Everything tagged: England

Captain Henry Walter Walker and his wife, Tomé, lived at the house called "Brinkelly", no. 15 Broadwood Road, from the inception of Broadwood Road in 1916. (See my post on Tomé Walker). They were near neighbours of my grandfather, C.E. Warren, who probably built their house, but I know nothing about them. I haven't found Henry Walker in the Jurors Lists or the Carl Smith Index. Any information welcome.

As I said in my previous post, Henry Walker died in 1940, aged 73, and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

Jill

My father, Tony Griffiths was part of the last military service deployment to HK in the late 50s, returning early 60s. Exact dates aren't known. 

He was originally in the REME, I believe as Lance Corporal, and had a connection with the medical arm, I understand issuing medicines within the army. 

Edwin G.W. Sait was a young boy when his widowed mother Mary Ann Sait travelled to Hong Kong to marry Edward Newman. I found Edwin, aged 4 as a boarder with a family in Southampton in 1871. I know Edwin was educated in England and remained there until about 1882.

I think I've found him in the Hong Kong Directory as E. Sait Newman at the Family Hotel Chefoo in 1888 and 1889. Was he there earlier? After or before his stepfather died?

Polly was my aunt.second marriage to Hughes .she had a daughter...Polly had been during the war in a Japanese camp in China..with my grandmother.

Polly married Hughes after the war..he was a policeman..I remember visiting them at the police accommodation Kowloon very near the star ferry...you had to walk up a ramp with enormous trees.

Hughes was her second marriage..the first one was to some US serviceman when she was in her teens...but that was Shanghai.

He's listed on page J129 of the 1939 Blue Book, working as a Sanitary Inspector, having first joined the Hong Kong civil service on 6th Feb, 1931.

There's a Robert Arthur Simpson listed as a Private in the HKVDC on Tony Banham's website. I assume he is the same man.

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Haynes's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

He was the elder brother of Leonard Haynes.