Everything tagged: Hong Kong

I am researching what happened to my grandfather during WWII, before he came to the UK and married my grandmother Stella Abbott (in July 1950).

Isabel Agnes Allen was my father's mother. She also owned a women's fashion shop in Central in the early 1930s called Elite Styles. I think it may have been in Icehouse Street. She used to travel from Hong Kong to Paris and back again each year to bring back dresses etc for her clients. 

My father was William Lewis Rapley, born on 26 Oct 1918 in Hong Kong. His father was Lewis Stephens Rapley (1885-1936) who was a manager at J. T. Shaw at the time. The address Isabel Agnes Rapley gave on my father's birth certificate was "Sea View", Wanchai Gap Road. 

My father, Charles McConnell Sloan was born in Hong Kong in 1914, the son of John Sloan, an employee of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.

A short biography of Marie Anne Victoria BAGLIN, prepared by her nephews Jean-Jacques and Jean Louis Lecoeur.

Born Marie Anne Victoria Baglin, as a young girl she was called Marie-Anne or “Fifi”, but in later years she was known as Vickie.

Born in Hong Kong July 7, 1937, daughter of Genevieve Baglin and Yoc Ma (a Chinese citizen, met in Paris as student).

Appearance: Eurasian, beautiful, dark skin, long hair.

Style: Business woman, strong minded.

There is additional information about William at https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/burial-list/goldenberg-…

Louis Kirchmann (1840-1891) born in the village of Bockholz in Eckernfoerde near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, was one of a group of tough early tavern keepers, who had Chinese wives. Kirchmann held the licence for The Land We Live In from 1868 until his death in 1891. He and the Swede, John Olson, licence holder of the National Hotel (1866-1885), were close neighbours in Ladder Street Terrace living in nos. 1 and 4 respectively.  Kirchmann’s countryman, C.F.W.

Ian Gill writes:

My grandfather's amazing life in China and how he found my mother

In 1916 in Hunan, Hong Kong-born Frank Newman took in an abandoned baby girl, much to the disapproval of his compatriots. Her son, Manila-based journalist Ian Gill, discovers that was just one of many surprises in the life of a most independent-minded man.

See story in South China Morning Post magazine: