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No. 004 Date April 2015
Contact Eileen at info@kabristan.org.uk
Find us on www.kabristan.org.uk or www.genealogysrilanka.com
COMMENT
We have just come back from the Falkland Islands and found the records for several Irish people mostly military personnel who migrated from the UK to the Islands in 1849. Known as the Chelsea Pensioners even though they were only in their forties they were drafted there for garrison and police duties. We will be producing a CD on our findings later in the year.
If you would like to follow in our footsteps do watch BBC’s Island Parish Falklands a six part series on Thursday evenings. Episode 1 was on March 27.
NEWS FROM IRELAND
NATIONAL ARCHIVES DUBLIN
Looking for your roots in Ireland it is worth looking at the National Archives Dublin it gives a list of all the available genealogy web sites connected with Irish genealogy
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-websites/
ST PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL DUBLIN
St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin is launching an app which will allow visitors to access multimedia information on key features of the cathedral through their mobile phones.
This app uses innovative iBeacon technology which will automatically illuminate key points of interest on visitors’ mobile devices as they self-guide through the Cathedral. iBeacons are small transmitters which have been installed at strategic locations within the Cathedral.
St Patrick’s Cathedral will be the first iBeacon enabled visitor attraction in Ireland and the app has been developed for the Cathedral in a partnership with appybeacons
TIRED OF TECHNOLOGY
When you are tired of all this technology and your head is whizzing with all the different web sites and you are still looking for clues to your ancestors, why don’t you browse our indexes of Irish names from graveyards and burial records found in the west of Ireland. They are free.
See http://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes
Once you have found the name we can supply it or the relevant publication at very low cost see http://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-publications either in record form, PDF or book format.
NEWS FROM CEYLON (SRI LANKA)
TAMILS SEEK BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
Did you know that in 1963 a group of Tamils petitioned Queen Elizabeth II claiming citizenship of the UK and Colonies under the British Nationality Act 1947. They asked the Queen to intervene with the Ceylon Government because Tamils without Ceylonese citizenship who were born in Ceylon and whose fathers born in Ceylon qualified for British citizenship. The original document with 700 names is in the National Archives UK. The petitioners mainly came from the estates in Hatton, Kotagala, Dickoya, Hakgranoya, Bogawantalawa, Talawakelle, Maskeliya and others. To read the complete article see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/researchplaces_01.shtml#seven
JAFFNA IS OPEN
Since the new president was elected in January 2015 the road to the North is now reopened to tourists. We will be visiting the churches Jaffna in May hopefully we will be able to locate some more records. Many were lost during the war.
If you have any queries and you think we can help please mail us at info@kabristan.org.uk
PUBLICATION FROM COLOMBO
We have one copy left of ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE REGISTER OF MARRIAGES AT THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AT WOLVENDAAL COLOMBO 1709-1936 AD compiled by S. A. W. Mottau published by The Department of National Archives Sri Lanka New Pages 504 ISBN 9789559016274 priced at £17.00 plus post and packing it is a bargain and imported from Colombo.
NEWS FROM INDIA & PAKISTAN
If you need a birth or death certificate there is a dedicated web site that will obtain it for you BIRTH CERTIFICATE PAKISTAN trusted not to compromise
See http://birthcertificatepakistan.com/death-certificate-from-pakistan/
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CEMETERIES IN SOUTH ASIA (BACSA)
The British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) has launched its new website www.bacsa.org.uk this society specializes in preserving the memories of the Raj by giving grants and repairing European cemeteries in the Indian sub-continent and elsewhere in South Asia. New members are wanted and if you are interested in the British heritage in Asia, BACSA would love to have you on the team. The Executive Committee is also looking for volunteers who are going on holiday to India to send reports on any of the cemeteries they visit. Currently they urgently need someone who is going to Kashmir to look at the Sheikh Bagh Cemetery in Srinagar which was decimated during the floods last year and give a report on its condition. Let me know if you interested contact me Eileen at info@kabristan.org.uk and I can pass on your details to the Hon Sec BACSA.
Fortunately the burial records and memorial inscriptions have been preserved and are listed in Graveyards of Kashmir by Eileen Hewson priced at £5.00 and obtainable from
http://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-publications
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