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Marjorie ELSTON (née GARROD) [????-????]

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 12/09/2014 - 15:56

Marjorie Stintzi writes:

Marjorie Garrod was born in Hong Kong.  Her father Henry Garrod had joined the Colonial Government on 4-21-1898.  

She married A H Elston on August 9, 1924   Marjorie Elston and her younger son, Jeremy, were evacuated to Australia prior to invasion.  She worked as a government censor in Sydney.  Jeremy was at Kings School, Paramatta, as a student/boarder.  Both of their sons, Michael and Jeremy, were born in Hong Kong.

Thomas GITTINS [1844-1931]

Submitted by jill on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 05:18

Son of Thomas Gittins snr. (1814-1893).

Worked for the tea company, John Gittins & Co., Foochow, managed by his brother John Gittins. Appears in a group photo taken at the race course in Foochow in 1899. Photo held by Museum of History. P.1976.66.

Died in Tadworth, Surrey.