Sri Lankan Sinhalese Family Genealogy

AHELEPOLA (EYHELEPOLA, EHELEPOLA, EHELAPOLA) DISAVA - Family #3040

1  Ahelepola Disava + Lady Pilimatalauwa (3114)

2 Ahelepola Wijayasundara Wickremasinghe Chandrasekera Seneviratne Amarakoon Wasala (Ahelepola Maha Adigar) 1773-1829 + Kumarihamy (sister of Keppetipola)

 3 Loku Banda (put to death by execution together with their mother by drowning in the Bogambara Wewa in 1814)
               3 Madduma Banda (put to death by execution together with their mother by drowning in the Bogambara Wewa in 1814)
               3  Name Not Known (put to death by execution together with their mother by drowning in the Bogambara Wewa in 1814)
 3 Name Not Known (put to death by execution together with their mother by drowning in the Bogambara Wewa in 1814)

2 2nd spouse of Ahelepola Wijayasundara Wickremasinghe Chandrasekera Seneviratne Amarakoon Wasala (Ahelepola Maha Adigar) 1773-1829 + [18] Pilimatalawe Kumarihamy (widow of Migastenne)

 
Ahelepola Wijayasundara Wickremasinghe Chandrasekera Seneviratne Amarakoon Wasala (Ahelepola Maha Adigar) 1773-1829, Born:1773 at Matale Ahelepola Walauwa. Educated at Ven. Kobbekaduwa Yatawatte Maha Nayaka Thera. Wife and family arrested and killed by the last King of Kandy, Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe. 
 
Was appointed to King’s service as:-
Paniwidarkara Nilame, 
Maduwe Lekam, 
Pallewahala Nilame, 
Maha Gabada Nilame, 
Dissave Sat Korale. 1803. 
Uva Dissava second Adikaram and Dissava, Sabaragamuwa March 1808. 
First Adigar 1812-1814,
 
Staged rebellion against the King of Kandy at Sabaragamuwa, March 1814 and helped the British to invade the Kingdom of Kandy in 1815. Signed the Kandyan Convention
which ceded the Kandyan Kingdom territories to the British on 18-Mar-1815, together with:-
Robert Brownrigg (British Governor)
Pelime Talawe (Pillimtalawe), 2nd Adigar and Disawa of Saffragam
Pelime Talawe (Pilimitalawa), Disawa of the Four Korales
Monarawila, Disawa of Uva
Ratwatte, Disawa of Matale
Molligoda, Disawa of the Three Korales
Dullewe, Disawa of Walapane
Millawa, Disawa of Wellassa & Bintenne
Galagama, Disawa of Tamankada
Galagoda, Disawa of Nuwara Kalawiya
in the presence of,
J D'Oyly, Chief Translator to Government, James Sutherland, Dep Secy to Government.
 
Refused to accept the post of Pallegampaha Adigar offered to him by the British. Rejected 
1,000 Gold Pagodi also offered by the British. Wished to be the King. Was then appointed as Head of Lascoryn, 23-Mar-1815. Joined the rebels in 1818 to overthrow 
British rule. Was arrested on suspicion on 2-Mar-1818 near Magul Maduwa. Brought to Colombo and was imprisoned until May-1825 and then was deported to Mauritius 
on 14-May-1825 aboard the ship “Alexander”. Arrived in Mauritius on 6-Jun-1825 and was imprisoned at Ponplemuses. Wrote a last will before his death. 
Died: 5-Apr-1829. Tomb erected in Mauritius Nov-1830.