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Margaret MORRISON (née MCCOLM, aka Maggie) [1896-1981]

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Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Married Robert Morrison in 1925 and gave birth to daughter Elsy in 1926. Emigrated to HK in 1928 and lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, HK Dockyard.

Evacuated to Brisbane with daughter during WW2

Emigrated to UK in 1960s

Paternal great grandmother of author

Elsy COLMANS (née MORRISON) [1926-2017]

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Daughter of Robert Morrison and Margaret McColm Morrison

Born in Glasgow, emigrated to HK in 1928

Married Louis Colmans and had 4 x children

Lived at 9 Braga Circuit, HK

Evacuated to Brisbane with her mother Margaret during WW2

1954 - lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Kowloon Dock (Marriage Cert)

Emigrated to Southend on Sea, Essex in 1967

Author's Paternal Grandmother

Robert MORRISON [1884-1983]

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Interned at Sham Shui Po camp during WW2, Corporal in the No 2 Company (Scottish) HKVDC.

Boilermaker by trade, Foreman at HK & Whampoa Shipyard. Lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Hong Kong Dockyard

Wife - Margaret Malcolm (nee Haugh)

Daughter - Elsy Sharp

Emigrated to Hong Kong on 14 Sept 1928, moved back to the UK in the 1960s.

Paternal great grandfather of author

William Lodge ALEXANDER [c.1901-1941]

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Entry in the list of casualties:

HKVDC Alexander W L Gunner DR234 1941-12-25 killed

 

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List: 

c   Alexander, William Lodge Chartered Accountant, Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming. 276 The Peak.

Robert Fraser FORBES [1891-????]

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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.

John THOMSON [1837-1921]

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John Thomson was a photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of China and Hong Kong in the 1860s and early 1870s.  

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