Publisher's Synopsis
15+ years of research into the history of Ceylon and colonisation. Most people in Sri Lanka were given names like Perera, Corea etc. I wanted to find lost Sinhala last names (because of colonisation) and family lineages of historic figures who happen to be my ancestors and their relatives. This is a genealogy book as well as a historic document. If you are a relative of President JR Jayewardene or from the Bandaranaike lineage, have an ancestor from the Chilaw Corea clan, are from a family with a political figure of Sri Lanka, have nobility lineage, want to know about descendants of prominent people in the Portuguese, Dutch, and British periods of Ceylon, this might be the book for you. Some of the families in this book were mentioned in such books as Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon, Chieftains of Ceylon, Paul E. Pieris books etc. Thousands of 1800's and 1700's records were delved into in order to find lost info. Thousands of names covered in this book.
