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Marking ethnic boundaries among Malaysian Dutch Eurasians. (Research by Drs Pim ten Hoorn)

Portuguese and Luso-Asian legacies in SE Asia, 1511-2011. (Paper abstract by Dennis de Witt)

Research 2010/2011


Research by Leiden University on the Malaysian Dutch descendants will continue in 2011!

Pictures of Dutch burghers


Johannes Bartholomeus (J.B.) Westerhout (1794 - 1841), Dutch freeburgher at Malacca. During his time in Malacca, he was also popularly known as "Tuan Barchie". He was the grandson of Sjouwke Jansz Westerhout who first arrived in Dutch Malacca. He was responsible for negotiating the surrender of the Malay Chieftain of Naning, Dol Said (or Abdul Syed) to the British. In 1832, he was made Superintendent of Naning. From 1837 to 1845, he was Assistant Resident of Malacca.

Contributed by the Westerhout family of Singapore. Thanks to Geoff Morris and Burton Westerhout. Copyright held by the Westerhout family.


Joshua Edwin (J.E.) the son of Johannes Bartholomeus Westerhout

Contributed by the Westerhout family of Singapore. Thanks to Geoff Morris and Burton Westerhout. Copyright held by the Westerhout family.


The family of Mr. & Mrs. John Charles De Witt. Photo taken early in the 20th century. The Malacca De Witt family have their roots in Cape Town, South Africa.

Copyright held by De Witt family.


Ceylon-born Dutch Burghers Cyril Ephraums (third from left at rear, gun over shoulder) and his slightly younger brother Wilfred (second from right at rear, with shotgun cradled under right arm) and unidentified European in sarong with hunting party, Gopeng area, Perak State, Malaysia, circa late 1890s. Both brothers came to Penang from Galle, Southern Ceylon as child orphans in about 1875, to live with relatives when their parents both died in an epidemic. They both attended the Jesuit College in Penang.
Contributed by Mr. Joe Simpson of Canada. Thanks to the Ephraums family of Australia. Copyright held by the Ephraums family


probably in his later 30s, with a "bagged" tiger, possibly one of the notorious man-eaters that "infested" the Gopeng district, which he became famous locally for fearlessly hunting down, Jim Corbett-style. Cyril died suddenly of peritonitis in 1907, aged only 40, and is buried at the Christian cemetery in Kuala Lumpur. According to Robert Shaw, one of his two living UK-based grandsons, the gravestone is still in existence at the cemetery. This particular branch of the Ceylon-Burgher (Galle-based) Ephraums family has no members still living in Malaysia, but it is possible that direct descendants of one or two first cousins from Galle, Ceylon (sons of a brother of Cyril and Wilfred's father who - according to vague reports - both moved independently to the Straits Settlements as young men in the later 1800s) may still live in Singapore, with the Ephraums surname.
Contributed by Mr. Joe Simpson of Canada. Thanks to the Ephraums family of Australia. Copyright held by the Ephraums family


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Tong Tong Fair 2013

Malaysians residing in the Netherlands might want to mark their calendar for the 55th Tong Tong Fair taking place from May 22 till June 2 in The Hague.

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