NAREN CHITTY in Sydney has kindly and helpfully responded to my QUERY and provided a list of COLOMBO CHETTY SURNAMES/LINEAGES that can be found in Sri Lanka over the past few centuries. Quite a revelation!! Many more names than I was aware of. I anote m also appending the DIGITAL Webnote re this collective identity….. Michael Roberts
Here is the list from WorldGenWeb: Sri Lanka Colombo Chetty Family Genealogy
Family Names of Colombo Chetty’s of Sri Lanka
ALLES (Also used by Sinhalese)
ADAMAN
ANANDAPPA
ANANDAPULLE
ASERAPPA
AMMIAPPA
BABAPULLE
BRITO (Also used by Tamils)
BRITO BABAPULLE
BRITO MUTUNAYAGAM
CADIRAMEN
CADERAMENPULLE
CANDAPPA (Kandappa when used as a Tamil name)
CANJEMENADEN
CASIE CHETTY
CASIE CHITTY
CHITTY
CHRISTY DAVID
COREA
DAVID (Also a Tamil name)
DE COSTA
DE MELHO
DE ROSAIRO
FERNANDOPULLE
GNANAMUTTUPULLE
KAITHANPULLE
MASSILAMANY (Massilamani when used by Tamils)
MUDIAPPA
MURUGAPPA
MUTTUPULLE
MUTTUKRISHNA (also used by Tamils)
MUTTUKISTNA
ONDAATJIE
PERUMAL (Should be coupled with Ayam or Rodrigo Muniyaram A or RM)
PERERAPULLE
PULLE
PULLENEYEGAM
PULLE TISSERA
RAMANADEN (Ramanathan when used by Tamils)
RAMANATHAPULLE
REVELPULLE
RODRIGO (also used by Tamils)
RODRIGOPULLE
SAVERIMUTTUPULLE
SAVERIMUTHAPULLE
SAVUNDRANAYAGAM (Savundaranayagam when used by Tamils)
SILVAPULLE
SILVESTERPULLE
THEVARAYAN
TISSERA (also used by Burghers and Sinhalese)
TISSERAPULLE
VINDURAMPULLE
WANNIAPPA
WEERAPPA
Here are some other sites I found today: https://colombochetty.com/
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A WIKIPEDIA NOTE re this ETHNIC CATEGORY
A THUPPAHI FIND ON WEB: “History of the Chetty Community” …
The Chetties are community domiciled in the Western, North Western and Southern Provinces. Today, there are around 150,000 Chetties in Sri Lanka with higher populations in the Western and North Western Provinces.
Chetties can be interpreted as Setti or Setthi in Pali, Hetti, Situ or Sitana in Sinhalese and Etti in Tamil. In his book, “Recollections of Ceylon” Selkirk states that Chetties comes from a nobility tribe named Tana Vaisyas. The ancestors of the Chetties came to Ceylon from the regions of Madura, Malabar, Nagapatam and Coromandel Coasts. According to the records in “Social History of Early Ceylon” by Prof. H. Ellawela the Chetties first came to Sri Lanka just after the arrival of Prince Vijaya and his followers. Not all Chetties arrived to Sri Lanka during the same period. Neither did they settle in the same locality.
In more recent records it is stated that the descendants of the Colombo Chetty community were a class of traders who identified themselves from pre-Portuguese times with commercial activities which eventually gave rise to their migration to Sri Lanka. The names of these Chetties are recorded in the Portuguese Thombu of Littoral of 1613-15 and in the Head, Land and School Thombus.
It is stated that the Chetties did not come as ruthless invaders who despoiled ancient architecture, nor as blood thirsty warriors with brutal and predatory instincts, but as men of peace and goodwill. They were noted to possess strong religious zeal and high sense of tradition that’s over three thousand year old and are common to both Aryans and Dravidians.
Thank you for this. I belong in the Brito-Mutunayagam family. Since I am compiling a family tree and referencing most of these names. I am most grateful. I have found the Sri Lanka Genealogy Websitehttps://www.worldgenweb.org/lkawgw/index.html webmaster Fazli Sameer very helpful, and https://colombochetty.com// put up by Ben Anandappa too.