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Martha Kate MORE [1858-1938]
Probate England and Wales Calendar
03 Mar 1939 • Martha Kate More of Lauriston Hotel Bowen Road Hong Kong Probate John Owen Hughes and Kenneth Sinclair Morrison merchants
She appears in my personal family tree. She married Andrew Charles More 8 March 1889 St Johns Hong Kong and was the proprietress of the hotel.
She appears in the Ladies Directory from 1890 onwards.
She was born in Clevedon Somerset England in 1958
Annie Louisa OLSON (née MOORE BURKE) [1889-1966]
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.
Susan KAILEY [c.1881-1939]
Her grave is in the Hong Kong Cemetery:
| 12A--/05/21- | In loving memory / of / SUSAN / the beloved wife of / WILLIAM KAILEY / Died 12th February 1939 / aged 58 years / Christ shall lead us when the right shall / cease to the fields of everlasting peace / when the soul that all the way hath trod / Resteth calm in God. urn - in loving memory of / Susan / from May #9823 |
Tsit Sam YEUNG [1850-1920]
Buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery:
| 16Ci-/01/06- |
Chinese Characters In loving memory of / Yeung Tsit Sam / born at Paksan, Heungshan / April 7th 1850 / died at Hong Kong / Feb. 14th 1920 / I am the resurrection and the life and / he that believeth in me / though he were dead, yet shall live / erected by his son Fuki and son-in-law T. Bolt# 8419 |
Christopher J. LIVINGSTON [1906-????]
Christopher J. Livingston worked for Caltex in Indo-China, India, Korea as well as Hong Kong. He was present in Hong Kong during its surrender to the Japanese and was interned at Stanley Camp. Livingston was released and repatriated to the United States in 1942. Upon his return to the U. S., he continued to work for Caltex and was sent to India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Source
1. The Shanghai Evening Star and Mercury
Lam Shi HUNG [1856-1915]
1856 - A daughter is born on April 10 to a Chinese mother. This daughter eventually marries Lam Fai Wing (also Eurasian) and becomes known as Hung Lam Shi.
1915 - Hung Lam Shi dies on November 26, aged 59. She is buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery in HK.
Frederick Arthur EWINS (aka Freddie) [1904-1974]
Frederick Arthur Ewins was born in England on March 4th, 1904, and served with the British Army and the Shanghai Defence Force before joining the Shanghai Municipal Police as a Probationary Sergeant in 1928. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1931, Sub-Inspector in 1937 and Inspector in 1941. His contract was terminated by the Japanese on February 22nd, 1943.