Today's Topics: 1. Re: Dick family in Ceylon circa1839-1860 (Ed. Rowlands) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:57:54 +1000 From: "Ed. Rowlands" <edrowlan(a)bigpond.net.au&gt; Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Dick family in Ceylon circa1839-1860 To: "Larry&Coreen" <larryadsl(a)qld.chariot.net.au&gt;, <srilanka(a)rootsweb.com&gt; Message-ID: <F4464BAB1C264AE5AF73447B460207DF@OwnerPC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi, Confirming what Larry & Coreen have said. In "Graveyards in Ceylon - Colombo Vol: 1" by Eileen Hewson's Kabriston Archives, on page 40 is the following:- Holy Trinity Church aka All Saints, Sebastian Hill - Frederick Lacy Dick the fourth son of Samuel and Mary Sherson Dick of Upper Mount, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. He was Magistrate of the District of Negombo in the island and on the evening of 29th August 1847 was assassinated aged 31, leaving a widow who gave birth to a son four months after his death. Accompanied by a few of the police he went to a lone house in the country to recapture a notorious criminal who the native police feared to encounter and was shot through a window by an unseen hand. He was killed by Singo Appoo when searching for Daniel Appoo who had escaped from custody while waiting trial. He was an honest and conscientious Magistrate and greatly esteemed within his jurisdiction. Fredrick L Dick was buried in Galle Face Burial Ground. His wife Anne Elizabeth was born on November 21st 1824 was the daughter of Charles Edward Layard CCS. She firstly married Mr Dick on March 16th 1846 at Colombo?( The Marriage Register of Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya indicates that they were married there on 19th March 1846) . When he died she married Major Rolleston, 84th Regiment on October 28th 1852.They survived the Mutiny. She died at Pembroke Dock, October 24th 1860. Also, Fredrick Lacy Dick son of the above born 8th January 1848 and died at Colombo 21st March in the same year. Also, Adeline Dick born 30th March 1847 at Negombo and died six days after her birth. Hope this sheds a little more light on the life of the Dick family in Ceylon. Regards, Ed.Rowlands. Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Dick family in Ceylon circa1839-1860 Helen, The first Dick family member we have found in British Ceylon is a Captain George F Dick in the 1st Ceylon Regiment in the 1819 Calendar. He joined the Regiment on 28th March 1814. He next appears as Military Auditor General in Isle of France {Mauritius}, still with the 1st Ceylon Regiment, and then shows up as Chief Secretary to the Government of Mauritius, a Civil Appointment, in an 1844 Colonial publication. The Francis Dick who died on May 24, 1853, misprint 1858? was 24 years old. Aet.XX1V, in TAMIC, page 96. which can be found online. The referral to Bakers Farm at Nuwera Eliya is to an English style farm set up by Sir Samuel Baker of Elephant hunting fame. It is a fascinating story in itself with Baker building the farm and outbuildings and then hiring a ship to bring all equipment, household goods, livestock, plants, seeds and farm labourers out to run it. The 1859 Calendar has ? Dick as proprietor or lessee of Gavatenne, Hunnasgiriya, Matale Nth. J Halloway is the Resident on the Estate. This Dick gentleman does not appear in European Residents listed. He may be an absentee landowner. Calendars and directories for Ceylon in the 1850s and 1860s are hard to find. The 1861/2 Calendar has G A Dick, Planter, Pussilawa. This Estate is owned by Major Lillie, and G Brabazon is also living on the Estate. There is a Brabazon-Dick connection to Smallcombe cemetary in Bath on the web which also shows a memorial for George Disney Babazon who died on New Peacock Estate, Ceylon, on 26 Sept, 1912. The 1871/2 Calendar has Chas Dick, Planter, Tolloes, Fort MacDonald Geo Dick, Planter, Gampaha, Fort MacDonald H J W Dick, Oriental Bank, Colombo. The 1885/6 Directory has George Dick, Planter, Rogalla, Nuwera Eliya. The buying of land for coffee Estates was published in the Goverment Gazettes, which are only in The National Archives at Kew, and The Archives at Colombo. There are a large number of Ceylon newspapers for this period in Kew, and there used to be some at Colindale too. I think the British libray may have some too. The British Library has Ceylon Calendars, Almanacs and Directories for numerous years, as do the main University Libaries. There is a copy of the 1853 Calendar in the Archives library in Kew, but there are no Dicks listed in European residents. We have not copied the Estates list from this book. We are presuming you are in England? The death of F L Dick is covered in Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon {TAMIC} page 120/123. with details of his wife, Anne Elizabeth Layard, born Nov 21 1824, married in Colombo, March 16 1846. They lost two children in the first two years of marriage, Adeline in April 1847, and Frederick, {who was born after his father died}, in March, 1848. Anne married Major Rolleston, 84th Rgt. in 1852, they survived the Indian Mutiny. She died in Pembroke Dock, Oct 24, 1860. I notice that the Layard name is associated with Francis Warden Dick's 5 pound fine. Layard was in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, but I cannot find an entry for F W Dick as an officer, in any Regiment in Ceylon. I hope this helps you, cheers, Larry&Coreen in a sunny North Queensland, Australia. On 13/09/2014 10:54 PM, Helen Assaf via wrote: > Apologies for the length of this entry but I am looking for any > help/insight on the following three persons, all members of the Dick > family > and with connections to Sri Lanka in the first half of the 19th century. > > First there is Samuel Dick who owned a coffee estate named Gavatenne in > Hunnasgiriya in the Matale Kandyar district. He announced it for sale in > 1854. I would like to know how I can ascertain in which year he purchased > it himself and whether in fact it was sold in 1854 or not. And also, if > it > still exists today? > > Samuel's son Frederick Lacy Dick was a magistrate in Negombo. He was shot > dead in 1847 while pursuing a wanted criminal. How can I find out which > year he went to Ceylon initially and how he was appointed (looking for > more > background info on how the legal system was administered in those days by > the British). Also would there be any local newspaper references to his > death with more detail? I have found the reports in British newspapers > and > books which refer to him being shot by an unseen hand through a window, > but > there is also a local rumour in England that said he was shot by a > soldier > and I am intrigued to look into this further. > > Frederick's brother Francis Warden Dick was also in Ceylon from > approximately 1844 to 1850 in the military - Ceylon Rifles. I can find > references to his being fined and punished in the military. One book says > he took a low level position in Baker's Nuwara Eliya establishment and I > am > keen to find more detail on that regiment and the full name of the cited > Baker. > > Finally there is a memorial to a Francis Dick in Pettah Burial Ground > from > 1853, erected by "a few of his friends". There has been some supposition > that this could be for Francis Warden Dick, however I know he actually > died > in England much later. Yet, I would like to rule out the possibility that > he faked his own death in Ceylon at that time to escape from his > marriage, > so is there any way to determine more details on the Francis Dick buried > at > Pettah (age at death, newspaper obituary)? > > Thank you to anyone who can help.