Everything tagged: Hong Kong

• Around 230 Portuguese survivors were imprisoned in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po Camp. Despite harsh conditions, the men entertained themselves with shows. Sonny Castro was known for his imitations of actresses like Carmen Miranda. He kept up the men's spirits by performing in many shows. One Canadian officer remembered Sonny as a "wow" of a girl and noted that the shows were wonderful for the morale of the whole camp.
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Gladys Emma Ingram was born in India in 1891, and was part of a large family.  Her father was a barrister.  Gladys' parents, Thomas and Victoria Ingram, were close friends of William and Evangeline Booth, founders of the Salvation Army, and the family was strongly evangelical in its faith.

"A WIDOW'S ESTATE

MRS. A. CHRISTIANSEN OF KOWLOON

GUARDIAN FOR DAUGHTER

Mrs. Alice Christiansen, a widow, who died of heart failure at the age of 45 on July 20, 1929, at No. 42, Humphrey's building, Kowloon, left no will. Letters of administration to her estate have now been granted by the Supreme Court to Mr. Wallace John Hansen, import and export merchant, of No. 7, Queen's road Central.

The estate has been sworn for duty at $8,300.

Info from C.S. card 00121011/12 .GIF states: "Mr W. Lyson who died at his residence 29 Kai Tack Bund, has been resident for almost the whole of his 71 years. He was father of the late C.H. Lyson, who served with distinction in the Great War and subsequently returned to Hong Kong as a solicitor and ultimately became principal in Messrs. Lyson and Hall. Mr Lyson senior served in P.W.D. for a number of years but left to join Mr Hazeland, architect. Latterly lived in retirement in Kowloon City. Funeral today. Chiu Yuen Cemetery, Mt.

The following passage is from Tracing my Children's Lineage by Eric Ho:

Dr. A. S. Gomes was 77 years of age and spent the greater part of his life in Hong Kong. Leaving Macao at an early age, he came to Hong Kong and completed his medical education in London and Edinburgh. He found considerable success as a practitioner and made a wide circle of friends. In 1894, he retired after making a fortune by speculating in shares. Since then, he devoted himself to charitable causes both in Hong Kong and Macao. 

Winifred Lechmere Clift was the wife of, and co-worker with, a pioneering medical missionary working in China.  They both worked for the CMS, and then the BCMS, spending the latter half of their lives in Hong Kong.

His death was reported on page 2 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1894-07-04:

Notes from annpake:

Leon Weill  born 15 January 1906 Hong Kong and died 27 April 1944 Shamshuipo POW Camp Husband of Vera father of Gerald and Bernard (Grave Stone Happy Valley Kong Kong) (Commonwealth War Graves shows death as 27 April 1945)

His entry in the 1942 list of POWs:

Karen Mok (or Karen Joy Natterer (née Morris) (Chinese: 莫文蔚), 2 June 1970) is a Hong Kong pop diva who is one of the leading Asian pop singers and actresses with a career spanning three decades. She is the first female Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Melody Award and has won it a total of three times. She has released 17 solo studio albums, starred in over 40 movies, has over 15 million followers on leading Chinese social media site Weibo and holds the Guinness World Record for the Highest Altitude Mass-Attended Music Concert.