No. 54.— 1903.] FUNERALS OF DUTCH OFFICIALS. 125 
Finally the gentlemen and friends who were of the pro- 
gression returned from church as they had set out, and, 
crossing the great plain, went to the house of mourning, 
followed by the clerks, marines, military, artizans. Burghers, 
and lascoreens, with flying colours, beating of drums, &c. 
The Funeral off the Hon. Iman Willem Falck. 
Otto Willem Falck, Lieutenant-Colonel of a Regiment 
of Dragoons under the Duke of Wurtenburg, and his wife 
Constantia Margarita Meinertshagen, were the parents of 
Frans Willem Falck, Anton Reinhard Falck, and Carel 
Gustaaf Falck. Frans Willem Falck, Dissave of Matara, born 
in Ceulen 7th October, 1710, died in Matara 7th August, 1737, 
was married in Colombo, 8th May, 1735, to Adriana Gobius 
of Samarang, the daughter of Johan Frederik Gobius, 
Governor of Malacca, and Margarita Elizabeth Heynen. 
Their son was Iman Willem, baptized in Colombo on the 
1st April, 1736, the sponsors being Daniel Overbeek and 
Elizabeth Hals, representing Iman de Jong, Johan Werner 
Meinertshagen, Constantia Margarita Meinertshagen, and 
Margarita van Nes. Iman Willem Falck's grandmother 
married, as widow Gobius, Iman de Jong of Zierickzee, 
Dissave of Colombo, from whom Governor Falck got the 
name of Iman. 
Governor Falck was a Doctor of Laws, Fiscal (Ceylon), 
and went on an embassy to the King of Kandy. In 1756 
he was an Onderlcoopman in Batavia, and Secretary of 
Governor-General Mossel. In 1767 he was Extraordinary 
and in 1770 Ordinary Councillor of the Indies. He died 
childless in Colombo on the 6th February, 1785, having 
been married to Theodora Rudolphina de Wendt, daughter 
of the Brigadier Gerrardus Beylanus de Wendt and Johanna 
Willemina Muntz. His widow married on the !20th October, 
1785, Elias Paravicini di Capelli, Major in the Artillery. 
