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Deacons archive at HKU

A tree I manage on Geni.com was merged with another tree, each containing Charles David Bottomley, an attorney. So I did a new search on his name brought up an XL file with abstracts of lots of various transaction by Deacons.  

This one was entry

" C D Bottomley and Mary Angell (Angele) - (1), Note on birth and baptism of Maria Louisa Emily Angele, with English translation. 1902 Feb 8, [language] Latin "  

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David

It’s a long shot, but I’m wondering whether, with your magic mapping, it would be possible to compose a “family map” pinpointing on one map the addresses where the various members of my family lived, within a period of 5 years.

Dropping 4 May 2016. 

more ...http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Wives.htm

Also see Simon's blog "The House that Opium built" ... http://simonjohnston.ca/Blog.php

The House of Wives

a novel by Simon Choa-Johnston

TWO WOMEN COMPETE FOR THE AFFECTIONS OF THEIR OPIUM-MERCHANT HUSBAND IN A TALE OF FRIENDSHIP, FORTUNE AND RIVALRY IN COLONIAL HONG KONG

I currently live in SiuSaiWan and work voluntarily with a local district councilor in trials to recommend local government in hoping to re-vitalize the living quarter (now ruined but still there) of Collinson Anti Aircraft Searchlight (AASL) to become a meaningful historical and recreational facility. 

Where no source is given, the number of case is taken from a table on page M25 of the Medical & Sanitary report for 1929, http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1929/709.pdf

I've just upgraded the viewer that we use to zoom in on photos. I've noticed three benefits:

1. Zoom in closer

The old version let us zoom in til the resolution of the image matches the resolution of your screen. The new version lets you zoom in further. Of course we're not really getting any more detail as that depends on the image file. But with a sharp photo I find it does help to be able to zoom in further, especially when looking at writing.

2. Bookmark and share your view

The following text and images originally appeared as chapter 6 of "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013. (Click here for more information about the book and how to order.) This is Volume 3 of Terry Bennett's work on China's photo history. They are reproduced here with the kind permission of the author and publisher.

Chapter 6

This is a first, as I'll be talking about Gwulo itself for a change:

Hello

I'm interested to hear from anyone who might have informaiton and or pictures of what Austin Avene and the surrounding area looked like in the early 1960s. I am a foundling who was left on the stairwell of number 9 Austin avenue that "block" when last I visited back in 2012 was offices and a night club

But I would love to know more about that area what was there where the local police station might have been



Many thanks

L