Everything tagged: Hong Kong

Arthur Cecil Warren was the fourth child of Charles Edward Warren and Hannah Mabel Warren. Like his brothers he was educated in Hong Kong, Canada and England. He joined C.E. Warren & Co., Hong Kong in 1923 the same year that his father died and at the same time as his elder brother, Leslie, took over management of the company. He had to return to England for medical treatment in 1928 or 1929 and died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 21 April 1930 at the Southampton Isolation Hospital aged only 23.

Firstly what an amazing site this is!

I came across it trying to establish the family of Cecilia Tarrant nee Millar. Cecilia was married to John Arthur Tarrant between 1900-1906.  John Arthur Tarrant worked for A&S Watson. There seem to be a couple of Millar families in Kowloon and I wondered if anyone knew if Cecilia was connected to them?

Chris wrote in to the Stanley Camp Discussion List:

I regret coming so late to your party! ..and I'm not sure how probing the old scar tissue is going to work out - but here goes anyway..

As I read the old messages a bell jangles in several places - too many to cover in one hit, so I'll pick on a couple.

Margery Fortescue! My mother (Norah Potter) mentions her many times in her notes: they were good friends in Stanley.

Thanks to Joan for these notes about her life:

I was born in Hong Kong in 1935 & stayed there until I left with my mother, brother and sister on the M/V "Neptuna" in August of 1940, bound for Australia.  (Incidentally the "Neptuna" was later sunk in Darwin.)

1961 Hong Kong at Kowloon City Pier - child abandoned is looking for her parents

Not to be confused with his father of the same name.

Alfred Ernest Ablong was in the Volunteers andd he appears on a Colonial Office list of POWs in Shamshuipo as Ablong A. E. Jnr., HKVDC Corporal 2468.

At some point after the war he migrated to the USA and died in Glendale California.

Sources:

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/hkvdc.html

Hong Kong - Official Lists (Colonial Office)

Died in Dublin and buried at Deansgrange Cemetery.

I'm looking for photos / sketches / portraits of him for the CPS project's history book.

The book, "Twentieth century impressions of ...", published in 1908, says he had been appointed to be the second Police Magistrate in 1901 (though he'd been in that role as 'acting second Police Magistrate' since 1900: