Henry August WITTENBACH married Hannah G BLANCHETT in Canton China (British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages 1926 - 1930 records) No specific date given
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers - from their marriage certificate - Henry August Wittenbach 27 bachelor Clerk in Holy Orders address St Stephen's College Hong Kong son of Henry Wittenbach Medallist married Hannah Gertrude Blanchett 22 spinster secretary address East Parade Canton daughter of Isaac Blanchett Clerk in Holy Orders. The marriage took place in April 1928
6 Oct 1938 Henry A Wittenbach missionary aged 38 (dob about 1900) travelled from London to Hong Kong with Hannah Wittenbach aged 33 (dob about 1905) and Frieda Wittenbach aged 10 months. UK address St. Cuthbert's Vicarage Wood Green London
21 September 1946 Henry August Wittenbach aged 46 missionary travelled from Southampton to Melbourne Australia. UK address "The Trail" Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Death RecordHenry August Wittenbach 1989 Enfield Middlesex aged 88 date of birth 10 August 1900
Probate Calendar Henry August Wittenbach of 30 Halstead Road Enfield Middlesex died 27 February 1989
Death Record Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach Northampton 1993 date of birth 20 April 1905
Probate Calendar Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach of Nazareth House 120 Harlestone Road Northampton died 30 May 1993
Birth Record Frieda G Wittenbach born 1938 Barnet.Middlesex
Marriage Record Frieda G Wittenbach married Harold RODWELL 1962
My father, Arthur Peill, was a Lay Missionary 1937-1941. He was sent by the CMS to be apprentice to Canon Wittenbach. After enlisting in the RAF in the last year of the war, he returned to Hong Kong with my mother, Margaret, and I, first to the Civil Service, and then as the second to last Manager of the Dairy Farm at Pokfulam, where we spent some wonderful years together as a family.
Henry August Wittenbach married Hannah Gertrude Blanchett in Christ Church at Shameen, on 10 April 1928. Hannah Blanchett was the eldest daughter of Rev. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Annie Walsh of the Church Missionary Society based in Canton. The wedding was mentioned here in the Hong Kong Telegraph the following day.
Wittenbach hailed from Melbourne and studied for Holy Orders in Ridley College. He was ordained deacon 1923 and priest in 1924. After a short period of curacy in St. Mark's Church, Melbourne, he left Australia in January 1926 and proceeded to the Holy Trinity College in Canton. He became Principal of the College from 1928 to 1930. In 1931, he was appointed Acting Warden of St. Andrew's Hostel in Canton Union Theological College.
Rev. Wittenbach later came to Hong Kong and was the Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon prior to the Japanese invasion. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned with his wife and two small children at Stanley Camp.
H. A. Wittenbach's name/signature appears in light brown just above bottom left of the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum.
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Henry August WITTENBACH
Henry August WITTENBACH married Hannah G BLANCHETT in Canton China (British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages 1926 - 1930 records) No specific date given
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers - from their marriage certificate - Henry August Wittenbach 27 bachelor Clerk in Holy Orders address St Stephen's College Hong Kong son of Henry Wittenbach Medallist married Hannah Gertrude Blanchett 22 spinster secretary address East Parade Canton daughter of Isaac Blanchett Clerk in Holy Orders. The marriage took place in April 1928
6 Oct 1938 Henry A Wittenbach missionary aged 38 (dob about 1900) travelled from London to Hong Kong with Hannah Wittenbach aged 33 (dob about 1905) and Frieda Wittenbach aged 10 months. UK address St. Cuthbert's Vicarage Wood Green London
21 September 1946 Henry August Wittenbach aged 46 missionary travelled from Southampton to Melbourne Australia. UK address "The Trail" Plantation Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Death RecordHenry August Wittenbach 1989 Enfield Middlesex aged 88 date of birth 10 August 1900
Probate Calendar Henry August Wittenbach of 30 Halstead Road Enfield Middlesex died 27 February 1989
Death Record Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach Northampton 1993 date of birth 20 April 1905
Probate Calendar Hannah Gertrude Wittenbach of Nazareth House 120 Harlestone Road Northampton died 30 May 1993
Birth Record Frieda G Wittenbach born 1938 Barnet.Middlesex
Marriage Record Frieda G Wittenbach married Harold RODWELL 1962
IN MEMORIAM: Arthur Ernest Peill' by Bishop Hall of Kong Kong
My father, Arthur Peill, was a Lay Missionary 1937-1941. He was sent by the CMS to be apprentice to Canon Wittenbach. After enlisting in the RAF in the last year of the war, he returned to Hong Kong with my mother, Margaret, and I, first to the Civil Service, and then as the second to last Manager of the Dairy Farm at Pokfulam, where we spent some wonderful years together as a family.
Rebecca Margaret Peill
Rev. Henry August Wittenbach
Henry August Wittenbach married Hannah Gertrude Blanchett in Christ Church at Shameen, on 10 April 1928. Hannah Blanchett was the eldest daughter of Rev. Charles Isaac Blanchett and Annie Walsh of the Church Missionary Society based in Canton. The wedding was mentioned here in the Hong Kong Telegraph the following day.
Wittenbach hailed from Melbourne and studied for Holy Orders in Ridley College. He was ordained deacon 1923 and priest in 1924. After a short period of curacy in St. Mark's Church, Melbourne, he left Australia in January 1926 and proceeded to the Holy Trinity College in Canton. He became Principal of the College from 1928 to 1930. In 1931, he was appointed Acting Warden of St. Andrew's Hostel in Canton Union Theological College.
Rev. Wittenbach later came to Hong Kong and was the Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon prior to the Japanese invasion. After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned with his wife and two small children at Stanley Camp.
H. A. Wittenbach's name/signature appears in light brown just above bottom left of the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum.
See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30083388. An explanation of the "Day Joyce Sheet" is given at: https://gwulo.com/media/46458