Governor John Douglas died 23rd August 1885St and was buried at
Paul’s Church Kandy Ceylon Sri Lanka)
The origin of the Sri Lanka
volunteer movement can be traced back to 1861. The Volunteer movement
grew out of a civilian riffle club and was broad - based for infantry
soldering by a proclamation issued by the Lieutenant Governor (Sir John
Douglas KCMG) in the Govt Gazette of 01 Apr 1881 authorizing the
formation of "The Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers.
(Baptisms
St Paul’s Church Kandy Ceylon Sri Lanka 1841-1844)
William Douglas
son of Lieut-Colonel Douglas and Punchy Manika Dandian Ooman
DOUGLAS Burials St Paul’s Church Kandy Ceylon Sri Lanka)1823-1840
Mrs
Douglas
Brian Douglas
Janet Douglas
DOUGLAS
Burials in Trincomalee Protestant Cemetery Ceylon Sri Lanka)
Douglas
B.
Douglas Private D.
Douglas Sergt R.
Colombo
Miscellaneous Burials, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
DOUGLAS Capt Charles
Antoine
(Colombo Liveramentu Cemetery (War Dead) Ceylon Sri
Lanka) WW1 and WW2
DOUGLASS Private ALFRED WILLIAM 6471914
Holy Trinity Church Nuwara Eliya Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Marriage
& Keith Robin Douglas-Scott child of Douglas Douglas-Scott & Aimee May
SCOTT
Kenneth Mackenzie-Douglas, Lieutenant 58th Regiment,
who was born on the 14th of July, 1809, and died unmarried in Ceylon in
1830.
William Douglass (1831-1923) was a lighthouse builder
who worked in Ceylon.
David Douglas Wemyss (1760–1839), army
officer, went by the name of Douglas until about 1790, when he took the
additional name of Wemyss, was in April 1803 appointed to the command of
the forces in Ceylon. He returned home in 1806,
Francis Seymour Douglas Hamilton was born on 19 January 1811, the son of
Augustus Barrington Price Anne Powell
Douglas-Hamilton and Maria
Catherine Hyde, in London.
Emma Catherine Frances Coventry was
born about 1811, the daughter of Thomas Darby Coventry and Harriet
Wildman Hunter Esten, at Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
I have
identified the following children.
Alexandrina Emma Ada Caroline Born
26 Jul 1837 Woolwich, Kent
Rosabel Georgiana Maria Born 28 Sep 1838
Brighton, Sussex Married Albert Charles Hadland
Archibald Barrington
Seymour Born 3 Nov 1840 Colombo, Ceylon
Constance Born abt 1842
Colombo, Ceylon
Algernon Percy Born 22 Jun 1844 Richmond Married
Idonia Charlotte Douglas Hamilton
Rosalie Felicia Born 4 May 1846
Kingston
Evelyn Clara Born abt 1849 Bath, Somerset
Aubrey
Reginald Born 21 Apr 1851 Bath, Somerset Married Lucy Fitzgerald
Blanche Annie Born 25 Dec 1853 Bath, Somerset
Mina Kathleen Born 16
Dec 1854 Bath, Somerset
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