{"id":93339,"date":"2022-06-09T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=93339"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:39:06","slug":"ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-by-dr-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-by-dr-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages &#8211; By Dr Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages &#8211; By Dr Michael Roberts<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">t<span style=\"color: #000080;\">huppahis.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88737 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/>Ashton Agar may play cricket now for Western Australia, but he is the eldest of three boys schooled at the De La Salle College in Melbourne. Our investigations indicate that his father John Agar is from a cricketing family associated with the Prahran Cricket Club in Melbourne \u2013 a happy coincidence because Prahran had several Burgher migrants active within its portals\u2014notably Owen Mottau and Dav Whatmore.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0As vitally, his mother Sonia is a Sinhalese Sri Lankan, being the daughter of Nala Hewawisa<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\"><strong>[2]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from a marriage with Sheila Plunkett,<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\"><strong>[3]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0who is described in one source as a \u201cBurgher of British descent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93340\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages.png\" alt=\"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages - By Dr Michael Roberts\" width=\"355\" height=\"202\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>John &amp; Sonia Agar and eldest son Ashton <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>The Agar family\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>at Lords<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93341\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-2.png\" alt=\"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages - By Dr Michael Roberts\" width=\"537\" height=\"387\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93342\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-3.png\" alt=\"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages - By Dr Michael Roberts\" width=\"478\" height=\"268\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93343 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-4.png\" alt=\"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages - By Dr Michael Roberts\" width=\"329\" height=\"190\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">By marvelous coincidence it appears that there were Agars too in British Ceylon \u2013 working as planters.\u00a0<strong>Philip Sansoni (in Sydney now) sent me this note:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cInterestingly, there is a tablet at All Saints\u2019 Church, Maskeliya to Charles Shelton Agar who died\u00a0in Sydney in 1897 and was a planter in Ceylon (see JP Lewis:\u00a0<em>Tombstones).<\/em>\u00a0There is also one in St. Paul\u2019s Kandy to John Shelton\u00a0Agar who died in China in 1902. If you look up John Shelton Agar, you will find a heap of family details in Wikitree\u00a0<strong>with 11 Agar births recorded in Ceylon.<\/strong>\u00a0There were apparently 3 Agar brothers who were planters in Ceylon \u2026\u2026\u2026. \u2026\u2026\u2026.And, incidentally, I know that there used to be an old estate close to Matale known as Agar\u2019s Land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Following this lead, I have checked the data compiled within JP Lewis\u2019s large tome,<strong><em>\u00a0List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon<\/em><\/strong>, (1993, Navrang in collaboration with Lake House Bookshop) and find that James Shelton Agar and Charles Shelton Agar were coffee and tea planters in the late nineteenth century and eventually passed away in 1897 and 1902, one in China and the other in Sydney, Australia.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\"><strong>[4]<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0It must surely be significant that one of the three Agar boys at De la Salle College in Melbourne is named \u201cShelton.\u201d The strength of family traditions on this point demands inquiry: for \u201cShelton\u201d to stretch from upcountry Ceylon in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century to Melbourne in the 1990s is quite a distance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The composition, viz., \u201c<strong>Burgher of British descent<\/strong>,\u201d which arises within this correspondence, is not out of place. There are other Burghers in Sri Lanka whose names indicate descent from Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, et cetera. There also are lineages bearing Anglicized names or European connotations who are known to be the progeny of Indian Tamil plantation labourer women impregnated by British or European coffee, tea and rubber planters in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries. Such lineages were\/are identified locally as \u201cEurasians\u2019 \u2013 a term that is also deployed in the colonial census tabulations from 1881 onwards. In the straitlaced socio-political scene in British Ceylon \u2014 and thereafter in independent Ceylon\/Sri Lanka after 1948 \u2013 the identity \u201cEurasian\u201d often carried a stigma.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\"><strong>[5]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It is unlikely that Sheila Plunkett or her daughter Sonia Hewawisa faced such snooty commentary when living and working in Melbourne. In any event the cricketing and sporting abilities of the three Agar lads would have overridden any disadvantages therefrom. For those interested in the sporting careers of these lads and of Ashton in particular, I suggest a patient reading of the following sources in a website that deliberately assails those who place value on purity of lineage.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/06\/09\/62668\/#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\"><strong>[6]<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93344\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ashton-agars-sri-lankan-lineages-5.png\" alt=\"Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages - By Dr Michael Roberts\" width=\"287\" height=\"216\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Chip Le Grand &amp; Pia Ackerman,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2013\/07\/13\/the-serene-smiling-face-of-ashton-agar-highlights-multi-cultural-australia\/\">The serene smiling face of Ashton Agar highlights multi-cultural Australia<\/a>,\u201d 13 July 2013,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2013\/07\/13\/the-serene-smiling-face-of-ashton-agar-highlights-multi-cultural-australia\/\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2013\/07\/13\/the-serene-smiling-face-of-ashton-agar-highlights-multi-cultural-australia\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Michael Roberts<\/strong>, \u201cThe Agars of De La Salle College hit the Headlines,\u201d 6 March 2020,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/02\/17\/ashton-agar-and-his-heritage\/\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/02\/17\/ashton-agar-and-his-heritage\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Kumudu Jayawardena<\/strong>, \u201cAshton Agar and His Heritage,\u201d\u00a0<em>Ceylon Today,<\/em>\u00a016 February 2022, with this title\u00a0<strong>\u201cAussie opener Ashton Agar is proud of his Sri Lankan origin\u201d\u00a0\u2026.\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/05\/04\/australian-cricke-squads-for-sri-lankan-tour-meditations\/\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2022\/05\/04\/australian-cricke-squads-for-sri-lankan-tour-meditations\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Alex Malcolm<\/strong>, \u201cAustralian Cricket Squads for Sri Lankan Tours: Meditations,\u201d 4 May 2022,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/cricketique.live\/2013\/07\/12\/lehmann-makes-an-agar-difference\/\">https:\/\/cricketique.live\/2013\/07\/12\/lehmann-makes-an-agar-difference\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Michael Roberts, Percy Colin-Thome &amp; Ismeth Raheem<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0<em>People Inbetween<\/em>, Colombo, Sarvodaya Publishers, 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Michael Roberts\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe Nomenclature and Lineaments-of White-Brown Cohabitation-in British Ceylon: A Puzzle,\u201d 17 October 2021,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/10\/17\/the-nomenclature-and-lineaments-of-white-brown-cohabitation-in-british-ceylon-a-puzzle\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/10\/17\/the-nomenclature-and-lineaments-of-white-brown-cohabitation-in-british-ceylon-a-puzzle\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>[Michael Roberts] \u201c<\/strong>Revelations: Nationalities in the 1871 Census of British Ceylon,\u201d 19 November 2021,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/11\/19\/revelations-nationalities-in-the-1871-census-of-british-ceylon\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2021\/11\/19\/revelations-nationalities-in-the-1871-census-of-british-ceylon\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A Comment from the Editor of Cricketique and Thuppahi:<\/strong>\u00a0ASHTON AGAR is the son of John Agar and Sonia Agar nee Hewawisa; who herself is\u00a0<strong>the daughter of Nala and\u00a0Sheila Hewawisa<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>with Sheila being Sheila Plunkett (both parents now deceased). The Plunkett family are Burghers of British descent. Thus, Sonia Agar nee Hewawisa is quintessentially\u00a0<strong>thuppahi<\/strong>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/why-thuppahi\/\">in my sense of the term and\u00a0<\/a>so too are the Ashton boys. Sheila\u2019s sister Carmaline married Ron Forbes, brother of Earlson Forbes in Sydney now (one of my old Pera pals). Note too that Nala Hewawisa played cricket for Dharmarajah College Kandy, while John Agar is from a cricketing family associated with Prahran CC, Melbourne<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashton Agar\u2019s Sri Lankan Lineages &#8211; By Dr Michael Roberts Source:thuppahis.com Ashton Agar may play cricket now for Western Australia, but he is the eldest of three boys schooled at the De La Salle College in Melbourne. 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