Everything tagged: Wales

Governor of Hong Kong from 20 May 1982 until 5 December 1986.

Dates from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Youde

He had 11 children, listed at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=481594.msg3630364#msg3630364. One of his children was Frederick J WILKINSON, who had a further nine children!

Thanks to Wayne Carew for these notes about William Josiah:

Wife of F. Stafford Smith.

DoD from Hong Kong Daily Press, 1940-09-20, page 6:

FUNERAL OF MRS. LUCY K. STAFFORD SMITH

The funeral service took place at the Chapel of the Resurrection, Colonial Cemetery, yesterday of Mrs. Lucy Kathleen Stafford Smith, who died at her residence at Shek O on Thursday. The Rev. A. P. Rose officiated.

My grandfather Alfred was the first Headmaster of King's College from 1926-1934 following on from his tenure at Saiyingpun school after arriving in Hongkong in 1905 on the "Simla" - with 2 small children, my mother Dorothy Langston nee Morris and Edwin Alan - later killed in WW1.

Christine Kirkham wrote:

My father, Mr Rees North was with the Hong Kong Police and was interned in Stanley. More...

Entry in the 1942 list of civilian internees:

John Black's list gives Channing's occupation in 1941 as "Police".

Thomas Pritchard was my paternal grandfather. He is buried in the Stanley Cemetary. My father and I saw his grave when we went out to HK in 1982.

In brief, he came from Pwllheli, north Wales and had a long career at sea. He had served for the Hong Kong and Macao Shipping Line for a while through the 1930s at least (I posted a pic of him with Robert Ho Tung in one of your galleries yesterday) and commanded the steamers Kinshan and Taishan.