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  • Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    Charles Frederick Braine (1850 – 1896), Adventurous, Accident Prone, Great grandfather

    George Braine (2020)

    I have previously written about my great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890), who became a coffee and tea planter in Ceylon... Read More

  • Charles Joseph Braine - from the UK to India, Hong Kong and Ceylon - an enterprising ancestor

    Charles Joseph Braine - from the UK to India, Hong Kong and Ceylon - an enterprising ancestor

    George Braine (2020)

    C.J. Braine was born in Middlesex, England, in 1814, the seventh of eleven children. At his baptism, his father’s (place of) occupation is stated as Navy office. Read More

  • Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf by Gerry Jayawardena

    Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf by Gerry Jayawardena

    S.D.G. Jayawardena (2020)

    Let me at the outset congratulate the Chairman, Mr Merrill Fernando and Dilhan for the unique initiative and vision in embarking on this mission of recording the often unrecognized aspects of tea industry in Sri Lanka Read More

  • Book Review by Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam Sivapalan

    Book Review by Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam Sivapalan

    Dr Nalini C. GnanapragasamSivapalan (2020)

    “Wisdom in the leaf” is an appropriate title for this informative book contributed by well-known experienced and knowledgeable retired planters and selected tea scientists. Read More

  • Book Review by Jane Pettigrew

    Book Review by Jane Pettigrew

    Jane Pettigrew (2020)

    Merrill Fernando, founder of Dilmah Tea, the renowned tea company in Sri Lanka, has spent all his adult life working for the success of the tea industry in Sri Lanka and for the good of the Sri Lankan people. Read More

  • THE HOUPÉ SONG

    THE HOUPÉ SONG

    David Colin-Thomé (2020)

    Planters’ had to often contend with solitude due to travel constraints in time and distance between plantations and ‘civilisation’. This resulted in many a bond being created between planting colleagues whose social lives also revolved around each others company. Read More

  • A Planter’s Dream or Folly

    A Planter’s Dream or Folly

    By George Braine (2020)

    In tracing our family tree in Ceylon, my sister and I visited Yakwila Estate, near Pannala in the NWP, where my English grandfather Charles Stanley Braine served as manager in the early 1900s. Read More

  • TEA, TYTLERS AND TRIBES - An Australian Woman's Memories of Tea Planting in Ceylon

    TEA, TYTLERS AND TRIBES - An Australian Woman's Memories of Tea Planting in Ceylon

    Beryl T. Mitchell (2020)

    0ur family has its roots in the era of British colonialism. This personal story attempts to tell how a Tytler four generations ago and a Tribe three generations ago, who came from Scotland and England to Sri Lanka ( then Ceylon) lured by the prospects of coffee and tea planting, stayed to call that lovely island 'home'. Read More

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