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Catherine Margaret YOUNG (née BROWN) [1900-1991]

Submitted by jill on Sat, 2022-05-28 01:51
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Young
Given: 
Catherine Margaret
Maiden: 
Brown
Birth
Date: 
c.1900-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Dumbarton
Death
Date: 
c.1991-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Thanks once again to annpake for the biographical details of the Young family. As mentioned in George Gerrard's diary of 10 April 1943, Bob Young received a letter from his wife to say that she had gone from Victoria to Toronto, having been stuck in Victoria for 18 months with her children and with two other Hong Kong wives, Mrs John Fleming (Kitty) and Mrs Harry Penn (Irene). All three had been hoping to joing their husbands in Hong Kong in 1940 just before the evacuation took place. As usual, the letter had taken a long time to arrive.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Katharine Fleming
Irene Penn

Katharine Baillie FLEMING (née STRONG, aka Kitty) [1894-1952]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2022-05-16 01:40
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Fleming
Given: 
Katharine Baillie
Maiden: 
Strong
Alias / nickname: 
Kitty
Birth
Date: 
c.1894-07-01 (Day is approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Glencorse, Midlothian
Death
Date: 
1952-03-08
Cause of death: 
Pancreatic cancer

Wife of John Fleming, Chief Accountant of Lowe, Bingham & Matthews. Their marriage took place in Hong Kong on 7 July 1927. Mrs. John Fleming is referred to in the diary entry of George Gerrard 10 April 1943 as being in Toronto, but I'm not sure that this is the same person. I had thought that Kitty Fleming and her children had stayed in Scotland during the war. John Fleming himself was interned in Stanley, having returned alone from home leave according to my recollection. The Flemings had three children, Elizabeth, Marion and Quentin.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Erncraig
293 The Peak

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

Submitted by colmans on Tue, 2022-05-03 00:54
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Morrison
Given: 
Margaret
Maiden: 
McColm
Alias / nickname: 
Maggie
Birth
Date: 
1896-06-30
Birthplace (town, state): 
Kircudbright
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

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Evacuated to Australia

Elsy COLMANS (née MORRISON) [1926-2017]

Submitted by colmans on Mon, 2022-05-02 21:09
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Colmans
Given: 
Elsy
Maiden: 
Morrison
Birth
Date: 
1926-10-02
Birthplace (town, state): 
Glasgow
Death
Date: 
2017-09-18
Cause of death: 
Natural causes

Daughter of Robert Morrison and Margaret McColm Morrison

Born in Glasgow, emigrated to HK in 1928

Married Louis Colmans and had 4 x children

Lived at 9 Braga Circuit, HK

Evacuated to Brisbane with her mother Margaret during WW2

1954 - lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Kowloon Dock (Marriage Cert)

Emigrated to Southend on Sea, Essex in 1967

Author's Paternal Grandmother

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Evacuated to Australia

Robert MORRISON [1884-1983]

Submitted by colmans on Mon, 2022-05-02 20:33
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Morrison
Given: 
Robert
Birth
Date: 
1884-08-14
Birthplace (town, state): 
Glasgow
Death
Date: 
c.1983-04-01 (Day is approximate)
Cause of death: 
Natural Causes

Interned at Sham Shui Po camp during WW2, Corporal in the No 2 Company (Scottish) HKVDC.

Boilermaker by trade, Foreman at HK & Whampoa Shipyard. Lived at 4 Inverness Terrace, Hong Kong Dockyard

Wife - Margaret Malcolm (nee Haugh)

Daughter - Elsy Sharp

Emigrated to Hong Kong on 14 Sept 1928, moved back to the UK in the 1960s.

Paternal great grandfather of author

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
HKVDC
POW

Thomas Drummond HUNTER [1918-2002]

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2022-04-29 11:19
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Hunter
Given: 
Thomas Drummond
Birth
Date: 
1918-12-22
Birthplace (town, state): 
Cumnock
Death
Date: 
2002-04-13

T Drummond Hunter OBE (he doesn't seem to have used the full name 'Thomas').

Details from his obituary in The Herald.

The IWM has a recording of an interview with him.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Royal Scots
POW

William Lodge ALEXANDER [c.1901-1941]

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2022-02-04 14:42
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Alexander
Given: 
William Lodge
Birth
Date: 
c.1901-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Paisley
Death
Date: 
1941-12-25
Cause of death: 
Killed in the fighting

Entry in the list of casualties:

HKVDC Alexander W L Gunner DR234 1941-12-25 killed

 

Entry in the 1941 Jurors List: 

c   Alexander, William Lodge Chartered Accountant, Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming. 276 The Peak.
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
HKVDC

Robert Fraser FORBES [1891-????]

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2022-01-09 01:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Forbes
Given: 
Robert Fraser
Birth
Date: 
1891-03-30

Robert Fraser Forbes was married to the daughter of Edwin Henry and Celestina Summers, whose name I haven't been able to discover. He appears in the Jurors List as working for Mustard & Co. His address is given as 7 Aimai Villas, Kowloon, which was also an address of E.H. Summers.

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
Mustard & Co.
7 Aimai Villas
Edwin Henry Sparks Summers

Benjamin Thomas Stuart ROSS [1917-1980]

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2021-12-19 10:06
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Ross
Given: 
Benjamin Thomas Stuart
Birth
Date: 
1917-02-18
Birthplace (town, state): 
Tomintoul, Banffshire
Death
Date: 
c.1980-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
police

John THOMSON [1837-1921]

Submitted by LizB on Tue, 2021-10-05 01:39
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Thomson
Given: 
John
Birth
Date: 
1837-06-14
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
c.1921-09-29 (Day is approximate)

John Thomson was a photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of China and Hong Kong in the 1860s and early 1870s. There is currently an exhibition of some of John Thomson's photographs (including some taken in Hong Kong) at the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, until March 2022. 

 

The following is an extract from an article published on the BBC website on 3 October 2021, "The pioneering Scots photographer who captured China":

Birthplace (country): 
Scotland
Tags: 
hotz

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