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Harold CLARKE [1873-1904]

Submitted by fossilized4you on

Harold was an engineer and partner at the marine surveying company Carmichael and Clarke.

He married his love Annie Gwenffa Smitho on March 17, 1903.

He passed away on August 17, 1904 after a long battle with pneumonia and then typhoid.

Harold is buried in Hong Kong.

Louis DE ROME [1887-1974]

Submitted by David on

Entry in the 1941 Juror's List:

c   Rome, Louis de Engineer, H.K. Electric Co., Ld. 205 King's Road, Flat 7.

Phyllis Irene FINCH [1901-1976]

Submitted by Helen Shields on

Miss Phyllis Finch was born in Sticklepath, Devon, England in 23 Nov 1901 and died there 17 Mar 1976.  7 members of her family were Methodist Ministers and she became a geography teacher and Methodist Missionary to China, teaching mainly in Fatshan School.  She was interned at Stanley Camp as far as I understand though she is not on the list of internees on this site. 

John HANSBURY [1916-1994]

Submitted by miyow on

Born into a working-class family in Warrington, Northern England, John Hansbury grew up in grinding poverty among the steel mills of Lancashire (now Cheshire). He had a gift for mathematics, and was able to take advantage of scholarships to get the education necessary to become a draftsman.

Henry ELGAR [c.1816-1852]

Submitted by Bob Kerr on

I'm researching the life of Henry Elgar.  (See below for background summary.)

The following advertisment appeared in the Melbourne, Australia newspaper The Argus, Thursday 20 Jan 1853: