Sri Lanka Memon Family Genealogy

SUTARIYA - Family #298

The Sutariya's, unlike most other Memons domiciled in Sri Lanka trace their roots back to Upleta, a town in Rajkot District. Ahmed Shakoor Sutariya, is said to have been a grain merchant in his hometown in Upleta. His son, Taiyab Ahmed, upon migrating to Ceylon was involved in sugar indenting in Colombo before moving on to the textile business in Colombo.

His son, Habeeb, went on to establish Habeeb Taiyab & Company in Main Street which traded in food commodities such as coconut oil and sugar. Habeeb also had a textile printing and weaving concern in Embilipitiya known as Parakum Textiles.

He had five sons, Rafik, Iqbal, Ariff, Shabeer, and Anver. Rafeek and Ariff are in the textile trade while Iqbal is into garment manufacturing and Anver a BSc graduate from Ramaya College of Engineering in Bangalore and is presently based in Dubai.

Rafik's son, Ahmed, is into tea manufacturing and has a factory in the Ratnapura District. Iqbal's son, Zia-ur-Rahman, graduated in business studies from the University of Reading, UK. Ariff's daughter, Sabina, holds a degree in business management majoring in Marketing from the Towson University in Maryland, USA. She is currently employed by Telecom Malaysia in Penang.

Habeeb's brother, Eliyas, who studied Electrical Engineering at the University of London, worked at ITT, UK, for over ten years before moving to Jakarta where he is engaged in the supply of electrical engineering goods to local industry. Eliyas's older daughter, Amira, followed her fathers footsteps and got her MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. She presently works for IBM in Toronto, Canada. Her younger sister, Nadaa, is in Boston studying for her MA in Law and Diplomacy Degree at Tufts University.

1 Sutariya

    2  Ahmed Shakoor Sutariya

        3 Taiyab Ahmed Shakoor Sutariya

            4 Habeeb Taiyab Sutariya

                5 Rafik Habeeb Sutariya

                    6  Ahmed Rafik Sutariya

                5 Iqbal Habeeb Sutariya

                    6  Zia-ur-Rahman Iqbal Sutariya

                5 Ariff Habeeb Sutariya

                    6  Sabina Ariff Sutariya

                5 Shabeer Habeeb Sutariya

                5 Anver Habeeb Sutariya

            4 Eliyas Taiyab Sutariya

                5 Amira Eliyas Sutariya

                5 Nadaa Eliyas Sutariya

Compiled by the Webmaster of the Sri Lanka Genealogy Website from available data in Sri Lankan archives together with data extracted from "Memons of Sri Lanka" - Men Memoirs Milestones, by Asiff Hussein & Hameed Karim Bhoja, May 2006, iSBN 955-1408-00-4, Published by The Memon Association of Sri Lanka