He was the Irish curate of Midsomer Norton in Somerset Coalfield, who went to Shanghai with the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong 1849) in 1844 as one of the founders of Church Missionary Society work in China. He became a canon of St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong and later at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at Shanghai. He came with his family and served nearly forty years in China before retiring in 1882. Several of his children stayed on in China. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1964
My mother Lily Wang (Leah Gershevich in Hong Kong), her brothers, Alexy, Yuri and Tony, her mother, Rufima Gershevich and grandmother, Maria Kluchnikova, came to Hong Kong from about August 1964 to April 1966 as Russian refugees from Xinjiang, China, along with many other Russian families. My family settled in a hotel off Kimberley Road. Later, they went to live in Christchurch, New Zealand, where the majority of my family still reside, although my sister and are in HK.
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The missionary doctor, the Rev. W. J. Webb Anderson M.B., Ch.B was one of the mainstays of the Wesleyan Missionary Church hospital in Fatshan, Canton, where he worked for over twenty years, according to Carl Smith. According to my father’s memory, the Rev Webb Anderson was one of the closest friends of his own father, Charles Edward Warren. This makes sense, as they lived next door to each other for about seven years. <Read more ...>
A Presbyterian Missionary, he was caught in Hong Kong in 1941 when the Japanese refused permission for him to return to the mission in Hainan: <Read more ...>
The Reverend Albert Kato Reiton was an American Protestant missionary.
He married Edna Greer Reiton on November 15, 1909 and the next month they founded the South China Peniel Holiness Mission in Hong Kong. Edna Greer died in Kobe en route to the USA for medical treatment in January 1912 and in January 1913 Reiton married Rose Etta Femmer. The couple returned to Hong Kong in March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon. <Read more ...>
Robert Bruce Hammond was an American missionary with the China Peniel Mission, which was founded by his father-in-law the Rev. A. K. Reiton and is first wife. He went through the 1941 hostilities in Kowloon and was interned in Stanley with his wife, their daughter Edith, and the Reitons, until the American repatriation.
He wrote a memoir of his experience: Bondservants of the Japanese (1942)
