Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Brothers and sisters

Taken at "BeeHive", Boralessa, in 1992. Rosie, Lucy, Bee, and Teddy. 

When Burghers (descendants of Europeans) began to emigrate from Ceylon in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Aunty Bee left for England, and aunties Kate, Amy, and Alice, along with uncles Ben and George (who left in the 1990s) went to Australia. Only Rosie, Lucy, and Teddy remained in Sri Lanka.  

Late 1980's. At "BeeHive". Rosie, Alice, Lucy, Kate and Bee's daughter Rosita.


Teddy, Lucy, Rosie, and Bee. Late 1980s. Aunty Bee, although she lives in England (she emigrated in 1963), appears in many of these photos because she visited Sri Lanka regularly, almost every two years or so, starting from in 1963. She was the "foreign" aunt we saw most frequently. 


Bee, Alice, Kate, and Rosie in wheelchair. Early 1990's.
At Beehive.

Mary at "Pondside"

Kate, Ben, and Alice, in Australia



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