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Evert MELCHER [????-????]

Submitted by jill on Thu, 10/19/2023 - 03:45

Very little has been found out about Evert Melcher, husband of the youngest daughter of John Olson and Ching Ah Fung. He does not apparently spell his name with an "s", so is not a member of the famous Melchers family, we suppose. He was Dutch and lived and worked in Shanghai at the time that he and Nellie married. He is supposed to have worked for the East India Company and the family was posted to Indonesia. They returned to Holland during WW2. Nellie and Evert separated and it is not known whether Nellie, who emigrated to the U.S., married again.

Rudolf VAN ROSSUM [1909-1947]

Submitted by David on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 14:24

Mentioned in the 1941 Jurors List:

c   Rossum, Rudolf Van Secretary, Netherlands Harbour Works Co. 8 The Peak.

Interned in Stanley Camp during WW2. 

Anthonij BOSJE (aka Antony) [1902-????]

Submitted by David on Sun, 06/23/2019 - 17:35

[Update 2020: Antony Bosje's grand-daughter has been in touch in the comments below and says that the man in the photo below isn't Antony, and that Antony never worked in Hong Kong. So the original owner of the album, and the identity of the man in the photo, are mysteries.]

He was the original owner of a small photo album I bought a few years ago. The seller included this note:

Guillaumine VAN DER LAAN (née EUGENE P. LE COCQ D ARMANDVILLE) [1904-2002]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 01/04/2014 - 16:58

Guillaumine E. P. Le Cocq d'Armandville married Jacobus van der Laan on December 10, 1927 in Palembang, Sumatra.

During the first 18 months of the Japanese occupation she lived with him at the Sun Wah Hotel. The couple were sent to Stanley in July 1943.

She died in the Hague aged 97.

Source:

http://gw.geneanet.org/evanderlaan?lang=en;pz=esther;nz=van+der+laan;ocz=0;p=guillaumine+e.p.;n=le+cocq+d+armandville

Jacobus Hendrik VAN DER LAAN (aka Henk) [1900-1976]

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 01/04/2014 - 16:46

Jacobus van der Laan was the manager of a bank the Netherlands Trading Society when war broke out.

After the surrender he was one of the bankers kept out of internment to liquidate the assets of their instutions. He and his wife lived at the Sun Wah Hotel until being sent to Stanley in July 1943 on the completion of their work.

 

Sources:

David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 313

Charles Henri Maurice BOSMAN [c.1839-1892]

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 10:19

Dutch born Bosman, arrived in Hong Kong about 1859 where, at the age of 20 he was working for the Dutch coolie trader,  Cornelius Koopmanschap.

He met a Ms. Sze and the first of their five children was born when he was 22 years old and she was 20.

In 1862, aged 24, the company name was changed to Bosman & Co. in Hong Kong, and Koopmanschap & Co in San Francisco.