Seraphina Donclere marital status?
Understood. However since her first child (Charlotte Hunter) was born in 1802 we can assume she was of marriageable age in 1796 when the British drove the Dutch out of Ceylon. If she was "married" to a Dutch or Dutch Burgher named Donclere he may have died or perhaps been killed in the British attack or perhaps he departed Ceylon with the exodus of Dutch officials, soldiers and settlers under the peace treaty with the British. So in 1801 she may have been a young widow or a "divorcee" when she met Lt-Col Hunter. As a result I have asked my Singhalese researcher to expand her search for Donclere from just births to births, marriages & deaths.
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