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Daily Archives: April 26, 2021
Kot Choy Properties This is an early 1900s map of mid levels showing the properties held by Kot Choy in yellow. The family address of 11 Shelley Street which was occupied by Hunters until 1944, is not marked off as … Continue reading
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Find-a-grave Back in 2016 I was scanning Find-a-grave and came upon some photos that pertained to some of my family in Happy Valley Cemetery, Hong Kong. A I’d managed to locate my Anne Hunter/Kot Choy and had an actua grave … Continue reading
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Hong Kong Cemetery Records on Family Search How to get to the Cemetery List on Family Search.org Note: You need to be a member but you can join for free. https://familysearch.org At the main page on the … Continue reading
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Kuling-Lushan The picture on my header was one I found in a box of old photos. I originally thought it was two pictures as it had been folded many times and had separated along the fold line. The original … Continue reading
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A family photo with a clue. This picture is of my family at an unknown location in China. They moved from Hong Kong to Shanghai about 1919, so my mother would have been about 8 years old. Looking at my … Continue reading
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The discovery of Kot Choy! While scanning through old newspapers on-line and searching “Tobias Hunter” I came across dozens of ads for rentals and real estate for sale. My grandfather had left Jardine Matheson and gone out on his own … Continue reading
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A recap of my China links Just to recap my family connections to China. My mother Iris Hunter and her sister Nora Hunter were both born in Kowloon. My mother in 1911 and her sister in 1912. Both are … Continue reading
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Terms of Service. British men who had elected to make their living in China signed on with an agreement that they would stay for at least 5 years and often 10. As a matter of interest, there were but a … Continue reading
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