Eva WEBB ANDERSON (née RAWCLIFFE) [????-????]

Submitted by jill on Sat, 03/07/2015 - 03:09
Names
Given
Eva
Family
Webb Anderson
Maiden
Rawcliffe
Sex
Female
Status
Deceased

Eva Webb Anderson was the wife of the Wesleyan missionary doctor, Reverend W.J. Webb Anderson. Carl Smith records their marriage at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Hong Kong in 1901. I believe the Webb Andersons retired from Fatshan to Hong Kong in 1916 and lived at The Cottage, 19 Broadwood Road until 1923, when they went back to England. I haven't yet been able to check the Ladies' Directories for this period. 

According to my father, a Miss Rawcliffe - possibly Mrs Webb Anderson's niece - was engaged as governess by his father, CE Warren, to accompany him and his brother, aged 7 and 11, on the sea voyage to school in Canada in 1917. If anyone comes across any mentions of Mrs Webb Anderson or Miss Rawcliffe in Hong Kong around this time, I'd be most grateful to know. Although the family story was that Miss Rawcliffe eloped with a ship's officer, leaving the boys at their school a fortnight before term started while making off with the money she had been given to spend on their uniform, it seems to have been a short-lived affair, as she is recorded as leaving Hong Kong together with the Webb Andersons when the Reverend Webb Anderson retired, still using her maiden name.

Jill

Other reference
Wesleyan Methodist Church Ist generation

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