Acknowledgements

• I acknowledge with sincere thanks, the contribution made to this genealogical study of the Rowlands Family, made possible by extracts from the following websites and books, as at the date below.
  
  • Dilma Tea’s - History of Ceylon Tea:- Various Ferguson’s Directories, Photo Albums, Mercantile Lore by Sir Thomas Villiers, Important Events in Ceylon History 1796 – 1929, etc.
  • Under a Tropical Sun-Lachlan Macquarie and the 73rd Regiment in Sri Lanka 1796-1821:- Lachlan Macquarie’s Journal 1796
  • Victor Melder Sri Lanka Library – Picture Library
  • The Portuguese in Ceylon by Marco Ramerini
  • History of the Dutch in Ceylon by Marco Ramerini
  • The English in Ceylon
  • Malays in Sri Lanka by B.A.Hussainmiya, Ph.D
  • Kandian Wars
  • The British Replace the Dutch
  • Days of Old – (By an Old Planter)
  Chapter 1 – My First Trip to the Jungle.
  • The 1818 Rebellion and the Execution of Keppetipola Dissawe
  by M.D.(Tony) Saldin
  • The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker
  • Dr Alice de Boer and some pioneer Burgher women doctors by Deloraine Brohier
• Padre Rowlands of Ceylon by R.P.Butterfield M.A.,B.A.
• On the Trail of a Legend by Udena.R.Attygalle
• 75 Years at Mount by N.M.P.Billimoria
• Freemason Lodges of Ceylon. www.sphinxlodge.org/other.htm and www.lodgebonniedoon.org/about.htm
• The De Soysa Charitaya (Saga) Edited by V.S.M De Mel