In 1920 Violet Capell became the first full time ballet teacher in Hong Kong. At the beginning all her stduents were westerners but by 1937 about half of her students were Asians
Ana Joaquina Maria D'Almada e Castro married Wilfred "Willie" Alexander Reed on August 21, 1939 at Rosary Church, Kowloon, and had one daughter, Angela, who was born in Macau. Willie passed away on March 20, 1971 in Hong Kong at age 65. Belle, as she was known, passed away on March 6, 2000 in Seattle, just a month short of her 91st birthday. Angela resides in Kirkland, Washington. <Read more ...>
6.30 A.M., 24th June, 1872, the beloved daughter of BENJAMIN and ELIZA STANFORD, aged 10 months and 10 days. Funeral will take place this evening."<Read more ...>
The above details on the birth and death dates of Robert Cyril Reed, uncle of Angela Niles, were supplied by eurasion_david, who kindly copied his obituary from the SCMP:
"EX-TEACHER DIES
Mr. Robert Cyril Reed, a long-time resident, died on Saturday. He was 66.
Mr Reed was a teacher at the Moral Training School in Kowloon Tong.
He was a keen follower of hockey, cricket and lawn bowls.<Read more ...>
Yeung Sau-king (nicknamed "Mermaid") was a famous Hong Kong swimmer and Olympian who was active in the 1930s. She represented Hong Kong in two Chinese National Games (1933, 1935), and represented China in the 1934 Far Eastern Championship Games and 1936 Olympic Games. She broke multiple swimming records of Hong Kong, China and the Far East. She was a secret agent for China in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, and became a leader in life saving in the 1960s. There is a lot of false information about her on the internet based on untrue reports in 1940s tabloids. <Read more ...>
