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Lucy Baird’s work as a missionary nurse is covered in ‘The First 25 Years of the BCMS’ report. She also features in Jill Doggett’s ‘The Yip Family of Amah Rock’.
She began with the BCMS in 1925 and was still serving in 1947 when the report was published. She certainly would have left China by 1949, when the Communists took over.
Hi, I am looking for information on Robert Owen Hughes who served in the hong kong water police for a number of years 1930s onward his wife was Pauline and they had a child Dolores Ann born 1930. Robert came back to the uk after ww2 and a few years after in the 1950s traveled back to hong kong where he lived the rest of his life.
Davies took part in the escape from Sham Shui Po POW camp with L T Ride. Here's an extract from my brother Edwin's book:
Son of Alexander Wilson (Irishman born in 1860) a master shoe-maker and Elzabeth Wilson (nee Cook). Became a civil engineer and worked in the Public Works Department in Hong Kong for some thirty years.
Married at St John's Cathedral on 1913-11-19 to Hilda Wilson and had at last two sons, namely Farquhar and Ronald.
Ethel Olson appears in photographs with my 14 year old father, Reggie Warren, both in Singapore and in Hong Kong. She was married to my father's uncle, Charles Olson, and seems to have taken him under her wing to some extent after his own father, Charles Warren died. Although the family myth is of a complete rift between the Warrens and Olsons after the death of Charles Warren in 1923, a note from Ethel still exists congratulating Cicely Warren, wife of my uncle, Leslie Warren, on the birth of their daughter in 1927.
My Daughter and I recently visited the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley to place flowers and a photograph of my late wife at her fathers grave. It must be about 12 yrs since my late wife and I visited but it was the first time for my daughter. My father in law Michael Francis O'Sullivan was buried there in 1960. He died in St Matildas Hospital. During the war he was on the North Atlantic convoys. In later years he sailed as a Captain ( I believe ) with I think the Hong Kong and Shanghai Shipping Company. When on shore he would stay at the Merchant Navy Officers club.