Everything tagged: C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd

Paulo Xavier joined my grandfather's company, C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. as a clerk in about 1922 and was a  loyal member of the company until it was wound up in 1941. According to the last letter from Hong Kong written by my uncle, Leslie Warren, Xavier then got a wartime job as Accountant in the Government Food Controller's Office. He emigrated to the US in 1959. Information about him was kindly given to me by his grandson, Roy Eric Xavier who told me that Paulo was one of twelve siblings and that he lost his sister, Daria, in the Happy Valley Race Course fire of 1918.

Annie Moore Burke was educated at the Canossian Convent in Hong Kong together with her younger sister, Clara. She married John Olson (2) from the convent aged 17 in 1906. They had four sons, Ernest, Hugh, William Oswald, and Charles. Latterly they lived at 13 Broadwood Road. Annie took their children to England in 1919 to continue their education there. The couple bought a house in Chiswick, London, but returned with their youngest son in 1921 to be present when the partnership of C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. was broken up.

I’d be interested to know more about the identity of Kan Hung Chiu, purchaser of 30-32 Des Voeux Road from C. E. Warren & Co. Ltd. for the sum of $125,000 on 2 July 1921 and what the building then became. The funeral of his widow in the following China Mail report of 16 September, 1927 cited by Carl Smith indicates a man of some wealth: Mrs Kan Hung-chui, wife of prominent businessman – one of largest funeral processions in HK stretched from Central Market to Arsenal St. 3,000 people (employees of Nanyang Tobacco Co. and 2,000 coolies.)

I'm interested to find out more about William Anderson who was the Managing Director of Anderson Music Company and who was one of the first residents of Broadwood Road and close neighbour of my grandfather, Charles Warren. The Rate Book of 1918-1919 has William Anderson at "Gilstead", 18 Broadwood Road, which I believe was one of the houses built by my grandfather's company.  (The Jury List recording Anderson at 19 Broadwood Road must be a typo).

Son of Honorato d’’Aquino and Helena Goularte d’Aquino. Married Anna Maria de Consuelo d’Aquino b. 9.3. 1891.

The D’Aquinos or De Aquinos were a prominent Macanese family dating back to the eighteenth century and who emigrated to Hong Kong in the late nineteenth century. Dr Roy Eric Xavier has kindly sent me the link to his recent article on Macanese families:  http://www.macstudies.net/2015/08/31/mac-families-in-context-part-2/.