Info from C.S. card 00121011/12 .GIF states: "Mr W. Lyson who died at his residence 29 Kai Tack Bund, has been resident for almost the whole of his 71 years. He was father of the late C.H. Lyson, who served with distinction in the Great War and subsequently returned to Hong Kong as a solicitor and ultimately became principal in Messrs. Lyson and Hall. Mr Lyson senior served in P.W.D. for a number of years but left to join Mr Hazeland, architect. Latterly lived in retirement in Kowloon City. Funeral today. Chiu Yuen Cemetery, Mt. Davis." The entry is taken from the SCMP, 5 March 1932.
C.S. cards 0008741/42 and 00121009 record the terms of the will of Wong Chan Shi, also known as Charlotte Chan, wife then widow of Wong Lai-sun and daughter of George Tyson. It gives 35 Caine Road as her address. Bequests are made to her daughter-in-law, Violet Lyson, widow of Cecil Lyson, who had died in 1925 and to their daughter Olive Lyson.
Although I have given Wong Lai-son and its alternatives as William Lyson's "nickname", his Chinese and English names seem to be interchangeable and perhaps he was better known by his Chinese name.
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His Chinese given name somehow became his English family name. The lineage of the Chinese family name WONG stopped with him. This happened more often than not in those days.