Hilda SEWELL (née GUY) [1898-1987] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Hilda SEWELL (née GUY) [1898-1987]

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Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-08 18:19
Names
Given: 
Hilda
Family: 
Sewell
Maiden: 
Guy
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1898-01-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hunslet, West Yorkshire
Birthplace (country): 
United Kingdom
Death
Date: 
c.1987-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Hilda Guy was a student of Botany and Education at Leeds University, where she met William Gawan Sewell. The couple married in 1922. They had three daughters and one son (their eldest daugter died aged 7).

The couple went to Chengdu in 1924 and for  the next seventeen years William worked as both Quaker missionary and university lecturer. They were in Hong Kong on a temporary pass when the Japanese attacked. During the hostilities the family spent time with a group at the house of George and Helen Kenndy-Skipton.

They were eventually interned in Stanley, where they spent the rest of the war.

 

Source:

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms16

Note: In William Sewell's memoir Strange Harmony (1946) his wife is called Mary, but the source above, which seems authoritative, has her as Hilda, although both names are of course possible.

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by annpake on Sun, 2020-05-24 23:38.

Born 18 January 1898 Hunslet West Yorkshire registered as Hilda Guy

Died 1987 Abingdon Oxfordshire

1939 Census UK 55 Easington Road Banbury Oxfordshire

1. William G Sewell born 6 July 1898 Missionary and chemistry teacher on leave from China

2.Hilda Sewell born 9 January 1898 Missionary on leave from China

Occupants 3, 4 and 5 blacked out (as was the case for many in the 1939 census for a variery of reasons)

Daughter Erica May Sewell 1928 - 1935