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Robert Fraser FORBES [1891-????]

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2022-01-09 01:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Forbes
Given: 
Robert Fraser
Birth
Date: 
1891-03-30

Robert Fraser Forbes was married to the daughter of Edwin Henry and Celestina Summers, whose name I haven't been able to discover. He appears in the Jurors List as working for Mustard & Co. His address is given as 7 Aimai Villas, Kowloon, which was also an address of E.H. Summers.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Mustard & Co.
7 Aimai Villas
Edwin Henry Sparks Summers

Benjamin Thomas Stuart ROSS [1917-1980]

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2021-12-19 10:06
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Ross
Given: 
Benjamin Thomas Stuart
Birth
Date: 
1917-02-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Tomintoul, Banffshire
Death
Date: 
c.1980-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
police

John THOMSON [1837-1921]

Submitted by LizB on Tue, 2021-10-05 01:39
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Thomson
Given: 
John
Birth
Date: 
1837-06-14
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
c.1921-09-29 (Day is approximate)

John Thomson was a photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of China and Hong Kong in the 1860s and early 1870s. There is currently an exhibition of some of John Thomson's photographs (including some taken in Hong Kong) at the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, until March 2022. 

 

The following is an extract from an article published on the BBC website on 3 October 2021, "The pioneering Scots photographer who captured China":

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
hotz

Francis Scott FRASER [1924-2007]

Submitted by Gwygai on Fri, 2021-08-06 15:41
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Fraser
Given: 
Francis Scott
Birth
Date: 
1924-03-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Birgham, Roxburghshire
Death
Date: 
c.2007-09-07 (Day is approximate)
Cause of death: 
0ldage
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland

Andrew Howie MCBRIDE [1900-1955]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2021-05-09 11:46
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
McBride
Given: 
Andrew Howie
Birth
Date: 
1900-08-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Dumbarton
Death
Date: 
c.1955-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Entry on the list of civilian internees:

McBride A H 41 Engineer   5  
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp

Robert REED [1834-1873]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2021-01-18 03:40
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Reed
Given: 
Robert
Birth
Date: 
1834-04-19
Death
Date: 
1873-01-01
Other
Other reference: 
Freemason

Not much information in the Carl Smith cards on Robert Reed that I can find. He married Anna Maria Diaz or Dias at the Roman Catholic Cathedral on 2 May 1861. [CS card 00135693GIF]  He was Protestant, but I don't think he is buried in the Colonial Cemetery at Happy Valley. Their daughter Lucretia Maria Reed was baptised on 24 February 1867 at the RC Cathedral at 38 days old. Anna Maria married Charles Bond after Reed's death. Lucretia married Patrick Murray.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Lucretia Murray
Amaro Reed
Anna Maria Bond

Helen Fairlie GERRARD (née HENDERSON, aka Nell) [1897-????]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2021-01-10 14:54
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Gerrard
Given: 
Helen Fairlie
Maiden: 
Henderson
Alias / nickname: 
Nell
Birth
Date: 
c.1897-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Leith, Edinburgh
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
those not interned

Alexander Hugh DINNEN [1914-1992]

Submitted by David on Sun, 2021-01-10 13:07
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Dinnen
Given: 
Alexander Hugh
Birth
Date: 
1914-10-04
Birthplace (town, state): 
Greenock
Death
Date: 
1992-11-10

Mentioned in the list of POWs:

Dinnen A H HKVDC Sergeant 1718
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
pow
HKVDC

James Henry KYNOCH [c.1882-1926]

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2020-11-29 04:12
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kynoch
Given: 
James Henry
Birth
Date: 
c.1882-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
1926-02-05
Other
Other reference: 
C.E. Warren's funeral

James Kynoch was Senior Inspector of Works at the time of his death and had been with the PWD for 18 years. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the original promoters of the Kowloon Golf Club, a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club and a member of the Committee of the Union Church, Kowloon. He seems to have been a long standing friend and PWD contact of my grandfather, Charles Warren and a Kowloon neighbour. He is one of the twenty or so people listed in the SCMP as attending Charles Warren's funeral at St Michael's Cemetery in June 1923.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Public Works Department
Kowloon Golf Club
Kowloon Cricket Club
Union Church

James MCDOUGALL (aka Sonny) [c.1914-1991]

Submitted by Mark Collins on Sun, 2020-06-28 20:21
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
McDougall
Given: 
James
Alias / nickname: 
Sonny
Birth
Date: 
c.1914-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
1991-06-01
James McDougall
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland

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