I don't know when George and wife Sarah arrived in Hong Kong, but Emma was born there in 1868, so it was before then. George was a soldier when they married in Portsmouth in 1864, but I don't know what took them to Hong Kong. He may have been a hotel keeper and an undertaker in Hong Kong. George left Hong Kong some time between 1885 and 1890; he married again in Australia in 1890. Sarah remained in Hong Kong and died there in 1889. <Read more ...>
In further research, I found an undated newspaper item written in the South China Morning Post sometime in 1937 in the column "From the Files 25 years ago" observing that 'Mr John Thomas Cotton (my mother's father) who will shortly be celebrating his 50th year of residence in HongKong told reporters that when he first came to HongKong as a corporal in the Royal Artillery, the only main thoroughfare was Queen's Road which extended from Wanchai to the Gas Works at Weat Point. There were no trams, only rickshaws. The Rope Factory was the first in West Point. He also revealed <Read more ...>
Captain Henry Walter Walker and his wife, Tomé, lived at the house called "Brinkelly", no. 15 Broadwood Road, from the inception of Broadwood Road in 1916. (See my post on Tomé Walker). They were near neighbours of my grandfather, C.E. Warren, who probably built their house, but I know nothing about them. I haven't found Henry Walker in the Jurors Lists or the Carl Smith Index. Any information welcome.
As I said in my previous post, Henry Walker died in 1940, aged 73, and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.
My father, Tony Griffiths was part of the last military service deployment to HK in the late 50s, returning early 60s. Exact dates aren't known.
He was originally in the REME, I believe as Lance Corporal, and had a connection with the medical arm, I understand issuing medicines within the army. <Read more ...>
Edwin G.W. Sait was a young boy when his widowed mother Mary Ann Sait travelled to Hong Kong to marry Edward Newman. I found Edwin, aged 4 as a boarder with a family in Southampton in 1871. I know Edwin was educated in England and remained there until about 1882.
I think I've found him in the Hong Kong Directory as E. Sait Newman at the Family Hotel Chefoo in 1888 and 1889. Was he there earlier? After or before his stepfather died? <Read more ...>
