Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
John Black's list gives Miss Woolley's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer", and DoB as 1908. (He uses the initials "P A", but Philip Cracknell gives her full name as Phyllis Rainey.) Updated with DoB from Philip.
Comments
Phyllis Rainey Wooley
She was born 31st March 1909. She was one of seven children of William Henry Woolley and Louisa Clara Heang Woolley who married in Hong Kong in 1899. WH Woolley died in 1920. Louisa was in Stanley Camp with her sister Lillian Eva Heang, two unmarried daughters Phyllis Rainey Woolley and Evelyn Stokes Wooley and married daughter Iris Lillian Joyce. A son William John Woolley was a Sgt in HKVDC (Pay Corps) and died in POW Camp in March 1944.
Philip Cracknell
Phyllis Rainey Woolley 1909 - 1989
Born 31 March 1909 in Hong Kong
Married Thomas Henry Gorman in Hampstead London 1946
Died in Plymouth Devon 1989
“HONG KONG FOLKS AT HOME
“HONG KONG FOLKS AT HOME
News of Hong Kong residents in England.
Miss Phyllis Wooley is engaged to be married.
T. Vanthall has extended his leave, for his marriage to Miss Nancy Grady, who was also at Stanley.
The marriage of Pamela Pritchard has been annulled.”
Source: The China Mail, page 2, 4th April 1946