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Cyril WARNES [c.1910-????]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2019-03-25 15:38
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Warnes
Given: 
Cyril
Birth
Date: 
c.1910-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Cyril Warnes was the third and youngest child of Charles and Elizabeth Warnes. He was a great-grandson of John Olson snr. His mother died in 1917 and there is no current record of what happened to his father after 1914. Whether Charles was deceased or working in another country, the Olson family looked after his three children initially. Cyril is listed as attending DBS in 1918. From around 1920, he attended the same English boarding school as John Olson jnr's sons and lived with them in Chiswick until he emigrated to Canada. 

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
John Olson snr
Charles Aspinell Warnes
Elizabeth Warnes
Iris Warnes
Marjorie Warnes
John Olson jnr
DBS

Rate Book 1883-84.JPG

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2018-01-15 04:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2013

I've just dug out this photo of the Rate Book page for a part of Queen's Road in 1883-84 that I must have overlooked when querying the renumbering of Queen's Road and the location of the National Hotel/Inn/Tavern between the 1860s and 1880s. This page shows alternative numbers for eleven of the properties with even numbers all under I.L. 5 Sec. A (not I.L. 95 A as before). So the last two properties, nos. 200 and 200A, which are the Boarding House and the licensed National Hotel respectively, become nos. 222 and 224.

Elizabeth Ann WARNES (née OLSON) [1882-1917]

Submitted by jill on Wed, 2018-01-10 07:25
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Warnes
Given: 
Elizabeth Ann
Maiden: 
Olson
Birth
Date: 
1882-08-02
Birthplace (town, state): 
Hong Kong
Death
Date: 
1917-04-08
Cause of death: 
Cancer

Elizabeth Warnes was the second daughter of John Olson snr. and half sister to Hannah Warren. Her mother was Ching Ah-Fung. Her other siblings were John Olson jnr., Charles W. Olson and Ellen Melcher née Olson. She married Charles Aspinell Warnes at St John's Cathedral in 1905. Their children were Iris, Marjorie and Cyril. Iris's and Marjorie's descendants now live in Australia. They lost touch with their brother, Cyril, who is thought to have emigrated to Canada. Elizabeth is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Happy Valley near her parents.

Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong
Tags: 
Hannah Warren
John Olson snr
Charles Aspinell Warnes
Iris Gaby
Marjorie Cook
Cyril Warnes

Gough Street Steps.JPG

Submitted by jill on Wed, 2016-06-29 03:09

I wonder if any 1880s/1890s photos of Gough Street Steps exist. Being quite ignorant of Hong Kong’s geography, I don’t know if they connect with Queen’s Road Central. If I’ve understood this entry in the 1885-86 Rate Book correctly, they seem to have been located next to The National Hotel, 242 Queen's Road Central, where my grandmother, Hannah Olson (later Warren) was born in 1880.

Iris Gladys Aspinell GABY (née WARNES) [1906-1980]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2016-06-06 07:20
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Female
Names
Family: 
Gaby
Given: 
Iris Gladys Aspinell
Maiden: 
Warnes
Birth
Date: 
1906-09-09
Death
Date: 
1980-03-30
Cause of death: 
Cancer
Other
Other reference: 
Canossian Convent, Repulse Bay Hotel

Iris was the eldest child of Charles and Elizabeth Warnes (née Olson) and grandchild of John Olson snr. Iris, Marjorie and Cyril Warnes were the half-cousins of my father, Reg Warren.

Tags: 
Charles Warnes
Elizabeth Warnes
Marjorie Cook
Cyril Warnes
Hannah Warren
John Olson snr

Louis KIRCHMANN [1840-1891]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2016-05-30 20:57
Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kirchmann
Given: 
Louis
Birth
Date: 
1840-05-27
Birthplace (town, state): 
Eckernfoerde
Death
Date: 
1891-12-01
Other
Other reference: 
Freemasons

Louis Kirchmann (1840-1891) born in Eckernfoerde near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, was one of a group of tough early tavern keepers, who had Chinese wives. Kirchmann held the licence for The Land We Live In from 1871 until his death in 1891. He and the Swede, John Olson, licence holder of the National Hotel (1866-1885), were close neighbours in Ladder Street Terrace living in nos. 1 and 4 respectively.  Kirchmann’s countryman, C.F.W.

Tags: 
Christian Friedrich Petersen
John Olson snr
The Land We Live In
The National Hotel
The German Tavern
Ladder Street Terrace

Ng Akew's Ladder Street properties

Submitted by jill on Sat, 2016-05-21 23:13

Henry Ching has alerted me to the enquiry about Ng Akew. During the previous discussion about the Kew family I had consulted him about an entry for Ng A Kew in the 1888-89 Victoria Rate Book. I was looking into the history of my Swedish great-grandfather, John Olson, recorded on the same page and wondered if Ng A Kew was a deceased member of the  Kew family, subsequently neighbours to mine (Olsons and Warrens) in Caine Road. 

34 Morrison Hill Road [????-????]

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2016-04-11 01:17

I wonder if anyone has any 1890s photos or postcards of Morrison Hill Road. 34 Morrison Hill Road is the address on the birth certificate of my grandparents', Charles and Hannah Warren's first child, Albert, born in December 1898. This was very likely rented for them by Hannah's father, John Olson snr, although I haven't verified that from the Rate Books. Their next two children were born at 1 Ladder Street Terrace, which he owned. More of Ladder Street Terrace later.

Jill

Tags: 
Charles Warren
Hannah Warren
Albert Warren
John Olson snr
1 Ladder Street Terrace
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