Aunty Albertina’s SchoolJorge RemediosOriginally published in the UMA News Bulletin Sep-Oct 1997, p14In the years preceding the Second World War, most of the filho de Macau children who lived in and around the Portuguese enclave of Homantin, in Kowloon (Hong Kong SAR), then a bucolic residential neighborhood roughly encompassed by Nathan, Waterloo, and Prince Edward Roads, attended Albertina […]
Bela Vista – Recollections of a Wartime Childhood Raquel de Carvalho Remedios First published in UMA Bulletin Spring 2013; reproduced here with links to people’s personal pages and with the addition of a photo from Escola Particular Idália da Luz It was Monday morning, December 8, 1941 and our amah, Ah Say, was trying her
Autobiography Oscar Jorge Collaço I was baptized at St. Peter’s Church in Shanghai by Rev. Père R. de Chalain with godfather uncle Gilberto and godmother aunty Mary. At age 3 I was taken to Day Care at a Portuguese lady’s home at Park Apts. I was born on a cold clear Monday on March
by Daniel R Gomes Originally published in the UMA News Bulletin Spring 2009 Praia Grande During the 17th Century, Macau was the “Venice” of European trade with China, Japan and South East Asia. Here is a picture of Praia Grande, with the stately homes of the traders of that era.After the Opium
The Menezes family crest Família Ribeiro The family history and photobiography of Fernando and Maria Fernanda de Menezes Ribeiro Peter Grills Familia Ribeiro: The family history and photobiography of Fernando and Maria Fernanda de Menezes Ribeiro was originally published as a book.SBN 978 1 74027 488 3Copyright © text Peter Grills 2008First published 2008Prepared for the author
Experiences of Frank Correa and Hetty Van Langenberg during World War II. FOREWORD It seems appropriate to mark our son Anthony’s fortieth Birthday with this document which relates to his father’s experiences during the turbulent years of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the Second World War. We all recall Frank often reminiscing about
Dr Eduardo Liberato “Eddie” Gosano 1914-2010Feature Story from Club Lusitano, Hong Kong, 18/06/2021Extracts from his extraordinary, and colourful autobiography, “Hong Kong Farewell”, by Eddie Gosano, (1997), after he migrated to the USA. A full copy is available in the Club Lusitano Biblioteca.This is enough insight of my ancestry to give you a particular insight into
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Return of a great survivor A veteran who fought against the Japanese in Hong Kong The South China Morning Post HongKong Thursday September 7 1995 As a young soldier, José Gosano had some close encounters with death. The teenage volunteer was in a foxhole on the slopes of Mount Davis when a Japanese
The Story of Arnaldo Frederico da Silva The Philippine Revolution: The La Salle Connection [The following is an edited version of an article whose author and publication are obscure. It was written in 1997 in time for the Centennial of the Philippine Revolution. The article was transcribed by Jerome Da Silva, grand-nephew of Arnaldo F.
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Gil V. DaSilva – Autobiography From my birth in October, 1935 until we left Shanghai in June, 1950, we lived at the Emerald Apartments on Rue Ratard. All of the major events during that period occurred while living there: the U.S. declaration of war on Japan in December, 1941; the Japanese surrender in August, 1945;