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Wolvendaal Burial Ground

Colombo, Colombo District, Western, Sri Lanka – *No GPS coordinates

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The church was built in 1749, probably on the site of an older Portuguese or Dutch building. It was dedicated on March 6, 1757. The burial register goes back to 1803 only. In 1813 the British authorities, after consultation with the principal Dutch inhabitants and with their consent and approbation, removed the burials from the aging Portuguese church inside the fort, which had been the chief church of the Company until the opening of Wolvendaal, to the church at Wolvendaal where proper vaults were prepared for their reception. The removals included five Dutch Governors and their wives and families, altogether two dozen or more persons. Many burials are no longer commemorated by their original memorials, which were either "lost in transit or appropriated to other uses--a common fate of tombstones." Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 101-102.
The church was built in 1749, probably on the site of an older Portuguese or Dutch building. It was dedicated on March 6, 1757. The burial register goes back to 1803 only. In 1813 the British authorities, after consultation with the principal Dutch inhabitants and with their consent and approbation, removed the burials from the aging Portuguese church inside the fort, which had been the chief church of the Company until the opening of Wolvendaal, to the church at Wolvendaal where proper vaults were prepared for their reception. The removals included five Dutch Governors and their wives and families, altogether two dozen or more persons. Many burials are no longer commemorated by their original memorials, which were either "lost in transit or appropriated to other uses--a common fate of tombstones." Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 101-102.

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