In 2019 I posted a request for help under the title “Warrens at Sea” in locating the dates that my family left or arrived in Hong Kong by boat. I’ve been successful in finding 2 out of 6 of those voyages thanks to being offered a trial week to search the SCMP, which seems to be come up with more “hits” for a name than the mmis search facility.
Could anyone who is clever with the passenger lists or with mmis please help me find the final departure date of my Warren uncle's wife and children for England in the summer of 1938? The C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. office in Canton must have already closed due to the Japanese blockade of southern China. Leslie and Cicely Warren's son was about to turn thirteen, which was the right time for him to start secondary school. I haven't been able to find a record for the family in a passenger list through ancestry.co.uk Their full names were Cicely Beatrice Warren (Mrs. L.B.
Second son of Charles Edward Warren and Hannah Mabel Warren. Educated in Hong Kong, Canada and England. Articled to Arthur Edwards, Architect and Surveyor, Birmingham, 1919-1923. On the death of his father in June 1923, aged only 23, he took over as managing director of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. in Hong Kong with the oversight of John Fleming of Lowe, Bingham and Matthews. Lived at 19 Broadwood Road with his wife Cicely and children, Geoffrey and Diana.
