Everything tagged: Evacuated to Australia

Evelyn Paterson was a Red Cross volunteer during WW1 and went on to become a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital. It is not yet known how she met her future husband, Harry Hewett, whose parents had lived in China and who went on to have a career in the Far East himself. Both Evelyn's parents are recorded as having "private means". They lived in  Ilford, Essex. Evelyn travelled to Hong Kong in 1925, where she married Harry. They lived at 18 Broadwood Road, (albeit with trips back to England), until Evelyn and her daughter, Shirley Ann were evacuated to Australia before WW2.

I am his son Andrew. Sadly Dad died in 2020 aged 89, but my mother is still with us 

Dad was born in Kowloon Docks staff accommodation, evacuated in 1941 to Aus then Glasgow, but returned to HK to work with HK Electric until he retired.

Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Married Robert Morrison in 1925 and gave birth to daughter Elsy in 1926. Emigrated to HK in 1928 and lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, HK Dockyard.

Evacuated to Brisbane with daughter during WW2

Emigrated to UK in 1960s

Paternal great grandmother of author

Daughter of Robert Morrison and Margaret McColm Morrison

Born in Glasgow, emigrated to HK in 1928

Married Louis Colmans and had 4 x children

Lived at 9 Braga Circuit, HK

Evacuated to Brisbane with her mother Margaret during WW2

1954 - lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Kowloon Dock (Marriage Cert)

Emigrated to Southend on Sea, Essex in 1967

Author's Paternal Grandmother

Marjorie Stintzi writes:

Eileen Hargreaves, wife of John Hargreaves, evacuated from Hong Kong to Australia.  She and their two sons, Roger and Allan Hargreaves, lived in Yass, where she worked as Deputy City Clerk.  The family left Hong Kong after the war and moved to England, date unknown. Roger and Allan were born in Hong Kong.  Eileen was the daughter of Henry Garrod and younger sister of Marjorie Elston.  

Marjorie Stintzi writes:

Marjorie Garrod was born in Hong Kong.  Her father Henry Garrod had joined the Colonial Government on 4-21-1898.  

She married A H Elston on August 9, 1924   Marjorie Elston and her younger son, Jeremy, were evacuated to Australia prior to invasion.  She worked as a government censor in Sydney.  Jeremy was at Kings School, Paramatta, as a student/boarder.  Both of their sons, Michael and Jeremy, were born in Hong Kong.

Daughter of Vernon and Doris Walker, wife of Douglas Bland, mother of Siobhan, Diarmuid, and Clodagh.