Rosie WEILL [1881-1951]

Added DoB and DoD from her gravestone:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52833899

Emily Hahn mentions Rosie Weill and her family several times in her book, "China to me". The first mention is at the start of Chapter 40:

Chapter 40

Susie came of an international family. Her mother, Mrs. Weill ((Rosie)), was born in Stambul. I don’t quite know how that works out with the fact that she met the French Mr. Weill in Shanghai or Harbin or Hong Kong, but it does, and they married and had four children and settled down in Hong Kong with a jewelry shop, after wandering about the Far East long enough for Mother Weill to have learned to speak Japanese, Cantonese, and goodness knows what else on top of her French and German and other non-exotic tongues. Daddy Weill, by the time the Asiatic war overtook his family, was dead and in his grave, but Mamma still ran the whole lot of them. She owned a plot of ground out near the Queen Mary, in the lovely countryside, and on this ground she built two large houses, one just above the other on a steep slope. Susie, the baby, married Alec Potts, a Yorkshireman. Susie and Alec were old friends of mine from those long-ago days when I followed the horses. Alec was very horsy and had been “starter” for the races for as long as I could remember. At this time he was fighting in the Volunteers.

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