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Emil WIEWELS [1871-1899]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Tue, 2022-05-24 07:45
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Wiewels
Given: 
Emil
Birth
Date: 
1871-11-02
Birthplace (town, state): 
Trier
Death
Date: 
1899-12-03

"DEATH.

On Sunday night, the 3rd December, at the Government Civil Hospital, EMIL WIEWELS, a native of Trier, and late with Messrs Carlowitz & Co., Canton"

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Carlowitz & Co.

Emile J. BRANDT [1865-1898]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Mon, 2022-01-31 02:51
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Brandt
Given: 
Emile J.
Birth
Date: 
1865-08-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Frankfurt
Death
Date: 
1898-04-18
Cause of death: 
Typhoid fever

“The funeral of Mr. Emil Brand, chief petty officer in one of the vessels of the American squadron in the harbour, took place on Tuesday afternoon, the remains being interred in the Happy Valley. Deceased was a Mason, taking his R.A. degree a short time ago in St. Andrew’s Chapter, and a large number of local Masons, including several in the British naval and military services, attended the obsequies.

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Freemasons
USS Boston

Heinrich LINDEMANN [1878-1900]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Thu, 2021-11-25 00:49
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Lindemann
Given: 
Heinrich
Birth
Date: 
1878-08-15
Birthplace (town, state): 
Wellingdorf, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
Death
Date: 
1900-07-13
Cause of death: 
Accidental drowning

A cook on board the German sailing vessel R.C. Rickmers who died tragically whilst saving a drowning colleague in Hong Kong. 

 

“A Life for a Life

 

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
cook
drowning
R.C. Rickmers

Friedrich Hermann Arnold FUCHS [1865-1929]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Wed, 2021-11-24 07:01
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Fuchs
Given: 
Friedrich Hermann Arnold
Birth
Date: 
1865-05-25
Birthplace (town, state): 
Altenburg, Thuringia
Death
Date: 
1929-01-15

German merchant for Siemssen & Co. in Hong Kong  

Baptised 28th June 1865 Thuringia, Germany 

Departed Hamburg, Germany 21st April 1886 on board the ship Iphigenia for Hong Kong. He was living at Dresden at the time and his occupation was a merchant ('Kaufmann')

Married Maria Magdalena Spalckhaver at Lorenz, Lübeck. Germany 6th October 1896  

He died in Hamburg, Germany in 1929

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Siemssen & Co
Dunnottar

H.L.M. LORENTZ [????-1885]

Submitted by eurasian_david on Tue, 2021-09-14 14:18
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Lorentz
Given: 
H.L.M.
Death
Date: 
1885-08-18
Cause of death: 
Injuries from a fall onto the 'tween decks of a ship

"On Tuesday evening a German named Lorentz died at the Civil Hospital from the effects of an accident on board the German steamer Iphigenia in this harbour on Sunday afternoon. Lorentz was a passenger from Shanghai by the steamer, having been sent home on account of his health. On Sunday afternoon he mistook the door to the 'tween decks for that of the companion way, and had a fall onto the 'tween decks, sustaining such injuries that he died at the Civil Hospital on Tuesday evening.

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Iphigenia; Hamburg; 'tween decks; Civil Hospital

Paul KUPFER [1842-1881]

Submitted by friendsofhongko... on Wed, 2021-04-14 14:48
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kupfer
Given: 
Paul
Birth
Date: 
1842-07-11
Death
Date: 
1881-06-18
Cause of death: 
Ill health ('signs of heart disease')

Paul Kupfer was the Kapitän zur See of Freya. His grave is also included in Patricia Lim's book and its location is in Section 8. According to Hong Kong Telegraph, his funeral procession was descibed to be 'the largest and most imposing service spectacle witnessed in Hongkong since the funeral of the late Lieutanant O'Geran of the 80th regiment in November, 1874' [1]. Flags at the German Consulate, German companies and vessles were at half-mast. [2] 'Nearly the whole of the German residents in the colony' were present at the procession. [3]

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Hong Kong Cemetery
Happy Valley Cemetery
german

Alice Marie Leonie DE CHAFFOY DE COURCELLES (aka Kiki DE CHAFFOY) [1918-2015]

Submitted by Kirsty Norman on Sun, 2019-06-23 12:51
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
de Chaffoy de Courcelles
Given: 
Alice Marie Leonie
Alias / nickname: 
Kiki DE CHAFFOY
Birth
Date: 
1918-06-13
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hamburg
Death
Date: 
2015-06-10
Birthplace (country): 
Germany

Wilhelm Gahar GARDNER (aka William) [1834-1875]

Submitted by rudanenberg on Sat, 2018-12-08 00:07
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Gardner
Given: 
Wilhelm Gahar
Alias / nickname: 
William
Birth
Date: 
c.1834-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Strassburg
Death
Date: 
1875-02-01

Wilhelm is my great-grandfather from my mother side of the family. He first established in Macau and at that point Anglisized his name to "Gardner".

He operated the Oriental Hotel until August 1869 when the hotel burned to the ground.

He moved his family to Hong Kong and obtained a license to operate the Hamburgh Tavern and Boarding House.

(Ref. Page 359, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Patricia Lim)

Birthplace (country): 
Germany

Konrad Hans Traugott GOLL [1947- ]

Submitted by Traugott on Wed, 2018-10-31 20:46
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Goll
Given: 
Konrad Hans Traugott
Birth
Date: 
1947-06-21
Birthplace (town, state): 
Neuenstein, Hesse

Lived an worked in Hong Kong from 1976 to 2000.  2 terms with trading conglomerate Jebsen & Co. Ltd as Deputy  Manager of Siemens Division and later as Head of Industrial Division and Board Director. Also from 1986 to 1995, Managing Director of Wandel & Goltermann Ltd. with responsibility for the South-, South East- and Easz Asian market. Married to Elvira Perez Goll since 1982.

Birthplace (country): 
Germany
Tags: 
Jebsen
Wandel
Goltermann

Karl Adolf August KASTMANN [1884-1974]

Submitted by David on Fri, 2018-05-25 16:18
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kastmann
Given: 
Karl Adolf August
Birth
Date: 
1884-02-27
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hannover
Death
Date: 
1974-09-23

He first appears on the 1906 Jurors list:

Birthplace (country): 
Germany

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