Sri Lanka Burgher Family Genealogy

KOCH - Family #1203

1  Godfried Koch, born 11 Sep 1734 in Alt-Ruppin,Brandenberg, Germany; died 1811 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  He married  Wilhelmina Magdalene Rovert, 9 Nov 1760 in Jaffna,Northen Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

More About Godfried Koch:

Baptism: 9 November 1734, Alt-Ruppin,Brandenberg,Germany

Immigration: 1755, on the Ship "Rosenberg"

Individual Note: 1796, Signed the Capitulation Treaty to the British,Jaffna

Children of Godfried Koch and Wilhelmina Rovert are:

                           i.    Petronella Cornelia Koch, born 1764 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Sergeant Dirk Busselman 25 May 1794 in Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka⁶⁰; born in Duren, Germany.

More About Sergeant Dirk Busselman:

Military service: Army

                          ii.    Maria Dorothea Elizabeth Koch, born 1766 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married (1) Hendrik Speldewinde 1780 in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born Abt. 1766 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married (2) Fredrik Gerard de Niese 31 December 1786 in Jaffna,(Ceylon)Sri Lanka; born 1762 in Jaffna,Norethern Province,(Ceylon)Sri Lanka.

More About Fredrik Gerard de Niese:

Occupation: Secretary at Matara and later Secretary of the Provincial Court of Trincomalee

iii. Lieutenant Johann Godfried Koch, born 1768 in Jaffna,Northern Province,(Ceylon)Sri Lanka; died 13 June 1822 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Susanna Isabella Brohier 23 August 1795 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon), Sri Lanka.

2  Lieutenant Johann Godfried Koch, born 1768 in Jaffna,Northern Province,(Ceylon)Sri Lanka; died 13 June 1822 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  He married Susanna Isabella Brohier 23 August 1795 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon), Sri Lanka.

Susanna Isabella Brohier, born 14 May 1779 in Colombo, Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; died 29 March 1821 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  She was the daughter of  Captain Jean Brohier and Qunteria Fernandez.

More About Lieutenant Johann Godfried Koch:

Burial: June 1822, Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka

Military service: Lieutenant of Artillery in the Service of the Ducth East Indies Company

Children of Johann Koch and Susanna Brohier are:

                           i.    Cyrus Godfried Koch, born 10 April 1797 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 18 April 1867 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Jacomina Bernardina Toussaint 1 April 1826 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon), Sri Lanka; born Abt. 1810 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                          ii.    Susanna Henrietta Koch, born 22 September 1798 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 30 March 1866 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Carl Fredrik Isaac Ebell in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 1798 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 10 October 1855 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

iii.    George Koch, born 21 August 1803 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                          iv.    Eliza Eva Petronella Koch, born 14 October 1805 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 1893 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Johan Gerrard Gratiaen 14 October 1829 in Jaffna,Northen Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 30 November 1803 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

v.    Johann Godfried Koch, born 2 November 1811 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died November 1872 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Angenita Dorothea Aldons 1836 in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                          vi.    Pieter Henry Lucian Koch, born 5 May 1813 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 1887 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Harriet Carolina Maartensz 5 May 1846 in Jaffna,Northen Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born Abt. 1821 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                         vii.    Cyrina Dorethea Henrietta Koch, born 24 August 1815 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 1896 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

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Baptism: 17 December 1815, Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka

viii.    Louis Henry Koch, born Bet. 1817 - 1819 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 11 October 1854 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married (1) Mary Anne Kennedy 27 June 1830 in Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo (Ceylon) Sri Lanka³¹; born 15 October 1816 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 17 June 1836 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married (2) Louisa Maria Brechman Abt. 1839; born in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

More About Louis Henry Koch:

Occupation: Proctor, Mannar Ceylon

                          ix.    Susanna Isabella Koch, born 18 March 1821 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 30 August 1861 in Batticaloa,Eastern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Peter Frederick Toussaint 11 February 1839 in Dutch Church,Fort Jaffna, (Ceylon), Sri Lanka; born 27 March 1816 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 19 February 1861 in Batticaloa,Eastern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

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Burial: 1861, Batticaloa Cemetery

3  Johann Godfried Koch, born 2 November 1811 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died November 1872 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka. He married Angenita Dorothea Aldons 1836 in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

Angenita Dorothea Aldons, born Abt. 1815 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  She was the daughter of 50. Willem Hendrik Aldons and 51. Justina Susanna Ludovici.

More About Johann Godfried Koch:

Occupation: Proctor

Children of Johann Koch and Angenita Aldons are:

                           i.    John Koch, born in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Ada Rosella van Cuylenburg 1878 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 28 May 1854 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

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Baptism: 3 September 1854, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

ii.    Susan Koch

                         iii.    Dr Edwin Lawson Koch, born 29 November 1838 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 30 December 1877 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married Emma Miller in Calcutta,India.

Notes for Dr Edwin Lawson Koch:

Edwin Lawson Koch had his early education in Jaffna and, at the age of twenty, won a governement scholarship to the Medical College in Calcutta. There he won the Gold Medal and met, and married, Emma Miller. He began his medical career in 1862 and, when the Ceylon Medical College was founded in 1870 he was one of three lectures appointed. In 1875 he suceeded Dr Loos as Principal. At this time he had the widest private practise and one of his patients was the great Charles Ambrose Lorenz. He never cared for remuneration for his services, he served the poor with special generosity and devotion. The grateful fisherman paid a striking tribute to his memory at his funeral by spreading white cloth all along the route from his home to the cemetery gate.  He had died within a week from a result of a slight scratch sustained in the course of a post mortem examination. The Koch Memorial Tower is an expression of his countrymen's love and respect for his memory. His son Dr Vincent Koch, was given a medical education in England with subscriptions offered by a grateful public.

More About Dr Edwin Lawson Koch:

Cause of Death: Wound recieved when performing a post-mortem

Education: Medical College in Calcutta,India

Individual Note: Koch Memorial Tower erected in his honour

Occupation 1: Bet. 1862 - 1877, Doctor and Surgeon

Occupation 2: Taught materia medica and midwifery at the Colombo Medical School

Occupation 3: 1875, Became the second Principal of Colombo Medical School

                          iv.    Arthur Francis Koch, born Abt. 1839 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died in Hamabantota,Southern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Juliet Charlotte Kellar; born 4 October 1849 in Galle,Southern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 15 March 1893 in Galle,Southern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

More About Arthur Francis Koch:

Occupation: Inspector in the Ceylon Police Force,Hambantota Ceylon

                           v.    Merciana Maria Koch, born 9 September 1841 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 1 May 1912 in Madras,India; married Adolphus William Andree 3 September 1868 in St John,Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 21 January 1840 in Matara,Southern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                          vi.    Agelina Dorothea Koch, born 13 August 1842 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married James Gerritt Toussaint 14 May 1860 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon), Sri Lanka; born 24 December 1835 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

More About James Gerritt Toussaint:

Occupation: Preventitive Officer at Point Pedro

                         vii.    George Koch, born Abt. 1845 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 1912 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                        viii.    Ebenezer Theodore Koch, born Abt. 1847 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Georgiana Elizabeth Schubert 7 January 1878 in Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo (Ceylon) Sri Lanka¹⁴; born 7 November 1852 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Georgiana Elizabeth Schubert:

Baptism: 30 January 1853, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

                          ix.    Elizabeth Louisa Koch, born 29 April 1851 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 8 October 1926 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married Dr Arnold Henry Toussaint in Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 15 October 1835 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; died 13 July 1891 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Elizabeth Louisa Koch:

Burial: October 1926, Borella Cemetery,Colombo

More About Dr Arnold Henry Toussaint:

Baptism: 18 November 1835, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

Burial: July 1891, Borella Cemetery,Colombo

Occupation: Assistant Surgeon,Jaffna Ceylon

x.    Alexander Rose Koch, born 26 April 1856 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 29 June 1913 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Mary Augusta Anthonisz 11 October 1880 in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

4  Alexander Rose Koch, born 26 April 1856 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 29 June 1913 in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  He married Mary Augusta Anthonisz 11 October 1880 in Jaffna, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

Mary Augusta Anthonisz, born 23 May 1862 in Galle,Southern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  She was the daughter of George Dionysius Anthonisz and Charlotta Anthonisz.

Children of Alexander Koch and Mary Anthonisz are:

                           i.    Charlotte Angelina Koch, born in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Angell Egbert Brohier 9 June 1910 in Dutch Reformed Church,Bambalapitiya,Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 11 March 1874 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; died 24 January 1917 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Angell Egbert Brohier:

Baptism: 14 June 1874, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

ii.    George Anthonisz Koch, married Myra Jemima Koch; born 21 June 1886 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

iii.    Francis Walter Koch

                          iv.    Clarence Wilfred Koch, born in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; died 11 December 1937 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Ida Ethel Anthonisz 11 September 1918 in St Paul,Milagriya, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 5 April 1893 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; died 11 November 1943 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.

                           v.    Alfred Frank Koch, born in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Blanche Gertrude Misso 29 August 1911 in St Mary,Bambalapitiya,Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 12 December 1885 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

                          vi.    Herbert Vincent Koch, born in Jaffna, Northern Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Jane Rosamund Gogerly 15 November 1919 in Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 2 July 1896 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

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Baptism: 23 August 1896, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

vii.    Alexander Godfried Dennis Koch, born in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married Ethel Mildred Ludekens.

5  Alexander Godfried Dennis Koch, born in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.  He married Ethel Mildred Ludekens.

Ethel Mildred Ludekens¹, born 28 May 1880 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; died 4 March 1936 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.  She was the daughter of 14. Samuel Ebenezer Ludekens and 15. Jane Frederika Leembruggen.

More About Ethel Mildred Ludekens:

Baptism: 18 July 1880, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

Children of Alexander Koch and Ethel Ludekens are:

i.    Mary Augusta Koch, born 19 October 1908 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married Alexander Henry.

                          ii.    Ethel Rose Koch, born 18 November 1911 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married James Samuel Poppenbeek 27 December 1932 in Dutch Reformed Church,Bambalapitiya,Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 6 December 1900 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About James Samuel Poppenbeek:

Baptism: 20 January 1901, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

                         iii.    John Alexander Rose Koch², born 21 March 1915 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married Patricia Carol Raffel 28 April 1951 in Dutch Reformed Church,Bambalapitiya,Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 27 November 1927 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About John Alexander Rose Koch:

Baptism: 17 March 1922, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

iv.    Charlotte Phyllis Koch², born 19 November 1916 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Charlotte Phyllis Koch:

Baptism: 17 March 1922, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

                           v.    Iris Beryl Koch², born 24 January 1919 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka; married Rutgert Dirk Philippus Paulusz 21 July 1945 in Dutch Reformed Church,Bambalapitiya,Colombo, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; born 28 May 1916 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Iris Beryl Koch:

Baptism: 17 March 1922, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

More About Rutgert Dirk Philippus Paulusz:

Baptism: 16 February 1917, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

Degree: B.A.(Hons) (LOND)

Individual Note: 1 January 1947, Recieving pay of 8,940 Rs

Occupation 1: 26 June 1940, Additional Magistrate,Badulla

Occupation 2: 19 May 1941, Assistant Censor

Occupation 3: 1 January 1947, Assistant Controller of Establishments

Occupation 4: 26 November 1947, Assistant Government Agent,Batticaloa

vi.    Dorothy Violet Koch², born 15 February 1921 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.

More About Dorothy Violet Koch:

Baptism: 17 March 1922, Dutch Reformed Church,Wolvendaal,Colombo

6  Mary Augusta Koch, born 19 October 1908 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka. She married Alexander Henry.

Child of Alexander Henry and Mary Koch is:

i.    Beryl Gwendoline Henry, born 8 May 1925 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka; married (1) Paul Douglas Nathanielsz 1956; married (2) Francis Allister Bartholomeusz December 1980.

Beryl Gwendoline Henry, born 8 May 1935 in  (Ceylon) Sri Lanka.  

She married (1) Paul Douglas Nathanielsz 1956.  He was born 6 September 1929 in Colombo, Western Province, (Ceylon) Sri Lanka, and died 25 July 1994 in Joondalup, Perth, WA,Aust.  He was the son of John Julian Nathanielsz and Winifred Victoria Anderson Kennedy.

She married (2) Francis Allister Bartholomeusz December 1980.  He was born 30 April 1934 in Colombo,Western Province, (Ceylon)  Sri Lanka.  He was the son of Francis Carlisle Bartholomeusz and Esmee Bertha Susannah Maynert Herft.