Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 0 comments

Colombier, Peter

Updated October 29, 2014

The Rev. Peter Colombier 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.
Sunday, September 21, 2014 0 comments

Giovarni, Cachi

Updated September 21, 2014

Cachi Giovarni, tavern-keeper, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He ran a tavern named Golden Tavern, which was located at Tai-ping-shan.

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.
Sunday, August 17, 2014 0 comments

Lena, Alexander

Updated September 20, 2014

Alexander Lena, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was the Assistant Harbor Master in 1846. He worked for the Census and Registration Office as an assistant in 1850. He was a Freemason.

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.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 0 comments

Gachi, Giovanni

Updated August 6, 2014

Giovanni Gachi, tavern-keeper, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He ran a tavern named Britannia in 1850.

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.
0 comments

Feliciani, Anthony 裴神父 (傅安當)

Updated August 6, 2014

The Rev. Anthony Feliciani 裴神父 (傅安當), Catholic priest, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from March 3, 1842 to 1856. He was  made the Procurator of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith on December 11, 1842.  He was appointed Prefect Apostolic of the Catholic Mission in Hong Kong from December 11, 1842 to October 1846, and from August 1850 to June 20, 1855.

Feliciani was born in Marano, Italy on October 4, 1804. Variant names: Antonius Feliciani. He becam a member of the Order of Friars Minor 方濟會 in 1823 and was sent to Macau in 1833. He came to Hong Kong together with the Rev. Theodorus Joset in 1842. We went to Shandong, China in 1856, and to Shanxi in 1859. He was the Vicar General in Shanxi. He died in Shanxi on March 17, 1866.

Selected Bibliography: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.



Wednesday, July 30, 2014 0 comments

Buffa, Francesco

Updated October 28, 2014

The Rev. Francesco Buffa, Catholic priest, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1845 to 1850. He and Father Felix McMahon were in charge of English congregation of the Roman Catholic Church in Hong Kong.

Variant names: Franciscus Buffa. Buffa died in 1863.

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

temp. note:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tO9JAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=rev+buffa+hong+kong&source=bl&ots=53W3v_oWva&sig=a7toQ2OGC9o5__LxEAxASp_E2MY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UdLYU7bsOsWC8gWE84Aw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=buffa&f=false

Saturday, July 26, 2014 0 comments

Ambrosi, D. Lewy

Updated September 18, 2014

The Rev. D. Lewy Ambrosi, Catholic priest, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He was the. Prefect Apostolic of the Catholic Mission  and Vice Procurator of the Procure de la Propagande in Hong Kong in 1850. Wellington Street was listed as his address in 1850.

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.

 
;