JOSEPH, Andries Adrianus
– Family #1176
1 ANDRIES ADRIANUS JOSEPH, b:12-Apr-1807,
d:5-Apr-1864 + Carolina Amelia de Neys b:20-Mar-1815, d: Oct- 1898
…2 Arthur Francis Joseph + Eugenia Lucretia Pompeus b.:22-Oct-1836 in Colombo (Ceylon) Sri
Lanka, m:22-Oct-1856 in Dutch Reformed Church, Wolvendaal, Colombo. She was
born 22-Oct-1836 in Colombo and was the daughter of Christiaan Albertus Pompeus
and Emelia Josephine Wilhelmina van der Straaten. (Source of parents marriage -
DBU Journal Vol XXIII No.3 of 1934)
……3 Lawrence Joseph, b:circa 1873 (later
known as Joseph Lawrence, moved to Scotland in the early 1890’s)
…2 Eugene Joseph + Georgiana Jemima Ohlmus (1848-1906)
(had 15 children)
……3 Sidney Percival Joseph (1873 -
1934) (SIDDIE) + Anne Noble Ohlmus (1878-1949), m:Sep-4-1905
at Wolvendaal Dutch Reformed Church, Colombo
………4 Noble Georgiana Frances Ohlmus Joseph,
b:Jun-25-1906 + Lt. Col. T. R. Jansen, OBE, ED (also of the CMC, and one-time
Commander of the volunteer corps).
…………5 Shelagh Jansen + Goonewardene
…………5 Suzette Jansen
…………5 Roger Jansen
………4 Sidney Eugene Edward Ohlmus Joseph
(called Eddie), born 1910, who died in Australia
………4 Louis William Abraham Ohlmus Joseph,
born 1912, who died in Colombo in the 1950s
………4 Victor Christian de Meuron Ohlmus Joseph
(called Vickie), born 1916, who died in Australia in 1971)
An obituary published in the
JDBU of 1934 describes Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph
L.R.C.P. & S. (Edinburgh) and L.F.P. & S. (Glasgow) as "so useful
a citizen, so excellent a man". When he retired from Government service to
settle down in Colombo, he had served 27 continuous years in Ceylon's scattered
outstations as a Medical Officer / Provincial Surgeon working for the Medical
department. According to Who's Who of Ceylon 1918-20 his postings
included Maskeliya and Trincomalee, and he was promoted to Grade 1 in May 1918,
at which time he was living in Balapitiya.
(Another
Joseph family member with the de Meuron name is Darian Egerton de
Meuron Joseph, born Feb 21, 1944 in Colombo and a descendant of Wilhelmus
Arnoldus Joseph (born 1813), another son of the founder of the Ceylon
Joseph clan who has been in touch with me by e-mail recently. Darian Joseph of
Sri Lanka and his distant cousin Hugh Lawrence of Canada (born April 3, 1944)
are therefore almost exact contemporaries, having been born only 5 or
6 weeks apart. Hopefully one day they will meet, perhaps when Hugh and
Fiona take that retirement trip to Sri Lanka in a couple of years' time)! [Joe
Simpson, BC, Canada, Jan-3-2002]