Everything tagged: Hong Kong

Attended Maryknoll Convent School in Happy Valley. Daughter of famous Chinese Medicine Doctor Chen Chuin Yun

Resided at 15 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong, from 1961-1971.

Edited extracts from Mr Silva's letters dated 7.12.2017 and 22.1.2018:

I'm interested to find out more about William Anderson who was the Managing Director of Anderson Music Company and who was one of the first residents of Broadwood Road and close neighbour of my grandfather, Charles Warren. The Rate Book of 1918-1919 has William Anderson at "Gilstead", 18 Broadwood Road, which I believe was one of the houses built by my grandfather's company.  (The Jury List recording Anderson at 19 Broadwood Road must be a typo).

Elizabeth Warnes was the second daughter of John Olson snr. and half sister to Hannah Warren. Her mother was Ching Ah-Fung. Her other siblings were John Olson jnr., Charles W. Olson and Ellen Melcher née Olson. She married Charles Aspinell Warnes at St John's Cathedral in 1905. Their children were Iris, Marjorie and Cyril. Iris's and Marjorie's descendants now live in Australia. They lost touch with their brother, Cyril, who is thought to have emigrated to Canada. Elizabeth is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Happy Valley near her parents.

One of the earliest residents of Broadwood Road is given in the Rate Books as Miss Margaret Annie Bond, a neighbour of my grandfather, C.E. Warren. Her house was no. 8 and called "Beaumont". Other Broadwood Road house owners at the time were C.S. Gubbay and Ellis Kadoorie, so I imagine Miss Bond was quite well off.  I wonder if anyone knows of any record of this lady or whether any photos of her exist. 

Jill 

Arthur Maycock was one of the seven sons of John and Yoshino Maycock. He was educated at the Central British School. The first of his family to die and the only one not to be caught up in the war, he shares a grave with his mother in the Protestant Cemetery in Happy Valley. His father, John Henry Maycock, lies in the grave next to them.