Monia TALAN (aka Tai) [1913-1999] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Monia TALAN (aka Tai) [1913-1999]

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Submitted by David on Mon, 2019-04-08 20:09
Names
Given: 
Monia
Family: 
Talan
Alias / nickname: 
Tai
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1913-05-28
Birthplace (town, state): 
Novonikolaevsk
Birthplace (country): 
Russia
Death
Date: 
1999-06-27
Connections: 
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Submitted by Carolyn on Mon, 2021-02-08 18:57.

Hello all

I have come across the name 'Monia Talan' in some legal documents relating to the company Talan, Glemos as part of my research into the missing Lyall James Scott Glendinning. Could this be the same person? Other details for Monia Talan include:

- Russian nationality

- residence at 7, Douglas Apartments, Peak Road (1950) - is this the same as 7, St John's Apartments?

(A Mrs Alyson Talan appears at the same address at Peak Road  in 1952, but not sure how she is related. In 1957 she is recorded as living in London)

- Managing Director, American Lloyd Travel Service (1953)

- residence at 15 Peak Road (1954)

- residence at 7, St John's Apartments (1953, 1957)

- resident at 5 Stanley Beach Road (1958)

Also, associated with Talan, Glemos is Ernest S Moses and Lyall Glendinning

Interestingly the 1941 Juror's List records a 'Moses Talan' as Manager, American Lloyd.

Anything further information on any of these people, particularly Lyall Glendinning, would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Carolyn

Submitted by annpake on Mon, 2021-10-11 16:15.

Australia Electoral Rolls Woodfull Road, Lower Plenty, Eltham, Diamond  Valley, Victoria 1980

Monia Talan

Michael  Jonathan Tallan  student

Passenger List  22 March 1958 departing Honolulu

Monia Talan British age 45 born Russia 28 May 1913 Last residence Hong Kong

Victoria Australia Wills and Probate Record

Monia Talan died 27 June 1999 Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia Occupation gentleman

 

Public Tree Ancestry gives his parents as Mendel Talan and Sophie Pressman and wife Tania Ermachuvalavech who died 10 April 1979 in Melbourne

Submitted by gordonvr on Mon, 2021-10-11 14:24.

I have no connection whatsoever with this person or with anybody else mentioned on this page, but noticed that the word "Glemos"  in "Talan Glemos" may have been formed from the first three letters of the names "GLEndinning" and "MOSes".  I don't know whether this helps, or whether I have just been doing too many crosswords!

Submitted by HK Bill on Mon, 2021-10-11 15:15.

It is my understanding that he went into the laundry business after the war.

Submitted by David on Fri, 2021-10-15 12:45.

Details from his Naturalisation Certificate in 1958:

  • Full name: Monia TALAN
  • Address: No.24, Oxford Road, Ground floor, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Occupation: Company Director
  • Place and date of birth: Novonikolaevsk, Russia: 28th May, 1913
  • Nationality: Stateless
  • Single, married, etc.: Married
  • Name of wife: Alyson TALAN nee SCOTT
  • Names and nationalities of parents:
    • Max TALAN, father (deceased): Stateless
    • Sophie TALAN nee PRESSMAN, mother (deceased: Canadian by Naturalisation

Submitted by MJT on Mon, 2021-12-06 15:49.

Notes from Monia's son Michael:

I am Monia Talan's son Michael Talan. We live in Bundaberg Qld Australia . I have been intrested in seeing what was in Monia Talan's file. we all moved to Australia December 1978. However, Monia never became a naturalised Australian, when his British passport ran out he flew to Canberra and marched in with his MBE citation with him and procceed to inform the British Embassy that he was a British citizen with a MBE and needed his passport renewed which they did. 

Another story he told me was when he was in London during the war or it could have been at the end of the war, apparently non-british soldiers of the British Army had to report to a police station every couple of days. Anway, he walked into a police station to report and the police SGT saw him and told him as he was an British Army officer he was to come in the front door and not to use the rear entrance.