Sri Lanka
Sinhalese Family Genealogy
SAMARAKKODY - FAMILY #3118
Samanakkodi
It is recorded in the work,
"The Kandyan Kingdom 1707-1760" by Lorna S Devaraja, that the
two
Chief Ministers, Wijayasundera Wickremasinha Chandrasekera
Rajakarunanayaka
Seneviratne Mudiyanse, the Pallegampahe 1st Adikaram of the
Kandyan Kingdom
from 1734-1737 and from 1747-1759 from the Wasagama of
Ehelepola, and
Wijeyasundera Loku Mudiyanse alias "Pilimatalawe", the
Udagampahe
Adikaram from 1739, and later,1760-1766, from the Wasagama of
Elamaldeniya,
were related to each other. Although the specifics of this
relationship are not
mentioned in that record, it is obvious that the marriage of
the
"Monarawila' Lady, who was King Narendrasingha's concubine, to
the first
known "Pilamatalawe Adikaram", is the basis for this
relationship.
The same record in the work of
Lorna S Devaraja, states that Urulewatte Wijayasundera Loku
Mudiyanse, the 2nd
Adikaram, had to yield his position to a rival of the first
Adikaram due to the
above mentioned relationship, between him and the 1st
Adikaram. In this
instance the rival of the 1st Adikaram from Ehelepola is
identified as a
relative of the senior "Leuke", the Maha Disawa of Sathara
Korale
from 1740-1751.
King Vijaya Rajasinghe (Ruled
1739-1747).inherrited Ehelapola who was
powerfull as Pallegampaha Adhikaram (1st
Adigar).So he appointed Leuke Nilame as Disawa of thun korale
and sathara
korale. The king then
appointed
Samanakkodi Nilame, a relative of Leuke, as Udagampaha
Adhikaram (2nd
Adigar)
Samanakkodi
Udagampaha
Adhikaram finally had dealings with King Kirthi Sri
Rajasinghe (Ruled
1747-1782).
The Adigars of the
Udarata Kingdom
The Adhikarama (called Adigar by the
British) was the
most powerful officer in the Udarata kingdom. He headed
the central
administration and was second only to the king. His
symbol of office, the
silver cane, curved at the top, was carried before him
like a mace, on
official matters. A second post of Adhikarama was created
by Rajasingha II
and Udarata divided between the two. Sri Wickrema
Rajasinha created a
third post of Siyapattuve Adhikaram, regarding which we
know nothing.
The five principal
villages, including Ampitiya
situated below the hill in Kandy (pallegampaha)
came under Pallegampaha Adhikarama. Udagampaha
Adhikarama had the other five including Halloluva and
Peradeniya.
Pallegampaha ranked above Udagampaha, but
Udagampaha led armies to battle. The position
of Pallegampaha
adhikarama was held by Hindagala (1707-1709),
Rammolaka (1717 - 1734), Dumbara Rala (1751) and Eravvavala
(1783).
Pallegampaha administered Sat
Korale, Uva, Matale, Valapane, Vellassa, Bintenne,
Nuwarakalaviya,
Tamankaduwa, Harispattu, Dumbara and Hewaheta. Udagampaha administered Tun Korale, Satara
Korale, Sabaragamuwa,
Udapalata, Udunuwara, Yatinuwara, Tumpane, Kotmale and
Bulatgama.
The Adhikarama's
carried out the kings orders. They
signed and handed over land grants on behalf of the
king. They delivered
the vadarapanatin sittuva a land grant in paraveni,
executed on king's order. They
supervised the ferries that
guarded Kandy. . The kasakara who cracked the whips
before the king and
adhikarama and the katupulle who conveyed the messages of
king and
adhikarama came under him. Katupulle also acted as informal
advisors.
Adhikaramas were in charge of the peraheras in Kandy, the
cleanliness of
Kandys streets and repairs to its temples.
Adhikaramas could
hear civil and criminal cases in
all the provinces either directly, or with the disawas.
Also appeals other
than those taken by the king. They ranked first in the
Maha Naduwa. When
land cases were decided, a sittu containing the names of
the litigants,
land in dispute, decision of the court and date, was
given to the
successful party. Only the Adhikarama could sign these.
And only the
Adhikarama could punish with a cane. Each adhikarama had
a disawani under
him. Pilimatalawe had Satara Korale and Ehalepola had
Sabaragamuwa in the
1800s.
The respect shown to
Adhikarama was second only to
the king. No one below the royal family could sit when
the Adhikarama was
standing nor could a person ride on an elephant, horse
or palanquin while
the Adhikarama was on foot. Everybody on the road had to
make way for him.
Adhikarama was preceded by persons cracking 16 whips,
each ten feet in
length, made of niyande, whenever he went out. Adhikarama
ranked above
disawe. When the disawe visited the Adhikarama, his
drummers stopped
drumming when they saw the adhikaramas house. When
the Adhikarama visited
a disavani, the disava had to walk two or three miles
behind. But
Adhikaramas could not use drums in Kandy or in provinces
outside their jurisdiction.
They could not inflict corporal punishment on the
radala families or any
of the employees working in the palace.
The Adhikarama was
appointed by the king.
Adhikarama paid 500 ridi for the appointment and 500 each
year to renew
it. He held office at the kings pleasure. He could be
promoted or demoted
as the king wished. Yalegoda who was Pallegampaha in 1693
was made disave
of Matale in 1703. Both Adhikarama posts were earlier
held by brothers,
such as the Rammolakas, Galagodas and Dodanvalas. Later,
rivals were
appointed to the two posts, so that they would not
combine against the
king. King Vijaya
Rajasinha (1739-1747)
inherited Ehelepola as Pallegampaha.
Ehalepola stature and family prestige was such that his
position in court
was almost unassailable. So Vijaya brought in Leuke,
who was against
Ehelepola, and elevated him to disave of Tun and Satara
Korales. The king
also inherited his second Adhikarama, Pilimatalavve. He
removed Pilimatalavve
and appointed Samanakkodi, a rival of Ehelepola and a
relative of Leuke.
Samanakkodi (Udagampaha) was against Ehelepola (Pallegampaha) in
1747.
Below the Adhikarama rank came
the disawa. Disawa was appointed by the king.
1
Kulathunga Bandara b approx 1640
2 (1)
Kulathunga Mudali b1668.
Was Disawa of Wellassa
in yr 1700 under
king Wimaadarmasuriya 2 (He had 4 sons)
3
Kulathunga Bandara .Took the name Weliwita
Saranankara b19/6/1698-d18/7/1778.He was from Weliwita Waththe Walauwwa Thumpane,Hatharaliyadda
Kandy. He was the
last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka. He was the pioneer in the
revival of Budhism in
Sri Lanka,after the decline of the religion in the 17th and
18th centuries.
During King
Narendrasingha's rule of 1707 to
1739,in his last days, kings brother in law a native of Madura
was receiving
religious training by monk Saranankara.
In 1753 he was
bestowed with the
title
Sangharaja of Sri Lanka by King Kirti Sri Rajasinghe. (Head
of the bhikkus)
due to the conspiracy
in 1760,he was imprisoned at
Kehelalla.But later pardoned in 1768,and position restored.
2 (2) Brother of
Kulathunga Mudali
3 Thibotuwawe
Buddharakitha thera (Head of
the Malwattha Vihara) b approx 1700 (Deputy
head of the bhikkus).Due to the conspiracy in 1760, he
was imprisoned at
Bintanna.But later pardoned in 1768 and position restored.
2 (3) Brother of
Kulathunga Mudali
3 Samanakkodi b approx
1700 d 1760 Was
appointed Udagampaha Adikaram,to this position between
August 1742 and December
1746. (2hd
Adigar) by King Sri Vijaya
Rajasinghe (Ruled 1739-1747) of
Kandy, who ruled from 1739-1747
(Some
report says Samanakkodi
2hd Adigar's brother in law wasThibbotuwawe.
Also Hulangamuwe Himi was the brother
of 2hd Adigar of 1731.)
December 1746, Samanakkodi
received a complimentary letter from Dutch Governor Van
Gollennesse.Samanakkodi
became a great favourite of King Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe and the
Dutch too knew
about it.
He received the Siam ambassoders
in Trincomalee around 1750, when budhisam upasampada was
brought from Thailand,
as the Portuguese had destroyed buddhism.
In
1760, due
to the hand in the conspiracy to kill the King Kirti Sri
Rajasinghe (Ruled
1747-1782), Samanakkodi Udagampaha
Adhikaram was executed,with 3 others. (informant was Gopala
Mudiyanse,a member of a Mohammedean,family of doctors,
residing in the 4
korales.)
2 Relative Leuke Nilame (Leuke Vijayasundera Rajakaruna Herat
Mudiyanse). b approx
1680 d1751.Supposed to have thought pali to his relative
Saranankara
thera.Leuke received a land grant in 1744 from King Sri Vijaya
Rajasinghe. (Leuke
was a ex buddhist monk) married the daughter of Edanduwe Rala.
(Edanduwawe was
disawe of 3&4 Korale under Rajasinghe 2)
Leuke nilame was appointed Disawa of thun korale
and hathara korale in
1743 by King Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe. Leuke sannasa, land
grant 1744.Leuke
was a ex buddhist monk.
Leuke Vijayasundera Rajakaruna
Herat Mudiyanse. (full name of Leuke)
(It is said that
Saranankara, Thibotuwawe and
Samanakkodi were from the Radala Aristocracy.) (Saranankara,
Thibotuwawe and
Leuke were related to Samanakkodi.)
By 1743, the senior Leuke Nilame was in favour with King Sri
Vijaya Rajasinha.
Within the next three years he had received many lands by way
of the Royal
Grant, popularly known as the "Leuke Sannasa", and had been
appointed
as the Disawa of of Thun Korale. Due to the excessive
influence he was having
at the Court, King Sri Vijaya Rajasinha was compelled to
appoint a relative of
Leuke, who is identified as Samarakkodi/Samarankodi Nilame, to
the office of
Udagampahe 2nd Adikaram in 1746, the last year of his reign.
Samarakkodi Nilame
held this office up to 1760, which was well into the reign of
the succeeding
King Kirthi Sri Rajasinha. However, due to his continuing
close contact with
the Madura Dynasty, with the ascent of a new King, the once
removed
Wijayasundera Wickremasinha Chandrasekera Rajakarunanayaka
Seneviratne
Mudiyanse of Ehelepola was re-instated in 1747 and was
Pallegampahe 1st
Adikaram up to 1759.
The senior "Leuke" Nilame, the Maha Disawa of the Sathara
Korale,
died in 1751, and by 1753 the fortunes of Samarakkodi Adikaram
were in decline.
Samarakkodi/Samarankodi Adikaram had a hand in the conspiracy
of 1760 against
King Kirthi Sri Rajasinha. According to the
"Sasanavathirna
Varanawa", it was the ex-second Adikaram, Urelewatte
(Pilimitalawe)
Panditha Wahala Loku Mudiyanse who revealed the conspiracy
through Galagoda
Disawa alias "Munwatte Adikaram" who became the Pallegampaha
1st
Adikaram in 1760. The Samarankodi Adikaram was executed in
1760 for his part in
the conspiracy. Pilimatalawe Elamaldeniya Loku Mudiyanse was
recalled to
re-assume duites as Udagampahe 2nd Adikaram from late 1760 to
1766. Galagoda
alias "Munwatte Adikaram" became very powerful and held as
many as
twenty High Offices between 1760 and 1777, the year of his
demise. He held the
post of 1st Adikaram until the defeats in the Dutch wars
between 1762 and 1766
made him to be removed by Kirthi Sri Rajasinha in favor of a
new 1st Adikaram
from the village of Angamanna in Kandukara Ihala Korale
Udapalatha. This was
Samaradivakara Wickramasinha Ilangakoon Senanayaka Rajapaksa
Rajakaruna
Mudiyanse of Angammana who received a Sannasa from Kirthi Sri
Rajasinha and
held the post of 1st Adikaram for 24 years, from 1766 to 1790.
The relationship between Urulewate Wickremasinha Loku
Mudiyanse and Waradamune
Chnadrasekera Seneviratne Mudiyanse helps to establish the
fact that these two
families were identified later on, by their Wasagams, as
"Pilimatalawe" and "Ehelepola", and have long standing
inter-family links.
[extracted from "Four
Kandyan Families"
by Sunil J Madugalle, 2005, pp 61-62]
Around 1750 AD, King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe (Nayakkar King
1747-1782 AD) of Kandy had sent
to (Siam)
Thailand, a delegation to
bring back Buddhism to (Ceylon)
Sri
Lanka. (Due to
the invasion of
Portuguese, Buddhism had died out in Ceylon.). The Dutch had
agreed, to bring
Buddhism back to Ceylon, in exchange for them to have trading
posts in
Batticaloa. Among the officers to meet the Siam Ambassadors in
Trincomalee,
were Samanakkodi Uda Gampaha Adigar, and another Adigar, (Chief ministers and
advisors to the King).
(Samanakkodi,
meaning the bearer of the flag of the monks. This particular
branch changed the
name to Samarakkody during the British period.)
The Historic Upasampada Ceremony was held in Kandy at Malvatta
Vihara on 19th
July 1753, under the supervision of Venerable Upali thera
senior monk of Siam.
A person in the name of Leuke
Rala, who had a knowledge of Pali was close to the Adigar
Samankkodi. Leuke
Rala and the King were not in good terms, and arrest orders
had been issued.
Therefore Leuke Rala was confined to a house in the village of
Makehelvala at
the foot of Alagalla mountains. A knowledge of Pali is
necessary to gain access
to the Tripitaka.In the determination to learn pali the monk
Saranankara
took residence in a cave near Alagalla mountains,and
Leuke Rala had
thought Pali to Velivita Saranankara Thera.Such was
Saranankara thera's desire
to learn and respect for scholarship. Saranankara samanera and
several others
were conferred Upasampada at the above ceremony in 1753.
After the restoration of Buddhism, the king placed Saranankara
as head of the
bhikkus. And as Deputy Tibbotuvave Buddharakkita.The monk
Tibbotuvave was a
cousin of Samanakkodi.
It is believed that the King had contacts with the Dutch in
Colombo through the
Samanakkodi Adigar.
Since the chiefs were now
influential in state matters, the Dutch authorities in
Batavia, instructed the
Dutch governor to establish good relations with the adigars
and disawas. When
the Dutch gave money to second Adigar
Samanakkodi, they were ordered to cultivate first Adigar
Leuke too. Leuke
got silk and lace caps. Gifts were given also to obtain favors
such as asking
the Nuwara Vanniya to return to the Dutch the dues he had
unlawfully collected
and asking the minor chiefs to stop hindering the Dutch in
their collection of
cinnamon, timber and the transport of elephants through their
lands. Dumbara
Ralahamy, disave of Tun and Satara korale and later First
Adigar, not only
accepted bribes but set his price as well. In 1755, he wanted
a diamond owned
by a high ranking Dutch be gifted to the king. Grudgingly this
was done He also wanted
a thoni of paddy sent to Trincomalee without payment of duty.
(Some
of the above details were obtained from
the Internet and from a book of Dr Lorna Devaraja, a History
Professor from
Colombo University.)
While examining the ola leaf manuscripts of the Rajavaliya,the writer AV Suraweera,came across
an interesting
account of the imprisonment of Sangharajha Walavita
Saranankara by King Kirti
Sri Rajasingha.
(Part
relevant to Samarakkody,taken from
internet is written below.)
Although King Kirthi Sri
Rajasinghe had become a buddhist,he had not given up his hindu
traditions
completely.His 1st reigion was hinduism .He used to apply holy
ash in the
forehead for official functions, which angered the buddhist
priest.It is said
that Samanakkody got involved in the conspiracy (Samanakkodi
was supposed to be
the ring leader of the conspiracy), as the benefits he
received under the
former king Vijaya Rajasinghe, had been reduced by Kirthi Sri
Rajasinghe.
Having glorified the sasana,while
he (Kirti Sri)
was spending the time (living)in
accordance, with the Dasaraja Dharma,some of his Ministers
conspired to kill King
Kirti Sri,in the year 1760,and
enthrone the prince who returned,after becoming a monk from
Siam. (Named Upali)
With these foolish thoughts, the
Ministers arranged a bana preaching at the Uposatha hall of
the Malvathu
Vihara.With these foolish thoughts, they decorated the vihara,
prepared
seats,and decided to kill the king,when he arrived to listen
to the sermon.
They fixed spikes, made of Kitul and arecanut in pits, having
spread barks of
banana, over them covering the surface with cloth.,invited the
king to come and
listen to the bana sermon. Observing this the Galagoda Disawe
informed the
king. Having heard of this the king arrived at the Upasatha
hall, with his
army. King after making inquiries, decided to punish the
culprits, who
conspired to kill the king.
Thus Udagampaha
Adikaram Samarakkody Nilame,
Matihanpola Disawe, Moladande Rate rala, and Kaduwela rala
were beheaded at
Ampitiya. The
Sangharajha Saranankara
was
imprisoned at Kehelalla. Tibbotuwe Mahanayake was imprisoned
at Bintenna.
Later Galagoda
Disawe who informed the
King, received the post of UdaGampaha Maha Adikaram. Madavela
Therunnanse
received the post of Chief Sangha. It is said that a muslim in
the name of
Gopala Mudali, who informed about the conspiracy was rewarded
by the King.
Siyam Nikaya received royal patronage. The apex
Nikaya appointments were
made by the king. They were given only to bhikkus from
radala families.
Saranankara, who had received higher ordination in 1753
wasmade
Sangharaja, with Tibbotuvave Buddharakkhita as upa sangharaja
Saranankaras father, Kulatunga mudali, had been disava
of Wellassa and
raterala of Tumpane under Wimaladharmasuriya II.
Tibbotuvave was a cousin
of second adigar Samanakkodi.
Saranankara's
father
was Kulatunga mudali, Disawa of Wellassa. As Saranankara was a
cousin of
Samanakkody Adigar, Samanakkody's father could be a brother of
Kulatunga Mudali
(Disawa of Wellassa under king Wimaladharmasuriya 2,who ruled
from 1687 to
1707) (It is said that Tibbotuvave,Saranankara and Samanakkodi
were cousins.And
later Samanakkodi was 2hd Adigar under King Kirti Sri
Rajasinghe who ruled from
1747 to1782.)
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From the book
Memoirs of Late James D'Alwis edited
by AC Seneviratne in 1939
After 1604 those who had left the
7 korale's for Sabaragamuwa found it no better condition, they
felt a desire to
abandon and to
seek refuge in
some quite locality. Long before the Dutch
succeded the Portuguese and long before the Dutch rendered the
inland waters
navigable, various points on the west coast between Bentota
and Negambo,and
boats were placed,on the kelani ganga to maintain
communication by the river, confined
to the Kandyan Kingdom. The new settlers
of Sabaragamuwa found a easy passage en route by the
Kaluganga to those domains
in ancient principality Raiygama (Western Province)
Though it was undoubtly the close of their rule in Ceylon, it
is nevertheless
not a little surprising that the Portuguese now attempted to
extend their
religion beyond their own frontier, and to carry it into the
inland districts
of the island. Notwithstanding the formidable opposition which
they met at the
hands of the Dutch, who had already commenced to interpose
obstacles on the way
to the Portuguese. And not withstanding the treaty of 1638
between King
Rajasinghe 2 and the Dutch, by which the exertions of the
Portuguese clergy
were greatly limited, yet it is not little surprising that it
was chiefly at
this period they exerted their influence, not only to effect
convertions among
the highest families of the land,but to introduce at the same
time,a very
questionable nomendature to distinguish the converted.
It was at this point that the new
Kandian settlers in the confines of Raiygama foresaw that the
most effectual
mode by, which they could secure rank and office was by
embracing the
faith,which had been offered,as a bait for such distinction.
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(Generation1)
1 Samanakkodi Uda
Gampaha Adigar (2hd Adigar)b. circa 1700-d1760.
(Probably 2hd Adigar in year 1731)Around
1750 AD, King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe (Nayakkar
King 1747-1782AD) of Kandy, had sent to (Siam) Thailand, a
delegation to bring back
Buddhism to (Ceylon)
Sri Lanka. Due to
the invasion of Portugese, Buddhism had died out in Ceylon.
The Dutch had
agreed, to bring Buddhism, in exchange for them to have
trading posts in
Batticaloa. Among the officers to meet the Siam Ambassadors in
Trincomalee,
were Samanakkodi Uda Gampaha Adigar, and another Adigar,
(Chief ministers and
advisors to the King). (Samanakkodi, meaning the bearer of the flag of the
Monks. The name
changed to Samarakkody during the British period. His
rescidence would have
been in Welivita Tumpane Kandy.Samarakkody family is
originally a Kandyan
family.) Udagampaha
Adhikarama
had the other five including Halloluva and Peradeniya.
Pallegampaha ranked above Udagampaha, but Udagampaha led armies to battle. Udagampaha
administered Tun
Korale, Satara Korale, Sabaragamuwa, Udapalata,
Udunuwara, Yatinuwara,
Tumpane, Kotmale and Bulatgama. Udagampaha
Adikaram was the 2hd to the
King, and was like the Prime Minister.
There is a belief that King Kirti
Sri Rajasinghe who was a tamil, was not doing enough for
Buddhism and that was
the reason for the conspiracy to replace him. And it is
believed that after the
incident the king realized, that in order to
rule the country he had to promote Buddhism. During his period
he had brought
learned bhikkus from Siam to advance Buddhism and also
built the Raja Maha Viharaya
in Kandy.
It is stated in the book of John Holt, that in 1745, Catholic
priest had been
tried in a tribunal by 3 Buddhist leaders which included
Samanakkodi Adigar,
Saranankara Thera and Leuke Nilame for writing anti Buddhist
literature,in the
period of King Sri Vijaya Rajasingha.
Adigar's Relative was
Leuke Disawa of Hathara
Korale 1740-1751
In 1747 the Dutch Governor Julias Valentyn Stein Van
Gollennesse gave
Samanakkodi 306 Pagodas as a token of high regard.
Samanakkodi
Udagampaha
Adigar, Moladanda Raterala, Kaduvelarala, Matihanpola Disawa
were
executed in 1760 (at
Ampitiya), due to
the conspiracy to kill King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe. Capital
punishment was not
inflicted on the monks, as a result Saranankara and
Tibbotuvave survived.
At that
time Samanakkodi was also Disawa of Sabaragamuwa,having
replaced the aged Mampitiya.
(Moladanda
Rebellion was against King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe. It is
believed that Adigar
Samarakkody had a personal dispute with the king. Sangaraja (Cheif priest)
Saranankara was a cousin of
Adigar Samarakkody.)
(After the problems
in upcountry, under the
King Kirthi Sri Rajasinghe,Samanakkodi Adigar's son.Johan
Samarakkody settled
in low country Thudugala in Kalutara,after migrating by boat
through kaluganga
and taken the name Fonseka,around the year 1760. Thombu
Index shows he had land
in Thudugala in Kalutara District.)
2 Don
Johan de Fonseka
Samarasundera
Seneviratne Samanakkody, (Smanakkodige family) (Mudaliyar
Hewagam Korale under Dutch Govt. (b circa 1725) + Tudugalage
Geomara m:5/10/1750, d/o
Tudugalage Don Simon,
Saffremadu & (20.1.1722)
Dona
Joanna Wettesinha (3143) descendent
of King Parakramabahu
V1 of Kotte (1412-1467)
from JHO
Paulsz's book (see Tudugala family
tree-Genealogical table 1)
(He may have joined the Dutch Govt after the father was
assasinated, he may
have travelled by boat in kaluganga and resided at Tudugala in
Kalutara
District,Subsequently he moved to Dedigomuwa in Hewagam
Korale.Thombu Index
shows he had land in Thudugala in Kalutara and land in
Dedigomuwa in Hewagam
Korale.) (It is believed as his name has Seneviratne, he may
have had a strong
military connection, under King Kirti Sri Rajasinghe.It is
believed after his
father, adigar's death in 1760,he escaped to the Dutch
territory of Kalutara,and
was receieved with open arms and immedietly the Mudliyar title
was given to him
by the Dutch Administration.) (Possibly when he joined the
Dutch, he received
the name "de Fonseka",which the family seems to have used for
100
years) (Although "de Fonseka" name is a Portuguese name,
Portuguese
names were used in Dutch times.) (He had 4
children-Balthzar-3 (1)Andris -3 (2),
Paulo -3 (3) and Samanakkody Mudliyar -3 (4) b1745) (Sinhala
families p92 Paul
Pieris vol 3)
3 (1) Don
Balthazar Fonseka Appuhami, also
known as Lodewyk Fonseka Samarawira Abeykoon Kulatunga
Mudliyar of Wewelle,
b approx 1750, m27/6/1766,+ Dona Francina de Saram of
Milagiriya. (Fonseka
Appuhami, became Muhandiram on 15/5/1793. ) (Sinhala families
page 91&92)
(The
fact that Paul Pieris in page 91 refers
as Fonseka Kulatunga
Mudliyar, it
confirms that, Samanakkodi,b1700 who became adigar,was a
decendent of Kulatunga
Mudali,as mentioned above. And Samanakkodi, is a relative of
Saranankara, Thibotuwawe
and Leuke Nilame who lived in 1700's and worked for the
Kandyan Kingdom.)
They had 4
children
4 (1) Balthazar,bp
26/6/1767. He was in 1815,Mudliyar Chilaw Kachcheri, under the
name Wijewardena
Abeykoon.
4 (2)
Petrenella,bp 20/6/1769, (m14/6/1787)+ Don Simon Paules
Samarakoon Mudliyar
4 (3) Cornelia
Adriana Fonseka, bp11/10/1780
4 (4)
Juliana Francina Fonseka Samarakkody, bp27/10/1771 d of Fonseka
Samarakkody Mudliyar (Colombo) +Don
Samuel
Amarasekera (3068) (m approx 1790)
(Mudliyar
Hapitagam Korale 1800) (Samuel Amarasekere is a son of Don
Phillip Amarasekere
Ekanayake Kulatilaka,Mudliyar Hapitagam Korale 1785 Dutch
Govt.married daughter
of Wijesundera Ekanayaka Mudliyar of Hapitagam Korale,Dutch
Govt.)
5 (1) daughter +Adrian Dias
Bandaranayake of Malwana
5 (2) daughter + Carolis de
Livera Mohandiram Kalutara b approx 1800
5 (3) daughter + Paules
Gunathilaka Mohandiram Lockgate Colombo
6 Robert Gunathilaka (President
Pasdun Korale)
5 (4) Simon Paules Amarasekere
Mohandiram Hapitagam Korale 1830 (no
issue)
5 (5) Johannes Paules
Amarasekere Mohandiram,Gangodapattu1855 Siyane Korale
Murutuwela (No
issue)
5 (6) Abraham Amarasekere
Mohandiram Siyane Korale Madapatha 1860
6 Charles Amarasekere +Miss
Seneviratne (Ekala)
6 Louis Amarasekere b 1840+
Miss Perera (Kirindiwita)
7
Cornelia Elizebeth Amarasekere + John
P.G Senanayake
7 Annie Cornelia
Amarasekere + Charles Gunerwardena
8 Greetha Gunerwardena
+ James Senaratne
9 Samanda Senaratne
+ Shanaka de Livera b1959
10 Shelan de
Livera b1993
10 Sajin de
Livera b1994
5 (7) Paulis Amarasekere (M1)
+ Miss Seneviratne (Ekala)
8 daughter + Solomon Dias
Bandaranayake (Malwana)
5 (7) Paulis Amarasekere (M2)+ Laura Gooneratne
(Panadura)
5 (8) Henry Amarasekere
Mohandiram Siyane Korale 1840 Abanwita (no
issue)
5 (9) Herat Amarasekere
Mohandiram Hapitagam Korale 1838
3
(2) Andris Samarakkody (Atapattu Mohandiram) (b
approx 1752)+ Ms
Dissanaike (sister
of Don Abraham
Dissanaike, second Mudaliyar of Hewagam Korale and Atapattu
Mudliyar Colombo) (p
531,20th century impressions of Ceylon) He had 1 son- (4
below)
(When the
Dutch left the island in 1796,and the British came in, there
were Colomo houses
vacant. The writer believes, Andiris Samarakkody may have
purchased Colombo
property around 1796.)
4 Fonseka Samarakkody Mudaliyar (b approx 1780) (Md approx 1799
approx)+ Christina
Pietronella
Dias Bandaranaike, born 1780,bp:29th October 1789, d/o
Don David Dias Bandaranaike & Juliana
De Saram (1001)
(David DB is a
son of Conrad DB, and Juliyana de Saram is a daughter of Louis
de Saram,sister
of Christoffel de Saram,4th Maha Mudliyar.) (Sinhala families
Paul Pieris vol
3,page 49) had 1 son.
(There seems
to be a generation gap,maybe filled by above Fonseka
Samarakkody Mudliyar and
Christina DB)
5
(1) Carolis
de Fonseka
Tillekeratne Samarakkody.Mudaliyar (1800-1897approx).
(Received a gold
medal from Governor Robert Brownrigg for the services to the
British Government
during the Kandyan Rebellion in 1818. (Firstly
village headman Pokunavita.)He also received the Jubilee Gold
Medal,given by
Governor West Ridgeway in 1897.Had 1 son.
(His residence
was "lovdale" Jempettaha street Colombo)
6 (1) Earnest
Carolis de Fonseka
Samarakkody (Proctor)b21/7/1841+ (M1874)
Louisa (or Laura)Venetia de Livera b15/11/1852 (d of Solomon de
Livera Seneviratne bp1814,and
Cornelia Petrenella Dias Bandaranayake d 1887,grand daughter
of Johannes de
Livera and Louisa Dias Bandaranaike,great grand daughter of
Balthazar de Livera
b1749) Had 2 children.
7
(1) James de
Fonseka Samarakkody b
approx 1875 + de Livera (had 1 son)
8
Lawrence Henricus Samarakkody (Proctor) b approx
1894 (Gazette 1913 voters
list says he lived in 26 St Joseph's Street Colombo)+ Rosamund
Eheliyagoda (lived
at No 4 New Urugodawatte in 1910) (Had
1 daughter)
9
Laurinda Chandrawathi Samarakkody, b approx
1925-d:5/4/2005 + (m7/8/1947)
John Henry Terrance Perera (Kuruwe Walauwwa)
(Son of John
Henry Perera Gunawardhana,Proctor and Favorita Mildred Dias
Bandaranayake)They
had 1 son.
(Lorinda
Samarakkody inherited 35 acres land
in Rambukkana (sold in 1975),and lived at Vivekananda road
Wellawatte (sold in
2006.)
10
Mahinda Duleep Terrence Perera, Engineer (STC) (Migrated to Melbourne
Australia in 1990) b
8/6/1949-d 27/2/2015+ Nirmalee Guneratne (M24/10/1977) (Had 4
children)
11
(1) Milinda
Perera b1979+Ayesha
Perera
12
Malaika Perera
11
(2) Lakshini
Perera b1983
11
(3) Emara
Perera b1988+Mishra
Ramchander
12
Eloise Margret
Ramchander
12 Oliver Henry Ramchander b 2022
11 (4) Sean
Perera b1993
7 (2) Jeremy Samarakkody b approx 1876
3 (3) Paulis
Samarakkody- (Paulo
Fonseka Appuhamy) (b approx 1751) (Mohandiram.Hewagam Korale)
+ Dona
Louisa de Livera
Married on
3rd June
1770. (Louisa born 20th May 1753) (p92,p112,SF,paul
Pieris vol 3)
Dona Louisa is the
daughter of Marappuli
Appuhamilage Don Louis de Livera Wijewickrema Seneviratne
(Mudaliyar) (1725-1790)and
Johanna Dassanaike baptised 1728 (Johanna,daughter
of Joseph Crastilyon Wijesundera Dassanaike Mohandiram of
Attapattu.) (GG Grand
daughter of Magamme Rala b 1613-1685 of Weliwita of Hewagam
Korale) (3109)Had
1 son.
(When the
Dutch left the island in 1796,and the British came in, there
were Colomo houses
vacant. The writer believes, Paulis Samarakkody may have
purchased Colombo
property around 1796.)
(There Seems to be
a generation gap.)
4
(1) Louis de Fonseka Samarakkody (b approx 1810)+
Francina
de Livera,Weerakon (m
26/4/1839) (daughter of Paules de Livera Weerakon,
Muhandiram, Hapitigam
Korale. Who resided at Kaleliya in Gampaha district.).b approx
1801, Clerk Colombo Kachcheri.
Commutation Assessor. (3109)
(Above Louis, grandson of Johan de
Fonseka Samarakkody, as per 20th century impressions of
Ceylon)Had 4 children.
5 (1) Alice
Margret Samarakkody,b approx 1841 +LA Arthur Rodrigo
5 (2) Geneivi
Pauline Samarakkody,b approx 1843-d1915 (Probably died
unmarried.)
5
(3) Fredrick Peter de Fonseka
Samarakkody b1848+ (m26/12/1877)Juliana HW Gunathilaka.
(According to Ceylon
Gazette of 1915, 5 (1),5
(2),5 (3)above,all lived in 2hd Division Maradana
Colombo.Regarding the
intestate,estate of Pauline Samarakkody,d 1915.)
(According to 1899
Gazette,there was a
Samanakkody, who owned,40 perches with a house at No 97,and 80
perches at No
100,both of 2hd division Maradana,within the gravets of
Colombo.)
5
(4) **Louis Charles de Fonseka Wijewickrema
Tillekeratne Samarakkody.
(Mudaliyar of Governors Gate) b:3 Mar 1840.d 8th Oct 1907
Colombo Acadamy &
STC.Mutwal (entered govt service in
1861,attached to court requests and sworn translator,also
served in Colombo
Kachcheri) + (m27/7/1871) Cornelia Fredricka de Silva
Siriwardene
(b
approx1845.alive1906 ) (great
granddaughter
of David de Silva Siriwardene, Mudliyar Raigam
Korale, granddaughter of Simon de Silva Siriwardene Maha
Mudliyar
and daughter of Jacobus Dionysius de Siva Siriwardene,
Attapattu
Mohandiram), Mohandiram Alukuru Korale, Mudaliyar
Kegalle
Kachcherri. President 6 village Tribunals in 3 different
Korales..Mudaliyar of the Governor Gate 1883. (38 years governtment
service)Had following
estates-Lenegala Estate Panagoda, Mahalanda Estate, Rambukkana
Kegalle. And
maybe Pugoda also. (They lived in a house called "Lovedale" in
Jampettah Street Fort,Colombo). He
received the titles of Wijewickreme Tillekeratne,when he was
made Mudaliyar of
Governors Gate. He received Jubilee Gold Medal, from
Governor West Ridgeway in
1897. (Page 531,20th Century Impressions of Ceylon)
(He received
Crown Grants in 1880, and was able to purchase 150 acres from
Rambukkana
-jungle land which was called Mahalanda, later called
Mahalanda Estate.,and he
planted coconut.and also got a crown grant,and he purchased 200 acres of jungle
land in Panagoda which
was called vellipilla kelle, (crown grant price per acre was
about Rs 10,in
1880)he then planted coconut.,later called Lenegala Estate) He
had 8 children.
Gen
6 6 (1)
Charles Henry Augustus de Fonseka Tillekeratne Samarakkody (Residence
Pugoda later Gampaha) (Mudaliyar Pasdum Korale
East,Mudliyar
Aluthkurukorale North,and Mudliyar GG) (b 5/10/1873 - d
26/12/1934 (bp30/11/1873)
(STC)+ (m5/10/1909) Johanna
Fredricka Elinor Pieris Siriwardena. (Deraniyagala)
(Ellen) (b approx 1878-d21/3/1937) daughter of Edwin
Albert PierisWicremasinghe
Siriwardene (Mudliyar
of Wellaboda
pattuwa Galle)of Mestrige Watte Kelaniya and Susana Hetroyda
de Alwis..Johanna
is a Grand daughter of Welhelmus Nicholas Pieris
Mohandiram.bp1792-1862. (Mohandiram
Governor Gate Kelaniya) Welhelmus Pieris is a son of Jacobus
Pieris Mohandiram
and Jacoba de Silva.Jacoba de
Silva is a daughter of Simon de Silva Maha Mudliyar)Charles
Henry Samarakkody's
Walauwwa was
called “Sorodoven -
presently the Holy Cross College Gampaha) (Walauwwa called
Sorodoven with land
was sold in 1944, where now Holy
cross
college exist. In 1944,Miriswatte house was built on 3.5
acres,which was
subsequently sold and Solomon Samarakkody's family moved to
Colombo. (Henry
possibly inherited land in Gampaha,Pugoda and Rambukkana from
his father.) He
supposed to have had a elephant. the big 40 acre estate,was
called Saradoven
Estate at Gampaha. (1921 gazette says Mudliyar Alukuru korale
GHA Samarakkody?
possible typing error) (it is said that Henry Samarakkody's 4
son's first two
letters were taken to make the name "Sorodoven")
(Susana
Hetroyda de Alwis,refered above is a sister of Helena Eliza de
Alwis of
Galkissa.Susana before marriage lived at Galkissa
Walauwwa.Helena Eliza de
Alwis's daughter Jane Rejo de Alwis married Thomas Senewiratne
of Kalutara and
lived at Galkissa Walauwwa,around 1870)
Henry Samarakkody and
Johanna had 13 children.
7
(1) Charles Arthur Solomon
Samarakkody
(Lawyer from 1939 Bendiyamulla Gampaha) (STCMtl)b 8/9/1910-d
21/2/1981 + Fredrica
Iole de Livera (3109) (b
7/9/1911-d21/3/1966) (Iole is a
daughter of Godwin de Livera and Charlotte Samarakkody.)
(Solomon
Samarakkody,is supposed to have sold the Sarodovan Walauwa to
Holy Cross
College in 1944. He then built a house in Miriswatte
Gampaha.)They had 8
children.
(Received
land in Gampaha and Rambukkana.) (The 4 girls,had their
primary education at
Holy Cross College)
8
(1) Dr Srikumar Surendra Samarakkody
(STCMtl)
b31/5/1940-d21/12/1987+ Nanda
Jayasinghe no children (M1972)
8
(2) Solomon Devarajan
Samarakkody STC
Mtl (7/5/1942-29/7/2021)+
Irani Alahakoon (m31/8/1967)
9
Dilukshan Ayendra Samarakkody, + Janaki Perera
10 Dinali
Samarakkody
10 Minali
Samarakkody
9
Dinesh Niranjan Samarakkody,
+ Kamali Gunerwardena
10 Deelaka Samarakkody
10 Thenuk
Samarakkody
9 Shanaka
Dushantha Samarakkody,
+ Shakila Perera
10 Senithi
Samarakkody
8 (3) Srivanka Chandra Samarakkody, b24/4/1943-d2/4/2023
(STC Mt Lavinia) + Chitralatha Welagedara (M23/9/1983)
9 Yohan Lalinda
Samarakkody (STC
Mt Lavinia) + Anuradha Sumanapala
10
Anuraj Samarakkody
10
Sasathra Samarakkody
9
Dulanga Samarakkody (Standard
Chartered)
(m2016) (STC Mt Lavinia) + Oshini Jayasinghe
8
(4) Sriyani Lolanthi Samarakkody (Srimathi) (Talented in
playing the
piano)b16/4/1944 (M30/4/1974)+
Gamini
Jayaweera, b7/10/1943-d:1/11/2001 (Son of LV Jayaweera,Boxer
and cricket
captain, St Anthony's College Kandy,in 1921)
9
Dushantha Jayaweera, b1975
(Pilot
SL Airlines) +Nimanthi Weerasinghe
10 Nimeesha
Jayaweera
10
Deshan Jayaweera
8
(5) Rohini Samarakkody b 6/4/1945 (unmarried)
8 (6) Malkanthi
Samarakkody (b 11/9/1947)+ (M8/1/1975)Gehan de Livera (Royal) (Son of Ronnie
de Livera and Chandrani
Tillekeratne)
9
Roland de Livera + Chantell Chipman (NZ)
10
Cooper Adrian de Livera
10
Bianca de
Livera
Gen
9 9
Jeevaka
de Livera + Myra Fernandes
10
Shanik de Livera
10
Rehan de Livera
8 (7) Indrajith Samarakkody, (b17/8/1948) (STC Mtl) + Jayanthi
Batuwantudawe
9
Arinda Samarakkody (Stc
Mtl) + Shanika Sapumohotti
10 Aritha
Samarakkody
9
Navodya Samarakkody (St
Paul's Milagiriya),unmarried.
8
(8) Suvendrini Samarakkody b22/2/1951+ Nihal Gunatilleke b18/8/1950. No
issue. (m10/9/1983)
Gen7
7 (2) Fredrica
Millicent
Elinor Samarakkody (b27/10/1911-d:1995) (Md1928)+ James
Christopher Senewiratne,
(Jimmy) d:1969 of Galkissa Walauwa. (Millicent inherited
property in
Kelaniya, possibly from her mother.) (They
had 3 children.)Jimmy was a son of Thomas Leonard Gunasekera
Seneviratne of
Kalutara.
8 (1) Wasanthi
Nalini Senewiratne (b1933-d2019)
(Md1968)+
Marshal Wijesinghe (SLAF),
d:1988
9
Ayanthi Wijesinghe + Samith Jayasekera
8 (2)
Ranjith Senewiratne, b 14/4/1939 (Personal
Manager StateTrading ) (STC.Mt Lavinia) + Deepthi
Malalgoda
9
Hirantha Senewiratne STC.Mt Lavinia + Anja Lurvink
8
(3) Dr Tissa Leonard Senewiratne, Chief Medical
Officer,Colombo,b
23/3/1940 -d 25/5/2023 +
Shrini
Attygalle .m1967
(Residence Galkissa
Walauwwa.)
9
Thishani
Senewiratne + Amal De Mel
10
Amashi De Mel, b:1994+Lakshman
11
Taavi
10
Shineli De Mel
9
Chaminda Senewiratne (STC
Mt
Lavinia) (Md1994) + Misthi de Silva
7
(3) [1] Dagmar Cornelia Samarakkody
(1912-18/4/1997)
+ [2] *Edmund Samarakkody. (19 Apr 1912-4/1/1992), (MP Dehiowita &
Bulathsinhala
). Lawyer (Residence Stardale
Siripala Rd MtL.) (m
approx 1935) (They had 2 children.)
8
(1) Nahil Samarakkody,,Criminal Lawyer, b approx
1936-d:1986 + Yvonne
Kobbekaduwa, d:1986 (sister
of Lt.
General Denzil Kobbekaduwa-1940-1992-General in the Army.) (d
of Lawrence
Kobbekaduwa &Iona Ratwatte)
9
Pulinda Samarakkody, STC. Mount Lavinia (cricket for STC), +
Minoli Sirimanne, (They
live in Hong Kong)
10
Rahel Samarakkody,
9
Sidath Samarakkody, (b1966)
(1984
captained cricket team STC)
+ Ms Nilmini Pieris
10
Tharini Samarakkody
10
Anushka Samarakkody
9
Swanthi Samarakkody, b:15/2/1971
(California)unmarried.
8
(2) Chulanganee Samarakkody. (m1972) (d April 2014) +
Nihal Tudugalle b24/2/1939
(Stc Mtl) (Retired group captan SLAF) (Nihal was a son of Edmund Tudugalle -Surveyor)
(Commanding officer of
the Air force transport section in 1982) (Nihal was a
grandson of Don Abraham
Tudugalle)
9
Shashitha Tudugalle (Deputy Mgr of ship company)
(b22/6/1982.m2018) + Candice
(lives in Singapore)
9
Hasitha Tudugalle (Engineer
in
Australia) (b22/6/1982)+ Gowri Rmn (m2020)
(Sydney)
10 Son
9
Thilanka Tudugalle + Suraj Gunewardene (lives in UK)
10
Gunewardene
7
(4) Charles Robert Alexander Samarakkody,
b:26 Oct
1913-d:26 Nov 1998 in Los Angeles California + Allina
Dassanayake. (Robert
contested for elections in 1960 from Gampaha,from
LSSP,1883votes-lost) (Robert
for sometime served as Gampaha
Mayor)He had 2 children.
8
(1) Amara Samarakkody (PhD) (California) b1940+
Kusum Perera (PhD)
9
Chandana Yasanatha Perera (California)
8
(2) Senaka Samarakkody, (USA) b:1943 + Mangalika
Jayathilake (California)
(d of Julius Jayatilake &
Violet Joyce Weerasinghe)
9
Tharuja Samarakkody b1971 + Ashok Ponnambalam (Texas)
10
Naresh Ponnambalam
10
Sanjiv Ponnambalam
9
Sajeevani Samarakkody + Brandon Hughes (California)
9
Niroshana Samarakkody b1974+ Ushma Bhatt (California)
9 Vasantha
Samarakkody
7
(5) Charles
Vernon
Victor Samarakkody,
(b approx 1914)
died unmarried around 1980. (had land in Pugoda,inherrited
from his father.) (Died
of serpent bite.)
7 (6) Charles
Douglas Samarakkody (b
approx 1915-d approx 1980) (M1)+ Sophi Ambegoda Liyanage
(they had 6
children.)
8
(1) Nanda Samarakkody b1939,m1954+ Sumanadasa Liyanage
9
Noel Liyanage +Sudarshi
9
Shanthi Liyanage
9
Lilani Liyanage + Amaratunga
9
Guptha Liyanage + Nilmini
9
Nelum Liyanage + Indika
10
Yasasi
8
(2)
Somapala Samarakkody b1942-d2020+ Ranthileka Ekanayake
Liyanage
9
Janitha Samarakkody (Liyanage)b1977+ Mahesha Ratnasekere
9
Yasantha Kasun Samarakkody (Liyanage)b1979
9
Sayantha Samarakkody (Liyanage) b1979+ Kumuduni
10
Senaji Samarakkody
9
Jayasuru Ruwan Samarakkody (Liyanage) b1984+Vindya
8
(3)
Dharmasena Samarakkody d1998
unmarried
8
(4)
Neela Samarakkody unmarried
8 (5)
Mahinda Samarakkody + Ariyawathie
9
Pubudu Samarakkody
9
Shashikala Samarakkody
8 (6)
Shrimathi Samarakkody + Kumar Nettasinghe
7 (6) 2nd
spouse of Douglas Samarakkody + Needra Dias
Bandaranaike (b10/4/1920-d
30/7/2016) (SWRD's cousin) (1001) (Needra is a
daughter of Reginald Felton
Dias Bandaranaike and Letitia.) (her siblings are Sydney and
Ione) (They had 3
children.)
8
(1)
Dudley Samarakkody b23/1/1957-d1/3/2023 (Matara)+ Anula
Hettiaratchi of
Matara
9
Shane Samarakkody +Manushika Pitiyaratchi
9
Thilina Samarakkody +Ruvini Maduka
9
Harshan Samarakkody + Amanda Dilukshi
9
Heshan Samarakkody
8
(2)
Chrisantha Samarakkody + Tilani Abeysekera (divorced)
9
Christina Samarakkody
9
Lalin Samarakkody
9
Lavinia Samarakkody
8
(3) Niranjani Samarakkody + Chrishantha Obeyesekere
9
Dileni Obeyesekere
9
Andrew Obeyesekere
7
(7) Olga Agnes Mary Samarakkody (b 1/4/1917-d approx 2000) + Henry Taldene of
Badulla.b1915 (Taldena
family of Uva-3737) Had 2 sons.Lived at Taldene
Walauwa Badulla. Henry is a
son of Taldene Samarakoon Jayasundera Guneratne
Mudiyanselage Fredrick Banda,b1868.
8
(1)
Lankasa Taldene
8
(2)
Upatissa Jayantha Taldene, died 1991unmarried
7 (8) Kate
Samarakkody (child died
young.)
7 (9) Samarakkody
(child died
young.)
Gen 7
7 (10) [4] Amy
Elizabeth Samarakkody (b 6th
June.1919-d29/10/2018) (St
Bridgets)passed junior matriculation exam + [3] Milton
Samarakkody.
(1916-1964) (Residence at Siripala Rd MtL.)
(Lawyer,President Rural
Courts) (M approx 1951)
10 acres were sold
from Gampaha land to Gampaha
Holy Cross College.Possibly around 1958.Possibly from the
proceeds, built the
15A Siripala Road Mt Lavinia house.They had 4 children.
8 (1) Shiranthi
Samarakkody (UK)
(Visaka) (Piano
teacher) (b18/9/1945-d6/3/2022)+ Cyril Wijesekera
9
Dr Nevin Wijesekera (Radiology Consultant at Kingston Hospital
UK)
9
Amantha Wijesekera + (m30/12/2011)Prashan Seneviratne (Son of
Priyanath
and Christine Seneviratne)
Grandchildren
of
Shiranthi are Ariyana,Ralph and Ayeja,
8
(2) Ajith Mohan Samarakkody (Planter), STC Mt Lavinia (b 30/9/1950) +
Priyani Senewiratne (Priyani,is
a daughter of Grace and Francis Senewiratne)
(Residence Lenegala
Estate Panagoda.In the walauwa Peter Samarakkody built around
year 1900.)
9
Sandeepani Tharanga Samarakkody (Director HRM ESolve Business
Solutions)+ Chandima Alutwala
10
Thihansa Vimukthi Alutwala
9
Yasamali Buddhini Samarakkody (Director/Trainer ESolve
Business
Solutions)+ Arun Muthusamy,divorced no issue.
8
(3) Sivendrini (Babishi)
Amithra
Samarakkody (unmarried) (visaka)
8
(4) Romesh Samarakkody, STC.Mt Lavinia (Lawyer) b27/5/1952+
Anoma
Meddegoda
(Former Residence
Pugoda.Now at Gampaha)
9
Shalini Samarakkody + Nirodha Kodikara
10 Nevick
10 Ashali
7
(11) Charles Lewis Lionel Samarakkody (b
19/9/1921-d26/10/1997) (STC)+ Chandra de
Saram,b5/1/1926- d 16th:Feb 2007 (see
obituary notice below**) (Residence Dehiwela.)
(d of Dr Charles
Henry de Saram and Muriel Hilda Eheliyagoda) He had 1
daughter.
(Lionel
inherited some land in Rambukkana which he sold in the 50's.He
contested for
elections from Kegalle in 1952 from SLFP got 8358 votes but
lost.).
8
Sasanka Lilamani Samarakkody (Journalist) unmarried.
7
(12) Charlotte
Lillian
Samarakkody, (Lilly) b:9 Dec 1922 -d28th Feb 2020+
(m13/12/1950)Eric
Duncan de Alwis. (Thomian)
(died of
a heart attack at Royal-Thomian cricket match on 13 March
1965) (Residence Mt
Lavinia.) (Son of Henry Edwin de Alwis &Nancy Petronella)
(m approx 1950) (Lilly
Samarakkody inherited 35 acres at Rambukkana.,but sold in
1966.)They had 3
children.
8 (1)
Neomal Eric de
Alwis. (STC.Mount
Lavinia) b9/10/1951 (National
Tourist Guide Lecturer-German/French/English
speaking,President Slintgl Yr 2000
&Lions Club in Yr 2000) + Ramani Kanangara
9
Nilhan de Alwis (STC
Mount
Lavinia)
8
(2) Rohan de Alwis. (STC.Mount
Lavinia)
(unmarried) b
20/3/1953-d
5/1/2023 (National Tourist Guide Lecturer-German /English
speaking.)
8 (3)
Dulip Lakshman de Alwis (Chute)
(
STC.Mount Lavinia), Group General Manager,Hotels-EW
Balasuriya& Company (Formerly
worked as GM,Grand Oriental Hotel).+ Mallika Damayanthi
(Chubby) Meddegoda
9 Arjun
de Alwis (STC Mt
Lavinia)+ Shihara Molligoda (md2021)
9
Radhini de Alwis (Bishops
College)
7
(13) Nancy
Rosalind Harriet
Samarakkody (b 16 Jun 1924-d 10th June 2021)+ Godfrey
Perera, b15/6/1922-d:14/11/1995
(Harriet
inherited land at
Rambukkana.) (Residence Dehiwela,Harriet and Anoja later
migrated to New
Zealand in the 1990's.)Harriet & Godfry had 4 children.
8 (1)
Anoja Perera (Wellington-NZ)
+ Mohan
Senanayake (Stc Mtl)
9
Roshanara Senanayake (Victoria Uni NZ)Lives in Melbourne.
9
Samantha Senanayake + Chadz Gunerwardena
10
Skyler Gunerwardena b 2016
8 (2) Dilip Perera, STC.Mount Lavinia, Sri Lankan
Airlines,b20/11/1955 -d:11/2/1997
+ Sunethra Senanayake,b30/5/1956-d 16/1/2022
9
Mandula Kittu Perera, b:1989 (USA)+Valantina
9
Umaya Perera, b:1991
8
(3) Heshan Perera (USA-California),
STC.Mount
Lavinia b3/10/1961.+ (M15/3/2024) Abiramy Patkunamm (From Trincomalee)
(Barathanatyam dancer/instructor)
8
(4) Dr Eranjani Perera (Melbourne
Australia)+
9
Dmithri Manawadu
6
(2) Jane Cecilia Augusta de Fonseka Tillekeratne
Samarakkody. (b
12/8/ 1888)died (1909) unmarried.bp3/8/1902
6
(3) Charles Peter Augustus de Fonseka
Tillekeratne
Samarakkody. Muhandiram Governor Gate period and
planter (b 20/8/1876)
(bp5/11/1876) (Residence Panagoda) (STC Mutwal) (1911 gazette
English speaking
Jurors/Assesors,Panagoda Hewagam korale) + Anne
Catherine Tillekaratne.b1880
(d/o James
Nicholas Dissenaike
Tillekaratne Mudaliyar (b1849) of Morawaka Korale, Matara
& Angenita
Ekanayake) (Peter possibly
inherited about 18 acres or
more at Rambukkana and about 100 acres at Panagoda.He built
a Walauwwa in
Lenegala Estate Panagoda,Which went to his son Milton
Samarakkody,and there after
to his grandson Mohan Samarakkody.)
Peter
Samarakkody had 10 children.
7 (1) Siripala
Samarakkody (MP-Narammala-1936 State Council) (b1907-d:22/8/1944)
(Educated at STC,and
London University, called to the bar from the Middle
Temple,-Lawyer, but
entered Politics. Member of the State Council, President
Ceylon National Congress,He
was one of the original Members of Sinhala Maha Sabha,
participated in the
freedom struggle, died of Typhoid fever.Ferncliff Road Mt
Lavinia was
re-named Siripala Road in his memory)+
Phyllis Nedra
Senanayake ( Girlie
Senanayake )
(eldest
daughter of Fredrick Richard Senanayake)
(3001)
(b28/2/1913-d1978) (Time of death
he was residing at 56th lane Borella.) (UC member Dehiwela Mt
Lavinia early
1930's after returning from England.)They had 3 children.
(They lived at
Gregory's Road,now called RG Senanayake Mawatha)
8
(1)
Malini Chitra Samarakkody (b27/1/1934) (Bishop's
College) + Rajamandhri
Jayagandhi Ratnagopal (Son of Waitilingam Ratnagopal) (Married
and lived in UK
for 17 years and returned to SL. Had 5 children.) (Attended
the Queen Elizebeth
coronation in 1953, accompaning Dudley Senanayake,the then
Prime Minister of
Ceylon, as he was not married and had no one
to accompany him.)
9
Niranjan Tilak Rajkumar Ratnogopal changed his name to Gideon
Tilak
Conrad + Jane Ridgeon
10
Misha Soraya Conrad (daughter)
10
Tarik Anthony Martin Conrad (son)
9
Priyani
Dharshani Ratnogopal.+ Ajantha de Soysa
9
Rushika
Sriyani Ratnagopal +Dallas
Martenstyn
10
Yanick Stephen Martenstyn
9
Nilhan
Suresh + Sharmain
10
Shanick
10
Kiyacha
10
Kiyachi
9
Nilmini
Shobhana +Hassen Carder
(Nilmini and
Nilhan are twins)
8
(2)
Rukmini Samarakkody (b1938) (Bishop's College and Uni
Peradeniya.)+ Sena
Attygalle (Civil
& Structural
Engineer) b 23/1/1931-d15/10/2024
9
Deepthi Attygalle b1960 (Studied primary years at Bishop's
College,then
Stratham Hill and Clapham High school UK)+ Richard Perera (UK)
10
Rohana Perera
9
Dharika Attygalle b1969 (Uni of Edinburgh)+ Suresh Ellawela
(Stc Prep)
10
Sashen.Ellawala
9
Senaka Attygalle b1963+ Maria
10
Jaden Attygalle
10
Justin Attygalle
8
(3)
Surangani Samarakkody (b1940) + Dr Kingsley Ranasinha (UK)
9
Prof Channa Ranasinha +
Ranmini
Wijewardena
10 Dr Nithesh Ranasinha
10 Alekha
Ranasinha
9 Teruni
Ranasinha + Rajeeva Indiketiya
10
Indrajith Indiketiya
9
Prof Ruvani Ranasinha +Senani
Ellepola
10 Rapti
Ellepola
10 Pradeep
Ellepola
7
(2) Zeids Samarakkody (died unmarried)
7
(3) Nenie Samarakkody (1911-1974) + Phillip
Senewiratne (3108)
(m1930) (Son
of Solomon Senewiratne Mudliyar)
(Nenie
inherited some land in Panagoda.)They
had 2 children
8 (1)
Dr. Brian Senewiratne, (b 16/1/ 1932) (Consultant
Physician Brisbane Australia. MBBS - Lond, FRCP - Lond)
(Aus)
+ Kamalani Alagaratnam (Migrated
to Brisbane Australia in 1975.)
9
Dr Romesh Senewiratne Alagaratnam (Went to Trinity,Kandy)
(Lives in
Brisbane Queensland)+ (M1)Susan
Ellis
Smith (Aus)
10 Ruby Senewiratne
9 Dr Romesh
Senewiratne Alagaratnam+ (M2) Sara
Di Genova
10 Zoe Senewiratne Di
Genova
9 Dr
Shireen Senewiratne + (M1)
Robert Purssey
10 Nisharn Senewiratne
10 Talita Senewiratne
b1995
9 Dr Shireen
Senewiratne + (M2) Channa Ellepola
8 (2)
Phoebe Senewiratne b2/1/1940 + Nanda Yatawara
9
Lakshman Yatawara (UK)
9
Neliya Yatawara (UK)
9
Kavanthissa
Yatawara (UK)
7
(4) [2] Edmund Peter Samarakkody, b:19Apr
1912-d:4
Jan1992, Lawyer (from
1939).
STC.Mount Lavinia MP for Dehiowita 1956, MP for
Bulathsinhala 1960 LSSP.
Participated in the freedom struggle for Sri Lanka. His
residence was
Stardale,Siripala Road Mt Lavinia.
Edmund Samarakkody
was jailed during the world war
2 for revolutionary antiwar activities in Ceylon. Edmund
escaped Bogambara
prison along with Colvin and Phillip on 5/4/1942. But was re
arrested in 1944..
(Contested
elections from LSSP.1952-Dehiowita-8848votes-won.1956
Dehiowita
14954votes-won.1960-July,Bulathsinhala10103votes-won.)
Also one time served
the MC Dehiwela
|
Electoral history of Edmund Samarakkody |
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Election
|
Constituency
|
Party
|
Votes
|
Result
|
|
10,673 |
Not elected |
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|
8,848 |
Elected |
|||
|
14,954 |
Elected |
|||
|
7,433 |
Not elected |
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|
10,103 |
Elected |
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|
278 |
Not elected |
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Edmund
Samarakkody was one of the founding members of the Lanka Sama
Samaja Party in
1935.
He,
co-founded the Lanka Samasamaja Party (Revolutionary)
in 1964. Rescidence of Edmund
was at
Stardale,Siripala Rd Mtl.
+ [1] Dagma
Samarakkody (b1912-d18/4/1997)
(daughter
of Charles Henry Augustus Samarakkody)
(Edmund married Dagmar
around 1935.In 1936 he was
practicing in Badulla.)They had 2 children.
8
(1) Nahil Samarakkody. (b approx 1936) (Criminal Lawyer)
(STC) d1986. +
Yvonne Kobbekaduwa (d1986) (Sister of Denzil
Kobbekaduwa-1940-1992-Sri Lanka
General in the Army.)
9
Pulinda Samarakkody, (b1964)STC
Mt
Lavinia (cricket
for STC Mt Lavinia)
+ Minoli Sirimanne, they live in Hong Kong.
10 Rahal
Samarakkody
10
Samrakkody (daughter)
9
Sidath Samarakkody, (b1966) STC Mt Lavinia (captained cricket
team 1984) + Ms Peiris
10
Tharini Samarakkody
10 Anushka
Kamilka
Samarakkody
9
Swanthi Samarakkody. (California)b1971,unmarried.
8
(2)
Chulanganee. Samarakkody (m1970)
(d
April 2014) + Nihal Tudugalle (b1939) (Retired Group Captain
Sri Lanka Air Force)
(Stc Mtl)
9
Shashitha Tudugalle (b22/6/1982,m2018)
(Singapore)+
Candice
9
Hasitha Tudugalle (b22/6/1982)
(Sydney)
+ Gowri Rmn
9
Thilanka Tudugalle + Suraj Gunerwardene
10
Gunerwardene
7 (5) Elsie
Samarakkody + Quintas Gunerwardena d25/1/1968
(Elsie
inherited some land at Panagoda.)They had 6 children.
8
(1) Eileen Gunerwardena
8
(2) Desmond Gunerwardena + Rani Yasmin Chaudhry
Mamujee
9
Nadia Rukhsana Mamujee + Lindberg (Sweden)
9
Asgi Mamujee (Nederlands)
(both step
children of Desmond
Gunerwardena)
8
(3) Champani Gunerwardena (d 6/7/2022)+ Eustus
Jayasekera (California)
9
Neomal Jayasekera
9
Dushan Jayasekera
9
Chamini Jayasekera
9
Suren Jayasekera
8
(4) Derrick Gunerwardena + Sheila Pieris
9
Shane Gunerwardena
9 Duwanne Gunawardena
9
Mariza Gunerwardena
8
(5)
Doreen Gunerwardena + de Costa
9
Sriyakanthi de Costa b28/4/1945+
Sinnathambe
Balendra b1935,died on 22hd May 2024,at the age of 89 Years.
He was
manager in many hotels.
10
Michelle Balendra (Lives in Norway)
8
(6)
Hyacinth Gunerwardena (Jundy) (d2007) + Nissanka Dias (formerly Central
Bank) (b19/7/1934-d26/1/2024)
9
Diluksha Dias + Malini
10
Gayathri Dias
10
Name Not Known
9
Rohan Dias + Esther
9
Priyadharshanie Dias + Bhuwaneka Perera.
10 Rakbo
Perera
9
Amal Dias + Hirumalee
7 (6) Effie Vivina
Samarakkody + (M1-6/1/1941) Christoffel Panini Ilangakoon,
MP Weligama (b26/11/1919-d10/2/1989)MP
1956-1960, 1970-1977 (Son of Mudliyar Simon William
Illangakoon& Lilian
Obeyesekere)
8
Christoffel Panini Ilangakoon
(11)
7 (6) Effie
Samarakkody + (M2) Robert Edward Jayatilaka,
(b16/8/1911) MP (Nawalapitiya)1952-1960.
(Was Minister of
Transport & Works 1959) (married approx 1950)They had 5
children.
(Effie
Samarakkody was Chairperson
Nawalapitiya Urban Council)
8 (1)
Rohan Jayatilaka b1951+ Preethi Fernando
9
Rahan Jayatilaka
9 Shean
Jayatilaka
8 (2)
Dullip Jayatilaka+ Malkanthi Jayatilaka
9 Jonathan
Jayatilaka
9 Damien
Jayatilaka
8 (3)
Lakshana Jayatilaka+ Charika Fernando
9
Ashra Jayatilaka
9 Natasha
Jayatilaka
8 (4)
Jayantha Jayatilaka + Indrani
9
Anarakali Jayatilaka
b1987 (Miss SL 2004,Film Actress,
Member
Sourthern
Prov Council 2009 (elected
from
UPFA with 26728votes)+ Dishan
8
(5) Tanya Jayatilaka + Chandra Rajanayake (UK)
9 Naomi
Rajanayake +Lakshan Chandradasa
9 Sean
Rajanayake + Ruth (m2018)
7
(7) [3] Milton Samarakkody (1915-1964)
(Lawyer (from
1944)-President Rural Courts) (JPUM) +
[4] Amy Elizabeth Samarakkody
(b.1919-d29/10/2018) m1944 (daughter
of Charles Henry Samarakkody,Mudliyar.)
(Milton
inherited land at Panagoda,from his
father.)
Milton Samarakkody
donated 1 Acre of land for the purpose of Lenagala
Vidyalaya,bordering Lenegala
Estate Panagoda Velipillawa.They had 4 children.
8 (1)
Shiranthi Samarakkody (Piano teacher) (UK)
(b18/9/1945-d6/3/2022) (Visaka)+
Cyril Wijesekera. (Engineer)
9
Dr Nevin Wijesekera
9
Amantha Wijesekera +Prashan Seneviratne (m30/12/2011)Son of
Priyanath
and Christine Seneviratne
10
Grandchildren of Shiranthi and Cyril are Ariyana,Ralph and
Ayeja.
8 (2)
Ajith Mohan Samarakkody.Stc.Mtl (b30/9/1950) (landed
Proprietor)+ Priyani
Senewiratne (d of Francis Senewiratne and Grace Tillekeratne.)
9
Sandeepani Tharanga Samarakkody (Director HRM ESolve Business
Solutions) + Chandima
Alutwala
10
Thihansa Vimukthi Alutwala
9
Yasamali Samarakkody.+ Arun Muthusamy (Divorced-no issue)
8 (3)
Sivendrini Amithra (Babishi)
Samarakkody (unmarried)b
26/3/1949
8
(4) Romesh Samarakkody Stc.Mtl (Lawyer)
b27/5/1952+ Anoma Meddegoda
9
Shalini Samarakkody + Nirodha Kodikara.
7
(8) Togo Lionel Samarakkody (d23/4/1971)+
Rivette Dias Abeysinghe (d
of Eugine Dias Abeysinghe and Anne.)No issue.
(Residence
Beach Rd Mt Lavinia.)
8
Wimala (adopted)
and has 4 children
7
(9) Lilly Samarakkody + Piyadasa
Senanayake (Kehelella) (3001)Had 4 children.
8 (1)
Lilani Senanayake + Kithsiri Jayasinghe
9
son
9
daughter
8 (2)
Egerton Senanayake (UK)
8 (3)
Devendra Senanayake
9
daughter
9
daughter
8 (4)
Ananda Senanayake
Gen
7
7 (10) Stephen
Walter Samarakkody. (b17/7/1919-d11/11/1968)
MP Polgahawela 1960,from the SLFP + Kathalene Vinita Senanayake
(known as Nita) (1924-d30/5/2002) (d
of Rev Cornelis
Senanayake of Tangalle) (niece of F R Senanayake) (Stephen inherited 18
acres at Mahalanda
Rambukkana.and may be other lands.)
(Contested
elections from Polgahawela from SLFP.1960 March- 6038 votes
and won.1960 July-
9760votes and won.In the march 1965 election contested from
SLFP and got 10183
votes in Polgahawela and lost.) (Stephen died of a stroke
after the election,in
1968..)They had 3 children.
8
(1) Sriyani Samarakkody b27/12/1945 (M1970) (Could play
the piano)+
Mahinda Yatawaka (Planter) (b28/7/1939-d7/12/2023)
9
Nishamani Yatawaka + Anura Delgoda
10 Iresh
Delgoda
10
Maneesha Delgoda
9
Haren Yatawaka (Stc
Mtl)+ Dilani
Pieris
10
Kiyana Yatawaka
10
Anithra Yatawaka
10
Jaanya Yatawaka
8
(2) Nirmala Samarakkody b 3/9/1947-d10/10/2021+
Major Shanthi
Wickremasinghe
9
Dr Ayanthi Wickremasinghe
9
Dr Trishan Wickremasinghe + Amanda
8
(3) Dilkara Samarakkody b8/9/1949 + Shanti Perera (died 18/11/2019) (Son
of Mudliyar H.P.O
Perera of Tangalle)
9
Haresh
Perera + Arosha
10 Shanil
Perera
10 Shenali Perera
9
Shiara
Perera + Darrel Paiva
10 Dijon
Paiva
10 Stefan
Paiva
6
(4) Charles Edwin
Augustus
Samarakkody. b:31/5/1881,bp23/12/1883 Proctor Dist Court
Colombo
1910. + Rosalyn Pieris Siriwardena. (daughter
of Henry Richard
Pieris Siriwardhana (b1840) and Catharine de Silva of
Kelaniya.Grand daughter
of Welhelmus
Nicholas Pieris.b1792) (1913
Gazette voters list says CEA Samarakkody,his
residence,Sinharamulla Kelaniya)
CEA Samarakkody was
District Judge Matara in 1938 (in
1910 lived in Barber St Colombo) He had 3
children.
7
(1) Malcolm Eustace Dennyston
Samarakkody, b:4 Sep 1923 (d
approx1993), Royal College, (Lawyer from 1950)
(8/12/1950,he was
appointed,by Ministry of Home Affairs,to do legal practice in
Kandy,by gazette
notification.) Worked as Asst Commissioner National
Housing + Daisy
Kobbekaduwa. born 28/6/1926 (d of SD
Kobbekaduwa) (aunt of
Lieutenant General Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Daisy Kobbekaduwa is
from Kandy and
related to the Ratwatte, Hulangamuwa, Halangoda and Amunugama
families. At one
time Malcolm and family lived at Boswel place Wellawatte.And
later Malcolm
lived in Mt Lavinia)He had 5 children.
8
(1) Dr Shiranthi Samarakkody, died at 29 years on
20/9/1980 + Shirley
Amarasekere,Attorney at
Law.
8
(2) Nirmani (Nimmi) Samarakkody
+
Senaka Senadheera d2007
9
(1) Thusith Randhira (Randy) Senadheera,Stc Mtl (Works
at Kalbe
International)+ Buddhini Subasinghe
10 (1)
Mithila Senadheera b2007
10 (2)
Pamodya Senadheera b2009
10 (3)
Pawan Senadheera b 2012
9
(2) Samadhi Senadheera+ Suneth Karunaratne
10
(1) Uthum Karunaratne b2012
10 (2)
Sethumya Karunaratne b2021
8
(3) Tyronne Samarakkody (Royal)
(unmarried)b19/9/1953
8
(4) Marlon Samarakkody (Isipathana) b3/11/1954+
Padma
Wijesinghe
9
(1) Milanga
Samarakkody (M16/7/2024) + Senuri Dassanayake
9
(2) Heshini
Samarakkody + Dilan Chandrasekhara
8
(5) Anomi Samarakkody (Sudied at Visaka and Santa
Monica Colege) (Works
at Pacifia Hospital of the Valley) (Los Angeles California)
(USA)b15/4/1957-d5/11/2024+
Asoka Abeydeera (California) (Children triplets)
9
(1) Dr Nirusha Abeydeera, b:16/6/1995 (Physician
Riverside Community
Hospital) +Shayan Keshmiri (M24/8/2024)
9
(2) Dr Dishan Abeydeera, b:16/6/1995 (Reserch associate
David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA)
9
(3) Dr Nishani Abeydeera, b:16/6/1995 (Riverside Communty
Hospital) (Studied
at Rocky Vista University) +Isuru Wickramaarachchi
7
(2) Hinton Samarakkody + Malini Seneviratne (3138)
7
(3) Dottie Fanny Samarakkody + Clive de Saa
Bandaranaike (Son
of Thomas de Saa Bandaranaike and
Florence Venitia,daughter of James de Livera.)
8
Swarnapali de Saa Bandaranaike (Sripali-unmarried)
6 (5) Charles
William Augustus
de Fonseka
Tillekeratne Samarakkody.Born 24/3/1886-d Feb
1942, educated at
Wesley College. (died unmarried
received some land in
Mahalanda Rambukkana,which later part went to his sister
Mary after his death.)
6 (6) Robert
Fredrick Augustus Samarakkody,b8/12/1874,bp21/11/1874,
died
young.
6
(7) Charlotte Henrietta Augusta de Fonseka
Tillekeratne Samarakkody b12/3/1879-d1970
(bp18/1/1880)+ (m6/6/1907)Godfred Gerard Godwin de
Livera.1876-1921 ( Revenue
Officer, Tammankaduwa-Polonnaruwa) (3109)
(Mohandiram
1905) (Son of James de
Livera.Mudliyar) She had 6
children.
(Charlotte
inherited 18 acres at
Rambukkana-tank block,also inherited 30 acres at
Panagoda-Thiruwana
block.) (Residence Saranankara rd Kalubowila.)
7
(1) Carita de Livera, died
unmarried
7
(2) Ivy de Livera, (died
unmarried approx 1984)
7
(3) Zisca de Livera, (died unmarried approx
1980)
7
(4) Iole de Livera (b approx 1915-d
21/3/ 1966) +
Solomon Samarakkody. (b8/9/1910-d21/2/1981) (Stc) (Lawyer)
(They had 8
children.)
8
(1) Dr. Srikumar Samarakkody (died
no children) (STC) (b31/5/1940-d21/12/1987)+ Nanda Jayasinghe
(m1972)
8
(2) Solomon Devarajan Samarakkody (STC)
(7/5/1942-29/7/2021) + Irani
Alahakone (m31/9/1967)
9
(1) Dilukshan Ayendra Samarakkody + Janaki Perera
10 (1)
Dinali Samarakkody
10 (2) Minali
Samarakkody
9
(2) Dinesh Niranjan Samarakkody + Kamai Gunerwardena
10 (1) Deelaka
Samarakkody
10
(2) Thenuk
Samarakkody
9
(3) Shanaka Dushantha Samarakkdy + Shakila Perera
10 Senithi
Samarakkody
8
(3) Srivanka Samarakkody (STC
Mt
Lavinia) b24/4/1943-d2/4/2023+ Chitra Welagedera (m23/9/1983)
9
(1) Yohan Lalinda
Samarakkody (STC
Mt Lavinia) + Anuradha Sumanapala (m5/3/2012)
9
(2) Dulanga
Samarakkody (md2016)
(STC Mt Lavinia) + Oshini Jayasinghe
8
(4) Sriyani Samarakkody b16/4/1944 (Could play the
piano)+ Gamini
Jayaweera b1943-d2001 (m30/4/1974)
9 Dushantha Jayaweera
(Pilot SL Airlines
) + Nimanthi Weerasinghe
10 (1) Nimeesha
Jayaweera
10 (2) Deshan
Jayaweera
8
(5) Rohini Samarakkody b6/4/1945,unmarried.
8
(6) Malkanthi Samarakkody b11/9/1947 + Gehan de Livera (Royal) (m8/1/1975)
9
(1) Ronald de Livera + Chantelle Chipman (NZ)
10 (1) Cooper
Adrian de Livera
10 (2) Bianca
de Livera
9
(2) Jeewaka de Livera + Myra Fernandes
10 (1) Shanik de Livera
10
(2) Rehan de
Livera
8
(7) Indrajith Samarakkody (Stc)
(b17/8/1948) + Jayanthi Batuwanthudawa of Kegalle.
9
(1) Arinda Samarakkody + Shanika
10 Aritha Samarakkody
9
(2) Navodya Samarakkody, unmarried.
8
(8) Suvendrini Samarakkody b22/2/1951+ Nihal Gunathilake
(Stc)b1950
(m10/9/1983).No issue.
7
(5) James
Godwin Vaughn
de Livera 1915-2003. STC (Md
1953) + Chandra
Pieris Deraniyagala (1005)
(1921-2008) (Residence
Thimbirigasyaya.) (Communication
Officer Civil aviation,served in 2hd World War in UK.) (Had
land in
Rambukkana.) He had 2 children.
8
(1) Yasmin de Livera (Sydney Australia) (Bishops) (Could
play the
piano)+ Ramesh Abeysekera (Stc)
(Syd)
9
Jehan Abeysekera + Ishini Jayamaha
10 Abayasekara
9
Yohan Abeysekera
8
(2) Gayan de Livera died unmarried STC.Mount Lavinia
(1954-1982)
7 (6) Louis
Charles de Livera (Carl), b 6/5/1919-d 19/7/1969
STC Mt Lavinia,
Lawyer (from 1943) Colombo, District Court (Md 1955) + Gertrude
Seneviratne (Bachelor of Arts,Peradeniya University).
(Eng .Instructor
Kelaniya University).b12/4/1931-d1/6/2023
(Carl
replanted his mothers land of 30 acres at Panagoda in 1960
with rubber,which
later belonged to him and his siblings.) (Residence
Dehiwela.)He had 3
children.He could play the piano accordian and sing.His
favourite song was red
river valley.
8
(1) Sunil de Livera. Musician. STC.Mount Lavinia,
b13/9/1956-d22/11/2003,
died unmarried. He could play the piano and drums.Was
part of a music
group called Gazelles in the 1970's.
8 (2) Jagath
Manjula de Livera,,
(b:1960), (STC Mt
Lavinia) (Accountant/Deputy
Chief Internal Auditor Urban Development Authority Sri Lanka,
1985-2006),
migrated to Melbourne Australia in
2006 + Lakshmi
Arulanandam, Lawyer (From
Batticaloa) (5030) (Md 12/5/1993)He
had 2 children.
9
(1) Rahul de
Livera b1994
(Monash Uni) (Engineer), (Deaken
uni)Law degree (Aus).Able
to play the
guitar.
9
(2) Shruti de
Livera b2001 (Monash
Uni-Accounting Finance &Banking,double degree) (Aus)
8
(3) Lankika de Livera b1964 Entered Law college,
but chose a
career in Journalism, Bishops College .Was able to play the
piano and sing.
(b18/2/1964-d10/4/2011) (Md1990)+ Prasanna Panditharatne.
(1960-2009)She had 1
son.
9
Kusan Panditharatne. b1995,STC (Kollupitiya & Mt Lavinia)
6
(8) Mary Elizebeth Augusta de Fonseka
Tillekeratne Samarakkody
(b 6/6/1884 -d1974) bp24/10/1901 (m1916) + Arthur
Hugh Tillekeratne.b1882
(Son of David Lambetus Tillekeratne,b1851 and Eliza Amarakone)
(Mary
received about 45 acres at Panagoda and 26 acres at Mahalanda
Rambukkana,which
she gave to Grace and Olive her 2 daughters.) Residence
Panagoda Lenegala
Estate..She had 2 children.
7
(1) Chandrani
Grace
Tillekaratne (1917-2011)+
John Francis
Senewiratne (b19/8/1904)
(They had
4 children.) (his 2hd marriage in 1946)
8 (1) Ranjith
Senewiratne died at 19yrs
(22/5/1947-29/6/1967)
8
(2) Francis Nimal
Senewiratne b8/9/1949-d2014+ Geethanjali de Zilwa,b15/3/1950
(Artist) (M22/11/1972)
9
Amanda Gimhani Senewiratne b12/3/1988+ (m1-2012) Reshan
Bharati (Divorced)
10 Kenul
Seneviratne Bhareti
9 Amanda
Senewiratne+ (m2-2021 )Hazeem Iqbal
9
Eshan Viraj Senewiratne
8
(3) Niranjala Senewiratne + Kalinda Doranagoda (b1941-d2015)
9
Shamila Doranagoda (Melbourne
Australia)
+ Duminda Maligaspe
10
Dinuri Maligaspe
10 Tharuki
Maligaspe
8
(4) Priyani Senewiratne + Mohan Samarakkody
(Son of Milton and Amy Samarakkody) (b30/9/1950)
9
Sandeepani Tharanga Samarakkody (Director HRM ESolve Business
Solutions) + Chandima
Alutwala
10
Thihansa Vimukthi Alutwala
9
Yasamali Buddhini Samarakkody + Arun Muthusamy
7
(2) Olive Tillekaratne + Francis
Wijesundera d 1994 (no
children) (They adopted 2 children)
7 (3) Valentine
Tillekeratne, 1919-1929
3 (4) Samanakkody
Mudliyar (b
approx 1740) +Dominga Dias Bandaranaike (BP
1740) (2nd marriage) M1780 approx.Dominga is a daughter of
Francisco Dias
Bandaranaike b1720.Dominga's 1st marraige was to Pascol de
Livera
Weerakoon.From this marriage Dominga had 2 sons and a
daughter. (page
59,Sinhalese families of Paul Pieris vol 3)
(According
to Ceylon Gazette of 1899,there was a Samanakkody,who owned 40
perches with a
house at No 97 and
80 perches at No 100,
both of 2hd Division Maradana, within the Gravets of Colombo.)
(According to Ceylon Gazette of 1915,in the matter of intestate,estate of Geneive Pauline Samarakkody deceased 1915.Following names are mentioned. Fredrick Peter de Fonseka Samarakkody. Alice Margret Samarakkody,and her husband L.A Arthur Rodrigo,all of 2hd Division Maradana,Colombo.They are listed above as children of Louis de Fonseka Samarakkody and Francina)
Prepared by Mr Manjula
de Livera
***** Samarakkody Family Photos see below
e-mail manjulafamily@yahoo.com.au
manjuladelivera@yahoo.com.au
Updated:19th March
2025
**Reference
to LC De Fonseka WT
Samarakkody:
In the
Saka year 1675, corresponding to A.D. 1750, in an account
given of King Kirti Sri Rajasinha, of Kandy, translated by
Paul E. Peiris, N.A.C.C.S:,
barrister-at-law, appears the record of the return of the
embassy which the king had sent to Siam, and amongst the
officers delegated to meet these ambassadors figures the name
of Samarakkody, the Uda,Âgampaha Adigar, from whom
the subject of this sketch is descended. The Adigar's descendant was Johan de Fonseka
Samarasundere Seneviratne Samarakkody, who was the
MudaÂÂliyar of Hewagam Korale under the Dutch
administration. His eldest som, Paulis was Mohandiram in the
same Korale, and his second son, Andris, who married the
sister of Don Abraham Dissenaike, second Mudaliyar of Hewagam
Korale, was Atapattu Mohandirain of Colombo in the same
government. Louis grandson of Johan de Fonseka Samarakkody,
was attached to the Colombo Kachcheri as Clerk and Commutation
Assessor. He married Francina, daughter of Paules de Livera
Weerakon, Mohandiram of Hapitigam Korale, and their son, Louis
Charles de Fonseka Wijeyewickkrame Tillekeratne Samarakkodv,
whose name heads this sketch, was born at Colombo in 1840.
He
received his education at Colombo Academy and St. Thomas's College, and entered the
Government service in 1861, attached to the Court of Requests,
Colombo, as sworn Translator. He also served in the Colombo
Kachcheri, and became Mohandiram of Alutkuru Korale, South,
and then was appointed Mudaliyar of the Kegalla Kachcheri. He
was President of six Village Tribunals in three different
Korales, and was appointed Mudaliyar of the Governors Gate in
1883. Twelve years later he retired from GovernÂÂment
employ, after thirty-eight years of continuous service.
In 1871
he married Cornelia Fredrica, the daughter of Jacobus
Dionysius de Silva Siriwardene, Atapattu Mohandiram of Colombo (whose
grandfather, David de Silva Siriwardene, was Mudaliyar of
Rayigam Korale, and whose father, Simon de Silva Siriwardene,
was Maha Mudaliyar). Of the sons of this marriage, Charles
Henry Augustus is Mudaliyar of Pasdun Korale East; Charles
Peter, a MohanÂÂdiram of the Governors Gate, is a planter,
who is married to Anne Kathereen, daughter of John Nicholas
Dissenaike Tillekeratne, Mudaliyar of Matara; Charles Edwin is
a Proctor of the District Court of Colombo and Charles William
is a senior student of Wesley College, Colombo. Mr.
Samarakkody has three daughters, Charlotte Henrietta, Mary
Elizabeth, and Jane Cecilia.
Amongst
his family possessions, Mr. Samarakkody treasures a gold medal
given to his uncle Carolis de Fonseka Tillekeratne
Samarakkody, Mudaliyar, by Governor Sir Robert Brownrigg in
1818 for his meritorious Services to the British Government
during the Kandyan Rebellion, and a Jubilee gold medal
presented to him by Governor Sir West RidgeÂÂway. He resides
at "Lovedale", Jampettah Street, Colombo.
http://www.defonseka.com/ref_20thcentury.htm
**SAMARAKKODY - CHANDRA (nee DE SARAM) Beloved
wife of the late Lionel Samarakkody, dearly beloved mother of
Sasanka, loving sister of Amara, Sarojini and Gamini, expired.
Cortege leaves A.F. Raymond's Funeral parlour at 3.30 p.m. on
Friday 16th February. Cremation at General Cemetery, Borella
at 4.00 p.m. No. 78, Galle Road, Dehiwala. DN Fri Feb 16
2007
|
Edmund Samarakkody kept faith to the
last by Amaradasa Fernando Daily News Jan 4 2002 January 4th marks the 10th anniversary of
Edmund Samarakkody's death. He was one of the pioneers
of the Left Movement. He came from what one would call
a "walauwa" in Panagoda. His elder brother Siripala
was a member of the State Council and so was another
brother Stephen. They were bourgeoise nationalists, which
was the political trend in the early nineteenth
century. But young Edmund was to carve a different
path for himself. While still a student he joined a
young group of intellectual radicals who had returned
to the island after finishing their studies in the US
and UK in the early thirties. These young men were S. A.
Wickremasinghe, Philip Gunawardene, N. M. Perera,
Colvin R. de Silva, T. B. Subasinghe and V.
Karalasingham etc. Coincidentally all the above named
were Anandians, except Colvin who came from Royal,
while Edmund came from St. Thomas'. With the advent of
the great Russian October Revolution, Philip
Gunawardene in particular had been influenced by
Marxist and labour movements. Philip was a member of
the Communist Party of Great Britain. He had been
earlier introduced to the socialist ideology while the
others held socialist/nationalist views. He was introduced to socialism, by Prof.
Scott Nearing, an American, when Philip was at
Wisconsin, while Harold Laski and Bernard Shaw
influenced NM at the London School of Economics when
reading for his Ph.D., during the latter part of his
stay in Great Britain Philip came to be influenced by
the Russian Left Opposition against Stalin led by Leon
Trotsky and his Theory of the Permanent Revolution. Crown
colony Sri Lanka, Ceylon, was a Crown Colony of
British Imperialism. World War II which saw the
decline of colonialism, had its impact on India and
Ceylon. It was in these heady times that young Edmond
was caught up in the nationalist movement. He became a
member of the Colombo South Youth league, which was
affiliated to the All Ceylon (Youth)
Congress. In November 1933 the radical element of the
Youth League was associated with the Suriya Mal
Movement which was started as a counter to the Poppy
organisation on November 11 which collected money for
disabled war veterans of Great Britain. Instead now the Suriya Mal Movement
collected for the war veterans of Ceylon. In the years
of the Malaria epidemic of 1934-35 in Ceylon which
took a toll of over 100,000 lives, found the Suriya
Mal Movement activists led by Drs. N. M. Perera, S. A.
Wickremasinghe and Philip Gunawardene who took a
leading role in relief work in the Kelani Valley. Thus
the Suriya Mal movement saw the beginnings of the
anti-imperialist movement in Ceylon, later to become
the LSSP, an umbrella organisation for all
nationalists, socialists of different hues. At its founding conference of the LSSP on
December 1935 Edmund was elected to its Executive
Committee. The more militant socialists in it grew
into what was called the "T" group (Trotskyist)
led by Philip. They included, NM, Colvin, Leslie
Goonewardene, Robert, Vernon Gunasekera, P. H. William
Silva and Edmund. There was a split party, one led by
the T. Group, who now sided with Leon Trotsky in the
International Communist movement, while a group led by
Dr. Wicks, M. G. Mendis, P. Kandiah etc sided with
Stalin, who were expelled and were to form the United
Socialist Party, later the Ceylon CP. Independence The LSSP was the first party that stood
for complete independence of Ceylon from the British
Empire, while even the "father of the nation" D. S.
Senanayake stood for "Dominion Status within the
Commonwealth". A. E. Goonesinghe was the first to
organise both the indigenous and Indian labour in the
early 20s. With the appearance of the Colombo South
Youth League and later the LSSP posed a challenge to
Goonesinghe's, Ceylon Labour Union. The tea, rubber, DC mills, harbour, the
textile workers were mostly led by Goonesinghe who had
got a head start. The Wellawatte Spinning and Weaving
Mills led by the latter with a labour force of 1,400
strong, 2/3 Malayalam, and 1/3 Sinhalese had led
strikes in 1923, 1926 and 1929. In 1933 because of the
economic depression, the workers went on strike in
defiance of A.E.G. They walked out in protest against
a drastic cut in wages, besides they asked for a
reduction in working hours from 60 to 54 hours. The young militants of the Colombo SL
then supported the Indian workers, while A.E.G used
the Sinhala workers from the Weaving Mills and also
from the Harbour as black legs. Dr. Colvin R. de
Silva, S. A. Wicks, Philip, Leslie and young Edmund
who had by now passed out as a lawyer started the
Wellawatte Mill Workers Union with Colvin as its
president. Workers
councils His first brush against British interests
was when he supported the workers of the Ms Vavaseurs
and the Colombo Commercial Company. This was done
against the leadership of the Communist Party which
was formed by the Stalinist nucleus within the LSSP,
later expelled. The CP which was in control of the
rubber, coconut, tea and the engineering firms had
given 'no strike' pledge, as they were supporting the
British war effort, with the Nazi attack on the USSR,
were given a free run supported by their managements.
While Edmund was arrested along with Leslie
Goonewardene for participation in these firm's
strikes. Edmund was involved in the wave of plantation
struggles of Mooloya and Wevasse. There was a celebrated case of an Indian
plantation worker Govindan, who was shot dead at
Mooloya (Jan
18th) where Colvin R. de Silva, Jack Kotalawala and
Edmund took up the legal defence of the estate
workers. By the end of May the strike enveloped the
whole of Uva like a forest fire. It was this direct
clash with the British colonial interests, where some
estate workers for the first time in working class
history of Ceylon up "workers councils". In Badulla a
mammoth meeting despite a police ban was held when the
British military government decided that it was time
to crack down on these agitators. Leaders
arrested Within a week of the fall of France to
the Hitlerite forces the Governor issued detention
orders on five leaders of the LSSP. "The Times of
Ceylon" the newspaper of the plantation Raj on 19th
June 1940 reported the arrest in head lines, "Red
leaders in Welikade jail... three last night another
today ...Swift action by the police". N. M. Perera,
Philip Gunawardene, and Colvin R. de Silva were taken
into custody on June 19. Edmund was arrested in Mount Lavinia on
the following day. But Leslie Goonewardene evaded
arrest and went underground. In Welikade and following
a hunger strike against poor conditions, the four
detainees were removed to the British military prison
in Bogambara, Kandy, where they planned their future
political strategy. The prisoners with the connivance
of a prison guard scooted out of jail to attend all
night party meetings and returned to jail. They even
attended a secret party conference of 42 delegates. It was Edmund and another comrade who
remained in the cell to cover up their absence of the
leaders. On another occasion a Indian comrade from
Benares visited their cell surreptitiously to plan
their escape and their future political strategy in
India. On the night of April 7, 1942, the four
prisoners made a daring jail break, along with the
prison guard, Solomon, whom they had won over to their
cause. Philip, NM and Colvin crossed over to India in
a "vallam" from Vellvettithurai, while Edmund stayed
behind in the underground to help build the LSSP. In India they helped with Indian
Troskyists to launch the Bolshevik Lennist Party of
India, of which the LSSP now became its Ceylon Unit.
While BLPI supported the Quit India Movement the
Indian CP worked against it. In 1943 the Indian Police swooped, on the
fugitives, betrayed by a Stalinist mole Shukla,
deporting Philip, MN, Colvin and Robert, while Doric
de Souza, Leslie, V. Karalasingham, Bernard Soysa,
Hector Abeyawardhana, Vievienne Goonewardena, and
Allan Mendis who had also gone over to India, stayed
behind to help build the BLPI. In 1944 Edmund was re
arrested and charged for conspiring against His
Majesty's Government and the jail break and had a six
months rigorous imprisonment imposed on him. By the end of the war the LSSP split into
two factions - the LSSP led by Philip and NM and the
Bolshevik Samasamajaya Party led by Colvin, Leslie,
Edmund and Bernard Soysa. In 1950 the parties
re-united. They fought the General Election of 1952,
and Edmund was elected as member for Dehiovita. In
1960 he represented Bulathsinghala. Sinhala
only In 1953 a group split to toe an SLFP line
of not anti-capitalism but anti-UNPism. In 1955 it was
Edmund who seconded NM's motion in Parliament to make
both Tamil and Sinhala as official languages. The UNP,
SLFP, and the VLSSP of Philip had switched from Tamil
and Sinhala as Swabhasa languages to one of "Sinhala
Only". The LSSP,
(NM, Colvin Leslie) joined in the formation of
a Coalition Government with Ms Sirima Bandaranaike in
1964. This made Edmund, Meryl Fernando, V.
Karalasingham and Bala Tampoe, walk out to launch the
LSSP (R)
as a Trotskyist Party affiliated to the Fourth
International, the Party built by Leon Trotsky after
he was sent into exile by Stalin. Before long the LSSP (R) also
disintegrated. Press
take over An important episode in Edmund's life
should not be missed. In 1965 he as MP for Dehiovita
and Meryl Fernando MP for Moratuwa, being in the LSSP (R) from the
Opposition voted with the UNP on the Throne Speech on
the specific subject of the take over of the Lake
House and Times press. The UNP leading the Opposition
found these two MPs, along with C. P. de Silva and
thirteen others voting with the Opposition. The 13
crossed over to the UNP. The coalition Government voting with the
Opposition. The Government of Sirimavo lost by one
vote! Because Edmund was such a purist in politics
often left him isolated. He formed a splinter group,
ran a Sinhala weekly and worked among trade unions in
the last years of his life. There was one thing to be said of Edmund
through his life. He was honest and steadfast to the
cause of revolutionary socialism. He preferred to
stick to orthodoxy than compromise one bit and retain
his political identity and remain as a small group. |
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Samarakkody
Edmund
Samarakkody (1912/1992) was a
leading Trotskyist in Sri
Lanka and at
one time a member of that country's parliament. He was
a leader of the Fourth
International's
section, the LSSP, and a supporter of the establishment of the
United
Secretariat of the Fourth International in 1963.
After the LSSP was expelled from the International, he
co-founded the Lanka
Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) (LSSP (R)), which
was the section of the Fourth International. After
disagreements with Bala Tampoe, he left
the International after its1969 World Congress.
In 1960 he was
elected as LSSP Member
of Parliament for the
Bulathsinhala constituency. However, in 1965, contesting from
the LSSP (R), he received only 278 votes in the same
electorate - the LSSP's Mangala
Moonesinghe was
elected MP with 14,023 votes
Daily
Mirror Tue Mar 2 2004
State of
affairs in the Kandyan Kingdom: A lesson from the past
By
DB Kappagoda
The
independence of the Kandyan Kingdom was lost 188 years ago to
the British, who were then occupying the maritime provinces of
Sri Lanka. The transfer of power was made official by a treaty
signed by the Kandyan chieftains and the British Governor
Robert Brownrigg on March 2, 1815.
The
agreement they entered into came to be called the Kandyan
Convention and was signed at the historic Magul Maduwa, where
the deposed King Sri Wickrama Rajasinha held his regular
consultations with his chieftains. Those gathered on that
historic occasion expected a positive change in the
administration, after deposing their autocratic ruler, who was
sent in exile to Vellore near Madras, Southern India with his
family and close relatives. Thus ended the lineage of Kings of
Lanka, which had spanned over 2357 years.
The
common belief is that the Kandyan chieftains betrayed their
King and handed over their territory to the British sovereign,
expecting favours when the whole country went under to British
rule as occurred sometime. When commenting on the chieftains'
role one has to bear in mind the sequence of events that took
place in the Kandyan Kingdom, before the signing of the
Kandyan Convention.
The last
ruler King Sri Wickrema Rajasinha belonged to the Nayakkar
dynasty, hailing from the Malabar region in South India. This
dynasty began rule with King Senarat when he arranged a
marriage for his son, Wimaladharmasuriya II to a princess also
belonging to the Nayakkar dynasty.
The
couple failed to have a child, and according to the Nayakkar
tradition of succession, the people of the Kandyan kingdom had
to accept a brother of the queen to a vacant, throne.
Meanwhile,
the British Governor of the Maritime Provinces, Thomas
Maitland, succeeded the first Governor, Frederick North. He
did not pursue a policy of waging war against the Kandyan
Kingdom in his attempt to make it a part of the British
domain. In 1805 he wrote to his superiors, "I shall be able to
get by underhand means and very little money, indeed more
complete possession of the Kandyan than we could by war of any
kind."
In the
Kandyan Kingdom, three kings who followed the first Nayakkar
Monarch married a princesses from Madurai, as did their
predecessors. In turn they brought with them their parents and
relations, who were given residential quarters close to the
palace. This separate area in the city came to be called
Kamaruppe Vidiya or Malabar Veediya. The King's relatives were
maintained by the state and were well-provided with
facilities. They were given more special positions, honour and
recognition than the families of chieftains in the country.
Some of
the King's relatives became wealthy through trade dealings in
Madras with the British East India Company. They also lent
money to the local chieftains and increased their income and
acquired land. In short, they were richer than the families of
the chieftains.
With the
advantages they had, Nayakkar families continued to live as
different people in language and religion. They followed South
Indian customs and practices, and showed their aloofness by
rarely marrying into the leading Kandyan families. The Kandyan
chieftains openly complained that they were ignored by the
King, who was prone to listening to the advice given by his
relations. There began a conspiracy among the chieftains, to
install a Sinhala prince on the throne. But the King's
relations were powerful. They could influence the King when
decisions were made and stood against the chieftains to keep
the throne within the Nayakkar lineage. It was seen that they
advised the King directly or though their Queen's relatives to
conduct the affairs of state, without consulting or asking the
help of the chieftains.
Nevertheless,
the first attempt made by the chieftains to select a Sinhala
ruler was in 1709, when Yalegoda Adikaram tried to enthrone
Pattiye Bandara - son of Vimaladharmasuriya II by a Sinhala
wife -in place of Narendrasingha, the son of the same King by
a Nayakkar wife.
The
unsuccessful rebellion arose in 1732 when King Narendrasingha
appointed a person belonging to the Nayakkar dynasty to the
post of Gabada Nilame, who had the responsibility for the
king's lands.
Some
chieftains, led by Leuke Disava, made an effort in 1739 to
place Unambuwe Bandara, son of King Narendrasinha by a Sinhala
wife in preference to the King's brother-in-law Sri Vijaya Rajasinha.
In the
fourth attempt of 1749, when the Ministers of King Keerthi Sri
Rajasinha threatened to put forward a person who would
safeguard Sinhala customs and usages. This was done to prevent
the King's father from interfering with the government.
In 1760
an attempt was again made to depose King Keerthi Sri
Rajasingha from the throne and place a Siamese prince on the
throne. This was planned by Samarakkodi Adikaram and the
leading monks Ven. Welivita Saranankara Thera and Ven.
Tibbotuwave Thera of Malwatta Vihara. The sixth and the last
attempt was made to depose King Rajadhi Rajasinha and place
Mampitiya Bandara, son of Keerthi Sri Rajasingha,
on the throne.
All
attempts to replace Nayakkar Kings failed because of the
disunity among the chieftains, which arose from personal
rivalries. It was clearly evident that they were unhappy with
a foreigner, occupying the throne. It appeared that the
majority of chieftains had supported their Kings. The Nayakkar
Kings made use of this lapse and encouraged personal rivalry
as part of their policy of creating divisions among the
Sinhala chieftains.
The
state of affairs in the Kandyan kingdom at the time when the
British consolidated their positions in the maritime Provinces
should be understood when the actions of Pilimatalawa Adikaram
and Ehelepola Adikaram against King Sri Wickrama Rajasinha are
taken into account.
Family
Photos Generation 5
Generation
5
&6
Louis
Charles de Fonseka Tillekeratne Samarakkody (b1840-1907) with
his children
Generation
6 (Children
of Louis Charles de Fonseka Tillekeratne Samarakkody)
Henry
Charles Samarakkody Charlotte
Henrietta de Livera nee
(1875-1934)
Samarakkody (1880-1970)
Henry Samarakkody
& wife with children photo 1915
Children
of Henry Samarakkody
Generation
7 & 8 (on right)
Solomon
Samarakkody (1910-1981)
(Dr
Srikumar,Rajan,Srivanka,Sriyani,Rohini,Malkanthi Indrajith
& Suvendrini)
Millicient
Samarakkody (b1911-d1994) &
Jimmy Senewiratne wedding photo
(photo 2-Milly & Jimmy with children
Ranjith,Wasanthi and Dr Tissa.)
Dagmar
Corneliya
Chulanganee
Tudugalle
Nahil
Samarakkody
(1912-1997)
d 2014
Robert
Charles
Olga Agnes Mary Taldena
Samarakkody
nee Samarakkody
(1913-1998)
Douglas Samarakkody
Niranjani
Amy
Elizebeth
Shiranthi
Mohan
Babishi
Romesh
Samarakkody
(b1919-d2018)
Lionel
Samarakkody (d1999)
Sassanka Samarakkody
Lilly de Alwis nee
Neomal
Rohan
Duleep
Samarakkody (b 1922-d2020)
Harriet Perera
nee
Anoja
Dilip
Heshan
Eranjanee
Samarakkody
1924-2021
Children
of Peter Charles Samarakkody
Edmund
Samarakkody Chulanganee
Tudugalle
d:2014
Nahil
Milton
Samarakkody
Shiranthi Mohan
Sivendrini Romesh
(1915-1964)
(Babishi)
Siripala Samarakkody
(1907-1944)
Rukmani
Stephen
Samarakkody (1911-1966)
Sriyani
Nirmala
Dilkara
Effie
Jayatilleke nee
Samarakkody
Rohan
Tanya
Jayantha
Duleep
Nenie
Senewiratne nee
Samarakkody (1911-1974)
Dr Brian
Phoebe
Children
of Charlotte de Livera nee Samarakkody
J.G.Vaughn de Livera (1917-2003) Yasmin Abeysekera
nee de Livera
Ivy de Livera
Iole Samarakkody nee de Livera d1966
Pic-1955
Pic-2012
Louis
Charles de Livera (Carl)
b1919-d1969) Sunil
Manjula Lankika
Children
of Edwin Charles Augustus Samarakkody
Shiranthi
Nirmani
Marlon
Tyronne
Anoma
Malcolm
Samarakkody.b1923
Children
of Mary Tillekeratne nee Samarakkody
Niranjala
Nimal d2014
Priyani
Grace Senewiratne nee Tillekeratne b1917 d2011
Daughter
of
Lawrence Samarakkody
Lorinda
Perera nee
Samarakkody.d2005 Mahinda
Perera 1949-2015
Grave stone of LCDFT Samarakkody
Walauwa
built in 1900 at Panagoda
Lenegala Estate by Peter Samarakkody.
(Priyani Samarakkody and Gertrude de Livera in the
picture,taken in 2008.) (Priyani is a grand daughter of Mary
Samarakkody, married Mohan Samarakkody.Mohan is a grandson of
Peter and Henry Samarakkody.)
Sarodovan Walauwwa,
built in Sarodovan 40 acre estate in Gampaha by Henry Samarakkody, around
year 1900.It was later sold by Solomon Samarakkody,his son to
Holy Cross College Gampaha in 1944. (Neomal de Alwis ,grand
son of Henry Samarakkody in the photo,which was taken in year
2000)
Wedding
photos.& Groups.
Malcom
Samarakkody-Group
Louis Charles de Livera
(Carl)-Wed-1955
Lorinda
Samarakkody -Wedding
Srikumar Samarakkody
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Robert Samarakkody and sisters
Solomon
Samarakkody's children and Sasanka Samarakkody
Samarakkody crowd in Melbourne with Sriyani
&Heshan.
Tissa
&cousins
Amy &
sisters
Tissa
& Cousins
Samarakkody Family
2015 Reunion at Grand Oriental Hotel
Samarakkody
Family 2018 Reunion
Samarakkody
Family 2023 Reunion at Capri Club
*
The
Nayakkar dynasty hailing from Malabar region of South
India.The Dynasty began to rule when King Senarat arranged a
marriage for his son Wimaladharmasuriya II to a princess of
the Nayakkar Dynasty. the Dynasty lasted from 1739 to 1815.
Nayakkar families continued to live as different people, in
language and religion. They followed South Indian customs. The
Kandyan chiefs openly complained that they were ignored by the
king. Thus began a conspiracy among the chieftains to install
a Sinhala king who favours Buddhism.
*
After the
Samarakkody Adigar was executed in 1760, his son Don Johan de
Fonseka Samarasundera Seneviratne Samarakkody, would have
joined the Dutch govt, in the Western Province,and would have
become a Mudaliyar.And his descendents became Mudaliyars under
Dutch and British Governtments. Louis Charles Samarakkody b
1840, Mudaliyar obtained govt grants in 1880 and purchased
jungle land in Rambukkana and Panagoda and developed them.
Some of his children held high offices under the British.
Three of his grandsons became members of parliament in SL post
independence era.
As at
2017, some Samarakkody families still remain in Sri Lanka,
while some have migrated to countries like Australia, New
Zealand, England and the USA.
While
still approx 15 acres at Panagoda and 30 acres at Rambukkana
still remain among the Samarakkody relatives.
*
Thombu
Index-Dutch Period (Before
1796) (Properties
registered)
Ge Name
Name
Koral
Pattu
Village
Samanakkodige Domingo Pieris
Rayigam Adi Kuruppumulla,Pattiya
Samanakkodige Bastian Pieris
Rayigam Adi Kuruppumulla,Walana
Samanakkodige Domingo Pieris
Rayigam Adi
Minuwanpitiya
Samanakkodige
Anthonica Dias
Raiygam
Walana
Samanakkodige
Abeappu
Raiygam
Damangamuwa
Above
may be relatives of another branch.The original name
Samanakkodi changed in the late Dutch or early British period
to Samarakkody.
(Below Joan de
Fonseka Samarasundera Seneviratne is the son of the Adigar.
After
the adigar was killed in Kandy, he may have moved to
Tudugala in the Kalutara District. (Pasdun Korale)
through kalu ganga.Later he may have moved to Dedigomuwa in
the Hewagam Korale.)
Joan de
Fonseka Samarasundera Seneviratne Pasdun Tudugala
Samanakkodige
Joan
de Fonseka Samarasundera Hewagam Dedigomuwa
Seneviratne
Siripala Samarakkody
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siripala
Samarakkody (1907 – 22 August
1944) was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician.[1]
Early
life and education
Samarakkody
was born in 1907, the eldest of seven children to Charles
Peter Augustus de Fonseka Tillekeratne Samarakkody and Anne
Catharine née Tillekeratne, his brothers include Edmund (MP for Dehiowita
1952–1960, Bulathsinhala 1960-65)
and Stephen (MP for Polgahawela
1960–1965).[2] He
received his early education at St. Thomas'
College, Mount Lavinia, before
travelling to England and studying law at London University. He was
called to the bar from
the Middle Temple.[2] Upon his
return to Ceylon he entered politics, successfully contested a
seat on the Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia Urban Council.
Political
career
In 1936
Samarakkody was elected a member of the 2nd State Council
of Ceylon, for the
seat of Narammala,
defeating his nearest opponent by over 10,000 votes. He was
one of the original members of Sinhala Maha
Sabha before
joining the Ceylon National
Congress a few
years later, where he served as the Congress' president.[3]
Samarakkody served on the Executive Committee of Local
Administration, during which he acted as Minister for a short
period. In May 1937 he moved the motion of protest against Governor Reginald Stubbs'
deportation order for Mark Bracegirdle, without
the advice of the acting Home Minister, which was passed by
the State Council 34 votes to 7.
Family
Samarakkody
married Phyllis Nedra (Girlie) née Senanayake, the oldest
daughter of Fredrick Richard Senanayake (1882–1926). They had
three daughters, Malini, Rukmani and Surangani.
Death
He died
of Typhoid fever on 22
August 1944, at the age of 37 years, whilst still a member of
the State Council. His brother-in-law, Richard Gotabhaya
Senanayake, the
cousin of Dudley Senanayake was
elected in his place at the subsequent by-election.
Ferncliff
Road, Mt Lavinia was re-named Siripala Road in his memory.
Edmund Samarakkody
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encyclopedia
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Edmund Peter
Samarakkody (19
April 1912 – 4 January 1992) was a Ceylonese
lawyer, trade unionist, politician and Member of Parliament.
Early life and family
Samarakkody was born on 19 April 1912, the fifth
of seven children to Charles Peter Augustus de Fonseka
Tillekeratne Samarakkody, Muhandiram of the Governor Gate and
planter; and Anne Catharine née Tillekeratne, daughter of
Nicholas Tillekeratne, Mudaliyar of Matara. He was
educated at S. Thomas'
College, Mount Lavinia.[3][4]
After school he joined the Ceylon Law College,
qualifying as a proctor.[3][4]
Stephen Samarakkody and Siripala Samarakkody were
his brothers, while Panini Ilangakoon and Robert Edward Jayatilaka
were his brother-in-laws.
Samarakkody married his first cousin Dagmar Samarakkody.
They had a daughter (Chulanganee)
and a son (Nahil).
Career
Samarakkody became a proctor of the Supreme Court
in 1936 and started practicing law in Badulla.[2][3]
He then worked at the Mount Lavinia bar for over four decades.
Samarakkody became involved in anti-imperialist
nationalistic politics in the early 1930s when he joined the
Colombo South Youth League (CSYL),
an affiliate of the All Ceylon Youth Congress.[5]
In 1933 Indian workers at the Wellawatte Spinning and Weaving
Mills went on strike and were supported by the
CSYL. The strike was undermined by A Ekanayake Gunasinha and
his Ceylon Labour Union which used Sinhalese blacklegs to break the strike.
In the 1920s Gunasinha had been the first to organise labour in Ceylon. Colvin R. de Silva, Leslie Goonewardene, Philip Gunawardena,
Samarakkody and SA Wickramasinghe
established the Wellawatte Mill Workers Union with de Silva as
its president.
Samarakkody was one of the founding members of
the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
(LSSP) in December
1935 and was elected to its executive committee. He took a
leading role in militant leftist action, including the strikes
at Vavasseur Coconut Mill and the Colombo Commercial Company
Fertiliser Works in 1937, the latter for which he and
Goonewardene were arrested. The LSSP was beset with internal
divisions - militants within the party (Colvin R. de Silva, William de Silva, Goonewardene,
Vernon Gunasekera, Philip Gunawardena, Robert Gunawardena, NM Perera, Samarakkody etc.) formed the "T"
group (Trotskyist) which sided with Leon Trotsky in the International
Communist whilst Stalinists (P Kandiah, M. G. Mendis, A. Vaidyalingam,
Wickramasinghe etc.) formed another group.[5]
The Stalinists were expelled from the LSSP in 1940 and went on
to form the United Socialist
Party (later
reconstituted as the Communist Party of Ceylon) in 1941.
When World War II broke out in September
1939 the LSSP opposed the "second imperialist war". The LSSP
played a major role in a wave of strikes in 1939/40 and
consequently it was proscribed in 1940 and its leaders Colvin
R. de Silva, Philip Gunawardena, Perera and Samarakkody
arrested in June 1940. Goonewardene evaded arrest and went
into hiding The quartet were imprisoned at Welikada Prison but after
staging a hunger striker they were
transferred to Bogambara Prison. The four LSSP
leaders, aided by sympathetic prison guards, escaped from
Bogambara on 7 April 1942 and whilst de Silva, Gunawardena and
Perera fled to India Samarakkody went into hiding in Ceylon.
In India the LSSP leaders merged their party with
the Bolshevik Leninist Party of the United Provinces and Bihar
and the Bolshevik Mazdoor Party of India to create the Bolshevik–Leninist
Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) in April 1942
with the LSSP as its Ceylonese branch. De Silva, Gunawardena
and Perera were arrested by the Indian police in 1943 after
being betrayed by Stalinist called Shukla and deported back to
Ceylon. Other LSSP members (Hector Abhayavardhana, Doric de Souza, Leslie
Goonewardene, Vivienne Goonewardene, V. Karalasingham, Allan Mendis
and Bernard Soysa) stayed behind in India to build up the
BLPI.
Samarakkody was re-arrested in 1944. De Silva,
Philip Gunawardena, Perera and Samarakkody were prosecuted,
convicted and sentenced to six months in prison. Samarakkody
lost his civic rights and his license to
practice law was suspended for two years. Towards
the end of World War II in 1945 Gunawardena and Perera broke
from the BLPI and resurrected the LSSP as a separate party. De
Silva, Leslie Goonewardene, Samarakkody and Soysa remained in
the BLPI.
Samarakkody's civic rights had not been
re-instated after the end of the war but the government
amended the law which allowed Samarakkody to contest
parliamentary elections. Samarakkody stood as the BLPI
candidate in Mirigama at the 1947
parliamentary election but on was defeated by DS Senanayake, leader of the United National Party and
future Prime Minister. In 1948
the BLPI merged with the Congress Socialist Party
to create the Socialist Party. The
BLPI's Ceylon branch became a separate party, the Bolshevik Samasamaja
Party (BSP).
The BSP and LSSP merged in 1950. Philip Gunawardena, who
opposed the merger, left the LSSP and founded the Viplavakari
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (VLSSP).
Samarakkody stood as the LSSP candidate in Dehiowita at the 1952
parliamentary election. He won the election and entered
Parliament.[10]
He was re-elected at the 1956
parliamentary election. He stood as the LSSP candidate
in Kesbewa at the March
1960 parliamentary election but failed to get
re-elected. He stood as the LSSP candidate in Bulathsinhala
at the July 1960
parliamentary election. He won the election and
re-entered Parliament.
Whilst Ceylon's main political parties, the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party
(SLFP), together
with the VLSSP, supported the Sinhala Only Act, the leftists,
led by the LSSP, opposed the act. In May 1960 LSSP leader
Perera proposed that the party form a coalition government
with SLFP. Samarakkody led a group of LSSP members opposed the
proposition. De Silva, de Souza, Goonewardene and Soysa
initially opposed Perera's proposition but eventually
abandoned their beliefs and supported the move. The LSSP
joined the SLFP government
in June 1964. LSSP members who opposed the move (Meryl Fernando, Karalasingham,
Samarakkody, Bala Tampoe etc.) left the LSSP and formed the Lanka Sama
Samaja Party (Revolutionary)
(LSSP (R)) with
Samarakkody as its secretary. In December 1964 the LSSP (R)'s
two MPs, Fernando and Samarakkody, together with several rebel
SLFP MPs, voted for an opposition amendment to the
government's throne speech, defeating the
government and precipitating the dissolution of
Parliament. Fernando and Samarakkody's action proved
controversial within the LSSP (R) as they had in effect
supported the capitalist UNP which would go on to win the 1965
parliamentary election. The LSSP (R) supported Fernando
and Samarakkody's action but some members who opposed it (Karalasingham and the
Sakthi group) left the LSSP (R) and rejoined the LSSP in 1966.
Samarakkody stood as the LSSP (R) candidate in
Bulathsinhala at the 1965 parliamentary election but failed to
get re-elected. Samarakkody fell out with LSSP (R) leader
Tampoe and in 1968 left the party, together with Fernando, and
founded the Revolutionary Sama
Samaja Party (renamed
Revolutionary Workers Party in 1973).
Samarakkody was also a member of Dehiwela-Mt
Lavinia Urban Council and served as its chairman. During the Sri Lankan Civil War
Samarakkody was one of only a few Sinhalese who spoke up for the
Tamils, whom he considered
were oppressed by Sinhalese bourgeoisie, and their right to self-determinationSamarakkody
died on 4 January 1992 at Colombo General Hospital.
Stephen Samarakkody
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Stephen Walter
Samarakkody (17
July 1919 - 1969) was a Sri Lankan politician. He was the
member of Parliament of Sri Lanka
from Polgahawela
representing the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
He was elected to
parliament from Polgahawela in the March
1960 general election and was re-elected in the July 1960
general election defeating D. B. Welagedara.[3]
He lost the 1965 general
election to M. D. Banda.
Edmund Samarakkody and Siripala Samarakkody were
his brothers, while Panini Ilangakoon and Robert Edward Jayatilaka
were his brother-in-laws. He was married to Neeta Senanayake.
Remembering
another coronation 70 years ago
By
Renuka Sadanandan
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Malini Samarakkody, like many other Sri
Lankans, spent the afternoon of Saturday, May 6th watching the
grand coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla unfold
at Westminster Abbey, the solemn ceremony cloaked in tradition
and ritual hallowed through the centuries.
A portrait of Malini taken during the time of the
coronation by Lenare (Studios)
Ltd., in Hanover Square, London. Lenare (1924 to 1977) was a
famous society photographer who had photographed Sir Winston
Churchill, the Queen and family and other celebrities.
It was some 70
years ago – June 2, 1953, on a grey and wet London
morning that Malini, then barely out of her teens was herself
in Westminster Abbey for the coronation of a young Queen
–Elizabeth II, the mother of Charles. The years have passed,
but seated in her Polhengoda home, Malini remembers the day.
Malini was accompanying her uncle, none
other than the Prime Minister of Ceylon Dudley Senanayake.
How she came to be part of the distinguished Sri Lankan
contingent is still faintly mystifying to her. “I was
lucky,” she says. Her maternal grandfather F.R. Senanayake
and Dudley’s father D.S. were brothers and Dudley being
unmarried, Malini as a bright and beautiful young family
member fresh out of school was often enlisted to help out at
official functions. “I had just finished school – I was
waiting for my HSc results.”
When the invitation
came for Dudley to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth it
was a significant moment– Ceylon though having gained
Independence from the British in 1948 was still a Crown Colony
with the British monarch as its head of state.
129 nations and territories were officially represented
at the Coronation service, and when the question of who should
accompany the Prime Minister arose as he had no wife, Malini’s
mother Phyllis (Dudley’s
cousin) flatly refused (“Amma’s
nature was that she would never go”) and her aunt Neela
Senanayake was pregnant (she
had married her first cousin Robert) so it fell to Malini.
“Fortunately or unfortunately I’ve been chosen for these
things,” she says. “It was thrown at me.”
She was already
doing “little little things” – some semi-official duties when
the occasion demanded it, like giving out prizes for her
father, Siripala Samarakkody, himself a Member of Parliament,
she remembers.
It was quite a big
delegation from Ceylon, all staying at the Dorchester. She
shared a room with Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke’s
daughter ‘Aunty Sheila’, who kindly helped drape her
strawberry pink saree ‘embroidered with gold thread’ for the
coronation service. She is hazy though about where exactly she
sat in the Abbey but recalls that the service itself lasting
almost three hours was perfectly co-ordinated and the music
was spectacular.
That service was
watched by over 7,000 spectators within the Abbey, and
televised to millions around the world. The coronation
procession that included Church leaders, also had the
Commonwealth Prime Ministers with Ceylon’s Dudley Senanayake,
members of the Royal Household and civil and military leaders.
A more vivid memory
is of the grand dinner at the Dorchester, the ladies in their
crinolines where she was at the same table as her uncle. In
that post-war era, things were in short supply and all the
chocolates served after dinner were very kindly sent her way.
“I was the baby of the set,” she laughs. There was a visit to
Buckingham Palace for a tea party– and the invitees had to
arrive by taxi. “I thought that was not quite right.”
Malini today
Then there was
Ascot where amongst the British aristocracy in their
spectacular hats vying for attention, was the tall young lady
from Ceylon in an eye-catching ‘wine-shaded saree’. She had a
grand time, she recalls, and left her seat to go to the
paddock to see the horses, encountering on her way Princess
Margaret who was also heading in the same direction. The
Princess was very beautiful, Malini recalls. Malini’s Ascot
visit though was to earn her a reprimand. “I got scolded from
Sir John (Kotelawala),”
for a British newspaper ran a headline about the ‘bareheaded
and barefooted’ beauty. In fact, Malini was wearing a
lily of the valley flower piece created by the floral expert
Constance Spry but it was her lack of a hat and stockings that
the headline writer had seized upon. She wasn’t barefoot,
Malini hastens to add – she had on a very beautiful pair of
slippers that she had bought from Himalayas in the Savoy
building!
Born on January
27,1934, to Phyllis
Nedra Samarakkody and Siripala Samarakkody, Malini was
the eldest of three girls. Her father, a Cambridge educated
lawyer too was in politics – serving as member for Narammala
of the second State Council of Ceylon. The family lived at
Grasmere (today
occupied by the Goethe Institute) in Gregory’s Road – now R.G.
Senanayake Mawatha and Malini attended Bishop’s College with
her sisters Rukmani and Surangani. “We were a close family,”
she says, ‘Dudley Maama’ very much a favourite of the
clan, of whom she has many warm memories and hilarious
stories, including of his hearty appetite, and his fondness
for taking them for drives in his car in a sarong, totally
unconcerned that he was PM.
She had some dreams
of studying to be an architect but that discipline entailing
many long years, her grandmother Mrs F.R. Senanayake was not
in favour and she ended up doing a course with Constance Spry,
the legendary floral designer who created the lavish flower
arrangements for the Queen’s coronation. She married and lived
in the UK for 17 years, before returning to Sri Lanka, with
her five children.
Not surprisingly
she is still very interested in politics, though she cannot
help remarking on the calibre of politicians then and now.
Educationist and
author Goolbai Gunasekera, a long-time friend from her
Bishop’s College days says that Malini “always a very sweet
person,” would downplay her family connections, but was called
upon very young to undertake some duties and hence had a
lovely wardrobe of ‘Kashmir sarees’ for those formal
occasions. In those days, a regular fixture for their gang of
Bishopians who all lived close to each other in Colombo 7 was
their early morning bicycle rides that wound up with them
sitting on the steps of the Women’s International Club,
enjoying breakfast chatter.
And with all the
focus on another coronation, it was Goolbai – an ardent
admirer of the Royal Family from her schooldays, who took
Malini back to the time when she was present at a historic
occasion.
Additional
reporting by Dilushi Wijesinghe
Email
: manjuladelivera@yahoo.com.au
Date
: 21st September 2023
*
Notes
extracted from the archives of the late Dr. Malcolm Jansze of
Colombo, Sri Lanka 2015
Don Carolis Samarakkody of Pokunuwita, Village
Headman m. ...... :-
H.Jinadasa
b.12.10.1910
who follows
H.Jinadasa
Samarakkody
b.12.10.1910 d.1992 m. 1938 Juanita Weeratunge dau George
Weeratunge of Matara, lawyer & ....... :-
Srinath (USA) m. Ganga .....
Anoja m.
Vijitha ....
Sirimevan
m. Nilmini ....
Chintika
m. Hiran ....
Reginald
Felton Dias Bandaranayake m. Letitia ......... :-
Nedra
D- m. Douglas Samarakkody
Eugene
Dias Abeysinghe, mudliyar m Anne ......... :-
Rivette
D- m Togo Lionel Samarakkody d.23.4.1971
Cyril
Adrian de Alwis Amerasekere m P.H. (Lily) ......... :-
Shirley
Anthony m Shiranthi Samarakkody, Dr d.20.9.1980 dau Malcolm
Samarakkody & Daya .........
.........
Samarakkody m Rosamond ......... d. :-
Laurinda
Chandrawathie d.5.4.2005 m J.H. Terence Perera d. s John
Henry Perera & Favorita Mildred .........
Cyril
Adrian de Alwis Amerasekere m Henrietta (Lily)
Dabarera (del
P.H. (Lily)) :-
Henry
Edwin de Alwis m Nancy Petronella ......... :-
Duncan
Eric d.13.3.1965 m Lily Samarakkody
Godwin
de Livera m Charlotte Henrietta ......... :-
Iole
Frederica d.22.3.1966 m C Solomon A. Samarakkody of Gampaha, proctor
D.P.A.
Jayasinghe of Homagama, surveyor d. m Somalatha Samarakkody
d.12.3.1996
Punchi
Nilame Meddegoda m Wimala ......... :-
Anoma
m Romesh Samarakkody
.........
Samarakkody m ......... :-
......... (father of Edmund) who
follows under
CHA
CHA
Samarakkody, gate mudaliyar m ......... :-
Amy
Lily
Harriet
(CLL) CL Lionel who
follows under
(CRA) Charles Robert
Alexander who follows under
Solomon
d. ]
Douglas
d. ]
Vernon
d. ]
Olga
d.
Millie
d.
Dagmar
d.18.4.1997 m Edmund Samarakkody d.
(CRA) Charles Robert
Alexander Samarakkody b.26.10.1913 d.Los Angeles,
California, USA 26.11.1998 m ......... :-
Amara
m Kusum Perera, dr.
Senaka
m Mangalika Jayatilake dau Julius Jayatilake & Violet
Joyce Weerasinghe
gf Tharuja,
Sajeevani, Niroshana & Vasantha
.........
Samarakkody m ......... :-
Romesh
.........
Samarakkody (bro of CHA) m
......... :-
Siripala
Stephen
Edmund,
MP d.4.1.1992
Edmund
Samarakkody of Mt.Lavinia d. m Dagmar Samarakkody
d.18.4.1997 dau C.H.A. Samarakkody, gate mudaliyar &
......... :-
Chulanganee
m Nihal Tudugalle
Nahil
d. m Yvonne Kobbekaduwa d. dau Laurence B. Kobbekaduwa &
Iona Ratwatte
(CLL) CL Lionel
Samarakkody of Dehiwela m Chandra de Saram dau C.H. de Saram
dr. & Muriel Hilda Eheliyagoda :-
Sasanka
DBNA (Berty) Wanigasekere m
Rita Belta Lenora :-
RC
Carmel m ......... Samarakkody
KD David
Ferdinando m Juslin Marget Fernando :-
Chandra
Padmalika m Nimal Samarakkody
Chrishantha
Samarakkody m Tilanie Abayasekara dau Neil Abayasekara &
Beatrice Constance Dias Bandaranayake :-
Christina
Lallyn
Lavinia
D Gilbert
P. Ranasinghe m Pusma Kumari Jayatilleke :-
Ranjani m
Nimal Samarakkody
P.M.
Welagedara m Esther Herat :-
Chitra
] m Sivanka Samarakkody
Sunethra
]
Julius
Samarakkody of Hanwella m Matilda Pandittesekere :-
Emy M. m
Stanley Gunawardene d.29.4.1971 s Philip M. Gunawardene &
.........
Quintus
P Gunawardene d.25.1.1968 m Elsie Samarakkody
Stephen
Samarakkody of Polgahawela, MP d. m Nita Senanayake
d.30.5.2002 :-
Sriyani
m Mahinda ^Yatawaka^
Nirmala
m Santi Wickremasinghe, major
Dilkara
m Shanti ^Perera^
Laurie
Samarakkody m Mildred Audrey Palewandram :-
Manel
Christina
AD
Samarakkody of Peradeniya d. m E.K.D.L. ......... d.3.12.2002
:-
Sarath (CTB) m Lalani
.........
Vipula m
Leela .........
Nalini m
Sathiyapala .........
Nihal,
chartered accountant m Subadra .........
Gamini ]
m Asoka .........
Sriyani ]
m Nelum .........
Ranjith ]
Sandya m
Ajith .........
Simon
William Ilangakoon, gate mudliyar m Lilian Augusta
Obeysekere :-
Pr
Christoffel Panini b.26.11.1919 d.10.2.1989 m Effie
Samarakkody d. dau Peter Samarakkody & .........
SD
Kobbekaduwa m Punchi Kumarihamy Walgama :-
Daisy
m Malcolm Samarakkody
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