Sri Lanka Burgher Family Genealogy
DU BOIS DE LASAUSSAYE (LASSOSAY) – Family # 1135
00 GUILLAUME DU BOIS + Mme GENEVIEVE CESTAT
Cavalry Officer of l’ancien regime (France)
0 Claude Guillaume, Marquis Du Bois de La Saussaye + Antoinette Butel St. Ville
The Marquis held a military command on the island of Guadaloupe where he was an extensive landed proprietor and where, on the breaking out of the great revolution, his family settled down. (France)
1 Etienne Guillaume Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) d:13-May-1866 in France + Aline du Bois de La Saussaye (cousin)
…2 Jean Pancour du Bois de La Saussaye of Pointe a Pitre, Guadaloupe
1 Count du Bois Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) or Guillaume Joachim was Captain, Luxembourg Regiment + Elizabeth Adriana Weller m:1785
Entered the military service in June 1774as a sub lieutenant in a battalion stationed at St. Anne, Guadelope. He exchanged from this into the regiment de Luxembourg and arrived in Ceylon in 1782
2 Jean Guillaume Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay)
d:17-May-1820 + Johanna Anna Sussanna van Lynden* (d/o of Stephen Baron
van Lynden), m:Nov-24-1811 (1136)
Appointed as sitting Magistrate of Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka, where he died in July 1820 from an accidental fall.
3 Maria Henrietta Du Bois de La Saussaye + John Wilhelm Kriekenbeek, b:30 Dec 1810
4 Anna Ursula Kriekenbeek b: 18 MAR 1834
3 John William Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) died at sea off the coast of Java circa 1833
3 Otho Peter Charles Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) (was raised by the Rev. Daniel Gogerly who married Jean’s widow, Johanna Anna Sussanna van Lynden) + Georgina Adelaide Booy, (d/o Frederick de Booy of the Kachcheri) m:1859. d:1866. Last of the male line in Ceylon. Ironically the same year saw the last of the de La Saussaye family in France with the death of Jean Pancour.
4 Anne Maria Adelaide Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) + Peter Harris Speldewinde
5 Claude Horace Speldewinde + Laura De Zilwa
5 Violet Speldewinde (spinster)
5 Daisy Speldewinde (spinster)
5 Pearl Speldewinde + Donald Hunter
5 Harris Dalton de La Saussaye Speldewinde + Hilda Jobsz
5 Harris Gordon de La saussaye Speldewinde + Stella Maud Hebberd (in Bombay)
5 Rose Speldewinde (died at the age of 24)
5 Otho Clair Speldewinde (died at 8 months of age)
3 Charlotte Adelaide Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) + Velsink
3 Stephanie Henrietta Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) + Raket
3 Henrietta Magadalena Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) + Mayor
3 Jane Otteline Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) + Mayes
2 Maria Elizabeth Adelaide Du Bois de La Saussay (de Lassosay) + Casparus Henricus Leembruggen, m:Oct-10-1808 in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). (1230)
3 Henricus Alexander Leembruggen was born 17 Aug 1809 and died 26 Feb 1880.
3 Johannes Henricus Leembruggen was born 29 May 1811 in Colombo, Ceylon. He died 1875. + (MRIN:4211) Louisa Charlotte Kriekenbeek on 14 Jan 1834. Louisa was born in Colombo, Ceylon.
3 Robertina Maria Elisabeth Leembruggen was born 19 Apr 1814 in Colombo, Ceylon. + (MRIN:4175) Henry John Jacob Kriekenbeek on 14 Jul 1833 in Jaffna, Ceylon. Henry was born in Colombo, Ceylon.
3 Annetta Leembruggen was born 25 Jul 1818 in Matara, Ceylon. + (MRIN:3300) Thomas Hardy on 27 Nov 1843 in Jaffna, Ceylon.
3 Peter Henry Leembruggen was born 21 May 1820 and died 1878.
3 Gerard Hendrik Leembruggen was born 17 Nov 1821 and died 1877.
4 Charles Lembruggen
5 Name Not Known Lembruggen + Name Not Known
6 Maxyn Leembruggen + Forest
3 Charles Henry Leembruggen was born 8 Aug 1823 in Colombo, Ceylon. He died 6 Jul 1924.
3 Charlotte Adelaide Leembruggen was born 11 Mar 1826 in Colombo, Ceylon. She died May 1826.
3 Maria Johanna Gertruida Leembruggen was born 28 Nov 1827.
1 Francis Sigismund de La Saussaye (de Lassosay), Count d’Estrelan, Chevalier de t. Louis and of the Legion of Honor d:1846
2 <daughter> + Jean Francois Paul Demeuille
Her issue, it is stated, obtained permission upon the extinction of the male heirs to adopt the name of de La Saussaye in addition to their own patronymic ‘PAUL’. (France)
1 Nicholas Cyrille de La
Saussaye (de Lassosay)
(died without issue)
(France)
Ref: Dutch Union Burgher Journal Vol. XXIII, 1934.
R.G.
Anthonisz wrote in the Ceylon Literary Register (quoted in Lewis -Tombstones and
Monuments of Ceylon 1913) "There are no doubts a great many people beside those
of his own family , who still remember the late Mr Otho de Lassosay. Left an
orphan at five years of age, most of his early years were spent in the house of
his stepfather, the Rev Daniel Gogerly, whom his mother the widowed Mrs de
Lassosay had married for her second husband.Here he grew up to manhood, but
whatever were the opportunities thrown in his way, it is clear he made little
use of them, for we find him struggling to get on in the world. Of free and easy
disposition, sociable and unostentatious, he made friends wherever he went, but
he was placed in awkward straits for a living. At one time he was schoolmaster
and post holder of Tangalle, offices from which he could have hardly derived an
income suitable to his station in life. In 1864 he secured the appointment of
Registrar of Lands of Tangalle on a salary of 100 pounds a year, but he lived
scarcely more than a twelve month to enjoy his promotion, because his health,
which had been undermined by a life of freedom as well as of hardship, had been
giving way for some time, and he died in the year 1866. With him ended the male
line of the de Lassosay family in Ceylon; but he had married in 1859 at
Hambantota Georgina Adelaide Booy, daughter of Frederick de Booy of the
Kachcheri, and had a daughter, Anne Maria Adelaide Du Bois de Lassosay, who is
now living, and is married and has a family"
There is a lengthy write-up (one page) about Jean Guillaume Du Bois Lassosay,
(who died on 17 May 1820), in the book "List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and
Monuments in Ceylon" by John Penry Lewis.
Charles as173@freenet.toronto.on.ca