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RARE ETHNIC SURNAMES of Sri Lanka – By Des Kelly           Sent in to me by my good friend and co-musician Dallas Achilles, I reckon that a multitude of Lankan Burghers would have still not had the privilege of reading about how their Surnames originated. This is their chance to do so, and I would like to thank Dallas very much, for this important information.            Personally, I understand that the Kelly’s are NOT Dutch, Portuguese or any other Burgher Clan, that I can think of, simply because my forefathers did arrive in Ceylon (when they did), from Ireland, Dublin, to be exact, and although my dear mother, God bless her soul, was pure Dutch (she was a Miss Kriekenbeek), the old Dutch Burgher Union, did not bother to register us (Kelly’s) as Dutch Burgher, so then, I suppose, I would have ...