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Warrens at sea - searching for voyages

Submitted by jill on Wed, 2019-08-21 03:15

I’m still stuck on finding the sea voyages of several members of my family, who sneak out of Hong Kong and sneak back again on wily routes, it seems.  If I were able to check every single arrival and departures list in the newspapers, I would find them, but apart from the passenger lists on Ancestry.com I’m several voyages short and wonder if I can once more ask for help, in case anyone is better at newspaper searches than me (surely!), or can access websites that I can’t. I think the route via Kobe was sometimes used.

Among those I’m missing:

Laura Jane DRANSFIELD [????-????]

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2018-01-26 22:14
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Dransfield
Given: 
Laura Jane

Laura Dransfield was the wife of Albert Dransfield who latterly ran his own import/export company, A. Dransfield & Co. She had two daughters, Laura Woolnough Campbell (probably by a previous marriage) and Dorothy Olive Dransfield. The Dransfields were close friends of the Warrens and Leslie Warren lived with them after his wife and children left for the UK in 1938. They seem to have rented The Towers. Albert Dransfield died in November 1940 and a letter from Leslie to his family in May 1941 relates that Laura had settled in Johannesburg but would have preferred to be in the UK.

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Nib holder(1).jpg

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2017-08-21 01:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Please could I call on the expertise of Gwulo readers to interpret the characters inscribed on this nib holder. I believe one of the characters may mean "scholarship". I don't know the date of manufacture, but suspect it belongs to the first half of the twentieth century. It has come to me via Warren cousins and may have originally belonged to my grandfather, Charles Warren, as I have an inkwell of his. I well recall the horrors of trying to write with scratchy dip pens and the spatters and blots they caused.

Jill

View from 19 Broadwood Road (2).jpg

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2017-02-05 03:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

This is a second view from 19 Broadwood Road, taken about a year later than the previous one. It's captioned "View of the Peak from the Bungalow". There seems to be a road faintly visible across the mountain in the background. What is this? Not as many buildings are visible as in the earlier photo, but it would be interesting to know what they were. I'm not sure what the occasion was for the children to be dressed up like this.

View from 19 Broadwood Road (1).jpg

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2017-02-05 03:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Nona Pio-Ulski has posted several lovely 1960s(?) photos of 22 and 23 Broadwood Road, built a decade or more later than the seven previous houses in the road, including the recently mentioned no. 21.

I’ve dug out a couple of 1920s photos of my Warren cousins taken from 19 Broadwood Road, but from slightly different positions and a year or so apart. Gwulo experts may be able to identify the buildings that are visible in the background. The date of this photo would be early 1928, judging from the children's ages.

Jill

Beach pyjamas.JPG

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2017-01-30 00:55
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1934

The caption on this 1930's photo of my uncle's wife, Cicely Warren at Stanley Beach, reads "Beach pyjamas are IN!"

Jill

Jardine's Lookout2.JPG

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2016-02-23 08:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

This is a second photo from the Warren family album labelled "Jardine's Lookout", of whose exact pre-war location I'm still unsure. Does this wall still exist? Where exactly was/is it?

Jill

Jardine'sLookout.jpg

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2016-02-23 08:04
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

I'm confused about the pre-war location of Jardine's Lookout. Several of our family photos are labelled "Jardine's Lookout", which could apparently be seen from The Towers lawn at the top of Broadwood Road. I've been to the top of Broadwood Road, where there is now a luxury block of sentried flats called "Jardine's Lookout". It's location doesn't seem to tally with the several posts of the Jardine's Lookout tunnels. This family photo would have been taken in about 1930. Grateful for enlightenment about the exact location.

Jill

Sui An.jpg

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2016-02-23 07:38
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

This picture of a life belt on the Sui An on the way to Macau doesn't tell us much, unless sharper eyes than mine can tease something out. From the ages of the children, born summer 1925 and December 1926 respectively, I guess the photo would have been taken in about 1928. Leslie Warren occasionally used to take his family to Macao, when visiting the CE Warren & Co. Ltd. agent there.

Big_Wave_Bay.jpg

Submitted by jill on Thu, 2015-10-08 07:13
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Big Wave Bay (HK Island) [????- ]

 At http://gwulo.com/atom/22775 I posted a photo labelled ShekO Beach by my cousin (the little girl in this picture) when she was trying to identify the pictures after her mother died. Andrew Suddaby replied that it was actually Big Wave Bay. I have now found the sequel in another album and lo, the legend on the back is "Big Wave Bay" written in my aunt's hand (the mother in this picture.) The smartly dressed mystery man in the background of first picture is now sitting on the rock  perhaps telling a story.

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