Sri Lanka ( Ceylon) Marriage and Births

[jmp]

Is there anywhere I can find information on a marriage and subsequent birth dates in Ceylon in the early 1900's please?

I am looking for a marriage between Stanley Frederick Pearce and Evelyn Maud Tippet on the 7 Nov 1908. I cannot find the marriage in England, but Stanley was a baptist missionary in Colombo and Matale at the time and it may be that they married there.

I am also looking for  records for the births of their children who were born in Matale between 1913 and 1922 and how to get access to baptism records

Does anyone also know any websites which deal with the baptist missionary during this period which may also help

Many thanks for any information
JMP

[Kim Pearce]

Hi JMP,

Did you learn anything more on this subject?  I too am looking for information on a marriage in Ceylon, in 1900.

Kim Pearce

[jmp]

No sorry Kim still a blank on that one I'm afraid

[Kim Pearce]

Let me know if you get any leads and I will do likewise.

Too bad it is not my "Pearce" side of the family that has the connection to Ceylon.  We might have been able to compare notes on the subject.  Our Pearces are rooted in Dover, Kent.

[enigmatic]

Hi Kim and JMP

I too am looking for Ceylonese records but the records I am looking for are from the first half of the 19th century i.e. 1800-1850. I'm not having much luck either. If you do find anything can you please post a message here and I will do likewise if I find anything.

Maybe someone will have a solution for us!

[Kim Pearce]

I hope someone will be able to help us.  I have found some vague references to the possibility that 2 of my greatgrandmother's sisters had married the same man (how deliciously scandalous!).  This would have been illegal in the UK at that time so I'm most interested in finding out more.

[enigmatic]

Don't you just love these little scandals you find when researching family history! No one ever talks about them and you're left to go digging hoping you can find the "truth".

So were both sisters married to this man at the same time? ie the man was not widowed or divorced when he married the second sister.

I've just found out my g-g-grandparents were in Ceylon and had children there. I have never been able to find a marriage record for them in the UK so I'm hoping they married in Ceylon. They were Roman Catholic so I'm presuming there was no scandal involved and they were actually married. Just one thing that worries me is that my g-g-grandmother's death is recorded under her maiden name so there is always the possibility that they were not married.

[Kim Pearce]

I love it when I find a scandal or a mystery or hear of a family rumour.  Reignites my interest in finding the truth.

To make a short story long, I have photo from a family plot in a cemetery in Wales that had a grandchild in the same plot as several other family members.  The grandchild was born in Poona and, based on her last name, was the child of one of my greatgrandmother's sisters.  I believe we have found a reference to 2 marriages for the child's father.   One to her mother and another to her sister, which appears to have taken place, overseas, after the death of sister #1.

[enigmatic]

Hopefully the records still exist! There has been a lot of civil unrest in Sri Lanka
lets hope the records have not been attacked. But that's just being negative.

I have German ancestors and I've managed to track down a bit of info about them with the help of Google translate but not sure how I'd go using Google translate for Ceylon.

I agree - it is the scandals that fire up the interest again.