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Frederick Cyril GABY (aka Cyril) [1906-2002]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Gaby
Given: 
Frederick Cyril
Alias / nickname: 
Cyril
Birth
Date: 
1906-08-27
Death
Date: 
2002-05-06
Other
Other reference: 
Elsie Gaby

Cyril Gaby represents a long-standing tranche of the Hong Kong community - that is of seamen who would acquire a Chinese mistress in the city and set her up in an apartment. It was a convenient arrangement for men who came and went. In his autobiography, Gaby has described how he acquired his mistress through the time honoured "viewing" procedure at a tea shop in Ladder Street and recorded the price negotiated with the madam, which in his case in the early 1930s was a down payment of $500 and the purchase of a $2000 apartment in Wanchai.

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