New on Gwulo: 2023, week 04

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

 

General

• Readers have translated the sign on the recent photo of the man in the stocks, dating it to 1903 and identifying the man and his crime.
  
   
• One more photo for the Year of the Rabbit - the boy on the left of this 1930 Hong Kong photo is holding his pet rabbit:
  

  

• Thanks to wingcli2015 for typing up the 1861 Jurors List for all to benefit from.
  
   
• 25 Field Squadron, Royal Engineers and the 'fist' Chinese character in their emblem
  
   
• Adoption in pre-war Hong Kong
  • Fanling Babies Home [1940-1992]
    
     
  • Taipo Rural Home and Orphanage / St Christopher's Home, Tai Po [1935-1993]
    
     
• Looking for information about:
  • The Lee Kee brick manufacturer
    
     
  • Were there any major landslides in the Hong Kong Cemetery that could explain why no remains were found when a grave was exhumed?

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Places

• Hong Kong Island
  • Benfica / Bemfica - IL 712 [????-????], Robinson Road
    
     
  • Club Germania, aka The German Club
    • Club Germania (German Club) - 2nd location [1865-????]
      
       
    • Club Germania (German Club) (Wyndham St - 3rd location) / French Hotel / Hotel America / Baltimore Hotel / Nippon Club / College Chambers [1872-????]
      
       
    • Club Germania (German Club) - 4th location / St. Joseph's College [1902-1962]
  • Exchange Building / Court House (later Supreme Court) [1843-1921]
    
     
  • Juvinex Lodge / Tai Wo Yuen Hospital [c.1925-c.1957]
    
     
  • National Theatre at Marsh & Lockhart [1940-1973], cinema
    
     
  • Pentecostal Tabernacle, 11 Seymour Road [1937- ]
    
     
  • Postbox near Man Mo Temple [????-????]
    
     
  • Tung Sun & Co. [????-????], tailors on Queen's Rd C.
    
     
• Kowloon
  • The Bible Auditorium [1949-????], Chatham Road
    
     
  • Highball Restaurant and Nightclub [????-????], in Manson House
    
     
  • Hung Hom Police Station (1st generation) [c.1875-c.1950]
    
     
  • Pei Ho Theatre / 北河戲院 [1934-1977], cinema
    
     
  • Plot Markers for NKIL 4564, NKIL 4805
    
     
  • Tai Kok Tsui Ferry Pier [1972-1992]
    
     
• New Territories
  • NKFL 5 boundary marker
    
     

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People

 

Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society (BCMS) [1922- ], one of the missionary groups active in Hong Kong.

 

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Mary Stobie BRUCE (aka Maisie) [c.1910-????]
    
     
  • John Coleman CHARTER [1912-1989], PWD architect
    
     
  • Dr Harry Lechmere CLIFT [1876-1949], missionary
    
     
  • Nell Ellen ELLIOTT [1889-????], social worker
    
     
  • Ethel Rita NAYLOR [c.1889-????], governess, then shop owner
    
     
  • George William MORTIMER [c.1916-????], baker
    
     
  • Elizabeth Margaret NANCE (née KENNINGTON) [1917-2013], missionary
    
     
• Other
  • Mateen Ahmed ANSARI [1915-1943], army officer, executed by the Japanese
    
     
  • Lucy CLAY [????-????], registered nurse and missionary
    
     
  • Lula Bell HOUGH [1906-2002], missionary
    
     
  • David KOSSICK [1896-1941], engineer and ship surveyor
    
     
  • Ruth LITTLE [c.1914-????], missionary
    
     
  • Michael Francis O'SULLIVAN [1880-1960]
    
     
  • Yuri Vitalievitch SMIRNOFF (aka George) [1903-1947], Russian artist
    
     
  • Henry Percy WHITE (aka Shiney / Mr. Dryasdust) [1863-1929], Chairman of the Hongkong Club, racing enthusiast, and his younger brother Athelstan Holt WHITE [1871-1942]

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