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Anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary and author of The Chinese Republic: Secret History of the Revolution (1924), co-founder (with Alfred Cunningham) of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong in November 1903, airship designer and mercantile assistant of Thoresen & Co. Ltd

"IN MEMORIAM

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TSE TSAN TAI - In ever loving memory of our dearest father, James Tse Tsan Tai, who passed away on April 4, 1938. "Always in our thoughts."

My Great Grand Aunt Edith, known in the family as Edie, married David Christie of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company on 17 December 1902 at St Peter’s Church, Hong Kong by Rev. J.K. France. The marriage announcement notes her name as Edith Jones and that she was from Melbourne and Sydney.

Edith Christie subsequently moved to Shanghai.  I am trying to locate any material of her time in Hong Kong.  Family history has her being an artiste, not a dancer, in her own words. Perhaps she came as part of a theatre troupe? 

Percy Ablong served with the British Army during World War I where he suffered severe injuries and gas inhalation. He was repatriated back to the colony and died on 19 April 1916. He never married.

Buried Hong Kong cemetery

Born in Sydney to parents Michael Higgins (d. 1852-03-03) and Anne Ryan (d.1853-01-22), who were of Irish extract, originally from Ireland. Mary Higgins married George Ah Kin in 1872, and subsequently had 15 children: Emma, Margaret, George (Jr), Thomas, Agnes Mary, Samuel, James Joseph, John Patrick, Alexander, Walter Henry, Elizabeth, Mary, William Gabriel, Alice Maud, Violet May, 

Source: "Eurasian Roots - A Story of the Life and Times of George Ah Kin and Mary Higgins and their Descendants" by Barbara Moore.