Dorinda Sara JONES (née LEE, aka Dora) [1865-1900] Hong Kong Cemetery plot 18---/08/08

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 23:31

Dora (nee Lee) Jones (born Wexford, Ireland) was the wife of John William Lee-Jones (born Chester, UK). They had two children: Kathleen Lee Jones (1887-approx 1970) born Hong Kong; Reginald Wynne Lee Jones (1890-1940) born Chester, UK. John first went to Hong Kong as a school master and spoke Cantonese and passed the Bar in England (Oct 1896)and became a lawyer with the Hong Kong Supreme Court.  Dora married John 30 Dec 1886 at Hong Kong St John's Cathederal. Dora died in 1900 in Hong Kong and is buried at Old Hong Kong Cemetery plot 18--/08/08.  John later changed his name to Lee-Jones and remarried twice (no issue) and died 1942 in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.

 

Kathleen married Alan F. Wheen and had a son named Edward (born Shanghai 1909) 

 

Reginald married Mary Eleanor Morris (born abt 1897 and died 1981 in Australia) and after WWI moved to Tasmania and Reginald died there in 1940; no children.

 

The Lee family genealogist is Dora's Great Grand Niece: Lee-Jones Researcher 1.

 

8 Dec 2012

Date picture taken
30 Dec 2011