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Thorwald HANSEN (aka Carl) [1897-1945]

Submitted by ssuni86 on Sat, 12/23/2023 - 02:10

Able-Bodied Seaman aboard the Admiral Y.S. Williams, an American freighter in dry dock at Hong Kong in December 1941.  Captured after the fall of Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.   Prisoner at Sham Shui Po POW Camp.  From San Francisco. 

Heinrich KIRCHMANN (aka Henry) [1851-1940]

Submitted by jill on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 00:35

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.)

Emil WIEWELS [1871-1899]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 07:45

"DEATH.

On Sunday night, the 3rd December, at the Government Civil Hospital, EMIL WIEWELS, a native of Trier, and late with Messrs Carlowitz & Co., Canton"

Emile J. BRANDT [1865-1898]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Mon, 01/31/2022 - 02:51

“The funeral of Mr. Emil Brand, chief petty officer in one of the vessels of the American squadron in the harbour, took place on Tuesday afternoon, the remains being interred in the Happy Valley. Deceased was a Mason, taking his R.A. degree a short time ago in St. Andrew’s Chapter, and a large number of local Masons, including several in the British naval and military services, attended the obsequies. The body was conveyed from the Praya in a hearse, which was preceded by the band of the Olympia, and the American flag.

Heinrich LINDEMANN [1878-1900]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Thu, 11/25/2021 - 00:49

A cook on board the German sailing vessel R.C. Rickmers who died tragically whilst saving a drowning colleague in Hong Kong. 

 

“A Life for a Life

 

Friedrich Hermann Arnold FUCHS [1865-1929]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Wed, 11/24/2021 - 07:01

German merchant for Siemssen & Co. in Hong Kong  

Baptised 28th June 1865 Thuringia, Germany 

Departed Hamburg, Germany 21st April 1886 on board the ship Iphigenia for Hong Kong. He was living at Dresden at the time and his occupation was a merchant ('Kaufmann')

Married Maria Magdalena Spalckhaver at Lorenz, Lübeck. Germany 6th October 1896  

He died in Hamburg, Germany in 1929

H.L.M. LORENTZ [????-1885]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 14:18

"On Tuesday evening a German named Lorentz died at the Civil Hospital from the effects of an accident on board the German steamer Iphigenia in this harbour on Sunday afternoon. Lorentz was a passenger from Shanghai by the steamer, having been sent home on account of his health. On Sunday afternoon he mistook the door to the 'tween decks for that of the companion way, and had a fall onto the 'tween decks, sustaining such injuries that he died at the Civil Hospital on Tuesday evening.

Paul KUPFER [1842-1881]

Submitted by friendsofhongk… on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 14:48

Paul Kupfer was the Kapitän zur See of Freya. His grave is also included in Patricia Lim's book and its location is in Section 8. According to Hong Kong Telegraph, his funeral procession was descibed to be 'the largest and most imposing service spectacle witnessed in Hongkong since the funeral of the late Lieutanant O'Geran of the 80th regiment in November, 1874' [1]. Flags at the German Consulate, German companies and vessles were at half-mast. [2] 'Nearly the whole of the German residents in the colony' were present at the procession. [3]

Wilhelm Gahar GARDNER (aka William) [1834-1875]

Submitted by rudanenberg on Sat, 12/08/2018 - 00:07

Wilhelm is my great-grandfather from my mother side of the family. He first established in Macau and at that point Anglisized his name to "Gardner".

He operated the Oriental Hotel until August 1869 when the hotel burned to the ground.

He moved his family to Hong Kong and obtained a license to operate the Hamburgh Tavern and Boarding House.

(Ref. Page 359, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Patricia Lim)