Marie at 75

On February 17, Marie celebrated her 75 birthday. The only child of Rosie Braine, Marie is also the eldest grandchild of Charles Stanley and Engracia Braine.

Marie lives at Boralessa with her husband. Her only child, Charles, lives nearby with his family.

Aunty Rosie at 23

Mrs. Maggie Pulle has sent me photos of Aunty Rosie taken in 1932, when she was the bridesmaid at the wedding of Josephine Pillay and James Bastiampillay. Josephine was the sister of John Pulle, who married Edith Bratt, who was a friend of all the Braine siblings.

Aunty would have been 23 at the time.

Coming down from great, great grandfather Charles Joseph Braine

Charles Joseph Braine (1814-1890) m. Eudora Marriott (1815-1873) and had 10 children.

Eudora Marriott

Charles Joseph Braine

1. Eudora Mary Anne (1846-1893) m. Cornwallis Wade 
2. Julia Caroline (1848-1938) m. Dr. David Brodie 
3. Helen Mary (1849-1928) m. William J.S. Cooper
4. Charles Frederick (1850-1896) m. Adeline Becher
CFB died in Colombo and was buried there. They had five children (Charles Stanley, our grandpa), Eudora Adeline Mary, Muriel, William & a baby who died at 11 months.
5. Mary Isabel (1852-1868)
6. Lucy Catherine (1853-1893) m. Thomas A. Wylie
Lucy died in Ceylon and was buried in Colombo.
7. Arthur Belgrave (1854-1945)
8. + 9. John & Percy Newlyn (Twins) b. 1855. John died in Canada (1917)
9. Percy (worked at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kandy, and is buried in Kandy)
10. Alice (1857-1921) m. William Morton Smith

Aunty Kate

When she was a nurse. Somewhere in Ceylon.

With grandma, aunty Mary, and Mike, at Boralessa

Aunty Bee at grandpa's grave

At the Anglican section of the General Cemetery, Negombo. Aunty paid for the upkeep of the grave.

Around Boralessa circa 1980?

At "BeeHive". George, Teddy, Rosie. Gordon, Bandara, Marie, and George. Around 1980.

Teddy and George. Old "Pondside" house in background.

Better quality old photos

Grandma and kids. The older standing girl is Mary, a daughter from a previous liaison. Only six children are here. She had nine with C.S. Braine. 

Grandma Engracia Nonis

Grandpa Charles Stanley Braine