Denham, Frank

Updated October 29, 2014

Frank Denham, master mariner was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Publications: Gully, Robert & Denham, Frank, Journals Kept by Mr Gully and Captain Denham During a Captivity in the Year 1842, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

temp.notes:
http://tao.wordpedia.com/viewer/20/BO00031530/index.html

Dare, [s.n.]

Updated October 29, 2014

[s.n.] Dare was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Craigie, A.

Updated October 29, 2014

A. Craigie was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cooper, Matthew

Updated October 29, 2014

Matthew Cooper was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cooling, [s.n.]

Updated October 29, 2014

[s.n.] Cooling was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cooke, S.J.

Updated October 29, 2014

S.J. Cooke was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cooke, Henry

Updated October 29, 2014

Henry Cooke was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Collins, Joseph

Updated October 29, 2014

Joseph Collins was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cohen, Saul

Updated October 29, 2014

Saul Cohen was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Clarke, George

Updated October 29, 2014

George Clarke was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Clark, W.

Updated October 29, 2014

W. Clark was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Clark, H.

Updated October 29, 2014

H. Clark was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Carr, H.J.

Updated October 29, 2014

H.J. Carr was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Calder, A

Updated October 28, 2014

A. Calder was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Cacho, Anton

Updated October 28, 2014

Anton Cacho was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Butt, John

Updated October 28, 2014

John Butt was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

Burn, D.L.

Updated October 28, 2014

D.L. Burn was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845.

Selected Bibliography: Bridgman, Elijah Coleman (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 14, January to December, 1845. Canton: 1845.

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].

Wilson, D.

Updated October 23, 2014

Research in progress.

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

temp.notes:
Wilson, D.

Merchant

D. Wilson & Co. was a Calcutta based general merchant of British origin, which established itself in Hong Kong in 1841-42 mainly as a grocer. There must be a Mr. D. Wilson in the firm, but I found no trace of him existing in Hong Kong. Additionally, I was unable to find other names of persons who were employed by or associated with the firm. Here is the long-and-short of their story in Hong Kong. On November 10, 1842, the firm opened the Auckland Hotel on Queen's Road, after having established their grocery business here. Due to lack of business, the hotel was up for sale by auction only months after its opening. The auction took place in February 1843 and was handled by auctioneer C.V. Gillespie of 46 Queen's Road. Oddly enough, according to Friend of China, it was D. Wilson, the firm, who bought the hotel at the auction with the intention of turning it into “commission sales rooms for the display of goods that Wilson have for sale from London and from their office in Calcutta...”. And then in November the same year, the firm decided to pull out of Hong Kong and returned to Calcutta. They asked auctioneer P. Townsend, whose office was practically next door to the hotel/showrooms on Queen's Road, to handle the closing-down sale of stock on November 17 and 21. The came and went of people and businesses were quite common in this period of time in Hong Kong, more so than those who came and stayed; some left with less than when they arrived, some a whole lot more.

Selected bibliography: Friend of China, November 17, 1842; February 23, August 31; November 9, 1843.

White, James

Updated October 23, 2014

James White, newspaper editor, was recorded as a resident of Hong Kong from 1842 to 1844.

Selected Bibliography: Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

temp.notes:
James White (b.1809-d.1883) and Richard Oswald were founders/owners of the newspaper. Unfortunately, I found no records that showed they were Quakers. White was formerly an alderman of London (1837-1839 or 1841), who left Hong Kong for Shanghai in 1844. Oswald was a young merchant active in land speculation in Hong Kong, who died in London at the age of thirty eight, leaving a substantial estate. White co-edited the paper with the Rev. Jehu Lewis Shuck 淑士人(o) (b.1812-d.1863), a Virginia Baptist minister who arrived in Macau in 1836