Everything tagged: Hong Kong

Dates of her birth and death come from https://jhshk.org/community/the-jewish-cemetery/burial-list/gubbay-kati…

I am currently working on a research project about an Italian Catholic priest, Father Enea Tapella (達碑立神父) from the (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, PIME), who spent his good years in Hong Kong between 1957 and 1977, and was renowned with his unselfish contribution to mentally handicapped children in Hong Kong.  In those years not only support for this group of people, and their parents, were very limited, they were also subject to unfair discrimination by other people.  Father Tapella initiated volunteer groups in several parishes he served in Hong Kon

DoB from her Wikipedia page.

Her entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

I'm very sorry to have received news that Alison died last week. Her contributions to Gwulo include two wartime diaries that she painstakingly typed up from the originals: the account of her father, Colin McEwan, and that of R. E. Jones.

In 2010, Alison introduced us to Mr Jones's diary:

I've recently started transcribing a diary in my family's possession [...]

How my father Colin McEwan came by it we don't know, but it turned up as we slowly went through my parents' books.

John Howell May died at 33 Caine Road in 1919 aged 83. The Rate Books also give him as the owner of the house during the first decade of the century when my great-grandfather, John Olson and his family were living there. He retired and returned to Hong Kong in 1911, the year that John Olson and his wife moved to 98a Wanchai Road, purchased by C.E. Warren & Co. the same date. John May joined the Chinese Imperial Customs in 1860 and subsequently became Harbour Master of Shanghai. May also bought nos.

Death reported in the China Mail 12 June 1900 at 26 Elgin Road. Retired civil servant and owner of various properties. Was clerk in the Colonial Treasurer's Office. He was additionally executor for John Steward, boarding house keeper of Queen's Road who died in 1877. He left bequests to his unmarried daughter, Zulaika Madar, to his sons, Solaiman and Omar Madar, to his married daughters, Sophia Moodeem and Mariam Ramjahn and also to his nephew and great-nieces. His brother was Ismail Pillay Madar.