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I note with interest that HK actor, Anthony Wong Chau-sang (黃秋生), is still searching for his information regarding his British father, Frederick William Perry. It seems not much is known other than he worked for the Colonial Govt and left when Anthony was still a toddler.
Laura Dransfield was the wife of Albert Dransfield who latterly ran his own import/export company, A. Dransfield & Co. She had two daughters, Laura Woolnough Campbell (probably by a previous marriage) and Dorothy Olive Dransfield. The Dransfields were close friends of the Warrens and Leslie Warren lived with them after his wife and children left for the UK in 1938. They seem to have rented The Towers. Albert Dransfield died in November 1940 and a letter from Leslie to his family in May 1941 relates that Laura had settled in Johannesburg but would have preferred to be in the UK.
Does anyone have any information on Kathleen Moir or of her husband, whose first name I don't know? There is a mention of her in one of my grandfather's letters. It seems they moved into the house in which he had been living, perhaps at 6 Tregunter Mansions, Hong Kong, when my grandfather's family had been evacuated to Sydney. If you can help advise on who they were that would be very excellent. Thank you
Briony
Thomas Neil Davis joined the Royal Navy and was awarded an Albert Medal for helping to sail a burning ammunition barge out of Halifax Harbour in 1917.
After WW1 in the 1920's he joined the Chinese Customs Service.
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Cecil Carr came to Hong Kong in 1936 as an assistant for Lane Crawford. He left in 1949 by which time he'd become manager of the Food Department.
More information: https://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/cecil-sammy-carr/
James Legge graduated from Aberdeen University in 1836 and joined the London Missionary Society two years after. He was sent to Malacca in 1840 where he assumed the post of principal of the Anglo-Chinese college founded by Robert Morrison. When the school moved to Hong Kong in1843, Legge remained as Principal. He was a great Sinologue and was famous for his translation and annotation of the Chinese classics. He was a prominent resident of Hong Kong as he was an all round man: Scholar, missionary, minister, chaplain and Educationist.
Link to family tree on Geni.com https://www.geni.com/people/Charles-David-Bottomley/6000000013497883144
Attorney
Legal documents from Deacons available here
John William Russell, engineer, is given in the Jurors List of 1937 as working for CE Warren & Co. Ltd. This is the only Jurors List in which he is named and I haven't found him in earlier staff lists of CE Warren & Co. Ltd., not that I've been able to check them all. His address in 1937 is 11 Bayview Mansions, Causeway Bay. His will is recorded by Carl Smith. I don't know if this is the same John Russell whose grave is listed as 12A/04/17 in Patricia Lim's data base as having died aged 77 in 1959 and who is buried with his wife Helen. Her 1937 grave bears the CEW & Co.
Patricia was the daughter of Russian-born bookseller Boris Pasco. Her father was drawn into relief work by Kiyoshi Watanabe, and she soon joined him. The Canadians in Bowen Road Hospital, where Watanabe was assigned at that time, were having a particularly tough time because they'd only been in Hong Kong for three weeks before the attack and had no friendly local contacts to help and comfort them. Ms.
Sir John Bowring was the fourth Governor of Hong Kong (1854-1859).