Everything tagged: United Kingdom

"BIRTH.

On the 22nd inst., at South Face, Beacon Hill Tunnel, the wife of FREDERICK SOUTHEY, A.M.I.C.E., of a Daughter."

"A YOUNG naval cadet named Cecil Rowland Brook Drummond belonging to H.M.S. Undaunted, who had just arrived in Hongkong from the Britannia, died in the Naval Hospital yesterday. Dysentery was the cause of death. The funeral took place at the Happy Valley this afternoon with the usual naval honours."

“About five o’clock yesterday afternoon the dead body of William Charles Owen, a sapper in the 25^th Company, Royal Artillery, was found in the harbour at Wanchai. It is not yet known how the deceased, who was 30 years of age, got into the water. He had been missing from barracks since midnight on the 17^th inst., and from all appearances his body had been in the water two or three days. An inquest will be held.”

"BIRTH.

On the 19th July, 1900, at 1, Seymour Terrace, the wife of E.W. MITCHELL, of a son."

Marine Surveyor for Bernie and Goddard, Hong Kong

"DEATHS.

At his residence, Fernside, Robinson Road, on Sunday, the 11th February, EDWARD BURNIE in his 58th year." 

Born circa 1920 medical missionary Peter Jenkins came from Bristol and as a boy wanted to be a drafting engineer.  Then two events changed his mind.  The first was his sister’s decision to become a missionary.  As her brother, Peter felt she shouldn’t have to do this alone.  The second event was a sermon he heard preached at his home church, which said that the cross of Christ was like a letter ‘I’ crossed out, and Christ himself epitomised the ‘I’ of selfishness crossed out.&

From wiki:

George William Forbes Playfair (1852 – 16 May 1918) was a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

He appears in the 1914 Jurors List:

And then in the 1942 list of civilian internees in Stanley Camp:

Notes from Nickie:

I found out today that my Great Grandmother was Alice Fritz Shuster and her father, was Jacob Fritz Shuster.

I came accross the comment that someone had wondered what had happened  to Edward Fritz's sister.

Alice married James Smith Hagen, who was a chemist at the Hong Kong Dispensory and had three children, Eustace, Gladys, (my Grandmother) and Walter.

She died shortly arriving back in England at the end of the war where she was under house arrest.

Father of Joseph Anderson (Hung Kam-Shing) and Henry Graham Anderson (Hung Kam-Ning) - mother was thought to be Annie Sawgan. See Peter Hall's book.

John Graham Anderson was son of Andrew Anderson surgeon to 92nd Highlanders from Selkirk in borders of Scotland. He worked in HK for House of Dent. He was born in Ireland because Andrew was the surgeon there for the 92nd.

He married Rosa MM Pollard daughter of Edward Hutchinson Pollard in HK at St John's Cathedral in Aug 1864.