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Everything tagged "Wales"

Robert Owen HUGHES (aka Taff) [1907-1979]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Hughes
Given: 
Robert Owen
Alias / nickname: 
Taff
Birth
Date: 
1907-03-26
Birthplace (town, state): 
Bangor
Death
Date: 
1979-07-29

Hi, I am looking for information on Robert Owen Hughes who served in the hong kong water police for a number of years 1930s onward his wife was Pauline and they had a child Dolores Ann born 1930. Robert came back to the uk after ww2 and a few years after in the 1950s traveled back to hong kong where he lived the rest of his life.

Birthplace (country): 

Stewart Buckle Carne ROSS (aka Carne) [1876-1923]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Ross
Given: 
Stewart Buckle Carne
Alias / nickname: 
Carne
Birth
Date: 
1876-01-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Cardiff
Death
Date: 
1923-10-15
Cause of death: 
Cancer

 

Birthplace (country): 

Eliezer Richard PRICE [1902-1973]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Price
Given: 
Eliezer Richard
Birth
Date: 
1902-07-08
Birthplace (town, state): 
Cwm, Monmouthshire
Death
Date: 
c.1973-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 

David Frederick DAVIES [1906-2000]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Davies
Given: 
David Frederick
Birth
Date: 
1906-10-09
Birthplace (town, state): 
Swansea
Death
Date: 
2000-03-25

Davies took part in the escape from Sham Shui Po POW camp with L T Ride. Here's an extract from my brother Edwin's book:

Birthplace (country): 

Percival Douglas WILSON (aka Percy) [1877-1962]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wilson
Given: 
Percival Douglas
Alias / nickname: 
Percy
Birth
Date: 
1877-07-10
Birthplace (town, state): 
Swansea
Death
Date: 
1962-07-12
Cause of death: 
Heart Failure

Son of Alexander Wilson (Irishman born in 1860) a master shoe-maker and Elzabeth Wilson (nee Cook).  Became a civil engineer and worked in the Public Works Department in Hong Kong for some thirty years. 

Married at St John's Cathedral on 1913-11-19 to Hilda Wilson and had at last two sons, namely Farquhar and Ronald.

Birthplace (country): 

Herbert Howell BEDDOW [1898-1941]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Beddow
Given: 
Herbert Howell
Birth
Date: 
1898-12-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Llanelli
Death
Date: 
1941-12-16
Cause of death: 
Hit during Japanese shelling of Leighton Hill
Birthplace (country): 

Ethel OLSON [c.1899-????]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Olson
Given: 
Ethel
Birth
Date: 
c.1899-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Bridgend

Ethel Olson appears in photographs with my 14 year old father, Reggie Warren, both in Singapore and in Hong Kong. She was married to my father's uncle, Charles Olson, and seems to have taken him under her wing to some extent after his own father, Charles Warren died. Although the family myth is of a complete rift between the Warrens and Olsons after the death of Charles Warren in 1923, a note from Ethel still exists congratulating Cicely Warren, wife of my uncle, Leslie Warren, on the birth of their daughter in 1927.

Birthplace (country): 

William WINCH [c.1848-c.1915]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Winch
Given: 
William
Birth
Date: 
c.1848-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Swansea
Death
Date: 
c.1915-11-06 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Cause of death: 
Heart Failure
Birthplace (country): 

Edward YOUDE [1924-1986]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Youde
Given: 
Edward
Birth
Date: 
1924-06-19
Birthplace (town, state): 
Penarth
Death
Date: 
1986-12-05
Cause of death: 
Heart attack

Governor of Hong Kong from 20 May 1982 until 5 December 1986.

Dates from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Youde

Birthplace (country): 

William Josiah WILKINSON [1871-1926]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wilkinson
Given: 
William Josiah
Birth
Date: 
1871-05-17
Birthplace (town, state): 
Newport, Monmouthsire
Death
Date: 
1926-02-21

He had 11 children, listed at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=481594.msg3630364#msg3630364. One of his children was Frederick J WILKINSON, who had a further nine children!

Thanks to Wayne Carew for these notes about William Josiah:

Birthplace (country): 

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