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The brig Falco

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Wed, 2013-05-15 18:55
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1864

This is a  picture of the ship Falco, depicted with the Hong Kong mountains in the background. It carries the flag for the Swedish union with Norway and was in an auction house in Stockholm last year.

Pictures for Tung

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Mon, 2013-04-01 22:27
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1923

Here are four other pictures.

The first is another view of the beach. The picture of the bungalow by itself says on the back in her handwriting: "Back view of our bungalow. You can see they have just started to build the kitchens on each side of the steps."

My aunt is pictured on those steps with one of her dogs on the third picture.

More trees and Wanchai

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Sun, 2013-03-17 20:10
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1880

Here is another picture showing the trees as promised.

Sean

Buildings in background?

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Wed, 2013-02-13 19:41
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900

Came across this picture of my great grandfather John Olson aka Jons Jakobsson and wonder if anybody has a clue about the buildings in background of picture.

Unfortunately no notation on back of picture.

Sean

33 Caine Road (1900s) [????- ]

Submitted by David on Thu, 2013-01-24 18:08

This was on the north corner of the Peel Street / Caine Road junction. Jill Fell notes that several of her and Sean Olson's ancestors lived here in the 1900s. The following names and addresses were copied by Jill's father’s nephew, Brian Lewis, from the South China Directory, vols. 1904-1906, lodged at the British Library:

Mrs Olson 33 Caine Road; Miss L Olson 33 Caine Road; Mrs C E Warren 33 Caine Road.

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Identification welcomed

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Tue, 2013-01-15 21:58
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959

Any suggestions as to people in this picture would be welcome.

Sean

Happy Valley Matsheds

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Mon, 2012-11-05 19:28
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

This very grainy picture may show on bottom left Elizabeth Olson with her mother Ching Ah Fung at the races in Happy Valley. Above in a boater with a goatee beard is a man who may be my great grandfather John Olson.

Picture is prompted by Liz Chater's post on the fire in 1918.

Sean

Yuet-Keung KAN (aka 簡悅強) [1913-2012]

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Sun, 2012-09-23 03:31
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kan
Given: 
Yuet-Keung
Alias / nickname: 
簡悅強
Birth
Date: 
1913-07-26
Death
Date: 
c.2012-09-01 (Day is approximate)

I wonder if anybody can help me in tracking down family or relations of the late Sir Yuet Keung Kan who died recently? I am advised that his family may be able to help me in finding the son and daughter of the late Sir CY Kwan.

I am still making efforts to track down the family of my great grandmother Ching Ah Fung who died in 1915 and it is possible the son and daughter of Sir CY Kwan may be able to give me a lead.

Many thanks,

Sean Olson

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Carl Smith Card

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Wed, 2012-05-30 22:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1867

This is the Carl Smith Archive card mentioned in connection with the Oriental Restaurant and John Olson.

Graves in Happy Valley

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Sat, 2012-03-17 20:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2010

This is a collage of my great grandfather John Olson's ( 1918) and great grandmother Ellen Olson's (aka Ching Ah Fung) (1915)  graves in Happy Valley.

They are close to each other in actuality.

As an earlier post confirms John's grave was built by C.W.Warren and Co, who are now not  in existance, it is fair to assume that my great grandmother's grave was also erected by that company as the two are similar.

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