Leontine ELLIS [c.1894-1942]

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 21:32
Names
Given
Leontine
Family
Ellis
Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
Died
Date
Cause of death
Secondary breast cancer

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Any idea where this was?

It is mentioned in the Jurors Lists for 1939 & 1940, but without an address, and no other mentions in HKGRO.

I couldn't find it in the newspapers either. MMIS does have a mention of a Cathay Hotel at 17 Tunglowan Road, but that was in 1974 so it's almost definitely a different business.

Regards, David

RSM E.C. Ford lived there in 1941. It was on Kowloon side. The hotel received several direct hits and was burnt down during the fighting. Ford was with RA and based at Mount Davis. Best regards, Philip Cracknell

David: I was wrong on location. The hotel must have been in Quarry Bay area. This is the reference in RSM Ford's diary   "Left the fort during an air-raid to go to Cathay Hotel to pick up some kit. Miss Ellis the proprietress, just out of hospital, very defeatist  and thinks more of her money  than the outcome of the war. Have a meal, tell her to keep cheerful and depart with such kit as I can carry."   I also saw this reference in S/Sgt O'Toole's diary - after being captured he writes " we were marched  right over Mt Parker......down to Quary Bay near the Taikoo Sugar Factory and along the road to the Ritz in the ball room of which we were stabled. The Ritz is right opposite the Cathay Hotel where Chris and I stayed  for our first week in the colony".

There were a number of others with same surname ( Ellis) in Stanley Camp - listed below:

 

Ellis Frederick Retiree (Ellis & Edgar Stock Brokers) 29 aug 1885   10/19
Ellis  (Miss) Grace Café Owner & HKVDC VAD  (Sister of Fred Ellis) 12 Dec 1895   10/19
Ellis  (Miss) Sophie Café Owner & HKVDC VAD  (Sister of Fred Ellis) 28 Oct 1897   10/19
Ellis  (Miss) Leontine Hotel Proprietress & HKVDC VAD Age 49 17-Aug-42 Dec'd
Ellis  (Mrs) Maud L Wife of FM ellis HKVDC POW unclear   5/5
Ellis Robert Rudolf  Police (A149  ??) 18-Jun-02  

12/34

 

 

 

 

Grace Ellis was proprietress of Chantecleer (possibly a sister)

Philip Cracknell

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Register of Deaths give cause as Secondary breast cancer, she was likely already very ill when RSM Ford describes her as being defeatist.