James Henry KYNOCH [c.1882-1926]
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Submitted by jill on Sun, 2020-11-29 04:12
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
James Kynoch was Senior Inspector of Works at the time of his death and had been with the PWD for 18 years. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the original promoters of the Kowloon Golf Club, a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club and a member of the Committee of the Union Church, Kowloon. He seems to have been a long standing friend and PWD contact of my grandfather, Charles Warren and a Kowloon neighbour. He is one of the twenty or so people listed in the SCMP as attending Charles Warren's funeral at St Michael's Cemetery in June 1923. He died at an even younger age only three years later.
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James Henry Kynoch 1883 - 5 February 1926 Hong Kong
Birth registered 1883 St George registration district Edinburgh
No record of a death in Scotland
Death 5 February 1926 ( Carl Smith Card)
Passenger List 10 October 1921 London to Hong Kong
James Henry Kynoch 38 civil servant
Catherine Kynoch 34
Edna Kynoch 3
Re: J. H. Kynoch
Kynoch's funeral is covered in the HK Telegraph dated 8 February 1926 here
Text from the HK Telegraph
Text from the HK Telegraph report:
[...]
Many Friends Present.
The funeral of the late Mr James H. Kynoch, who died at the Government Civil Hospital on Friday, took place at the Protestant Cemetery at Happy Valley on Saturday.
Mr. Kynoch, who was 44 years of age, joined the Public Works Department in Hongkong in 1908, as an Overseer. He bad held the position of Senior Inspector of Works since July, 1924.
A large number of friends attended the funeral and paid their last respects to one who was well known throughout the Colony. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. Horace Johnston and the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. The principal mourner was Mr. G. W. Kynoch, brother.
Others present were: [...]
The inscription on his gravestone reads:
The age is clearly wrong, so the writing on the gravestone may have been unclear to read.