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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*''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
*"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
*[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

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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."[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

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 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).

Some birth marriage and death information may be obtained by writing to Registrar General's Office, New Secretariat, Maligawatta, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka.

LDS Records

For general details about LDS records, including microfilms, see IGI.

Sri Lanka, Colombo District Dutch Reformed Church Records 1677-1990 are available with images online on the familysearch website.

The North Parramatta 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.

FIBIS Resources

External links

Historical books online

Notes

  1. ↑ "Ceylon", LoveToKnow 1911 [accessed 21 October 2009]
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