Phyllis Rainey WOOLLEY [c.1909-1989] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Phyllis Rainey WOOLLEY [c.1909-1989]

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Submitted by David on Fri, 2015-08-14 13:49
Names
Given: 
Phyllis Rainey
Family: 
Woolley
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1909-03-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
c.1989-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

John Black's list gives Miss Woolley's occupation in 1941 as "Stenographer", and DoB as 1908. (He uses the initials "P A", but Philip Cracknell gives her full name as Phyllis Rainey.) Updated with DoB from Philip.

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by Philip on Mon, 2015-10-05 15:59.

She was born 31st March 1909. She was one of seven children of William Henry Woolley and Louisa Clara Heang Woolley who married in Hong Kong in 1899. WH Woolley died in 1920. Louisa was in Stanley Camp with her sister Lillian Eva Heang, two unmarried daughters Phyllis Rainey Woolley and Evelyn Stokes Wooley and married daughter Iris Lillian Joyce. A son William John Woolley was a Sgt in HKVDC (Pay Corps) and died in POW Camp in March 1944.

Philip Cracknell

 

Submitted by annpake on Thu, 2020-02-06 18:16.

Born 31 March 1909 in Hong Kong

Married Thomas Henry Gorman in Hampstead London 1946

Died in Plymouth Devon 1989

Submitted by eurasian_david on Fri, 2021-01-08 05:22.

“HONG KONG FOLKS AT HOME

News of Hong Kong residents in England.

Miss Phyllis Wooley is engaged to be married.

T. Vanthall has extended his leave, for his marriage to Miss Nancy Grady, who was also at Stanley.

The marriage of Pamela Pritchard has been annulled.”

 

Source: The China Mail, page 2, 4th April 1946