Dora ARMSTRONG / GLANVILLE (née HUMPHREYS) [1887-1962] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Dora ARMSTRONG / GLANVILLE (née HUMPHREYS) [1887-1962]

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Submitted by David on Mon, 2021-07-05 11:31
Names
Given: 
Dora
Family: 
Armstrong / Glanville
Maiden: 
Humphreys
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1887-09-24
Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
1962-12-06

Entry in the list of Civilian Internees:

Glanville Mrs D 53 Housewife   4
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
Connections: 
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Submitted by annpake on Mon, 2021-07-05 22:34.

Passenger List Sydney to Southampton arriving October 1945

Dora Glanville age 58 UK address c/o HKSB Gracechurch Street London

Passenger List london to Cape Town departing September 1951

Mrs D Glanville age 63 UK address Flat 292 Park West Marble Arch London

Submitted by annpake on Tue, 2021-07-06 02:13.

Carl Smith Card 78431

8 November 1909  Married St Johns Dora youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs W G Humphreys to J H William Armstrong a volunteer born 8 August 1876 son of John Martin Armstrong and Emily Caldwell. 1924 3 July died William Armstrong of Butterfield and Swire Married a daughter of late M and Mrs W G Humphreys. A son Ronald aged 14 and a daughter Joan aged 5. (date conflict with Probate calendar)

Passenger List Liverpool to Hong Kong departing 21 January 1921

John Henry William Armstrong 44 merchant's assistant

Dora Armstrong 33

Joan Armstrong 3

Probate Calendar UK 1924

John Henry William Armstrong of Victoria Hong Kong died 29 July 1924. Probate to widow Dora Armstrong Buried St John's 30 July 1924 aged 48 years

Passenger List 1936 Manchester to Seattle en route to Canada

Dora Armstrong 48 born Hong Kong

Joan Armstrong 18 born 30 January 1918  Hong Kong baptised 1 May  1918 St Johns Cathedral Hong Kong

UK Marriage Index

Dora Armstrong married Bertram Glanville 1938 Westminster London

UK 1939 Census Menevale Hotel Bickley Park Road, Bromley

Dora Glanville born 24 September 1887 marrried ARP warden

Joan Armstrong born 30 January 1918 single secretarial

UK Death Index

Bertram Glanville aged 51 death registered Quarter 3 1940  Salisbury

UK Probate Calendar 1941

Bertram Glanville of Chieveley Pinnacle Hall, Banhurst Kent died 16 July 1940 at The Old Manor Salisbury. Administration to Allan William Coleman solicitor of Dora Glanville and Cecil James Glanville.

John Charter War Time Journal 6 March 1943

In the room next door were five ladies – Mrs Glanville and Joan, Eileen Bliss, Constance Wood and Dinnie Dodwell;

Death Index UK

Dora Glanville born c 1887 died age 75  Marylebone London 1962 registered Quarter 4

UK Probate Calendar 1963

Dora Glanville widow  of Flat 130 Rossmore Park Road London  NW 1 died at the Middlesex Hospital London on 16 December 1962. Probate to Joan Dykes. Resealed Hong Kong 13 June1963

Joan Armstrong married Ernest F Dykes in Chelsea London 1950

Ronald Douglas Armstrong baptised St Johns 30 September 1910 Born 5 August 1910

Death 1985 Kensington London

Submitted by David on Thu, 2021-07-15 16:45.

Thanks for all the extra detail - interesting to see she was the mother of Joan who was also in Stanley Camp.