Everything tagged: John Olson (2)

Annie Moore Burke was educated at the Canossian Convent in Hong Kong together with her younger sister, Clara. She married John Olson (2) from the convent aged 17 in 1906. They had four sons, Ernest, Hugh, William Oswald, and Charles. Latterly they lived at 13 Broadwood Road. Annie took their children to England in 1919 to continue their education there. The couple bought a house in Chiswick, London, but returned with their youngest son in 1921 to be present when the partnership of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. was broken up.

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.