Hong Kong - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

MaggieG22 — 2013-05-09 22:16:22Z

Hi Sarah,

Yes, this is your family, but besides Po Wing Chan's Birth/burial details and his parents' names, I cannot seem to find any further information.

I have put feelers out in Hong Kong, but as yet no luck.

If you wish email me on jgo52131@bigpond.net.au

Regards, Maggie

Re: Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

MaggieG22 — 2013-05-09 22:15:38Z

Re: Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

MaggieG22 — 2013-05-09 22:15:17Z

Re: Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

Pt_sarah — 2013-05-09 17:05:45Z

I'm not sure if I'm a relative or not but my dads name was Craig Andrew chan.
Dorothy was my grandmother and po wing chan was my grandfather.
Anyway... Just in-case it had anything in relation to your question I thought I'd let u know, I have no idea about my heritage so I was also interested.
Cheers
Sarah

Re: WILLIAM LEONG LOON

LyndaWykes — 2013-03-17 04:23:39Z

Hello,
I am a descendant of one of William & Edith's children.
Would love to compare information.
I don't always access Ancestry (using my mother-in-laws account, but my home email is wykesclan@bigpond.com
Cheers
Kylie

Re: stanley g a wright 1917 sally jane wright 1958

jade_888 — 2013-02-03 00:28:25Z

Hi,
I could help with quite a lot of information on Stanley George Alfred Wright but I would need some verification that you are actually a relative of his, perhaps confirmation of some of his details or your family details that only a relative would know, also have you received any information from elsewhere?
Jade

Re: stanley g a wright 1917 sally jane wright 1958

shaunjoanne — 2013-01-28 22:46:21Z

the replies here from shaunjoanne is the same person as shaun-a-williams that was a previous account i lost details for.

to confirm, my name is joanne wright, my father is alan john wright, my grandfather was william christopher james wright who was stanleys brother

jo.x

Re: stanley g a wright 1917 sally jane wright 1958

shaunjoanne — 2013-01-28 22:43:54Z

hello

to answer your question no i havent received any information any where else but im desperate to no about stanley, im not sure what information you would want me to give you. he was/is my grandads brother, my dads uncle and we have been looking for years, he moved to malay roughly 1950 ish he came back to visit his sick mum but went back she then died a couple years later, sally jane sent a letter to her grandad in the 1980s..... obviously i dont want to put too much on here and im not sure with what u would like me to confirm. due to the ages here there isnt anyone left of his siblings .............. can u help please? jo.x

Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

MaggieG22 — 2013-01-19 08:49:47Z

Can someone help please.
Details:
Po Wing CHAN born 20 November 1924, 2nd floor, 157 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong.
Father: Hang Cho CHAN,(Merchant),Mother Ho Ham CHUM, address as above.
Birth Certificate No. 65455.
Can anyone help me locate this family - Po Wing CHAN migrated to Victoria, Australia and died in 1983, leaving 5 children who would desperately like to know more of their Chinese heritage.
Thank you - appreciate any help.
Regards
Maggie - Australia

Re: Hong Kong BMD Certificates

vturner97 — 2013-01-16 08:39:32Z

Hi
Just wondering my relative came to Australia and married in 1860, but to marry this woman he had to convert to christianty (sorry about spelling)His name was A/Ah Tak and was born in China the name he choice was WIlliam Virtue. Can you help me I do know his parents name but there is no trace of hi after 1861. Or know where I might find out about him. I understand if this is beyond you cause its very hard for me lol
Cheer
V

Po Wing CHAN born 1924 Hong Kong

MaggieG22 — 2013-01-10 13:22:28Z

Think parents were Chan Huen Tov - Jeweller
& Kum Tov

Po Wing CHAN immigrated - year ?
married 1953 in North Melbourne, Australia.

Can anyone help please. Really appreciate your assistance.

With thanks
Maggie - Australia

Thomas C White (1904-1941)

jessblackley — 2013-01-09 14:44:02Z

Looking for any information on Pvt Thomas C White, Winnipeg Grenadiers, RCIC. Born in 1904 & died 22 Dec 1941. Buried in San Wan Memorial, Hong Kong. Would like to know the name of his wife & any children. Mrs White left Hong Kong abt 1960 & immigrated to Canada to be with her son (name unknown). Mrs White is of Chinese descent.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

FYI: English Newspapers in China - digitized

footloose1ab — 2013-01-08 08:00:12Z

An interesting column in the Hong Kong Daily Press lists visitors staying at hotels.

Free Access:
The Multimedia Information System (MMIS) of Hong Kong Public Libraries (HKPL) archives more than 1.8 million pages of old newspapers published between 1853 to 1987 in Hong Kong. As for digitalized English newspapers of the 1880s and 1890s, below please find the relevant MMIS content list:

China Mail (1866/01/04 - 1961/12/29)*,
Hong Kong Daily Press (1864/01/04 - 1941/09/30)*,
Hong Kong Telegraph (1881/06/16 - 1951/03/30)* and
Hong Kong Weekly Press (1895/01/03 - 1909/12/24)*.
(*Note: some issues and pages may be omitted)

MMIS provides effective way to readers to extract their target information from the papers. Registration of membership is NOT required to access the above digitalized newspapers. Please follow the below steps for conducting searching in MMIS:

1) Go to the website of MMIS at http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/internet/eng/html/welcome....;
2) Click on “Basic Search” at the bottom for going to the search page;
3) Select “Old HK Newspapers”, close the pop-up message;
4) Type keywords such as “China Mail, 1880” at the space after “Enter Text for the Following Search :”;
5) Press the “Search” button;
6) Click on the hyperlink of the title;
7) Open image of each page by clicking on the page number listed on the right. The image will be opened with the default image/photo program at your personal computer.

MMIS service hours (in Hong Kong time) can be found at http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/doc/internet/eng/internethr.html, and they are quoted at below for your easy reference:

Internet Service Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday: 8:00a.m. - 2:00a.m. of the following day
Tuesday: 8:00a.m. - 9:00p.m.

The list of Old Hong Kong Newspapers and hints to find a specific issue can be found in the "Help" page of Basic Search, which can be accessed via pressing the "Help" hyperlink at the upper right hand comer in the Basic Search interface. Below please also find the direct URL of the page and capture of the coverage for your easy reference:

Help - Basic Search
http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/internet/eng/html/hlp-sch_...

Content Cover - Old HK Newspaper
http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/internet/eng/html/hlp-cnt_...
(The above info was provided by the Office of Leisure and Cultural Services, Hong Kong Public Libraries)

List of Burials ordered by Name - Hong Kong

helenw1952 — 2012-11-26 07:54:37Z

This list was compiled by Patricia Lim with the help of Cliff Atkins. It is part of the research for Patricia's recently released book, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery.

http://gwulo.com/node/8738

http://genforum.genealogy.com/hongkong/messages/362.html

Wife of Capt. F. King in Hong Kong

RockofGibraltar — 2012-09-08 03:55:23Z

I have an old photo of a woman taken in Hong Kong, probably late 1800's. The back reads "Mrs. Capt. F. King, with compliments. To Bennie." If you are related to her and want the photo, let me know.
Patricia
prck97@aol.com

Looking for Cousin in Hongkong

Anantasak — 2012-08-16 06:59:03Z

Hi I'm looking for my cousin in Hongkong.

He/She is relate with Pang Wei Ching (Female) & Wong Chuek Ying (Female) she was stay in church at kowloon.

If any one found and know his/her contact please let me know.

My Name is Anantasak

Anantasak@gmail.com

Any Dal surname in Hong Kong/Southern China area

NathanPSpence — 2012-07-17 19:43:14Z

Any Dal surname in Hong Kong/Southern China area

Re: Looking for anyone SEQUEIRA

CronshawGardner — 2012-07-16 14:48:29Z

try this:

Augusto Francisco Sequeira

M, #13429, b. 13 October 1918
Father* Pedro Nolasco de Sequeira1 b. 31 Jan 1871
Mother* Celeste Angélica Venâncio1 b. 9 Oct 1888, d. 27 Sep 1977

this is from macanesefamilies.com you need to register to use it. Good luck. Ami

McCallums in Hong Kona

luciaawilson — 2012-07-07 17:19:33Z

I am trying locate some information on my great uncle Hector McCallum who we believe was born in Hong Kong around 1905. His sister (Lily) and brother (Edward) were born in Kuala Lumpur and their father was in the British Military (I do not know what branch).

Any help would be appreciated - Thank you

looking for info on the Gahar/ Gardner and Jesus family in Hong Kong

CronshawGardner — 2012-07-05 12:29:11Z

Hi there, I am looking for any info on the Gahar/ Gardner family who lived in the Caine Road area of Hong Kong from around 1840.

Info on the origin of the name GAHAR would be very helpful.

Particularly any info on WILHELM GAHAR (or GARDNER). His surname at birth was likely to have been GAHAR, he was born around 1840, possibly in Germany or of German-born parents. It is likely he died in Hong Kong. He was married to:

Cecília Libânia JESUS
Birth 1840
Death 16/08/1878 in Hong Kong, BCC

Again, we have no more info on her family, she may have been from East Timor.
Any ideas most welcome. Thanks very much!

Re: Searching for a friends blood family in Hong Kong

CLMarklew — 2012-06-18 22:19:34Z

Hi Patricia

Many thanks for your message and great tip for posting a message. I did actually find the site a while ago and posted a message and someone gave me some other leads to follow up, which I did. I'm still not a lot further on but I have written to loads of places so I'm hoping for a breakthrough somewhere.

Thank you again for taking the trouble to write it is much appreciated.

Kind regards

Caroline

Re: Searching for a friends blood family in Hong Kong

pudje123 — 2012-06-17 15:01:45Z

Hello Caroline,

I've nothing specific to give you, but a suggestion that you try a free website, gwulo.com - a site for people interested in HK history in all its dimensions. Its a well run site, you'll have to sign up to post a request in the forum section, but there's quite a lot of people who frequently visit there. Use as many specific names as you can in the 'strap line' - to get the best results.

Hope something turns up
Patricia

stanley g a wright 1917 sally jane wright 1958

shaun_a_williams — 2012-05-12 21:29:28Z

im looking for my uncle, STANLEY GEORGE ALFRED WRIGHT born 1917 london england, who went to kuala lumpur in the 1950s and married and had a daughter sally jane before moving to hong kong in 1974. any information would be wonderful as we cannot find any trace of them. thank you

Searching for a friends blood family in Hong Kong

CLMarklew — 2012-04-28 04:01:48Z

Hello
I have just joined this website in the hope of being able to trace my friends family in Hong Kong. She was born Mary Victoria Chan, 7th May 1949 at 2nd floor, 139 Wing Lok Street, Hong Kong. I have her birth certificate, registration number 68 B&DPR which lists her parents, father, Chan, Tin Cho and mother Yeung, Wai Chan. She was placed in the Ling Yeut Sin Infants Sanitarium where the Sister in Charge was Mother Giacomina Belottin.

Apart from us knowing that she was adopted by a Monika and Glenn Mccrossan, who changed her name to Mary Victoria Mccrossan and was brought to England around 1953 this is all the information I have to go on so I would be extremely grateful if you could help point me in the right direction of where to start trying to trace her blood family. Her adopted family said she was the 13th born and 8th daughter so we are hoping that she will have some living blood relatives. Any help or tips would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks

Caroline
UK

Re: Van Voorthuysen Family Search-brother to William[Willam]-

1_tricia16 — 2012-03-07 21:37:37Z

please contact me at TRICIA@TELUS.NET WITH ANY INFORMATIOM YOU MAY HAVE ON THE VAN VOORTHUYSEN FAMILY. I have almost given up any hope of finding any family.
Thank you for your interest.
Tricia

Re: Looking for anyone SEQUEIRA

salbytoo — 2012-01-29 11:41:55Z

Dear Christine ... it is likely that you are Macanese ... meaning that you descend from the Portugese community that colonised Macau and was pivotal in the early days of Hong Kong as a colonial country. I think that you will find the information that you are looking for by registering at this website www.macanesefamilies.com/ Good luck with your search.

looking for information on my relatives

yvtheron22 — 2011-11-29 03:45:21Z

Florence Elizabeth (O'connor) born 1886 Australia married in South Africa James Beldon they apparently went to Hong Kong lived and died there as Missioneries. Donot know what church!

How to find my grandmother Fatima Din, first wife of Rahmat Din HONG KONG

genglobke — 2011-09-11 10:30:38Z

Fatima Din (Chinese) was married to Rahmat Din (Pakistanee) and lived in Hong Kong in the early/mid 1900s. They had 4 children in Hong Kong, including my mother Sakina Din (b. 1944). Second wife came along (and had 5 children to Rahmat) and made family life so miserable that Fatima was forced to flee when Sakina (her last born) was just a few months old. Childhood was wrought with emotional abuse for all Fatima's 4 children in the Din household, thanks to the stepmother (wife no.2). Such were the days when men could have multiple wives and Chinese stepmothers were cruel to their step children (this was unfornately very common in Chinese families). Rahmet died in the 1960s. My mother (Sakina) has since tried to find Fatima when she was an adult in Hong Kong in the 1960s but records were very scarse in Fatima's time. Fatima had no official birth date or certificate. Sakina and her family (me!) have lived in Australia since 1977. Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can find Fatima Din (if she is still alive?) or any other children she may have had post 1945? She could have changed her name because she was in hiding from her husband Rahmat. Thanks.

John Charles James Bartlett

hcoe10 — 2011-07-17 21:22:27Z

Any information about John Charles James Bartlett, in the military in Hong Kong, about 1950's, came back to Britain in about 1955, had twin daughters adopted in Hong Kong.

Re: HK & SHAI Marriage & Birth Records, cont....

MichaelCockburn83 — 2011-06-23 14:20:58Z

As well as correcting it to 'findmypast' I also have to update my last post to say I have just had a bit of success - I found Rose Power at a boarding school in the UK in the 1881 census records. And through the Trove website at the National Library of Australia (www.nla.gov.au) which includes digitised newspaper articles, I have found Maria Power arriving in Rockhampton from London in 1889.

Re: HK & SHAI Marriage & Birth Records, cont....

MichaelCockburn83 — 2011-06-23 07:52:43Z

Hi Eileen,
Yes I've found those. But there are still a couple of 'mystery' periods. Firstly, I don't have anything on Alexander (senior) between the 1851 census record when he was a child living with his parents and 1867 when he died in Shanghai. So I don't know when he went to the orient or when or where he married Maria (or indeed her date of birth and parents' names).
The second mystery period is between 1871 when Maria and the children were back in London and 1888 when Rose got married in Longreach, QLD. The family folklore is that Rose and her brother arrived in QLD in their late teens from Shanghai, so I'm really keen to find out if this is true. Certainly they don't appear to have stayed in England, but maybe they went to Ireland (Maria was born in Limmerick) or maybe she had other family in HongKong/Shanghai and they returned to the support and protection of those family members. It would help if I was certain of her surname! The marriage record really is the crucial document that I'm missing.
I've ordered a couple of documents from CO129 at the UK PRO that mention A.B. Power (based on the Prof's index). With any luck they'll fill a gap. I've also signed up to findmyfamily, but no luck there so far.

Re: HK & SHAI Marriage & Birth Records, cont....

EileenScully1 — 2011-06-23 04:58:55Z

Hi, just wondering if you've already found the 10-12 records on Ancestry for these individuals, including UK Probate, 1851 census, Australian voting lists, arrivals in the UK?

Re: HK & SHAI Marriage & Birth Records, cont....

MichaelCockburn83 — 2011-06-21 12:47:52Z

Goodness! There is a lot to take in. And it is interesting to see more Cockburns.

I am actually looking for records of four UK subjects: Alexander Bath Le Poer Power who died in Shanghai in 1868, his wife Maria Honoria (nee Scott?) who I think he must have married in Hong Kong, his son Alexander (born in Hong Kong in 1866) and daughter Rose (born in Shanghai in 1867). I'm in AUstralia so the more I can do on line the better. You've given me some great leads.

Thanks again.

Re: Hong Kong online sources: CO129

EileenScully1 — 2011-06-21 06:22:03Z

For Americans, birth/death/marriage of individuals often shows up in quarterly reports, or purpose-written despatches. For each consular post (Shanghai, HK), the first reel for the post has a register of the correspondence on all reels for that post, and the dates go up to 1906, when the State Department changed file management. It was a two-step change, finalized in 1910, and after 1910, there are 'decimal files,' many in microfilm as "Internal Files for Japan [France, China, etc.]," and a meta-guide to the cypher code of decimal number==subject matter and sub-divisions.........It got kind of tricky for US State Dept consuls to be certifying and performing marriages, though. The US Court for China, up and running after 1907, did some of those functions...........................................

But, for the UK, well when the sun never sets on your empire, you end up having lots of records. The UK-PRO hands this off to FINDMYPAST, a $$ database..........

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-perso...

....................................................

The Findmypast search is free, but if you actually want to see the info-document, you gotta sign-up.................

HERE's the search results findmypast...................
Marriages from 1796 to 2005............................
Last name: Cockburn (including variants)...............
Region: Asia - China...................................
Results: 4 records found...............................
Cost: You will be charged 5 credits for a transcription and an original index image unless you have purchased a subscription for this set of records....................

Last First Country of registration Place Reg YR
COCKBURN William R China Shanghai 1921-1925 VIEW....

COCKBURN George W China Shanghai 1926-1930 VIEW....

COCKBURN Evelyn S China Shanghai 1931-1935 VIEW....

COCKBURN Nellie Unknown Anagni 1945 VIEW.............

HK & SHAI Marriage & Birth Records, cont....

EileenScully1 — 2011-06-21 06:11:14Z

FOR HK: Carl Smith's online index at the HK PRO. I don't know if Cockburn is the surname you're researching, so I'm just using it here for illustration...................

If any entries are of interest, the steps would be: go to the HK-PRO website, and sign the required paperwork; follow guidelines, list the card info as below, from the index....

The CARD NO. is last in each entry. They will send you a jpg of each. The cards give newspaper citations and key-word encapsulations (e.g. Smith, Barbara, birth, HKDP, 5 April 1905). The digitalized newspapers can be accessed through HK Public Library Multimedia (see reference posting below)....................................................

1 A. STUART COCKBURN; JAMES STUART COCKBURN;
J.A. BROOKS 1860; 1862; 1859 CARD NO. 90011...........

2 ALFRED F.W. HODGIN; ELENO A. COCKBURN 1894 109557......

3 ELINORA COCKBURN HODGINS; ALFRED EDWARD WYBURN HODGINS 1919 109561............................................

4 FRANCIS COCKBURN BAIRD; GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO.; CAPT. BAIRD 1852 - 1853; 1855 79497.......................

5 GEORGE WILFRID COCKBURN; SHANGHAI; MARY LEONIE STORER 1927 90047...................................

6 H. COCKBURN; AMOY 1883 - 1884 90049................

7 MR COCKBURN; FUTSHAN; CANTON 1855 90001............

8 W.R. COCKBURN; CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA; SHANGHAI 1927 90051.............................

9 WILLIAM P. COCKBURN; 18TH ROYAL IRISH [REGIMENT] 1842 90053............................................

The HK-PRO online catalogue (different from their Carl Smith Collection) has some person-specific items, for example: ................................................
File HKRS143-2-1877 ELINONA COCKBURN HODGINS, 26.03.1920.............................................

Something like this, you would need special permission.

Re: Hong Kong online sources: CO129

MichaelCockburn83 — 2011-06-20 13:13:07Z

Thank you Eileen. That is really helpful and clear advice. I'm likely to order a couple of extracts from the PRO on the strength of it.

The next challenge will be hunting down a couple of birth registrations and a possible marriage registration from the 1860s in Hong Kong and Shanghai. If you've got any tips on those records I'd be very grateful.

kind regards

Re: Hong Kong online sources: CO129

EileenScully1 — 2011-06-20 11:28:45Z

Hi, I'm glad the info was helpful.

CO 129 comprises draft responses to the HK Governor's despatches to the Secretary of the State for the Colonies. The Gov's missive would arrive, and then there would be a sort of round-robin, with in-house staff crafting a draft reply, each commenting on what the person before them suggested. If all went well, the Secretary for the Colonies would merely scribble an OK and his initials.

CO129 is on microfilm, even when you personally visit the PRO. Some large US universities have the collection. Hong Kong University, and the HK-PRO have copies.

The UK-PRO has an online document ordering system, quite efficient, pay by credit card, get either digital-pdf, or hard copy snail mail. The link to CO129 material on their site is below.

BUT be sure to get the full citation from Dr. Sinn's index, including the page numbers. The CO document pages are numbered only every other page, meaning that each page is actually two pages, so 445-50, will be more like 9-10 pages.

If you order microfilm inter-library loan, the page numbers will be needed in order to pinpoint which particular microfilm reels to order.

Ordering: when you are checking the PRO online catalogue and find a particular document, up will come an option to order online. However, I think with Dr. Sinn's citations, you can skip the catalogue search, and copy-and-paste the information into the order form.

Example:
CO 129/121, pp 286-313
1867-04-23
AMERICAN SHIP "PARSEE"
From: MACDONNELL.R
Send to: DUKE OF BIRMINGHAM & CHANDOS
Encl: ENCLOSURE=11 * CORRESPONDENCE WITH UNITED STATES CONSUL CONSEQUENT ON HIS REPORTING THAT "FELONIOUS AND PIRATICAL ACTS" BY THE CREW HAD BEEN COMMITTED ON BOARD. * OPINION ON THE CASE OF THE PRISONERS LANDED FROM THE PARSEE
Keyword(s): AMERICAN, SHIP, PARSEE

HERE'S the PRO link:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

On the main page, look toward the lower right hand side for The Catalogue, then once there you can enter CO 129 in the search space.

Re: Hong Kong online sources: CO129

MichaelCockburn83 — 2011-06-19 13:07:33Z

Hi Eileen
Thanks for your tips about colonial records from Hong Kong. I searched Prof Sinn's index of CO129 and found a couple of potential references to an ancestor of mine. Can you tell me more about CO129? Is this a record series held by the UK Public Record Office?

Re: Hong Kong BMD Certificates

kymberleymckay — 2011-04-22 11:10:56Z

I don't know if you can help but my grandfather name is Terence Claude hill. I know he had two sisters and when japan invaded hongkong him and his two sisters where bought to Australia. My grandfather dissaperead from his sisters reasons unknown and then a few years after the war returned to hongkong still a young man and couldn't find his family. As far as we know one of his sisters had some connection to a journalist in honking names unknown. Can you help with any info

James Slemmen

aldo54 — 2011-04-10 19:03:14Z

Hello,
I have discovered my grandfather JAMES SLEMMEN died in Hong Kong in 1954 in Kowloon Hospital. The attendant at his death was his widow Ruth SLEMMEN.
I would very much like to hear from anyone who knows anything about Ruth or James or their son Bernd Kroning Slemmen.

WILLIAM LEONG LOON

LUAXZA — 2011-01-16 04:01:32Z

Trying to find any information on William Leong Loon Snr and his wife M/N LOW.
Son William Leong Loon born 1848 in Hong Kong. Married Edith Ellen ANderson in Australia 1900.

Thanks

Re: Information on Lee Kwock Quinn

maraumotel — 2011-01-08 20:12:51Z

Hi,

I am the grand son of Lee Kwock Quinn. His children are in Fiji and australia. You can contact my mother Kuila on fiji mobile number +6799230547. My name is Oliver Williams and I live in Cairns, Australia. You can email me or call me on my Australian mobile 0415639048 from Tuesday as I am still holidaying in Fiji. Vinaka and hope this may be helpful as we are also trying to trace Tukai's origins.

Kind regards,

OliverWilliams

Searching for James SLEMMEN

aldo54 — 2011-01-02 12:30:28Z

I am searching for my Grandfather JAMES SLEMMEN born 28 June 1895 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.
I have a passenger list showing he travelled to Hong Kong on 02 October 1953 on the CHUSAN from the port of LONDON. He was followed to Hong Kong by his new wife Ruth Carolla Kroning on 12 January 1954 From Southampton, UK to Hong Kong on P&O ship 'CANTON' accompanied by her son- Bernd Marian Kroning-Slemmen aged 7 years. I would be SO grateful if anyone can help me find where James ended his days or where Ruth or Bernd went to as I have been searching for 16 years!

JOHN BARCLAY - Warwick, England

GraemeBarclay20 — 2010-12-25 15:53:15Z

JOHN BARCLAY - Son of John and Agnes Barclay formerly of Berwick, England/Scotland border. Born about 1930 and was living in the Warwick, England area in the 1950's. His parents were possibly living in 1959 at 77 Lakin Road, Warwick, England. Last heard of working in Singapore/Hong Kong.

Would appreciate any help with locating John above.

Kindest regards

Graeme A. Barclay living at Bedford, England - Grandson of Alexander Barclay, younger brother of John Barclay Sr. mentioned above. gbarc22535@aol.com

Re: Mellish/Waterworth families Hong Kong - C 1863 - Bank of Hindustan, China & Japan - Church Missionarys

mellishbute — 2010-12-02 09:05:09Z

Louisa Francis Waterworth is the sister of Sara(h) Waterworth the second wife of Edward Mellish. She as born abt 1847 and married Fredrick Archibald Gray, a Doctor, and they lived in Ottery St Mary, Devon.

Do you have any family connection with the Waterworth's or the Grays?

If so do you know anything about Sarah Waterworth and her family?
Jo Mellish
Mellishbute@aol.com

Re: Mellish/Waterworth families Hong Kong - C 1863 - Bank of Hindustan, China & Japan - Church Missionarys

geoffw32 — 2010-11-30 12:37:43Z

I have a vanity box which belonged to Louisa F Waterworth.LSW Jan 13th.1868. engraved on plaque.
Paper certificates inside for Cheltenham School of Art,dated 1868,1869,and 1873.a dance card for New Court House 1868.

Re: Hong Kong online sources

EileenScully1 — 2010-11-18 12:28:28Z

Hi Susan,

I'd say the HK English-language newspapers, digitalized and online at the HK Public Library Multimedia
http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/internet/eng/html/frm-adv_...

Unfortunately, the search engine for these newspapers only picks up headlines, or headers. This would mean going day by day looking for the Passenger arrival info, usually in the top left hand corner of page one: ships arrived, cleared, departed; passengers arrived, departed.

Gaps in the database collection begin Dec 1941.

I wonder if folks going from Japan to HK 1940-42 would be evacuees. You could check using Google 'news,' doing an initial search and then selecting 'archives' in the left hand side menu, then narrowing down the dates. News stories would include vessel names, and perhaps even passenger names.

Another place that could be worth checking out: the relevant consulate in Japan. Americans leaving Japan, whether being evacuated or not, would likely be in touch with a US consulate, and vice-versa. Ditto Australians.

Re: Hong Kong online sources

SusanLarkin84 — 2010-11-18 02:44:17Z

Eileen

Thanks for all this good information. Do you know where I would find passenger lists for ships that left Japan and arrived in HK in 1940 - 1942. I am looking for a Stanley Foley

Many thanks

Sue

1881 census of Hong Kong

rosemaryhauxton — 2010-11-10 20:56:10Z

Are the details of the 1881 census able to be accessed and information obtained anywhere?

Re: Searching for my grandfather's relatives(Lee Kwock Quinn)

caseyvee — 2010-10-24 08:31:12Z

He had two childhood friends..Their names are Nie Ji Wuang and Lu Jia Liang..Thanks again..Looking forward to a favourable response.