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Annie Louisa OLSON (née MOORE BURKE) [1889-1966]

Submitted by jill on Fri, 09/06/2024 - 01:32

Annie Moore Burke was educated at the Canossian Convent in Hong Kong together with her younger sister, Clara. She married John Olson (2) from the convent aged 17 in 1906. They had four sons, Ernest, Hugh, William Oswald, and Charles. Latterly they lived at 13 Broadwood Road. Annie took their children to England in 1919 to continue their education there. The couple bought a house in Chiswick, London, but returned with their youngest son in 1921 to be present when the partnership of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. was broken up.

Marrying from the Italian Convent

Submitted by jill on Sun, 06/21/2020 - 23:57

A subject, which may have been covered elsewhere, as it is a part of Hong Kong’s social history, is the question of how to find a suitable European bride in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For young bachelors in the lower strata of European society the pool of well brought up girls was very small. But there did exist a pool of very well brought up European and Eurasian girls, who had had very little exposure to the wider world.