Florence Eileen HYDE (née BURGESS) [1904-1944] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Florence Eileen HYDE (née BURGESS) [1904-1944]

Names
Given: 
Florence Eileen
Family: 
Hyde
Maiden: 
Burgess
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1904-07-08
Birthplace (town, state): 
Bradford, Yorkshire
Birthplace (country): 
Death
Date: 
1944-09-07
Cause of death: 
Cancer
Connections: 

Comments

Florence Eileen Burgess was born on July 8th, 1904 in Bradford, Yorkshire. She married Charles Hyde on March 29th, 1934 in Wharfedale, Yorkshire.

The 1939 Engalnd and Wales National Register has her living in Wimborne Cranborne, Dorset, with her son Michael, Hyde's mother, Annie and a Hong Kong Chinese amah (Au? Ah Jin). This suggests that she had probably been living in Hong Kong with her husband (who worked at the Kowloon Branch of the HSBC) but had returned to the UK. It was difficult for British women and their children to enter Hong Kong after the evacuation of summer 1940, so she probably returned before that date and somehow manged to avoid being sent to Australia.

Source: family tree and other documents on Ancestry.com

Passenger List

They arrived in London from Hong Kong 6 April 1939.   Florence Hyde 34 wife and Michael Hyde age 1.

1939 Census

Charles F Hyde banker  born 3 September 1900

Florence E Hyde born 8 July 1904

Michael Hyde (dob blanked out)

UK Probate Records

Michael Edward Hyde of Corunna Barracks at Aldershot Hampshire died 6 May 1958 at Wheatley Military Hospital Oxfordshire Effects £9147 5s 1d Administration to George Nether Burgess builder

UK Death Records  

Michael Edward Hyde age 20 registered Quarter 3 1958 Ploughley Oxfordshire