Wijekon/Wijekoon

Sri Lanka Sinhala Family Genealogy

Wijekon/Wijekoon Family # 3167

1. Wijekon Modeliar head of Bhuveneke Bahu army…. year 1548 (p. 273, .280, 755 Book: Temporal and Spiritual Conquest by Queyroz) [sometimes spelled Vigiacon/Vigiacan/ Wijaykon. Fr. Perera, the translater of this book says it is Wijekon Modeliar]

p. 227 Wijekoon Mudaliyar (and Gajanayake Arachi) lead Raja Sinha’s army against Portuguese. (army mostly made up of people defected from Portugeuse army) year 1587 (Book: Outlines of Ceylon History Author: Obeyesekere, Donald www.archive.org/stream/.../outlinesofceylon00obey_djvu.txt - Cached )

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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Do not know how the following families fit into the original Wijekon family/families circa 1548 .

1. Owille Wijekon Mudiyanse + Wife

(Approx. year 1714 - pg. 665: A Gazateer of the Central Province.)

2. Son + Unambuwe Disa Bandara Etana’s daughter [got a dowry of Arambekumbura and appurtenant land at Dodanwela in Gangapalata Yatinuwara.

2. Daughter + Alutgama Gabada Rala’s son

2. Daughter + Ketabumbure Ambarapatti’s son

The daughter of the latter possessed for thirty years, prior to 1714 AD, 14,610 (Vol 1 ……ff….)

Do not know where these fit:

pg 807 Wijekon Mudiyanselage….

Wijekon Mudianselage Wannyhamy p.745

Wijekon Mudianselage Appuhamy p.747

Book: A revised edition of the legislative enactments of Ceylon Author H.C. Cottle 1907

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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1. Udawawala Wijekon Dissava

Pg. 862 Uduwawala Wijekon Disava gave a land to a silversmith boy from Doluwa,

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RgVDAAAAYAAJ&q=Wijekon&dq=Wijekon&source=gbs_book_other_versions

Book A gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane) Book published 1898
Volume 2 of A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon, Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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Wijekoon Herath Mudiyanselage

Wijekoon Ralage

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RgVDAAAAYAAJ&q=Wijekon&dq=Wijekon&source=gbs_book_other_versions

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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1. Don Johannes Wijekoon Muhandiram

Registrar of Marriages Ac. Kalutara. Book: Ceylon handbook and directory 1878

2. Cornelia Matilda Wijekoon (d/o Muhandiram ‘Bismarck’ Wijeyekoon of Kalutara),– Twentieth Centiry Impressions of Ceylon, see + James Alfred Jayewardene, Proctor, (Equivalent to Solicitor), Deputy Coroner of Colombo d:1888 at age 43 SEE JAYEWARDENE

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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:1. Don Philip Philipsz Wijekon Panditaratna -

(Schoolmaster of Kotte Dutch period) [Also see PHILIPSZ, D - 1002 (Burger names………but that has some mistakes?.).

2. Son Lienege (Liyanage) Philip Philipsz Wijekon Panditaratna, Maha Mudaliyar

3. Henricus Philipsz Wijekon Panditaratna - minister Wolvendaal + Susanna Scharff (b.1743-81) married 1759. [Susanna’s sister Cornelia Henrietta Scharff who married Christoffel De Saram Wanigasekera Ekanayake]

3. Daughter + De Alwis SEE De Alwis

4. James De Alwis (grew up wealthy at Hill Castle on Silversmith St. Colombo) +

4.Florentine De Alwis (grew up wealthy at Hill Castle on Silversmith St. Colombo) + cousin Abraham Dias Bandaranaike (married 1821) SEE Bandaranaike

3. Johannes Godfried Phillipsz Wijekoon Panditeratne, Mudaliyar, Chief interpreter to the Supreme Court, 3^rd Maha Mudaliyar Govenor’s gate [Book Sinhala and the Patriots 1815 – 1818 by P.E, Pieris]

[Book Chieftains of Ceylon Van Sanden p. 100 mentions a Johaan Gerard Phillipz 3^rd Maha Mudaliyar, (whose sister married Louis Wijeysekere Karunaratne de Saram, 2^nd Mudaliyar whose son was Julius Valentine De Saram, Maha Mudaliyar). Maha Mudaliyar Panditaratne was Chief Interpretor of the Hon’ble the Supreme Court…was nominated to a seat in thr first Legislative Counsil 1834. Is this Johannes Godfried????

p. 59 his relative? Gerrardus Gysbertus Phillipsz Wijesekere Panditaratne Mohandiram of the Governor’s Gate

Book: 1) Jan Compenie as Schoolmaster by Jurrien Van Goor

http://books.google.ca/books?id=4mcSAQAAIAAJ&q=Wijekon&dq=Wijekon&hl=en&ei=HZzGTMzILpD0swPljZnADQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ

2) Relative merits: a personal memoir of the Bandaranaike family of Sri Lanka By Yasmine Gooneratne

http://books.google.ca/books?ei=1zTeTN2EIoKgsQOr65juCg&ct=result&id=-k5MAAAAIAAJ&dq=1.%09Relative+merits%3A+a+personal+memoir+of+the+Bandaranaike+family+of+...&q=wijekoon

3) Erasure of the Euro-Asian: recovering early radicalism and feminism in South Asia by Kumari Jayewardena

http://books.google.ca/books?ei=ZTneTJuzEoK4sQOD5ZjqCg&ct=result&id=ggFuAAAAMAAJ&dq=1.%09Erasure+of+the+Euro-Asian%3A+recovering+early+radicalism+and+...&q=Philipsz

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

1. Abraham Charles Gerard Wijeyekoon

Barister at Law Greys Inn. B. May5, 1878. Educated at Royal and Wesley Colleges. Enrolled as Advocate of the Supreme Court in 1902. Ag. Municipal Magistrate and addl poll mag. At Colombo 1903. Ag. Pol Mag. Colombo 1904. Ag. Crown Counsel 1905. Addl Crown Counsel 1906. Ag. District Judge Kandy elected representative in the Legis. Counsel (Central Province Electorate). Book ‘Ceylon’ Plats and Co. p.121

Is this Senator Sir Gerard Wijekoon (and Lady Wijekoon) mentioned in the book ‘Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect’ by Minnette De Silva

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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1. Rankottiwala Diwakara Wijeyekoon Mudianse

Waddenatuwakkukare Lekam p. 62 Book: The Chieftains of Ceylon by Van Sanden

p. 23 Whem Molligoda was dismissed from office in 1835 (he was reinstated 1843) Four Korales was divided into 3 districts with 3 Ratemahatmayas. Jan. 1837 Rankotdiwuladiwakere Wijekoon Mudianse to be Ratemahatmaya of Galboda Korale, consisting of Galboda Pattu, Meda Pattu, Gani Pattu, Egoda Pattu and Tanniperu Pattu, and also Kinigoda Korale, consisting of Walgam Pattu, Delehdeniya Pattu and Medemedella Pattu

1. Didantelle Jayetilleke Seneviratna Wijeyekoon Mudianse

p. 24 Whem Molligoda was dismissed from office in 1835 (he was reinstated 1843) Four Korales was divided into 3 districts with 3 Ratemahatmayas. Jan. 1837 Dodantelle J. S. Wijekoon Mudianse to be Ratemahatmaya of the Belligal Korale, consisting of the Otara (hatara?) Pattu, Kirewita Pattu, Gadoloha Pattu and the Kandupita Pattu.

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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1. MAPITIGAMA Kulatunga Wijekoon Mudiyanselage family of Kegalle (Is this family part of the Rankottiwala Diwakara Wijeyekoon Mudianse?)

2. MAPITIGAMA, Kulatunga Wijekoon Mudiyanse, Edwin Francis Banda, Ratemahatmaya ; b. December 25, 1841 Descended from the Mapitigama Ku-
latunga Wijekoon Mudiyanselage family of Kegalla district. Is Ratemahatmaya of Galboda and Kinigoda Korales in Kegalla district. Residence : Gondiwela, Mawanella.

Book:Golden book of India

RESEARCH done by: Anne-Marie Samarasinghe

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1. Kannangara, John Daniel Wijekoon

+ m.1879 Emalie Wijesinhe 3^rd child of Wijesinghe family

2. Dr. Christopher William Wijekoon Kannangara (1884-1969) School: Wesleyan School Ambalangoda. Richmond College Galle (1898-1904) Passed Cambridge Exams, Awarded prize for Math, teacher Richmond College Galle, Prince of Wales College ….POLITICIAN