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Christine Miriam ROSS [1884-1942]

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Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-02-19 21:41
Names
Given: 
Christine Miriam
Family: 
Ross
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1884-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1942-07-30
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-08-01 00:37.

Nicola Davies writes:

A few mins on CWGC, Ancestry and Google gave me the following. She was Christine Miriam (transcribed as Marian on a couple of records) Ross o/w Barrett born 1884, widow of Stewart Buckle Carne Ross OBE (b 1876) a former Postmaster General of HK. He had died in London as early as 1923 possibly from an operation according to a snippet that came up on Google. Strangely there is a Marriage record in London shortly before he died though they had been travelling as husband and wife before then. I guess it’s possible he knew he was very ill and wanted to make sure there wouldn’t be a question about a prior overseas marriage. No children as far as I could tell. 

Submitted by Philip on Fri, 2014-08-29 19:44.

"Mrs Ross  of Room 18 was buried…she was a late middle aged lady, on her own in camp……she gave up trying to live" (Barbara Redwood's diary). Christine Ross died aged 48. Died of anemia.  A statement from HSBC shows she had a fixed deposit of HKD13,851.67 at an interest rate of 2% in Feb 1941 due to mature in Feb 1942. (Papers at HKPRO) .

 

Philip Cracknell