Barbara Bridget FOX (née O'SULLIVAN) [c.1915-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Barbara Bridget FOX (née O'SULLIVAN) [c.1915-????]

Names
Given: 
Barbara Bridget
Family: 
Fox
Maiden: 
O'Sullivan
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1915-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Connections: 

Comments

Barbara Bridget Fox, aged 30 in 1945.

Wife of John Alexander Fox, 33 in 1945.

Both are on the British Army Aid Group list as uninterned in December 1942, almost certainly living in the French Hospital. John Fox was probably working for the Sanitation Department.

Sources:

BAAG list of 'Free Europeans'

Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 626

In January 1943 Uriah Laite, a Canadian padre in Shamshuipo, records receiving a parcel from Mrs. B. Fox of Pok Fu Lam Road. This was probably Barbara Fox, so she wasn't living at the French Hospital at that point (see my comment above). Laite received another parcel later in the month - this time from Miss Doreen Xavier of Ava Mansions, May Rd. He clearly didn't know either woman - like the other Canadians he'd only arrived in Hong Kong three weeks before the start of the war. My guess is that Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was using people in his 'network' to send in parcels.

Barbara Fox's maiden name was O'Sullivan. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary O'Sullivan.

Passenger List London to Hong Kong departing 19 December 1924

Thomas  F O'Sullivan 37 civil servant UK address High Street Newmarket County Cork

Mary Frances O' Sullivan 27 [dob abt 1897]

John O'Sullivan 11 [dob abt 1913]

Barbara O'Sullivan 9 [dob abt 1915]

Hazel O'Sullivan 5 born 18 December 1918