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Faustina Felicia Osmund RIBEIRO [1885-1958]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Fri, 2022-02-18 06:43
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Ribeiro
Given: 
Faustina Felicia Osmund
Birth
Date: 
1885-12-23
Death
Date: 
1958-03-16

Wife of accountant Edmundo Duarte da Roza (1886-1945) 

 

"Mrs E.D. Roza, of No. 10 Somerset Road, Kowloon Tong, driver of private car No. 893, was fined $8 by Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, for driving the car at a speed in excess of 20 miles per hour, namely 28 miles per hour, in Nathan Road at 9.10 a.m. on June 25."

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
No. 10 Somerset Road
Kowloon Tong
No. 893

Haunted house on (3?) Cornwall St

Submitted by ggbjhijgghj on Sat, 2021-11-06 21:55

Wondering about an abandoned house on Cornwall Street. I haven't been able to dig up anything about this house, why it's abandoned in such an affluent area - could someone who is more knowledgeable fill me in? Thanks.

https://www.google.com/maps/@22.340073,114.176433,3a,72.5y,178.44h,94.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sv1DDaJZl6MfcLx966XAqBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

DA86FFBA-B632-498F-B2B9-40F9D7DF60BE.jpeg

Submitted by Debo on Thu, 2021-10-28 10:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Wiltshire Road looking towards Oxford Road

N.K.I.L. 1382 [1930- ]

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2021-05-06 16:40
Date Place completed: 
c.1930-05-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

This lot is deliminated by Inverness, Dumbarton, and Grampian Roads. It was likely sold in 1930 when in this area middle-class European houses were built. Many of these were pairs of detached houses with mirrored plan, probably built in the early 1930s, when Art Deco style was at its peak.

On this lot, Houses 45 - 47 Grampian Road (Sun Hok Building), today Bethel Bible Seminary, was built.

Sale updated after comments below

Tags: 
Kowloon Tong

Tiger active at Kowloon Tong-China Mail-02-03-1936

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2020-12-29 22:34
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936

#41 Cumberland Road [????-2019]

Submitted by philk on Wed, 2020-06-24 12:17
Date Place demolished: 
2019-09-28
Tags: 
Kowloon Tong

Kowloon Tong Garden City - Panorama Photo of Planned Site.

Submitted by Chinarail on Mon, 2020-05-04 15:30
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1921

This photograph, taken about  in about 1921, shows the farming land which was  to be developed by the Kowloon Tong  Company , providing some 250 houses for familes at "affordable rentals and amid proper surroundings". In 1924 it was reported that the project had been delayed  by worker unrest but was still proceeding slowly with the first  twenty units perhaps ready by mid-year. Cutting across the picture from left to right is the Kowloon Canton Ralway embankment, seen curving as it approaches the Beacon Hill tunnel. 

Durham-Wiltshire-Roads.jpg

Submitted by Chinarail on Sun, 2020-04-26 11:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1965

Photo montage comparing width of Durham (?)  and Wiltshire Roads

1 Lincoln Road, Kowloon Tong (1964)

Submitted by OldTimer on Sat, 2020-03-14 09:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1964

Building on left: 1 Lincoln Road, right: back side of 107 Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong.  Background: Lion Rock.  Photo (January 1964)

Frederic A. SILVA (aka Jim) [1928- ]

Submitted by LizB on Thu, 2018-02-22 04:19
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Silva
Given: 
Frederic A.
Alias / nickname: 
Jim
Birth
Date: 
c.1928-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Other
Other reference: 
15 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong

Resided at 15 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong, from 1961-1971.

Edited extracts from Mr Silva's letters dated 7.12.2017 and 22.1.2018:

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Kowloon Tong

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