Everything tagged: General

We have visited the Fan Lau Fort a few times and we are searching for more information, on how this fort initially looked like. We were searching with our metal detector for further clues. According to a journal there was already a fort situated on the site of this one. Built in the 15th. century, thats 200 years earlier. Could anyone please recommend us with further cluers and information where to search further. (Books, Maps etc). Forts were also built in Tung Chung, Tuen Mun, Mui Wo and many more on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Perhaps they had a way of communicating with each other.

Who remembers:

"Suey Hing"

"Sincere"- one of the founders was Mr. Jan Con-Sang, once a documented Chinese Laborer in 1890s U.S.A.

"Wing On"

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In December 2022, I posted a photo of a bridge I saw at Stanley, Falkland Islands. 

A copy of the original document is available online at HKGRO.

You can click on any of the bold column headings below (eg Occupation) to sort on that column. Click it again to reverse the sort order.

I believe that the Hop Yat Church building was not completed until the year of 1929. The caption on one of the church building photos with Chinese caption on the bottom, jokily mentioned by saying that: The reason that there is such a photo was to capture the contruction workers, on strike! From the photos with a group of gentlemen, some Euroasian and two caucasian consultants on the bottom row....great grandfather Mr. Jan, Con-sang was on the top left corner of this 1921, 1921 planning committee photo...posted on 1929, after the campus was complete, I guess.

I've been doing research on the Hong Kong Cemetery and the whereabouts of my great grandfather's remains.  Samuel Osborne Pickthorne died in Hong Kong Habour while on the ship he was the Chief Steward, on March 25, 1900 and records show he was buried in Section 4 of the cemetery.

However, records show that when his gravesite was exhumed (because there wasn't a grave marker for his site), no remains were found.

Apologies for the self-promotional nature of this post, but, as David mentioned last week, I'm now finally back in HK after three long years. And I'm loving it. 

Hello, I am hoping some of you may be able to help me with some dissertation research or guide me to sources that may be of use, perhaps a similar website to Gwulo. My Historical research is on 'Scots in Shanghai', until 1945.

I am aware that this topic is not directly related to Hong Kong entirely. Still, as was the case with my family, I know some of you will have either moved yourself from Shanghai to Hong Kong, or had previous generations of your family living in the international settlement.

I have found it almost impossible to find information about probable sea routes  to Hong Kong from London in 1867 for a middle class woman travelling alone, going out to marry.

Then.... when her husband died in 1879 she travelled back to London with her 3 children.

I know that Suez was not an option in 1867.

Does anyone know the preferred routes for the average traveller in both these years or the most common routes and ports of call and how long the journey would take in 1867 and then in 1879?