Rosie WEILL [1881-1951] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Rosie WEILL [1881-1951]

Names
Given: 
Rosie
Family: 
Weill
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1881-09-01
Birthplace (town, state): 
Constantinople / Istanbul
Death
Date: 
1951-07-02
Connections: 

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Added DoB and DoD from her gravestone:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52833899

Emily Hahn mentions Rosie Weill and her family several times in her book, "China to me". The first mention is at the start of Chapter 40:

Chapter 40

Susie came of an international family. Her mother, Mrs. Weill ((Rosie)), was born in Stambul. I don’t quite know how that works out with the fact that she met the French Mr. Weill in Shanghai or Harbin or Hong Kong, but it does, and they married and had four children and settled down in Hong Kong with a jewelry shop, after wandering about the Far East long enough for Mother Weill to have learned to speak Japanese, Cantonese, and goodness knows what else on top of her French and German and other non-exotic tongues. Daddy Weill, by the time the Asiatic war overtook his family, was dead and in his grave, but Mamma still ran the whole lot of them. She owned a plot of ground out near the Queen Mary, in the lovely countryside, and on this ground she built two large houses, one just above the other on a steep slope. Susie, the baby, married Alec Potts, a Yorkshireman. Susie and Alec were old friends of mine from those long-ago days when I followed the horses. Alec was very horsy and had been “starter” for the races for as long as I could remember. At this time he was fighting in the Volunteers.

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The Weill family owned the Sennet Freres jewellery store.

Rosie Weill 1 September 1880 Constantinople (from her head stone)  Died 2 July 1951 Hong Kong (Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery)

Married  Albert Weill  (1873 Alsace France  - 1927 Hong Kong ) (Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery)

Sophie Rachel Weill  born 11 December 1900 died 1979 (Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery Hong Kong)

US Consular Record  Sophie Rachel Weill Married Harry O Odell 10 January 1921 Victoria China

Suzanna Sarah Weill born abt 1905 Hong Kong died 28 April 1968 Kings Lynn Norfolk UK

Leon Weill  born 15 January 1906 Hong Kong and died 27 April 1944 Shamshuipo POW Camp Husband of Vera father of Gerald and Bernard (Grave Stone Happy Valley Kong Kong) (Commonwealth War Graves shows death as 27 April 1945)

Maurice Bernard Weill  born 1908 died  30 March 1944 POW Shanghai

Probate Records UK Rose Weill otherwise Rosie of Alberose Pokfulum Hong Kong died 2 July 1951 Probate to Sophie Rachel Odell and Susie Hutton Potts.