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Charles Boreham's inscription.JPG

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2018

This photo shows the inscription commemorating Charles Boreham, who arrived in Hong Kong as a seaman and lived to the age of 82. He was a contemporary of my great-grandfather, John Olson, who died three years earlier at the age of 80. I noticed this grave in St Michael's Cemetery, as it carries the imprint of my family's company, C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd and, on checking Gwulo, saw that there had been an enquiry about Charles Boreham a few years ago. There should be more information than stated earlier about such a long-lived citizen of the colony.

Margaret Anne BOND [c.1878-1971]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Bond
Given: 
Margaret Anne
Birth
Date: 
c.1878-07-07 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1971-06-03

One of the earliest residents of Broadwood Road is given in the Rate Books as Miss Margaret Annie Bond, a neighbour of my grandfather, C.E. Warren. Her house was no. 8 and called "Beaumont". Other Broadwood Road house owners at the time were C.S. Gubbay and Ellis Kadoorie, so I imagine Miss Bond was quite well off.  I wonder if anyone knows of any record of this lady or whether any photos of her exist. 

Jill 

Birthplace (country): 

Anna Hunter 1.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016

Grave of Anna Hunter, Alias Goot (Kot) Choy) at St Michael's Cemetery, Hong Kong

Anna Hunter 2.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2014

Grave of Anna Hunter, Alias Goot (Kot) Choy) at St Michael's Cemetery, Hong Kong

Charles Warren's grave

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1923

IDJ posted a 1912 ad for CE Warren & Co. as "monumentalists". This is a photo of my grandfather, Charles Warren's own grave in St Michael's Catholic cemetery, seemingly newly erected in 1923. When his son, Leslie, took over the management of the company in June 1923 on his father's death, this would have been the first gravestone he and his brother Arthur, an artist, would have designed. The lily carving is unusual.

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