Ceylon Births

[acorngen]

I have today come across a birth in 1888 in Petal Ceylon.  Ive spent most of the day following link after link searching records on FindMyPast familysearch other online resources with no avail.  All of the links followed appear on here as well in a few threads previously started.

Francis Pulley was born in 1888 according to census and his WWI soldiers records.  The place of birth given was petal Colombo.  As I have said all searches of birth records seem to turn up a blank. 

His military records list his next of kin as an Uncle in Norwich close to where he was living when he joined up/was conscripted.  Interestingly those papers also state he suffers with Ague caused by him being brown.   

This threw me because id assumed before reading this is ethinc make up would have been white.  So question one would be as a British owned country would the people there have been granted British citizenship because of this.

His colour makes no difference in the terms of this research. 

Second question is does anyone know of any incoming ships lists other than those on Ancestry and FindMyPast

Finally I know civil registration was in place by 1888 in Ceylon but what was the uptake of people registering births there at this time

Rob

[ShaunJ]

The uncle Francis Gabriel was a butler in Kensington in the 1911 census, at 45 Lexham Gardens which is the address given for him in FJG's army records. He's 47, single, and his nationality is given as "Singalese". He's at the same address in the 1891 and 1901 censuses. 

[acorngen]

Thx for the reply and as the uncle at the moment is not a part of my research so id not looked at those records.  This would explain the brown comment. 

Im trying to find the birth record and the incoming passenger records in the hope parentage may be found.  Using the uncle may be a route worth trying so again ty again