Journeys 2
A Robertson Marshall Anthology,
Portraits and Memoires of growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1900s
Journeys 2 is a limited edition Family Anthology of personal profiles and the written memories of my two large British /SriLankan Burgher clans: both railway families, growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1900s.
My Father's side: The Robertsons of Colombo and my Mother's side: the Marshalls of Kandy were joined twice in marriage. They all experienced the best and the worst of the century from kerosene oil lamps, drought, monsoons, malaria, typhoid, hunting with rifles in the jungles and food dispatches to remote railway outposts, silent movies, WW2, Sri Lanka's independence from Britain and both clans eventual migration and settlement in Australia.
With 230 pages of recollections and lineage dating back seven generations, Journeys 2 (updated in 2018) is a treasure of Sri Lankan Burgher history.
By choice, this book was compiled for the sole purpose of sharing and keeping alive for future generations, poignant memories of happy and challenging times that could be lost forever. This book is a celebration, a salute to the courage and strength of character of the people profiled and to the beautiful country they grew up in.
My objective was not a historical study, but a memorable account of the romance, adventures, and personalities of my four grandparents, and sixteen uncles and aunts, and my 50 cousins, so that we might look back with more understanding and appreciation of whom they were, and what they lived through.
And so our lineage continues.
I hope you enjoy these memories..
Juliette