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  “LANKAN DUTCH BURGHERS” – by Des Kelly A comprehensive mini-history of the Dutch Burghers in Sri Lanka today, this particular story has been excellently portrayed, will take quite a lot of reading, but will be enjoyed by any avid Dutch Burgher, anywhere. This writer is only part Dutch Burgher though, primarily on my Maternal side.  My Mum was a Miss Kriekenbeek whose ancestors were actually Founder members of the famous Dutch East Indian Shipping Co., who originally set foot on the Island of Ceylon, that, everyone knows, was “ruled” by the Dutch, for a period of time. ...

Aug 29, 2022 Posted by In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged , , , , ,
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A race battling anxiety-by Prabath de Silva Source:Dailymirror The Dutch  Burgher community is dwindling at present with the vast increase in migration and inter marriages taking place. Further, with racist ideologies rising once more, the future for the minorities seem bleak  The descendants of the European servants of the Dutch East India Company and Mestico women and native  women ( Sinhalese and Tamil) became known as ‘Dutch Burghers’ If the legal formula of racial mother tongue was applied to these ethnic groups, the mother tongues of Muslim, Burgher and Malay children would respectively be Arabic, Portuguese/ Dutch/English and Malay ...

Mar 28, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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