Sri Lankan Burgher Family Genealogy

GERARDUS PETRUS JOSEPH - Family # 1015

1 Gerardus Petrus Joseph + Johonna Francina

    2 Josephina Laura Joseph b:3-Aug-1846 + Richard Daniel van Dort b:26-Dec-1848 d:4-Nov-1903 (1013)

        3 Victor Bertram van Dort b:17-Sep-1885 d:18-Apr-1941 + Mabel Louise de Kretser (1014) b:5-May-1880 d:10-Jan-1928

    2  Abraham Orlando Joseph, leading proctor, freemason and among the first complement of officers of the “Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers”

        3  Ernest Henley Joseph (b. 1868), Lt.-Col in the Ceylon Garrison Artillery (CGA) and thus also held the V.D. designation,  Colombo Colts Cricket Club team player since 1883 (when he was 15!) and had played in a Ceylonese eleven against a European eleven. "EHJ" inter alia went on to become a well-known tennis player and Vice-Chairman of the Colombo Association Football League

        3  Lt. Col. Ernest Mervyn Corbet Joseph (b.1890) also of the CGA who was commander of the Galle Face Battery and Chief Recruiting Officer, Ceylon during WW2. A peace-time proctor and later Colombo’s senior magistrate, he is mentioned with credit in Noel Crusz' published (2000) account of the wartime Cocos Islands Mutiny