Peterson, Christian Friederich Wilhelm

Updated October 23, 2014

Christian Friederich Wilhelm Peterson, auctioneer, was recorded as a resident of Hong Kong from 1840s to 1896. Petersen succeeded Andrew Rudigar as the proprietor of the German Tavern when the latter died in 1858. He held the license for spirits for the tavern until his death in 1896. His second wife, A Chinese named Ho Mei, alias May Ho, took charge of the running of the tavern for a while. Petersen was previously married to an English woman, who died in 1878 from overdose on cajiput oil.

Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Parsons, Michael Edward

Updated October 20, 2014

Michael Edward Parsons, chandler, was recorded as a resident of Hong Kong in 1842.

Parsons was a victim of probably Hong Kong's first known counterfeit-money case that took place in December 1842. The December 8, 1842 issue of the Friend of China had the following report on the case:

The prisoner [Ah Gee, the Chinese steward on the transport ship Gertrude] agreed to buy a clock from Parsons for $11. On examining two of the first three dollars proffered in payment, Parsons found them bad. ‘I found Ah Gee had 35 dollar coins on him and fifteen appeared bad.’ Some dollars were sawn in two in front of him revealing their copper cores. The prisoner acknowledged that 14 coins were bad and offered me $10 to let him go.

Parsons took Ah Gee to the police and as it went Parsons was not the only victim. The counterfeiter paid $6, all counterfeit coins, to Ah Po, Gertrude's butcher for clothes he bought from his shipmate. Ah Gee's defense that was built on his claim that he received the coins from HMS Childers so he thought they must be good did not stand up; he was sentenced to six months hard labor, fined $100 and repay $6 to Ah Po.

Since I do not know whether Ah Gee was a resident of Hong Kong, a separate post was not assigned under his name for now.

Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's Frist [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Pereira, Manoel Luiz da Roza

Updated October 6, 2014

Manoel Luiz da Roza Pereira, printing press worker, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1849. He was employed by the China Mail as a compositor nbetween

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.

Pereira, I.P.

Updated October 1, 2014

I.P. Pereira, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was employed by the mercantile firm, Rawle, Duus & Co., 1846.

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.

Pestonjee, Cowasjee

Updated October 1, 2014

Cowasjee Pestonjee, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846, He was name partner [tbc] in the mercantile firm, Pestonjee Framjee Cama & Co., in 1846.

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.

Piccope, W.N.

Updated September 29. 2014

W.N. Piccope, business assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was under the employment of contractor, Murrow & Co., in 1846.

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.

Pedro, Ignacio

Updated September 26, 2014

Ignacio Pedro, shipper of Filipino seamen, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846.

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.

Pyke, Thomas

Updated September 25, 2014

Thomas Pyke, mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1846. He was employed by the mercantile firm, Holliday, Wise & Co., as an assistant in 1846.

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.

Pope, John

Updated October 29, 2014

John Pope, civil engineer, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1844 to 1848. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as clerk of works and engineer between 1844 and 1848. He was also listed separately as a civil engineer having Aberdeen Street as his address in 1846. He and William Tarrant were the Joint Assessors and Collectors of Police Rate in 1846. He was a Freemason and belonged to the Royal Sussex Lodge.

Pope married Clarissa Rosa Cobham, only daughter of Thomas Cobham, of Ware, Hertfordshire, in Hong Kong on August 6, 1845.

Selected Bibliography: The Spectator (London), November 1, 1845, p.19. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Paou-chee

Updated September 16, 2014

Paou-chee, school teacher, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He was the teacher of Chinese Classics in the Theological Seminary of the London Missionary Society  倫敦會中國神學院 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.

Pedder, William Henry

Updated September 16, 2014

William Henry Pedder, employee of the British Diplomatic Department, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1850. He was employed by the Hong Kong Office of the British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade as a supernumerary interpreter in 1850.

Pedder became British Consul in Amoy (Xiamen) in 1861. He died in 1900.

Pedder was the son of William Pedder. Pedder married Caroline Swinhoe in Chelsea on September 27, 1859. Swinhoe was the daughter of Robert Swinhoe. The marriage bore several children. One of them was Arthur Lionel Pedder, who was born in Devon, England on November 15, 1868

Selected Bibliography: caliendi.com [online]. Janus: Jardine Matheson Archive [online]. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.

Pottinger, Henry 煲顛茶

Updated September 9, 2014

Henry Pottinger 煲顛茶 大英國欽差大臣總管事務

Variant names: Chinese, 璞鼎查 (formal Chinese name given by Da Qing); 砵甸乍.

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.

Peebles, [s.n.]

Updated September 2, 2014

Peebles, British Army officer, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1849. He was a lieutenant of the 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. The 59th Regiment was stationed in Hong Kong between 1849 and 1858. He was the Adjutant but resigned in June 1848. The adjutancy was filled by Lieutenant T.W.J. Lloyd on June 8, 1849.

Selected Bibliography: Ballina Chronicle, June 13, 1849.

Pustau, William

Updated October 23, 2014

William Pustau, merchant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was the founder of the mercantile firm, Pustau & Co. Wellington Street was listed as his address in 1846, and Queen's Road in 1850.

Selected Bibliography: Hong Kong's First [online]. 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:
William H. Pustau was listed in 1846 as the head of William Pustau & Co. 魯麟洋行 or 布士兜公司, with its business address situated on Wellington Street (moved to Queen's Road in 1862). It was the Hong Kong affiliate of a company with the same name (sometimes with slightly different names such as Wm. Pustau & Co. or W. Pustau & Co. or Pustau & Co. ) founded in Canton (Guangzhou) on January 1, 1843 by an Altonaer, Carl Wilhelm Engelbrecht von Pustau (1820-1879). The Pustau firm in Canton was the first Germany trading house to have been established in China. An office (or branch) in Shanghai was added some time between 1843 and 1846, and it was once housed at No.2a on the Bund.

The Hong Kong Pustau was one of the sixty founding members of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce (1861- ). It was one of the few corporate members that were not engaged in the opium trade at that time. If it wasn't opium, was it then coolie trade? Like many other European companies in Hong Kong, Pustau did jump on the bandwagon of carrying on the businesses of emigration agents specialized in acquiring Chinese immigrants to work abroad. It was in fact charged by Governor Arthur Kennedy himself with complicity in the Macau coolie trade. The company was quick in response to clear its name, but at the end received no apologies from Kennedy. The head of Pustau also sat on the HSBC Board of Directors in the 1880s and 1900s. The details I am still looking to find. So far I don't have much on William Pustau as a person, except that he was appointed Consul for Bremen in 1851 and for Hanover in 1865.

These men were listed as employees of Pustau & Co. some time between 1850s and 1880s, most of them sound German: William Ahrenbeck, Gustav Ludvig Broderson, L.S. Lutkens, Julius Menke, Hermann Louis Christian Otte, George von Polanon Petel, P. Pickenpack, A. Pustau, Kaufmann Wilhelm Pustau, G. Raynall, Paul Reimann, Alexander Ludwig Reuter, F. Schirlye. The names of non-German employees I have found are: Frederick William. Lawrence, Polycarpo Antonio Rozario (probably Portuguese), the Chinese compradoe Mok A-kune and the ill-fated George Mather Neill, a young man from Edinburgh who was killed in a nasty carriage accident in November 1867 in Hong Kong. He was twenty five.

Palmer, J.

Updated August 20, 2014

J. Palmer, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong in 1842. He was employed by the Post Office as Clerk in charge of letters in 1842.

Selected Bibliography: The Chinese Repository, Vol.XI, from January to December 1842.

Parker, Norcott D'Esterre

Updated October 10, 2014

Norcott D'Esterre Parker, barrister, judicial official, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1848 to 1850. He was appointed acting Criminal Crown Prosecutor in 1848. He was a member of the Committee of the Victoria Library and Reading Room 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.

Procter, Jr., D.L.

Updated October 5, 2014

D.L. Procter, Jr., mercantile assistant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1850. He was under the employment of the mercantile firm, Burd, Lange & Co., in 1846. He was employed by the mercantile firm, Rawle, Drinker & Co. 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. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Prattent, J.R.

Updated October 5, 2014

J.R. Prattent, British Army civilian employee, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1848 to 1850. He worked as a temporary clerk in the Ordnance Office 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. Williams, Samuel Wells (Ed.), Chinese Repository, Vol. 17, January to December, 1848. Canton: 1848.

Power, J.C.

Updated October 13, 2014

J.C. Power, civil servant, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1846 to 1867. He worked for the Surveyor General's Office as a book-keeper between 1846 and 1848, and as the Clerk of (Deed) Registry and book-keeper in 1850. He was also a Supreme Court Appraiser in 1850. He retired in 1867 due to ill health; his last held position in the Civil Service was the First Clerk of the Surveyor General's Office. He received his first pension payment of £200 from the Hong Kong Government on February 1, 1867.

Selected Bibliography: Pensions Payable out of the Revenues of the Colony, 1871. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846,1848 and 1850.

Powell, G.W.

Updated August 14, 2014

G.W. Powell, British Army surgeon, was listed as a resident of Hong Kong from 1847 to 1850. He was a surgeon attached to the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot. The 95th Regiment was stationed in Hong Kong between 1847 and 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.