Wilfred MULCAHY [1903-1975]

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 22:36
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Wilfred
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Mulcahy
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Wilfred Mulcahy is mentioned in several discussions at the Stanley group:

A search in the online newspapers for "mulcahy" returns six results for this man, all related to cricket:

  • 1936-11-30, The Hong Kong Telegraph,  page 9: "Baxter and Mulcahy. Partnership of 154. Fine game at I.R.C." ((He played for the Kowloon Cricket Club))
  • 1937-01-20, The China Mail, page 2. "Mulcahy and McLellan bringing out the best." ((refers to his teaching cricket at the Central British School))
  • 1938-02-04, The China Mail, page 31. Reports he now ranks fourth for batting in the colony's second dividion in terms of average runs per match.
  • 1938-03-07, The China Mail, page 19. He moves up to second place.
  • 1938-10-08, The China Mail, page 19. He's elected captain of the KCC's second league cricket eleven.
  • 1940-02-22, The China Mail, page 15. More batting averages. 

He was a teacher at Central British School (later KGV), retiring as headmaster, see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stanley_camp/message/2312

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Wilfred Mulcahy
1950s

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I forgot to update Dad's profile when I learned recently of his date of death - he died on the 3rd March, 1975.

May I also point out the mispelling of his surname over his portrait - thanks.

Update from John:

As yet, I'm no closer to finding out where and when my parents married.  However, I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me to learn how my father fared before and during the occupation - it's meant a great deal to me.

Apart from my search for Dad's wedding date, it's occurred to me that someone may know why he would arrive in Liverpool on 6th September, 1940, to return to Hong Kong leaving the UK on January 15th, 1941.  This is a very long shot, but there is the odd hint that he may have had some job with the Colonial Office other than teaching.  With the Suez Canal unavailable, the journey involved crossing the Atlantic each way, and appears more hazardous than would be warranted simply for home leave.  Although he gave his destination as Northallerton, where my Mum and I were living at the time, I have no recollection of actually seeing him.  If there is any clue of his activities in surviving records from that time, I'd be glad for further advice.

As it is, thank you again for all your assistance and, for anyone interested, the Co Durham Record Office now have an entry in their catalogue for my father which I shall update as more info becomes available.  The link is

http://www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/Pages/AdvancedSearchCatalogueDetail.aspx?ItemID=670525

Update from John:

As yet, I've seen nothing which adds to my earlier knowledge of his marriage nor, until the 'stories of evacuation' traffic caught my eye.  At first, I took little notice because I thought it concerned only movement to Australia.  But today I saw Tony's mention of Manila where my father, according to the manifest of The Empress of Asia, arrived on July 9th, 1940.  The US port is not named, but from there he somehow got to Montreal, where he boarded The Duchess of Atholl for Liverpool arriving on September 6th.

Because I knew he returned to HK, sailing on the 15th January, 1941 from Glasgow via St Johns, New Brunswick, on the Warwick Castle, I didn't connect his visit to Manila with any evacuation.  If indeed Empress of Asia was originally carrying evacuees from HK to Manila, perhaps others arrived in the States along with Dad at this anonymous west coast port.  I would dearly like to discover its name to trace, if possible, his route overland to Montreal; also whether he retraced these steps from St Johns the following January and what ship(s) returned him thence to HK.

The "Enpress" liners were run by Canadian Pacific, and were part of a regular service connecting Hong Kong and the UK, both for people and mail. Wikipedia says:

 From 1887 through 1941, the Canadian Pacific Railway provided steamship service between Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Hong Kong with calls at Japan and China, and later at Manila, Philippine Islands and Honolulu, Hawaii.

So it looks as though he'd haved landed in Vancouver after leaving Manila. By coincidence another conversation is looking at tracing passengers travelling from Hong Kong to the UK by sea: http://gwulo.com/node/17157

Regards, David