Margaret MORRISON (née MCCOLM, aka Maggie) [1896-1981] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Margaret MORRISON (née MCCOLM, aka Maggie) [1896-1981]

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Submitted by colmans on Tue, 2022-05-03 00:54
Names
Given: 
Margaret
Family: 
Morrison
Maiden: 
McColm
Alias / nickname: 
Maggie
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1896-06-30
Birthplace (town, state): 
Kircudbright
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Death
Date: 
c.1981-04-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Cause of death: 
Natural Causes

Born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Married Robert Morrison in 1925 and gave birth to daughter Elsy in 1926. Emigrated to HK in 1928 and lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, HK Dockyard.

Evacuated to Brisbane with daughter during WW2

Emigrated to UK in 1960s

Paternal great grandmother of author

Tags: 
Evacuated to Australia
Connections: 
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Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2022-05-11 12:31.

Her husband's POW card gives her address as "52 Roscoe Street, Bondi, New South Wales", so it looks as though she spent time there as well as in Brisbane. We've got mentions of a couple of other evacuated families living in Bondi, see Ian MCNAY and 
Dorothy Marjorie JONES.