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John George SWANSTON [1879-c.1935]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2020-11-16 02:59
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Swanston
Given: 
John George
Birth
Date: 
1879-04-18
Death
Date: 
c.1935-12-09 (Year is approximate)
Other
Other reference: 
Hong Kong Police

In my efforts to unravel the social circle of my grandfather Charles Warren from the names of the people who attended his funeral or sent wreaths, I've had difficulty identifying this person because of differences in the spelling of his surname and also the date of his death. Carl Smith describes him as a marine engineer, which seems right as we can find him in the Jurors Lists of 1909-11 as Foreman at the Taikoo Dockyard. There is a John George Swanston listed at the DBS in 1887 which would probably mean that he was born in Hong Kong.

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Taikoo Dockyard
DBS
C.E. Warren
Happy Valley Cemetery

Louis Auguste COSSART [1881-1929]

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2020-11-13 02:50
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Cossart
Given: 
Louis Auguste
Birth
Date: 
1881-03-04
Death
Date: 
1929-07-07
Other
Other reference: 
Pio-Ulski family

The Cossart family, who were living at 22 Broadwood Road in 1923, were near neighbours of my grandfather Charles E. Warren and were among the mourners at his funeral on 9 June 1923. The inscription on Louis Cossart's own gravestone solves the mystery of who the senders of the wreath from "Phyllis and Betty" were, as recorded without surname in CEW's obituary. They were his daughters.  Louis' wife was Sophia, known as "Siss". Cossart worked for Asiatic Petroleum Ltd. and his gravestone in the Colonial Cemetery was erected by his colleagues according to the inscription.

Tags: 
Broadwood Road residents
Asiatic Petroleum Ltd.
Happy Valley Cemetery

Arthur Charles MAYCOCK [c.1912-1936]

Submitted by jill on Sat, 2017-07-15 06:47
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Maycock
Given: 
Arthur Charles
Birth
Date: 
c.1912-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
1936-01-30
Cause of death: 
Peritonitis
Other
Other reference: 
John Henry Maycock, Yoshino Maycock John Maycock jnr., William Maycock, Henry Maycock, Robert Maycock, Thomas Maycock, Ernest Maycock.

Arthur Maycock was one of the seven sons of John and Yoshino Maycock. He was educated at the Central British School. The first of his family to die and the only one not to be caught up in the war, he shares a grave with his mother in the Protestant Cemetery in Happy Valley. His father, John Henry Maycock, lies in the grave next to them.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Happy Valley Cemetery

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