Everything tagged: General

The Carl Smith Collection

... is a very useful tool to help researcher identify basic data and sources of information on individuals, organizations, buildings, roads, land matters and important events relating to Hong Kong, Macau and China's coastal cities from the mid 19th century onward.

The Public Records Office allows the collection to be searched online at: https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarladv.xhtml?rpp=10

from the album of Dave Davies

Has anyone any knowledge of any relations of William Lysaught (1835-1910), born Co. Cork, Ireland, died HK, Inspector Naval Dockyard Police HK, and owner of W. Lysaught & Sons Machinery godown in Wanchai. 

His daughters married Ramsey, Gibson, Cattaneo, step son Henry Dixon of Post Office, and son John Joseph married Norah Murphy, also of Co. Cork.

He, and a lot of the family are buried in St Michael's.

A question from 'The Relic':

Can anyone date the completion of road sections that eventually led to Repulse Bay? What sections were completed first? Island Road, Stubbs Road, Wong Nai Chung Gap Road, Repulse Bay Road, etc. Thanks.

If you're in Hong Kong, I'd suggest looking through old maps of Hong Kong to see when the different sections appear. There are some more suggestions about getting answers here.

Regards, David

Hi folks, Just joined Gwelo, and wondered if anyone who attended KJS at the same as me is out there? Mt dad was in the HK Customs (preventive Service) and we lived in Nairn House (which is still there!)

Next Monday evening there's an RAS (Royal Asiatic Society) talk. You may recognise the speaker, Ms Patricia O'Sullivan. She's asked a couple of questions on Gwulo's forum, and also helped typing up the 1905 Jurors list.

Unfortunately I won't be able to attend, but the talk looks interesting. Here's the RAS announcement:

I have always wondered about an old house used in a 1978 TVB series.  The 100+ episode series was called 強人 and it starred Chow Yun Fat and Paul Chu Kong as his brother.  One of my favorite actors, the legendary Shek Kin, was at his villanous best as their rich tycoon uncle. 

The theme song for the series was sung by Roman Tam.  I recall seeing a music video for the song and I think it might have been filmed on the grounds of the same house.

[Posted here in case anyone else has the same problem]

Richard reports:

I am having trouble viewing images on the gwulo web site ........... I always get a message saying that there is an error loading Zoomify. Is this because I may have an outdated web browser ?

It might be the browser. It might also a problem with Adobe Flash, since Zoomify needs Flash to run.

So, the first few questions:

1. Has Zoomify recently stopped working for you, or has it never worked?

It would be great if you can write more about Xin Hai Revolution, since HK played an important role during that time too. Also, it's the 100 years anniversary of the revolution.

p.s It's nice to find this site, nice to meet you all.

Can anyone give me an idea of what a 'bridge' is in the context of a 1900's Wanchai house.  ... "on the first floor there was a bridge and when we got up to this we could see Tom, Dick and Harry on the first floor".  There's a bridge on the second floor of this house too .... Any light gratefully received!