Phyllis Louise Ogilvie FERGUSON (née YOUNG) [1916-1947]
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Submitted by David on Thu, 2015-06-18 20:00
Sex:
Female
Status:
Deceased
DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mrs Ferguson's occupation in 1941 as "Housewife".
Connections:
- Phyllis Louise Ogilvie FERGUSON (née YOUNG) [1916-1947] parent of Heather Carol Ogilvie FERGUSON [1942- ]
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Additional information from a
Additional information from a thread on the Stanley Camp Discussion List:
Lynn asks:
I was wondering if anybody knew Phyllis Ferguson - she was interned at Stanley Camp possibly with her daughter Heather. They were with the Colonial Office in Hong Kong. Her husband James Johnston Ferguson my second cousin was separated from her and was sent to camps in Japan. I believed she died at Stanley but have since found her grave in South Carolina. Wondering how she would have met up with her husband after liberation and why she is buried in South Carolina.
Nicola replies:
I had a look on Ancestry for you. Phyllis Louise Ogilvie Ferguson nee Young age 30 (born 5 Sept 1915) and Heather Carol Ogilvie Ferguson age 3 were repatriated to Britain in 1945 on the SS Empress of Australia arriving in Liverpool on October 26th. They gave an address Mrs E Young, Marybank, Broughty Ferry near Dundee Scotland. (I notice a tartan ribbon on the photo of the grave online).
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=150957861&...
I couldn't obviously see when James came in, probably a military transport (?), but they all left together back to HK from London in August 1946.
There is then a 7th Feb 1947 immigration record for Phyllis to Los Angeles from HK on her own with destination Shelton Health Home, San Antonio Texas, passage paid by HK Govt. Husband Education Dept HK. Annotated later with what looks like 'died in Baker Memorial Sanatorium Charleston SC and buried in St Lawrence Catholic cemetery' The SC Death Cert is actually on Ancestry and it gives date of death as 21 Nov 1947 usual residence Esser Hospital John's Island Charleston, cause of death Anorexia Nervosa, starvation. So very tragic. They must have been desperate to get her treatment? England and Wales Probate Register in 1950 strangely has her date of death as 21 Nov 1949, perhaps a typo owing to the delay, confirmation James Johnston Ferguson.
Passenger records show James and Heather arriving in LA from HK 15 Nov 1947 a week before Phyllis died. It seems he died in San Diego in 1951. Do you know what happened to little Heather?
More on the hospital online.
You can read the whole thread on the Stanley Camp Discussion List.