“Burnbrae” - I.L. 140 [1843-1903] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

“Burnbrae” - I.L. 140 [1843-1903]

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Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 2020-06-14 06:05
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
1843-06-26
Date Place demolished: 
1903-01-01

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1843 - Original lease

1845 - You can see a building on the 1845 map.

1854 - possibility "Hermitage" (Auction Furniture at Hermitage, next to Glenealy, on the Hill - Friend of China's 20 Sep 1854)

1888? - bought by 3 people

         - Catchik Paul Chater and two "deceased estates"
         - John STEWARD Lapraik?

1888 - J.D. Laprik  listed as executor on 1893 probate for his father John STEWARD Lapraik, who was the nephew of Douglas Lapraik (d. 1868)

1890 -  INLAND LOT 140 - APPLICATION FROM [name] AND ORANGE ON BEHALF OF [name] FOR AN EXTENSION TO -

1893 - roof fell in, house occupied by, sons of Steward Lapraik

US Consulte leased it from 1893 for 10 years

1893-1897 - Consul Mr. and Mrs William E. Hunt , Miss Victoria Hunt(23). , Misses Elise (20) and Alice  (19) Stone (orphaned daughters of Mr. Hunt's sister)

1898 - public learned the property has been sold a while ago, and was to be redeveloped.   Unsuccessful public outcry the "west half of Glenealy" and all its vegetation were on private property and would be built on  

1899 - 
         - Cheung On Lan (1/3)
         - U Yuk Chi (1/3)

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Submitted by David on Tue, 2020-06-16 15:41.

"1843 - Original lease by Catchik Paul Chater"

Chater wasn't born until 1846.

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2020-06-16 21:57.

Lease in IRIS must be wrong.  UB18212 is the referenced memorial. Too bad I'm too far away to check. 

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2020-06-16 23:54.

1901

As nearly as can be ascertained there are about 40 resident Americans, some of whom are representing business houses, while the rest include dentists, steamship agents, and clerks.

The cost of living has become extremely high in recent years and Hongkong now enjoys the unenviable reputation of being the most expensive city in the Far East, with the single exception of Manila. Prices have increased from 50 to 100 per cent in the last four years and in some things even more. Rents have more than doubled and the value of real estate has in some cases risen 200 per cent.

The present office is in a building known as Burnbrae, about 150 feet above the level of the city proper. The principal articles of furniture include 6 desks, 10 office chairs, 3 bookcases, 1 table, 1 fireproof safe, 2 small iron safes, 1 leather sofa, 2 easy chairs, and 1 screen.

The lease of the consulate calls for rent at the rate of $1,260 a year, $1,000 of which has been paid by the Government and $260 by previous consuls for the rest of the building wbicb they occupied as a residence.

Chin Poy Woo, interpreter, was born November 19, 1861, at Canton, China; was a member of the second detachment of the Chinese educational mission sent to Connecticut in 1872; graduated at Norwich Free Academy, Connecticut, and was a member of the class of 1884 at Yale; served as interpreter at the United States consulate at Canton from 1884 to 1893 and at this consulate since 1893.

 

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