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James Henry KYNOCH [c.1882-1926]

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2020-11-29 04:12
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kynoch
Given: 
James Henry
Birth
Date: 
c.1882-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
1926-02-05
Other
Other reference: 
C.E. Warren's funeral

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.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Public Works Department
Kowloon Golf Club
Kowloon Cricket Club
Union Church

Percival Douglas WILSON (aka Percy) [1877-1962]

Submitted by Ron Abbott on Sun, 2019-10-13 20:05
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wilson
Given: 
Percival Douglas
Alias / nickname: 
Percy
Birth
Date: 
1877-07-10
Birthplace (town, state): 
Swansea
Death
Date: 
1962-07-12
Cause of death: 
Heart Failure

Son of Alexander Wilson (Irishman born in 1860) a master shoe-maker and Elzabeth Wilson (nee Cook).  Became a civil engineer and worked in the Public Works Department in Hong Kong for some thirty years. 

Married at St John's Cathedral on 1913-11-19 to Hilda Wilson and had at last two sons, namely Farquhar and Ronald.

Birthplace (country): 
Wales
Tags: 
Pipe-Major
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps
Public Works Department
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