Proud and prejudiced - Ferdinandus

vi PROUD & PREJUDICED
4 THE MIDDLE PERIOD 69
Burghers in the middle period 69
Garret and the Leembruggen family 69
Jaffna in the 1860s 71
Cricket in the 1870s 72
G. A. Wille remembers (1870-1920) 73
Lene Weinman remembers (1875-1950) 74
A shooting expedition in the 1890s 79
Struggles and success 1875-1967 80
Civil Engineering (1900-1940) 86
My Burgher grandparents (1870-1942) by the author 88
Some early Burgher emigrants 92
5 THE DUTCH BURGHERS 93
The evolution of the Dutch Burgher 93
The Dutch Burgher Union 97
The Dutch Burgher Union Journal 101
The versatile community 113
MAPS—Railway system in Ceylon in the 1950s 125
Roads in Sri Lanka in 1990 126
6 THE LAST GENERATION 127
The land and the people 127
Marjorie and the pre-war generation 128
The English language fee-paying schools 132
The Colombo Burgher community 138
Eric, the Colombo Burgher 140
The de Kretsers, the Bambalapitiya Burghers 142
Phyllis, the bureaucrat's daughter 145
Persis, the doctor's daughter 148
Aileen, the church minister's daughter 153
Maureen, the dairyman's daughter 154
The Railway Burghers 156
Victor, a second generation railwayman 156
The author, a railwayman's son 159
Douglas and a life of privilege 165
Phyllis, the Jaffna policeman's wife 168
Bryan, the schoolboy from Matara 171
World War II 173
The author, the civilian student 173
Douglas, the army officer 174
Leslie, the Burgher girl in Kandy 175
Ivor and the air raid on Trincomalee 176
The Garden of Eden 179
Kandy to Nanu Oya 179
Maradana to Kandy 180
Colombo to Kadugannawa 182
Colombo to Matara 182
The Pettah in Colombo 183