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The name of Ching Ah Fung, baptised at the To Tsai church as Ellen Olson by the Reverend Ost in 1891 was transcribed by Carl Smith as Au Chung Ah-Fung. Ching Ah Fung, spelt also as Cheng Ah Fung, is given as the mother of Elizabeth, John, Ellen and Charles Olson on their birth certificates. She was stepmother of Hannah Warren, (née Olson). Ching Ah Fung was the second of John Olson's wives and was styled "Mrs Olson" after her baptism. There are no authenticated photographs of her.

Bertie Warren was the first child of Charles and Hannah Warren and the first grandchild of John Olson, the retired Swedish tavern owner. The story handed down to later generations was that a Warren baby had died from being scalded in a bath. Bertie was a toddler rather than a baby. Hannah Warren had given birth to her second child, Leslie Warren, the day before his death. It is possible that an inexperienced amah had given Bertie his bath without testing the temperature. "Sunstroke" may have been given on the death certificate to avoid involvement of the law.