Updated September 28, 2014
George Augustus Frederick Norris, auctioneer's assistant, was listed as as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was employed by auctioneer Charles Markwick as an assistant in 1846, and by underwriter and auction house, McEwen & Co., as an assistant in 1850; and by ship chandlers and auction house, Bowra & Co., at another time. Pottinger Street was listed as his address in 1846, and Queen's Road in 1850.
Norris was born in 1826. He died in London on November 28, 1893 and was buried at the Abney Park Cemetery.
Two individuals as well as two firms were listed as underwriters and general auctioneers in the 1850 Hong Kong Almanack and Directory, arranged according to priority of license. They were:
John Currie,
W. H. Franklyn, Smith & Brimelow and McEwen & Co.
Selected Bibliography: ancestry.com [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.
Don't forget to add “HKR 1841-50” to your subject blank when you email me. I have a habit of deleting messages from people I don't know, and I don't want to throw away yours. Thank you.
The most boring task of compiling a biographical dictionary, speaking from my very limited experience, is to list up all the names and attach the most basic of information in each entry. My bases for this phase of the project lie upon three volumes of “The Hong Kong Almanack and Dictionary” viz. 1846, 1848 and 1850, which were compiled by William Tarrent, editor of The Friend of China. I hope I am able to get this done say within a couple of weeks and move into the next, and clearly a much more interesting, phase in which I will begin researching the individuals. (8/3/2014)
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