Winniberg (née Curnow), Jane Tregarthen

Updated October 23, 2014

Jane Tregarthen Winniberg (née Curnow), milliner, was recorded as a resident of Hong Kong from 1850 to 1866.

Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online].

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Winniberg (née Curnow), Jane Tregarthen

Milliner

Jane Curnow, wife of Henry Winniberg, the Polish owner of the British Hotel (one other source referred the hotel as the "Winniberg Hotel"), was the first milliner in Hong Kong. Jane (b.1826, St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England – d. after 1891) was the daughter of merchant navy captain William Curnow and wife Hannah Scadden. After Henry Winniberg died in Hong Kong in 1866, Jane returned to England and there she lived on rental income generated from the Polmennar Cottages (probably a hotel) she owned in St. Mary's while her son Frederick (b.1859, Hong Kong – d. ) attended a boarding school in Penzance, Cornwall. Jane's daughter, Annie (b.1852, Hong Kong – d.), remained in Hong Kong at lease until 1871. The Cornwall Census in 1891 listed Frederick as a resident of Penzance, along with wife Annie and sons, Frederick and Henry Joseph.

Selected bibliography: Cornwall Census 1871, 1891. Lim, Patricia, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. gencircles.com. [online].

Abbreviations and Acronyms

BPCST - Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade
d.um - died unmarried
ExCo - Executive Council
LegCo - Legislative Council
LMSTS - Theological Seminary of the London Missionary Society 倫敦會中國神學院
m; m1; m2, etc. - marriage, first, second time, etc.
MEP - Société des Missions étrangères de Paris (Society of Foreign Missions of Paris)
PAHK - Prefecture Apostolic of Hong Kong [Xianggang] 香港監牧區
RA - Royal Artillery, the Britsh Army
RAC - Royal Asiatic Society
RE - Royal Engineers, the Britsh Army
RN - the British Royal Navy
s/o - son of

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