A NOTE From David Sansoni now located in Sydney
Miliani Henri Sansoni (1849-1907) married Alice Rosalind Aldons
They begat:
Rosalind Sylvia Sansoni
born 5 Nov 1874……
She died 6 May 1875.
Sylvester (Sylvie) Claude Aldons Sansoni (Pip’s and Dominic’s grandfather
born 20 Nov 1875 and died 25 May 1950.
Irene Sansoni
born 28 Jan 1877.
*She died 11 Dec 1877.*
Victor Dudley Sansoni (my grandfather)
born 21 Nov 1878 and died 1 Jul 1951.
Henri Miliani Sansoni
born 12 Jun 1880. Did not marry.
Bertram (Bertie) Sansoni
born 22 Sep 1881 and died 23 Apr 1937.
Stratton Guy Sansoni
born 23 Apr 1883.
Marcia Phoebe Sansoni
born 3 Dec 1884. She died 31 Mar 1939.
Marcia married (MRIN:2199) Frank Bertram De Rooy, son of John William De Rooy and Sarah Jeonime Vander Smagt (MRIN:2200), on 25 Oct 1911 in St Stephen’s Church, Negombo. Frank was born 11 Aug 1884. He died 13 Jan 1953.
Waldo Sansoni
born 8 Feb 1887.
Hector Randolph Sansoni
born 12 Jul 1888 and died 7 Mar 1945.
Arthur James Sansoni
born 16 Sep 1889. He died 24 Dec 1934.
Arthur married (MRIN:2201) Edith Maud Mack, daughter of Arthur Wilfred Mack and Catherine Morris Christoffelsz (MRIN:2202), on 5 Sep 1923 in St Paul’s Milagiriya, . Colombo, Ceylon. Edith was born 3 Mar 1890.
Rienzie Sansoni
born 1892.
Hebe Aurora Sansoni
born 2 Apr 1894. She died 21 Jul 1950.
(Hebe was Jerome Speldewinde’s grandmother)
Hebe married (MRIN:2203) George Bernard O’Connell on 11 Dec 1912 in St Stephen’s Church, Negombo. George was born 15 May 1874 in Cork, Ireland. He died 3 May 1931 in Colombo, Ceylon.
Bianca Portia Sansoni
born 31 Jul 1895.
Bianca married Clair Nicholas, the young man in the photo, above.
Audrey Noel Sansoni
born 22 Jan 1897.
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The photograph of the family Nicholas is from a Facebook post which contains also the following:
“Thanks to Sandy Austin for cleaning up this photo of my maternal great grandparents, Gerald James Theodore Nicholas, Pauline Henrietta (nee Piachaud) , their daughter Elaine Sybil Nicholas (married Annesley Edward Holsinger 1914) and son Clair Nicholas (married Bianca Portia Sansoni); they lived in Negombo and I think this photo was taken in or around early 1914 before Elaine Sybil married.”
(end of Facebook post and test)
Note from David Sansoni (Sydney, February 2026)
Michael,
This photo is as precious to us (Sansoni family) as it clearly is to the person you got it from/who posted it on Facebook.
It’s the first time we Sansonis have seen Clair Nicholas [the tall man] who married our great-aunt Bianca Portia.
