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Scottish Government sponsored and Universities of Edinburgh and Otago supervised Scottish Migration and Diaspora Survey

Submitted by Iain Watson on Thu, 2014-02-06 07:40

 

Calling on all with even the remotest hint of Scottish blood running through their genes and a connection to Hong Kong!

 

Stanley Historical Society (not including Stanley Internment Camp)

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2014-02-04 15:36

I plan to use this forum to collect information on the history of Stanley. I'll put in items that would be good for display.

Annelisec

 

Sketch maps 1846 - Chuck-Chu (Stanley) from the northwest and southwest

Public Records Office:

Map MM-0416   
CONTOURED SURVEY OF THE CANTONMENT OF CHUCK CHU (STANLEY), 1844    ,  1844.

1889 Peak Directory

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-02-01 22:01

Thanks to Sharon Oddie Brown for typing up this list.

You can see an expanded version, with more information about the people mentioned, at her website: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/TABLES/HongKong-1889Directory.html.

The original 1889 document is online at: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082429261;view=1up;seq=353

Parrots in Hong Kong

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Thu, 2014-01-30 02:44

I read a story in the Hong Kong Telegraph of March 14th 1902 reporting the sightings of 2 parrots in Hong Kong,one on Hong Kong Island the other in the New Territories. Yet I thought "conventional wisdom" had it that the parrots only appeared in Hong Kong during or after the Japanese occupation of 1941-45.

Any thoughts anyone?

Amakusa Marine Products Industrial Company

Submitted by Hugh Farmer on Wed, 2014-01-29 17:02

The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group's website:

http://industrialhistoryhk.org/ has an article on HK Industry during World War Two.

Included is a brief mention under Fishing of the Amakusa Marine Products Industrial Company. This was apparently active in HK during the Japanese occupation around Dec 1942 onwards.

I can find no information about this company. Or of its role in HK during WW2.

Can anyone provide further details?

John Fleming

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Thu, 2014-01-23 20:12

John Fleming was an accountant who was interned during the Japanese occupation. I wonder if anybody has any information regarding him given the amount of detail there is from the camps.

For some reason I think he was in Stanley. Maybe read it somewhere. He was a partner in Lowe and Co as far as I know and may have ended up as Managing Partner.

Thanks,

Sean

CPS project 4th update: The neighbourhood

Submitted by David on Sun, 2014-01-19 12:00

In this update for the CPS Project [1] we'll look at photos of the streets around the Central Police Station (CPS) site:


View CPS neighbourhood in a larger map

The neighbourhood

The CPS site is marked in dark blue, and the neighborhood around it in light blue. It isn't a big piece of land - you can walk across it in ten minutes or less - but it contained a great variety of people, living in very different circumstances.

Let's pick the 1870s and introduce some of the local residents that the policemen would have seen.

Saints & Sinners

Two of Hong Kong's biggest

Started 1918, pg 1-23

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-01-15 12:12

This is the latest Jurors List we're making searchable - here's how to join in, it'll only take around 20-30 minutes of your time.

We'll take the previous year's spreadsheet, then work through it page-by-page and edit in any changes so it matches this year's Jurors List.

Step 1. Check the comments below to see which was the last page someone has started typing. You'll work on the next page. eg if the last comment is "started page 15", you'll be working on page 16.

1917 Jurors List

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-01-15 11:57

[The list has been typed up by volunteers: David, Grace, and Patricia. Please help us type up the lists from other years - it takes less than 30 minutes to finish a page. Click here for details.]

Heritage tour in KL

Submitted by David on Wed, 2014-01-08 11:20

If you're visiting Kuala Lumpur, I recommend this half-day walking / eating tour:

http://www.malaysiaheritage.net/mh-tourist-activity-002/

I went on it with my wife just after Christmas. She's not especially interested in old things (well, apart from me!), but enjoyed it too.

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