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Spencer Tseng LAISUN [1857-1917]

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Submitted by Joy Mc Grath on Tue, 2021-08-31 05:23
Names
Given: 
Spencer Tseng
Family: 
Laisun
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1857-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
c.1917-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Spencer T. LAISUN was born in 1857 into the famous Chinese LAISUN family. . He was a Chinese of British nationality, the son of Tseng Laisun ( 1826-1895) and Ruith Ati Laisun.( 1825-1917) late of Shanghai.  

Spencer LAISUN married Miss HO, Man-kwai, youngest daughter of late Rev. HO Tsien-Shien on 17-1-1882. at Hong Kong at the Union Church by Rev Colvill

The couple had one daughter Daisy Spencer LAISUN who married Richard Chamberlain FAITHFULL in Shanghai Novemebr 1920 .

I am seeking any information or contacts of the LAISUN FAMILY for my Ph D research at University of Queensland.  

 

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Submitted by erhoads on Wed, 2021-09-29 02:50.

You might look at, if you haven't already done so, consult a couple of my publications, one is an article in Pacific Historical Review on Zeng Laishun (Tseng Lai Shun) and the other is a book on the Chinese Educational Mission (which takes in Spencer and his brother).

You might also contact a great-great-granddaughter of Zeng Laishun, Mary Severin, who lives in Oxfordshire; her email address is mary.severin@btinterne.com.

-- ed rhoads

Submitted by Joy Mc Grath on Wed, 2021-09-29 00:00.

Thank you Ed Rhoads for this information and the additional contact Mary Severin. I will contact her. 

I have read your journal article in The Pacific Historical Review and that was very useful, thank you. I have an article written by Carl T. Smith and he names a daughter of Spencer Laisun,.Daisy Spencer Laisun. I hhave found she married Richard Chamberlain Faithfull, a Shanghai Municiapl Police prosecutor in 1920 Shanghai. He was seventy and died in 1924,  Daisy was thirty -four.. They had two daughters Mabel Mary and Lily Josephne in 1915 and 1917. 

I am seeking to find out what happened to Daisy do you know if she stayed in Shanghai ? I have traced the youngest daughter Lily Josephine Judd who died in 1940, to her only daughter Mavis (1940-????) to Ross-on -Wye and her only grand-daughter Sarah (1964-???? who )lives there also, however I have not been able to contact them.

Any suggestions?   

Joy Mc Grath 

Submitted by erhoads on Mon, 2021-10-11 22:38.

hi, Joy:

I don't have any information on Spencer Laisun's descendants. Sorry.

-- ed rhoads