Everything tagged: United States

Heinrich Kirchmann, who anglicised his name to Henry in Hong Kong, was the much younger brother of Louis Kirchmann. He was license holder of the Rising Sun at the same time as Louis was license holder of The Land we Live In. He is named in Jarrett's "Old Hong Kong" in the list of license holders of Hotels and Taverns.  He died in California aged 88, leaving a widow. Mrs. Johanne M.H. Kirchmann, three daughters and a son, also called Henry. (Gwulo contributor, Susann, who has been researching the Petersen and Kirchmann families, is the source of this information.)

Nellie was the youngest daughter of John Olson and the fifth of his six children. She was step-sister of my grandmother, Hannah Warren. Her birth certificate gives her mother as Cheng A-Fung, who would later take Ellen as her Christian name, making two Ellens in the family. Nellie was born at 1 Ladder Street Terrace. The Ladies Directory gives her as living with her mother in Caine Road until at least 1907 after the birth of her nephew, Arthur, when her address is given at Charles and Hannah Warren's home at 2 Observatory Villas.

Ethel Groce was born in 1909 in Troy, Missouri, USA, and completed her schooling there. 

José Maria (‘Jack’) Braga

Florence Meeker was born in Cook, Illinois in 1905.

She married Erwin Raetz and they had two children, Paul and Beth.

Erwin Raetz was born in 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA.  He trained in the ministry and was ordained.

He married Florence Meeker and they had two children, Paul and Beth.

Elizabeth Howard was born in Minneapolis USA in 1912 and grew up as a daughter of missionaries.  Her father was a professor in the geology department of the University of Minnesota.  When she was five the family moved to China where her father lectured at Canton Christian College for 10 years.

Born in England (1913) but raised in Canada, Verent Mills gave up a promising career as a diesel engineer to became a missionary (with a heart for children) to south China in 1931.  Desperately lonely, he cabled his fiancee Alma Kenney back home, and invited her to join the work.  She came straight out, they married in 1932 and continued the work, at the same time raising a family there.   Together they started