A few mins on CWGC, Ancestry and Google gave me the following. She was Christine Miriam (transcribed as Marian on a couple of records) Ross o/w Barrett born 1884, widow of Stewart Buckle Carne Ross OBE (b 1876) a former Postmaster General of HK. He had died in London as early as 1923 possibly from an operation according to a snippet that came up on Google. Strangely there is a Marriage record in London shortly before he died though they had been travelling as husband and wife before then. I guess it’s possible he knew he was very ill and wanted to make sure there wouldn’t be a question about a prior overseas marriage. No children as far as I could tell.
"Mrs Ross of Room 18 was buried…she was a late middle aged lady, on her own in camp……she gave up trying to live" (Barbara Redwood's diary). Christine Ross died aged 48. Died of anemia. A statement from HSBC shows she had a fixed deposit of HKD13,851.67 at an interest rate of 2% in Feb 1941 due to mature in Feb 1942. (Papers at HKPRO) .
Small point, but Phil mentions above that Mrs. Ross was 48 when she died in Stanley. However it would appear from all the available information that she was actually 58.
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Mrs Ross
Nicola Davies writes:
A few mins on CWGC, Ancestry and Google gave me the following. She was Christine Miriam (transcribed as Marian on a couple of records) Ross o/w Barrett born 1884, widow of Stewart Buckle Carne Ross OBE (b 1876) a former Postmaster General of HK. He had died in London as early as 1923 possibly from an operation according to a snippet that came up on Google. Strangely there is a Marriage record in London shortly before he died though they had been travelling as husband and wife before then. I guess it’s possible he knew he was very ill and wanted to make sure there wouldn’t be a question about a prior overseas marriage. No children as far as I could tell.
"Mrs Ross of Room 18 was
"Mrs Ross of Room 18 was buried…she was a late middle aged lady, on her own in camp……she gave up trying to live" (Barbara Redwood's diary). Christine Ross died aged 48. Died of anemia. A statement from HSBC shows she had a fixed deposit of HKD13,851.67 at an interest rate of 2% in Feb 1941 due to mature in Feb 1942. (Papers at HKPRO) .
Philip Cracknell
Age of Mrs. Ross
Small point, but Phil mentions above that Mrs. Ross was 48 when she died in Stanley. However it would appear from all the available information that she was actually 58.
Forgive my pedantry!