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Research genealogy for Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera of Botale, Western Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, as well as other members of the Gunasekera family, on Ancestry®.
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- Botale, Western Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Dec 25, 2018 · Genealogy for Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunesekera Senanayake (1848 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Mudaliyar Don Spater Senanayake
- December 25, 2018
- 1848
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Born on 20th October 1884 as Don Stanley, to Mudaliyar Don Spater and Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake, D.S. was the youngest of four children with two older brothers, D.C. and F.R and a sister Maria Frances. As a child, he was unenthusiastic about academics but was prodigious at sports of a physical nature, excelling greatly at boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting. He ...
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He was born in the village of Botale in the Hapitigam Korale (currently known as Mirigama) on 20 October 1884 to Don Spater Senanayake (1847–1907) and Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake (1852–1949). [4] Spater Senanayake had made his fortune in graphite mining and at the time he was expanding into plantations and investments in the arrack renting franchise. Later he ...
He married Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake of Kehellalle and had four children, Don Charles (D.C), Maria Francess (Mary) who married Fredrick (Feddy) Dias Bandaranayake, Fredrick Richard (F.R) and Don Stephen (D.S). His sons carried on his legacy in business and initiated a political lineage that would forever change the course of the nation.
- 103/14, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 07, 00700
- 011 2 445281
He was born in the village of Botale in the Hapitigam Korale on October 20, 1882, to Don Spater Senanayake (1847–1907) and Dona Catherina Elizabeth Perera Gunasekera Senanayake (1852–1949). Spater Senanayake had made his fortune in graphite mining and at the time he was expanding into plantations and investments in the arrack renting franchise, later he would be awarded the title of ...
Feb 25, 2018 · State Literary Award winner C. Gaston Perera in his “Kandy Fights the Portuguese,” delving deep into the Portuguese expeditions had gone beyond Rajavaliya, even turning to Portuguese as well as Dutch sources and accounts of contemporary Sinhala and English writers which had brought out the historical importance of Dona Catherina.
