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 ...>
Married Arthur George Pile (Canonbury, London) 1903-08-22 and emigrated to Hong Kong. Left him and emigrated to Canada 1924 with their youngest son <Read more ...>
Thomas Francis O'Sullivan was a former bailiff of the Supreme Court who vanished in May 1930. The circumstances of his disappearance were never clarified, but he was eventually declared dead. He was married with three daughters and one son. He was probably of Irish nationality. <Read more ...>
Ernest Hillas Williams was from a Church of Ireland family from Cork (Eire). He entered the Colonial Civil Service as an administrator, eventually becoming Puisne Judge and then Assistant Attorney General.
He was a sergeant in the HKVDC, imprisoned first in Shamshuipo and then Innoshima Camp (Japan).
After the war he became Chief Justice of the British Borneo Territories. <Read more ...>
I am looking for biographical details and place of death of Mr Alfred H.Crook, who I know lived in Hong Kong in 1909 and was living in London in 1953. <Read more ...>
William Henry Brereton QC (born Dublin & died at his home on Mount Gough, The Peak, Hong Kong 24 Oct 1887) was buried in Happy Valley cemetery. He was the only son of Francis Frederick Brereton (Solicitor of Dublin) & was baptised in St. Mary's, Dublin on 23 July 1824 (his birth date is given as 26 May 1824). The Death Notice in The China Mail 25 Oct 1887 gives his age as 59.
