke Elliott. Reprint edition, first published 1938. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_31_40/JDBU%20Vol%2031%20No%204%20-%201942%281%29.pdf "Periodicals and Newspapers in Ceylon"] ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon''  Volume XXXI No 4 April 1942, page 137-152. thedutchburgherunion.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonislandofge00elie/page/n5 ''Ceylon: Island Of Gems''] by  Elie L. Menasche. Reprint edition, catalogued 1954 original. Archive.org, Historical Resources of India Collection.
*[http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/browse?type=author&value=Fernando%2C+C.+N.+V.  Articles on Christianity and Christian Missions in Ceylon] by C. N. V. Fernando  from ''University of Ceylon Review''  1948-1951. Pdf downloads,  Digital Library of  University of Peradeniya.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by  C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes a some chapters about Ceylon. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)].
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100190 ''Ceylon : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names''] U.S. Office of Geography, 1960. FamilySearch Digital Library. You need to be signed in to FS to view this book, see [[FamilySearch]].
*[https://archive.org/details/martiallawinindi0000mina ''Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Ceylon''] by Joseph Minattur 1962. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913)''  by A.C. Dep 1969. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422464 Jstor.org version] South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u424072 University of Virginia version], scroll down to "Download PDF". [https://archive.org/details/history-ceylon-police-v2/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:''A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870'' by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01004088800
*''The Colonial Office List for ...''.  Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862.  See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] for a broken range 1862-1920s.
*Article: [http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2017/10/15/focus/ceylon-blue-books "The Ceylon Blue Books"] by Dilini Liyanage 15 October 2017 sundayobserver.lk. Gives details of the contents which can be expected. Note there was a separate  ''Ceylon Civil List'' from 1863,  however it seems there was a Civil List as part of the ''Blue Book'' to 1917 inclusive.  The separate publication has not been viewed but possibly may have been more extensive.
:*There are editions from 1863 of ''The Ceylon Civil List'' at the British Library UIN: BLL01000649015, but missing some editions.
*'''[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22Ceylon+Blue+Book%22%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Blue Book'' at Archive.org]'''. Currently (April 2023) includes all the yearly editions mentioned below, from 1866 to 1938, broken range.
:[http://repo.statistics.gov.lk/handle/1/432 ''Ceylon Blue Book, 1916''] Pdf download Digital Library  Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka.
:[https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/ceylon-blue-book-26318831/ ''The Ceylon Blue Book''] for 1866, 1868-1869, 1871, 1877 then a broken range 1896-1926. Searchable, read online or download. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. Jstor.org, South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection.
:[https://www.granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/simple-search?location=&query=&sort_by=dc.date.accessioned_dt&order=desc&rpp=20&etal=0&filtername=location&filtertype=equals&filterquery=Colombo ''Ceylon Blue Book''] for the years 1892 (catalogued 1982), 1900-1901-1902-1903-1904, 1906, 1912  Supplementary, 1913-1914-1915-1916,  1919. There are also some ''Ceylon Administration Reports''. Granth Sanjeevani, The Asiatic Society, Mumbai.  Access to the digital collection requires a paid Membership Plan, unless your Library has a subscription. Mirror files for all of these editions are available for free on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+Blue+Book%29&sort=titleSorter  Archive.org ''Ceylon Blue Book'']. Also [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+Administration%29&sort=titleSorter  Archive.org ''Ceylon Administration Reports''] broken range 1891-1919.
:''Ceylon Blue Book'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EvU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1907], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6o0tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1914], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OaMtAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1915], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=V10vAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1916], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zo4tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UXEwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1918], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=63szAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1920], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WYtQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1920, File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MXwzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 1921], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gotQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1921 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yfQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1922], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=i4xQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1922 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XIxQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1923], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qXBNKKEuxWIC&pg=PR1 1923 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VTvVeboCrLIC&pg=PA3 1924], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2ItQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1925], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=T1RLGdR3OeIC&pg=PP5 1925 File 2], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DCuAGiYUX9IC&pg=PP5 1926], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fANSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1927], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0_hRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1928], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3Q64Mn0PwdcC&pg=PP5 1929], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tyauCbBB10wC&pg=PP5 1930], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9ngfGIy0-HwC&pg=PP5 1931], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8AZSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1932], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3gJSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1933], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwdSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1934], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gwdSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1935], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rfhRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1936], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_QJSAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1937], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ywdSAQAAMAAJ 1938]. Google Books.
:[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35332 ''Ceylon Blue Book'' 1927]  GIPE Digitised Books. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics - Pune, India.
:In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill, ''Ceylon Statistical Blue Books'' 1862-1938, 883 microfiche Brill (IDC Publishers) H-2323/1, which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=o6odAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 527 Ceylon 1906''] by Great Britain Colonial Office (1907).  Internal title is "Report on the Blue Book of 1906". Google Books.
:''Colonial Reports - Annual'' for Ceylon. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155583 ''No. 396 Ceylon 1902 to No. 1507 Ceylon 1929'']  for most years. HathiTrust Digital Library.
:*Two of these volumes are available on Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1902-396/page/n1/mode/2up 1902-1908], [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1909-653/page/n1/mode/2up 1909-1917]
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Colonial+Reports+-+Annual%22%29&sort=date Archive.org editions of ''Colonial Reports - Annual'' from 1908 onwards]. Includes reports in respect of Ceylon.
*[https://archive.org/details/b3045296x/page/n3/mode/2up ''A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon...''] by Alexander Moon, Superintendant of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon 1824 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/acatalogueindig00moongoog/page/n3/mode/2up  File 2], [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.36004/page/n3/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/medical_used_in_ceylon_581_na_02/page/n1/mode/2up ''Medicinal Plants (Indigenous and Exotic) used in Ceylon Part 1''] by D.M.A Jayaweera,  with Taxonomic updating by Lilani K Senaratna 2006. Archive.org. First published 1981-1982, in five parts. ''[http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5443 Part I], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5297 Part II], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5499 Part III], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5412 Part IV], [http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/5441 Part V]'' Links to pdf downloads. (Contents: pt. 1. Acan... pt. 2. Cact... pt. 3. Flac... pt. 4. Magn... pt. 5. Ruta...). National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka National e-Repository.
*[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb2-sri-lanka/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 2 Sri Lanka'', in two parts] edited by K M De Silva, originally published by The Stationery Office (TSO) 1997. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org] Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
====Personal accounts====
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsonfootth00haafgoog ''Travels on Foot through the Island of Ceylon''] [in 1783] by J. Haafner (Jacob), 1821. Translated from the Dutch. Archive.org.
:Article: [http://web.archive.org/web/20080112195002/http://www.paulvandervelde.nl/haafner/article.html#1  "Jacob Haafner. Travels through the Island of Ceylon In 1783"] by Paul Van Der Velde and Jaap De Moor.
*''A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ...'' by L de Grandpré, an officer in the French Army. 1803. [https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0001/page/n6 Volume I], ([https://archive.org/details/b22041084_0002/page/n5 Volume II]). Volume I contains some text about Ceylon c 1790-2.  Also published with a slightly different title.  Archive.org
*''Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806'' by George, Viscount Valentia 1809 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/VoyagestravelsIv1Moun Volume I], ([https://archive.org/details/VoyagestravelsIv2Moun Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/VoyagestravelsIv3Moun Volume III]).
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40609/page/n7 ''Travels in India Ceylon and Borneo''] by Captain Basil Hall RN, FRS. Selected and edited by Professor H G Rawlinson  1931 Archive.org.  Selected from ''Fragments of Voyages and Travels'' (in nine volumes). Captain Hall was appointed to the East India Station, Royal Navy in 1812. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Hall Basil Hall] Wikipedia.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v5ZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Rambles in Ceylon'']  by Lieut. De Butts [Augustus] 1841 Google Books. The author was in Ceylon 1836- 1839.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsgeminige01wilkgoog ''The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals; Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of Distinguished Officers''] by  Major-Generals Osborn Wilkinson and  Johnson Wilkinson. 1896 Archive.org. Twin brothers Osborn and Johnson Wilkinson were born 1822. The former joined the Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and served  initially in the 10th Light Bengal Cavalry,  and subsequently the 2nd Bengal Cavalry, (and perhaps other cavalry regiments); the latter HM 15th Regiment of Foot, which went to Ceylon in 1845, with a period at Poona.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0-KfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Rough Notes of a Trip to Reunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon: With Remarks on the Eligibility as Sanitaria for Indian Invalids''] by Frederic J Mouat, Bengal Medical Staff 1852 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zpZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Bungalow and the Tent, or a Visit to Ceylon''] by  Edward Sullivan 1854 Google Books
*''The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon'' by  Samuel W Baker [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7fsTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1854 edition] Google Books.  [https://archive.org/details/riflehoundinceyl00bakerich  New edition 1874] Archive.org
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wHhCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3  ''Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon''] by Samuel White Baker 1855 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/eightyearsinceyl00bake_0 New edition 1890] with title ''Eight Years in Ceylon'' Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024157186 ''Fifty Years in Ceylon: an Autobiography''] by the late Major Thomas Skinner, Commissioner of Public Works Ceylon. Edited by his daughter Annie Skinner  1891 Archive.org. Born 1804, he arrived in Ceylon in 1818, aged 14, where his father was stationed. Soon he was appointed as an officer in the Ceylon Regiment. He retired from Ceylon in 1867.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117310/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Visit to Ceylon''] by Ernst Haeckel, translated by Clara Bell. 1883. Archive.org. Originally published as [https://archive.org/details/indischereisebri00haec/page/n3/mode/2up ''Indische Reisebriefe''] [''Letters of Indian Travel''] by Ernst Haeckel 1883 Archive.org. The author was professor of Zoology at the University of Jena, Thuringia, Germany. He arrived in Ceylon in November 1881, travelling via Bombay.
:[https://archive.org/details/indiaceylon00haec ''India and Ceylon''] by Ernst Haeckel,  translated by Mrs  S E Boggs. 1883 Archive.org.  “A coherent, if not strictly literal translation” of  ''Indische Reisebriefe''  1883 Archive.org. 
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel Ernst Haeckel] Wikipedia. German zoologist
*[https://archive.org/details/parsonsholidaybe00alle/page/n5 ''A Parson's Holiday : being an account of a Tour in India, Burma, and Ceylon, in the winter of 1882-83''] by W Osborn B Allen 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinjungle02horn ''Two Years in the Jungle : the Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo''] by William T Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist,  US National Museum 1885 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023017902 ''About Ceylon and Borneo : being an account of two visits to Ceylon, one to Borneo, and how we fell out on our homeward journey''] by Walter J  Clutterbuck 1891  Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000355F8 British Library Digital  Collection] with rotatable images. A visit mainly in 1890, and memories of a residence  c 1877.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromadamspeaktoe00carp ''From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: sketches in Ceylon and India'']  by Edward Carpenter 1892 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035F58 Britsh Library Digital Collection] Images may be rotated.[https://archive.org/details/cu31924052629726 New Edition, revised 1903, reprinted 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord ''Two Happy Years in Ceylon''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming  with [https://archive.org/stream/twohappyyearsinc00gord#page/n15/mode/2up Illustrations] New Edition 1901, first published 1892 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gunriflehoundine00snafrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1894. Archive.org. Includes chapters on India and Ceylon. The author appears to have been in the British Army.
:[https://archive.org/details/snafflepapers00snaf/mode/2up ''The Snaffle Papers''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1898 Archive.org. Two chapters on Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/imageofwarsporti00snaf/page/188/mode/2up "Hunting in the Indies"] (including Ceylon) page 189 ''The image of war : a sporting autobiography'' by “Snaffle” 1914 Archive.org.
:Some chapters may appear in more than one book.
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsab00bringoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon''] by J N Brink, "late adjudant of General Crowther" 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/huntingshootingi00storrich ''Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon''] by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MPA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA59 "Pendant Jewel of India"] [Ceylon] page  59  ''Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life'' by Arthur Waltham Howlett 1912 (articles republished from the ''Manchester Guardian'') Google Books. Howlett was at that time an Indian Army doctor with the Indian Medical Service. 
*[https://archive.org/details/junglesportincey00millrich ''Jungle Sport in Ceylon from Elephant to Snipe''] by Marcus W Millett, an Old Ceylon Shikari. 1914 Achive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiliala ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. The title page contains a handwritten note “Ceylon Civil Service (Forests)”
:[https://archive.org/details/poemsincaptivity00stiluoft ''Poems in Captivity''] by John Still 1919 Archive.org. Includes poems about Ceylon.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Cinnamon and Frangipanni''] by Ashley Gibson 1923 Archive.org. Reprinted with a new introduction as
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281320/page/n3/mode/2up ''Ceylon''] by Ashley Gibson 1929. A volume in ''The Outward Bound Library'' series. "A new Series of Illustrated Handbooks for the information and entertainment of travellers and emigrants and their friends at home". Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/childrenoflion00ashl/page/n7/mode/2up ''The children of the lion''] by Ashley Gibson reprint edition, first published 1923? 1930? A collection of nine fairy tales. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/twilightdrummer00gibs/mode/2up ''The twilight drummers, and other sketches''] by Ashley Gibson 1914 Archive.org. Stories about Africa and Ceylon. Archive.org
*A visit to Ceylon: [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.211247/2015.211247.India-Of#page/n177 Page 169] ''India of the Rajahs'' by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org,  Public Library of India Collection.
*Also see accounts in  the following section.
 
====Planters, the Planting and Other Industries====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847.  Google Books and HathiTrust.  [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter  to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version). [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024456963.0x000001  British Library digital file] Same underlying file, but print may be clearer. [https://archive.org/details/life-in-the-jungle/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version of BL file].
*[https://archive.org/details/jrasgbi-1846-v8/page/367/mode/2up "The Cinnamon Trade of Ceylon, its Progress and Present State"] by John Capper page 368 ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and  Ireland  Volume 8 1846''. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA191 "Ceylon. Coffee Planting"] page 191 ''Supplement (No.I) to the Eight Report from the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting''. British Parliamentary Papers. Reports 1847-8. Seventeenth Volume –Part IV. Also called Volume 23, Part 4‬. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR3 Index]. Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1  ''Coffee-planting in Ceylon''] by Aliquis [Stewart Jolly] 1861 Google Books. Verses
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fYJIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Coffee: its physiology, history, and cultivation adapted as a work of reference for Ceylon, Wynaad, Coorg and The Neilgherries''] by Edmund C.P. Hull 1865 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/aconciseessayon00thwagoog  ''A concise essay on the medical treatment of Malabar coolies employed on the coffee estates of Ceylon and India''] by J. Thwaites  M D 1865 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FZkgjEehFK8C&pg=PP1 ''Coffee Culture in Ceylon. Manuring of estates ... being the essay which obtained the first prize offered by the Planters Association of Ceylon''] Arnold H. White 1875 Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/coffeeplantingin00hullrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Coffee planting in Southern India and Ceylon''] by ECP Hull 1877 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/coffeeplantingin00hullrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Coffee planting in Southern India and Ceylon''] by ECP Hull 1877 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/days-of-old/page/n5/mode/2up ''Days of Old Or, The Commencement of the Coffee Enterprise in Ceylon''] by Two of the Pioneers 1878 (A M andJ Ferguson, Colombo Publishers) Archive.org. Ceylon in the 1840s.
*[https://archive.org/details/coffeeplantersma00brow ''The Coffee Planter's Manual''] by the late Alex. Brown, Kandy. Thoroughly revised with notes by Practical Planters in 1880. [2nd edition]. First published 1872. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ef8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''The Coffee Tree and its Enemies: Being Observations on the Natural History of the Enemies of the Coffee Tree in Ceylon'']  by the late John Nietner, 2nd edition, revised  1880. There are no Plates in the digital file. Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/b20411285 ''The Cinchona Planter's Manual''] by T C Owen. Printed at Colombo (A. M. & J. Ferguson) 1881 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/prizeessayoncin00chrigoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Prize Essay on Cinchona Cultivation Written for the Dikoya Planters' Association [Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by Thomas North Christie  1883 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ceylonherplanti00unkngoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''Ceylon & Her Planting Enterprize: In Tea, Cacao, Cardamoms, Cinchona, Coconut, and Areca Palms''] Published 1885 by A.M. & J. Ferguson. Archive.org
*''Fickle Fortune in Ceylon'' by F. E. F. P[enny] 1887 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924087840850  Archive.org version]; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035676 British Library Digital Collection] - images may be better. The author, in the book, was stated to be the wife of a tea planter, whose name is given as "Penny, Fanny Emily, (Farr), Mrs" in the National Library of India catalogue entry. [https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2342 Author: Fanny Emily Penny] (victorianresearch.org). Her works included fiction. Mrs Penny  was married to a Chaplain of the Madras Presidency,  so it appears at least some aspects of this book may be fictional.
*[https://archive.org/details/allaboutrubbergu00ferg  ''All About Rubber and Gutta-Percha : the Indiarubber Planter's Manual with the latest Statistics and Information''] by J Ferguson  Colombo A.M. & J. Ferguson 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031239373'' India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Balata: occurrence, geographical distribution, and cultivation of rubber plants; manner of obtaining and preparing the raw material, modes of working and utilizing them, and statistics of commerce''] by William T Brannt 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/notesonaloesisa00ferggoog/page/n10 ''Notes on aloe, sisal, and ramie fibres, dye and tanning products, drugs, etc.''] A. M. & J. Ferguson 1901 Colombo. Archive.org. Also may be available on [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/478 Repositori Digital,  National Library of Malaysia] as a pdf download, however this site is at times not available. Note, the download may possibly be only a chapter.
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.16433 ''All about Cinnamon: including Practical instruction for planting, cultivation and preparation for market''] published by  A.M & J Ferguson, Ceylon  1902. Archive.org. Originally from, and  available to read online at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]].  Catalogue no.16433
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.16434 ''All about Pepper: Including Practical Instructions for planting, cultivation and preparation for market''] published by A.M & J Ferguson  Ceylon c 1901. Archive.org.  Originally from, and available to read online at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]].  Catalogue no. 16434
*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.16435  ''All about 'Coconut Palm' (Cocos Nucifera): Including Practical Instructions for planting and cultivation''] by J Ferguson (Comp.) 3rd edition 1904 Archive.org. Originally from, and available to read online at [[Online books#Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online|Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online]]. Catalogue no. 16435
*[https://archive.org/details/coconutplantersm00ferg ''Coconut planter's manual. Ferguson's "All about the coconut palm" (Cocos nucifera). Treating of the history and cultivation, chemistry and physiology of the palm, and about its commercial products''] by  J Ferguson 5th edition 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld26phil#page/192/mode/2up "Preparing “Para Rubber” in Ceylon"] page 192  ''The  India Rubber World''  March 1, 1903 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld28phil#page/218/mode/2up "The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East"] page 219 ''The  India Rubber World''  April 1, 1903 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld29phil#page/224/mode/2up "Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States"] page 225 ''The  India Rubber World''  April 1, 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833  ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright  1908 Archive.org  Ceylon, [[Malaysia|Malaya]], [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
* ''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field''by Frank Braham 1911. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org
*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article  "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald''  Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers. A trainee planter was known as a Creeper.
*''A Creeper in Ceylon'' by C V Warren [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/413/mode/2up ''Part 1''] and  [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/431/mode/2up ''Part 2''] pages 413-420 and pages 431-436 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 62 1928-1929 November-April''. Archive.org. The author worked on tea estates.
*Online publications of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, in addition to ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range)  are available on  [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page,  category Publications & Articles.
: From the same website, under Publications and Articles /Other Publications are many miscellaneous titles, mainly relating to tea and rubber,  including
::[http://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/the-pioneers-1825-1900-the-early-british-tea-and-coffee-planters-and-their-way/quick-view/index.php ''The Pioneers 1825 - 1900 : The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life''] by  John Weatherstone. 1986. historyofceylontea.com. Also available as [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3201  a  pdf download, Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*''The Tropical Agriculturist And Magazine Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society''. Title varied over time: ''The Tropical Agriculturist : Journal Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society'';  ''The Tropical Agriculturist : The Agricultural Journal Of Ceylon''. Volume 15 has additional title:  ''A Monthly Record Of Information For Planters of Tea, Coffee, Cacao, Cinchona, Sugar, Rubber, Tobacco, Palms, Spices, Rice, And Other Products Suited For Cultivation In Tropics.  [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Tropical+Agriculturist+%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions, mainly some, but not all,  mirror files from Digital Library of India]
*Other Industries
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D6QTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Account of the Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon''] by James Steuart, Master Attendant at Colombo… and formerly Inspector of Pearl Banks 1843 Google Books.
**[https://archive.org/details/allaboutgoldgems00ferg/page/n4/mode/2up ''All about Gold, Gems, and Pearls in Ceylon. Compiled by the publishers from every available authority, with special reference to establishment of a goldmining industry, as well as the extension of the present gem-digging enterprise in the colony''] Published by A.M and J Ferguson, Colombo 1881. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/notesonpearlchan00thur/page/n4/mode/2up ''Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar''] by Edgar Thurston. 1890 Archive.org
**''Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar'' by W A Herdman, (William Abbott) ''With Supplementary Reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon by Other Naturalists''. [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme01herd/page/n3/mode/2up Part I] 1903, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme02herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part II] 1904, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme03herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part III] 1905, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme04herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part IV] 1905, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme05herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part V] 1906,  with a [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme05herd/page/n7/mode/2up description of the contents] page v, Volume V. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo19121504zool/page/260/mode/2up "Studies on Pearl-Oysters and Pearls.-I. The Structure of the Shell and Pearls of the Ceylon Pearl-Oyster (Margaritifera vulgaris Schumacher): with an Examination of the Cestode Theory of Pearl-Production"] by H Lyster Jameson pages 260-358, ''Proceedings of The Zoological Society of London, 1912''. Archive.org. In which Dr  Jameson disagrees with the theories of Prof. Herdman.


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Latest revision as of 09:29, 23 September 2024

Ceylon, to the South East of Madras Presidency

Ceylon, a large island and British colony in the Indian Ocean, separated on the N.W. from India by the Gulf of Manaar and Palk Strait. It lies between 5° 55' and 9° 51' N. and between 79° 41' and 81° 54' E. Its extreme length from north to south is 271.5 miles (approx. 445 km); its greatest width is 137.5 m. (approx. 225 km); and its area amounts to 25,481 sq. miles, or about five-sixths of that of Ireland. In its general outline the island resembles a pear, the apex of which points towards the north.[1] The island is now called Sri Lanka.

History

The Portuguese arrived in the early 16th century, followed by the Dutch in the 17th Century with the British, as usual, arriving late - 1796 - when the British East India Company established control. In 1802 Ceylon became a British Crown Colony. The island was unified in 1815 (previously there had been three kingdoms) and the island finally gained its independence in 1948.

Military actions

Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps was a Volunteer Corps established  in 1861. Initially the movement consisted of the Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers but by the 1900s also had Artillery, Medical, Engineers and Supply and Transport units. 

The CPRC sent a contingent to South Africa in 1902 along with a detachment of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry. In 1910 the force became known as the Ceylon Defence Force.

A Corps of 150 ‘fine young Englishmen’ left Ceylon in 1914, comprised not only of planters but also Government servants, Colombo businessmen and others. They served in Egypt and were then attached to the Wellington infantry Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the ANZAC division at Gallipoli. The high standard of the men led to virtually all of them receiving commissions and they went on to serve in other regiments  which meant this Corps then ceased to exist. [2]

A number of men who were members of the Ceylon Volunteer Force, who were in Britain at the outbreak of WW1 were granted commissions by the War Office in the late-Summer/Autumn of 1914. Many went into the Rifle Brigade. These men, almost all of whom were involved in the plantation section, were sometimes referred to as Ceylon's "Home Contingent", to distinguish them from the "Ceylon Contingent",[3] those in the paragraph above.

Records

  • Except for the few short years when the East India Company was in control (1796-1802) records for Ceylon will not be found in the India Office Records at the British Library, but at The National Archives at Kew. For example.
    • Description and succession books of the Ceylon Rifles covering years 1809-1872 are held under reference W025/638-641 (these include officers services) Free digital download at March 2021.
    • Reference WO23/158 includes the admission books for the Ceylon Rifles and Gun Lascars for the period May 1868-Sept 1876.
    • Personal data may also be held amongst the National Archive's Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Records for 1796-1802 perhaps may be located in Madras records. As an example, there is one marriage record for 1798 at Colombo on page 102, Marriages at Fort St. George, Madras by F. E. P., (very likely Fanny Emily Penny), published 1907, see Madras (City).
  • The Ceylon Civil List. The title of some editions includes the wording showing the names and designations of the civil, military and other servants of government .... Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000649015 where the catalogue record states "... 1863 (1870-1876, 1878, 1879, 1881 [etc.]). Prepared in the Colonial Secretary's Office. Imperfect; wanting the issues for 1864-1869, 1877, 1880. Not published in 1938, when its place was taken by “Civil Establishments,” pt. 1." Also available at the Library of Oxford University, where the holding, over 2 catalogue entries, is 1899-1948, but missing 1901; 1952-1962. (Examples of information available.[4])
  • Ceylon Government Gazettes may be a source of information and are available at the National Archives in the series CO 58 1813-1946. Some editions are available online, refer below.
  • Ceylon Blue Book. Available at the National Archives, Kew in the series CO 59/30 to CO 59/159, 1821-1945 in the series Blue Books of Statistics. The Blue Books for some countries contain information about Civil Service staff and this information may possibly be available in the earlier editions of the Ceylon Blue Book, prior to the separate publication The Ceylon Civil List from 1863. Limited online availability, refer below.
  • Some birth marriage and death information in respect of civil registration from 1867 may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.
FamilySearch Catalogue Search, using keyword Sri Lanka contains multiple records from digitised microfilms from the Registrar General's Office, arranged according to Registration Division, then District. The language for most of these is categorised as Sinhalese and Tamil, although the Notes indicate some records may be in English. However, of the sample records viewed, no English records were seen, although the complete files may be very large, so there could be records in English included.
  • In Holland, located in the same building as the National Archives at The Hague but a separate organization, is the 'Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie' (Central Bureau for Genealogy - CBG) , the Dutch information and documentation centre for genealogy, family history and related sciences. Researchers visiting this centre found some copies of records relating to British era Ceylon christenings, 1804 to 1840.[5]
  • See General Register Office, UK. Also includes information about records such as British Consular Returns, including online sources.
  • See Chaplains Returns for British Army and (some) RAF personnel and their families.

Online and other databases

Findmypast/Kabristan Archives

Findmypast contains the database "British In Ceylon Parish Records" located in Life Events (BMDs)/Parish Registers, consisting of records "collected and transcribed by the Kabristan Archives". Mainly these appear to be index records only. Currently (2023/04/15) within these records there are five sub databases: Colombo Burials; Colombo General Cemetery Anglican Burial Register 1909-1919; Colombo Kanatte Cemetery War Dead; Miscellaneous Births Marriages Burials; St Pauls Baptisms 1877-1901 (from the Kabristan website this is St Paul's Kandy). The details provided varies - The last category, St Paul's is quite detailed but some of the other categories provide dates only.

See the Kabristan Archives, External links, below. Search on the Kabristan Archives website for free, for baptismal, marriage and burial records, and pay to obtain full details. If you want more details for a record you have found on Findmypast, it is possible that you may be able to obtain more details, by either purchasing a Kabristan Archives publication, or with a payment for a specific record.

Alternatively, many publications are available at the British Library in London, Search the British Library main catalogue for "Kabristan Archives" or "Eileen Hewson", the author.

FamilySearch (LDS) Records

For general details about FamilySearch (LDS) records, including microfilms, see FamilySearch.

FamilySearch database Sri Lanka, Colombo District, Dutch Reformed church records, 1677-1990 catalogue entry. Click though to transcribed index records and film images. The indexes may also be located through the FamilySearch Records page Sri Lanka. Note, it appears not all images have been indexed. For hints searching these images see FamilySearch - India records.

The North Parramatta Family History Centre in Sydney, Australia previously had the detailed indexes to the Baptisms and Marriages at the Dutch Reformed Church at Wolfendaal, Colombo, up to 1897. These were not FamilySearch microfilms but were spiral bound photocopies made from the journals and indexes at Victor Melder's Sri Lankan Library[6] in Melbourne. Update October 2019. Parramatta FHC appears to have closed, see FamilySearch Centres for possible current location of this material.

FamilySearch digitized item "Tombstone information from Sri Lanka cemeteries" catalogue entry. Contains inscriptions from the following cemeteries in Sri Lanka: St. Mark's Church in Badulla, St. Andrews Church in Haputale, Christ Church in Bandarawela, Ragalla Church in Halgranoya, Holy Trinity Church in Pussellawa, Christ Church in Matale and St. James Church in Nallur, Jaffna.

Also see Historical books online below, for the book Lapidarium-Zeylanicum : being a collection of monumental inscriptions of the Dutch-Churches and churchyards of Ceylon by Leopold Ludovici, published 1877.

Search the FamilySearch catalogue, using Keywords such as Ceylon, Sri Lanka, and filtering by Availability online, and language. There are many databases available classified as English language, of records from the Registrar-General's Department where the notes indicate the language to be “Sinhalese, English, Tamil”. Of a sample of records viewed, no records in English were sighted.

Also see

  • Historical books online below. As an example Inscriptions.

Online newspapers

Churches and cemeteries

A researcher advised a trip to Sri Lanka in 2010 "uncovered masses of records in churches in Kandy, Colombo, Galle and Matara that need to be photographed ASAP... The Methodist Church seems to have centralised all records prior to 1982 in Colombo".[7] "The Anglican church records are at the Diocesan library in Colombo. The records are from churches all over the Island."[8]

Several kinds of registers of the Dutch Reformed Church at Galle and Matara are to be found in the main office of the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka, in Colombo. The volumes include baptismal (1677-1807), marriage (1744-1847) and burial registers (1770-1840s), all for Galle, and a baptismal register for Matara 1776-1800. No inventory is available and some of the material is heavily damaged. In the future, the collection may be transferred to the Wolvendaal Church[9]

The Galle Face Burial Ground was opened in 1803 and located on the south side of the Fort.[10] Trying to locate this cemetery which appears to have also been the Garrison cemetery, a researcher was told that a Roman Catholic church had been built on the site and all the tombstones moved to the Kanatte cemetery. She also visited the Garrison cemetery in Kandy which has been restored [11]

FIBIS resources

Also see

External links

Maps

Other

Historical photographs and images online

Historical books online

  • "Books on Ceylon" [a Bibliography] by Biblio page 159, Volume VI, Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register January 1921 Archive.org.
  • National Digital Library Sri Lanka including Ceylon Government Gazettes from 1889 (as at 2023/04), but only some publication may be available for any given year. The website contains a Search, then relevant editions may be downloaded as a pdf. In the past some other publications required prior registration, and then a pdf had to be requested, but it is unclear if this still applies, but the Gazettes appear to be available without prior registration.
  • Ceylon Calendar, published 1814-1830 was followed by Ceylon Almanac and Compendium of Useful Information, published 1833-1839 and 1844-1850. Continued as Ceylon Calendar and Compendium of Useful Information 1840-1843 and Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register 1851-1862.
Available on Archive.org Ceylon Almanac and Ceylon Calendar, (together) a broken range 1818 to 1868, and includes most editions following.
1818 includes page 217, MBD for 1817 HathiTrust Digital Library; 1827 Archive.org; 1829 includes page 264, MBD in 1828 HathiTrust; 1830 Google Books; 1834 and 1835 Hathi Trust; 1836 Google Books, 1836 HathiTrust; 1837 Google Books, 1837 HathiTrust; 1839 Scroll to digital page 48 for The Companion” which contains the Civil List etc. nla.gov.au; 1847 Poor quality print. Google Books; 1855 Google Books, 1855 HathiTrust; 1856 scribd.com, 1856 Scroll to listing and read online. historyofceylontea.com.
The British Library holds similar publications under various titles such as Ceylon Calendar and Ceylon Almanac from 1814 to 1862 (broken range), see UIN: BLL01002830047 . In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill (IDC Publishers), I-900/2 (132 microfiche) which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
In the late 1930s, the full title of Thacker's Indian Directory wasThacker's Indian Directory including Burma and Ceylon, and included information about Ceylon.
1937-1938, Contents, 1937-1938, 2nd file; 1938-1939, Contents All Archive.org
Ceylon and the Hollanders, 1658-1796 by P E Peiris, Ceylon Civil Service 1918 Archive.org. Reprint, of 3rd edition [1930] Archive.org
There are chapters on Ceylon from page 139 A Voyage To India by Rev James Cordiner 1820 Google Books The author was in Ceylon 1799-1804.
Slavery and the slave trade in British India: with notices of the existence of these evils in the islands of Ceylon, Malacca, and Penang, drawn from official documents Published 1841 Google Books
Forest Life in Ceylon by W Knighton, formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 1854 Volume I, Volume II. This work has been described as a novel, (but somewhat against this view see further comments.[13]) William Knighton, biographical details, djo.org.uk
  • Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Archive.org Multiple volumes from Volume 1 1845. HathiTrust multiple volumes including restricted access, some of which, to c 1926, are probably available to those in North America.
Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register multiple volumes from Volume III 1917 to Vol. X 1924. Archive.org. Includes a section "Notes and Queries". HathiTrust editions, restricted to some areas such as North America.
Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, etc. including a monograph of the elephant ... by Sir J Emerson Tennent 1861. 2nd file, with images correctly rotated. Both Archive.org
A Handbook to the Ports on the Coast of India between Calcutta and Bombay, including the Island of Ceylon by Herbert Samuel Brown, Lieutenant, R.N.R. Port and Customs Officer, Mangalore. 1897. British Library Digital Collection.
The Cruise of Her Majesty's ship "Bacchante", 1879-1882, Volume II- The East Compiled from the Private Journals etc of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales 1886 Archive.org. Includes China, Singapore, Ceylon.
  • Ceylon in xxxx with a number of online editions from 1883 to 1903, the latter title is Ceylon in 1903 describing the progress of the island since 1803, its present agricultural and commercial enterprises, and its unequalled attractions to visitors, with upwards of one hundred illustrations, by John Ferguson.
1883 Archive.org, 1883 British Library Digital Collection. 1884 Archive.org,1884 British Library. Jubilee Year 1887 Archive.org, Jubilee Year 1887 British Library. 1893 Archive.org, 1893 British Library. 1903 Archive.org. British Library images may be better, and they can be rotated if required.
The Book of Ceylon; being a guide to its railway system and an account of its varied attractions for the visitor and tourist by Henry W Cave 1908 Archive.org
The Ceylon Government Railway : a descriptive and illustrated guide, mainly extracted from the author's larger work "The Book of Ceylon" By Henry W Cave 1910 Archive.org
A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870 by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01004088800
  • The Colonial Office List for .... Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See Directories online - Colonial Office List for a broken range 1862-1920s.
  • Article: "The Ceylon Blue Books" by Dilini Liyanage 15 October 2017 sundayobserver.lk. Gives details of the contents which can be expected. Note there was a separate Ceylon Civil List from 1863, however it seems there was a Civil List as part of the Blue Book to 1917 inclusive. The separate publication has not been viewed but possibly may have been more extensive.
  • There are editions from 1863 of The Ceylon Civil List at the British Library UIN: BLL01000649015, but missing some editions.
Ceylon Blue Book, 1916 Pdf download Digital Library Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka.
The Ceylon Blue Book for 1866, 1868-1869, 1871, 1877 then a broken range 1896-1926. Searchable, read online or download. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. Jstor.org, South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection.
Ceylon Blue Book for the years 1892 (catalogued 1982), 1900-1901-1902-1903-1904, 1906, 1912 Supplementary, 1913-1914-1915-1916, 1919. There are also some Ceylon Administration Reports. Granth Sanjeevani, The Asiatic Society, Mumbai. Access to the digital collection requires a paid Membership Plan, unless your Library has a subscription. Mirror files for all of these editions are available for free on Archive.org Ceylon Blue Book. Also Archive.org Ceylon Administration Reports broken range 1891-1919.
Ceylon Blue Book 1907, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1920, File 2, 1921, 1921 File 2, 1922, 1922 File 2, 1923, 1923 File 2, 1924, 1925, 1925 File 2, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938. Google Books.
Ceylon Blue Book 1927 GIPE Digitised Books. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics - Pune, India.
In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill, Ceylon Statistical Blue Books 1862-1938, 883 microfiche Brill (IDC Publishers) H-2323/1, which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
Colonial Reports - Annual for Ceylon. No. 396 Ceylon 1902 to No. 1507 Ceylon 1929 for most years. HathiTrust Digital Library.
Archive.org editions of Colonial Reports - Annual from 1908 onwards. Includes reports in respect of Ceylon.

Personal accounts

Article: "Jacob Haafner. Travels through the Island of Ceylon In 1783" by Paul Van Der Velde and Jaap De Moor.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker 1855 Google Books. New edition 1890 with title Eight Years in Ceylon Archive.org.
  • Fifty Years in Ceylon: an Autobiography by the late Major Thomas Skinner, Commissioner of Public Works Ceylon. Edited by his daughter Annie Skinner 1891 Archive.org. Born 1804, he arrived in Ceylon in 1818, aged 14, where his father was stationed. Soon he was appointed as an officer in the Ceylon Regiment. He retired from Ceylon in 1867.
  • A Visit to Ceylon by Ernst Haeckel, translated by Clara Bell. 1883. Archive.org. Originally published as Indische Reisebriefe [Letters of Indian Travel] by Ernst Haeckel 1883 Archive.org. The author was professor of Zoology at the University of Jena, Thuringia, Germany. He arrived in Ceylon in November 1881, travelling via Bombay.
India and Ceylon by Ernst Haeckel, translated by Mrs S E Boggs. 1883 Archive.org. “A coherent, if not strictly literal translation” of Indische Reisebriefe 1883 Archive.org.
Ernst Haeckel Wikipedia. German zoologist
The Snaffle Papers by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1898 Archive.org. Two chapters on Ceylon.
"Hunting in the Indies" (including Ceylon) page 189 The image of war : a sporting autobiography by “Snaffle” 1914 Archive.org.
Some chapters may appear in more than one book.
Poems in Captivity by John Still 1919 Archive.org. Includes poems about Ceylon.
Ceylon by Ashley Gibson 1929. A volume in The Outward Bound Library series. "A new Series of Illustrated Handbooks for the information and entertainment of travellers and emigrants and their friends at home". Archive.org.
The children of the lion by Ashley Gibson reprint edition, first published 1923? 1930? A collection of nine fairy tales. Archive.org
The twilight drummers, and other sketches by Ashley Gibson 1914 Archive.org. Stories about Africa and Ceylon. Archive.org
  • A visit to Ceylon: Page 169 India of the Rajahs by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
  • Also see accounts in the following section.

Planters, the Planting and Other Industries

"The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East" page 219 The India Rubber World April 1, 1903 Archive.org
"Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States" page 225 The India Rubber World April 1, 1904 Archive.org
  • My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org Ceylon, Malaya, Java, Sumatra
  • The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the fieldby Frank Braham 1911. Review, page 242 Nature December 21, 1911 Archive.org
  • Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate" The Glasgow Herald Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers. A trainee planter was known as a Creeper.
  • A Creeper in Ceylon by C V Warren Part 1 and Part 2 pages 413-420 and pages 431-436 The Wide World Magazine. Volume 62 1928-1929 November-April. Archive.org. The author worked on tea estates.
  • Online publications of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, in addition to Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories from 1871 to 1999 (broken range) are available on History of Ceylon Tea, accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
From the same website, under Publications and Articles /Other Publications are many miscellaneous titles, mainly relating to tea and rubber, including
The Pioneers 1825 - 1900 : The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life by John Weatherstone. 1986. historyofceylontea.com. Also available as a pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.

Notes

  1. "Ceylon" page 778 The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume V, 11th edition 1910. Archive.org.
  2. Great War Forum thread Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps (retrieved 19 January 2019).
  3. Dominion-of-the-North War Diary: 8th Rifle Brigade; Post-May 1918; Does it Exist? Great War Forum 10 March , 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. "The Ceylon Civil List" defonseka.com. "Ceylon Civil List with Record of Service for Reginald Tyler" by Kathleen Townsend astro.wisc.edu
  5. Andresen, Larry & Coreen British Ceylon christening records in The Hague Rootsweb Srilanka Mailing List, 01 January 2007 and 02 January 2007, now archived
  6. Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library in Melbourne
  7. ceylonsearch (Larry and Coreen) Early British Ceylon military records Rootsweb Srilanka Message Board 20 Oct 2010 8:56AM Retrieved 15 September 2014
  8. Andresen, Larry and Coreen Anglican Church Records repository May 13, 2014 GenForum: Sri Lanka Genealogy Forum. Retrieved 28 September 2014
  9. "Gold-Leaf Flattery, Calcuttan Dust, and a Brand New Flagpole: Five Little-Known VOC Collections in Asia on India and Ceylon" by Lennart Bes Itinerario Volume 36 Issue 01 April 2012, pp 91 - 106. Scroll to page 95, to the section "Galle Books, Christian Reformed Church (Colombo)" The address is given on page 106. academia.edu. Note: May be slow to open. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  10. Page 27 List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon by J. Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org.
  11. Williams, Anne Winter Galle Face burial ground/Garrison cemetery Rootsweb Srilanka Message Board 13 February 2004. Retrieved 15 September 2014
  12. "New Light on the Identity of Philalethes" by Breden WM Gooneratne and Yasmin Gooneratne, 1971
  13. Page 144 Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard 2009 Google Books
  14. Ceylon Roll of Honour World War 1 1914-18 Part 1 A-K contains 1218 records; Part 2 L-Z contains 1133 records. Kabristan Archives