Hi, I am researching DAVIDSON, SOMERVILLE, McENERY & YOUNG. I noticed that you are researching Atwell, I have an original letter from a Mr Jno Atwell to my grt grandmother Jane Nuttall (formerly Davidson) written 24/6/1876 from Badulla in reply to a letter from Jane regarding the winding up of her brothers estate. I have included my file summary of the letter below, for your perusal. ITEM I LETTER DATED 24/6/1876 FROM BADULLA JNO ATWELL TO JANE (DAVIDSON) NUTGALL This letter refers to property in Ceylon relating to her brother Martins'estate. Mr Atwell asks Jane to provide him with a Power of Attorney and advised that Mr I Home's to whom she had previously given a Power of Attorney has done nothing to protect the property or cause the executors to close the estate. One of the executors was "one Mr H.T. Solomons who is a very old pensioner". Mr Atwell speaks of "an old Kandian woman named Kiri mauica(unsure of spelling), the mother of Mr Davidsons' child that died in Kandy about twelve years ago" (the Mr Davidson being Martin Lindsay Davidson). He also mentions the following relations: Cousin James Davidson who came over to Ceylon from India-. "his cause of death was a cold which settled on his lungs"- "buried in St Marks Church Yard in this town. "your cousin Johns' wife is now living on an Estate in this District with her sister & brother in law Mr ?R.E Crofton ( unsure of 1st initial) who is a coffee planter up here and in charge of a large estate". Martins' land was about half an acre situated in a very secluded part of town behind a large Buddhist Temple-half was a paddy field under paddy cultivation at present, the remaining half was a garden planted with a few coffee, coconut, Jack and Mango trees. The land at that time was in the charge of the Kandian woman Kiri who had been paying the land taxes. The land had originally had a house on it but it was much neglected and the house tumbled down and the materials were all stolen or lost. He goes on to mention a parcel or box of jewelry in the District Court for a long time, belonging to her parents which left in his will and was supposed to have been forwarded to her when she came to Colombo some years ago. If you think this is one of your relations and would like a full transcript and photocopy of the letter, I will forward a copy to you upon request. I'm interested to know whether he is one of yours. i have already forwarded this information to another Notice Board reader whois researching SOLOMONS. Regards Jill Jelbart Albury, NSW. Australia ---- Original Message ----- From: "P.J.Seebregts" <guinness(a)xs4all.nl&gt; To: <SRILANKA-L(a)rootsweb.com&gt; Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:13 PM Subject: [SRILANKA] Re: Re-Introductions go to: