Records of Dandeniya Silva on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Dandeniya Silva in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dandeniya Silva and the Silva Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Silva Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Silva family tree.

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Some Famous People called Dandeniya Silva

Dandeniya Hemachandra de Silva

Dandeniya Hemachandra de Silva (5 November 1932 - 25 April 2014) was a Sri Lankan cricketer and senior local government official.

Commonly known as D.H. de Silva, he was educated at Mahinda College, Galle, and at the University of Peradeniya. He captained both his school cricket team and the university cricket team, before representing Nomads Sports Club and Sinhalese Sports Club in Sri Lankan cricket. He was a founding member of the Nomads Sports club and captained the Nomads cricket team. An opening batsman, he played in two first-class matches, representing Ceylon in 1969 and State Services in 1973.

D.H. de Silva worked as the Charity Commissioner of the Colombo Municipal Council and later as the Municipal Commissioner of the Kandy Municipal Council. He also served as a cricket and tennis coach for the school children in Kandy district, before migrating to Australia. De Silva was the first cricket coach of the Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara. His younger brother Premachandra de Silva represented Ceylon and another younger brother, Somachandra de Silva, played Test cricket for Sri Lanka. Somachandra later became the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket. De Silva died on 25 April 2014 in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 82.

Source: Dandeniya Hemachandra de Silva, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Silva

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