When Johann Carl Christiaan Van Drieberg was born in 1777, in Jaffna, Northern, Sri Lanka, his father, Capital Luetant Baron Diedrich Carolus van Drieberg, was 33 and his mother, Johanna Martina Aubert, was 32. He died on 4 July 1803, in Trincomalee, Trincomalee, Eastern, Sri Lanka, at the age of 26.
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Britain begins to take over island.
Tamil people of southern India were taken by the British to Ceylon to clear the jungles and work plantations.
Some characteristic forenames: Vietnamese Anh, Thanh, Hung, Minh, Vinh, Dung, Hue, Huong, Lan, Quang, Tan, Thuy, Hong, Chi, Hang, Ho, Pok, Sang, Bai, Chin, Ching, Chu, Chuan, Dong.
Vietnamese (Vạn): from the Chinese surname 萬, see Wan 1.
Vietnamese (Văn): from the Chinese surnames 文 or 聞, see Wen 2 and 3, and also 5 below.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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