RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g Shum Wan Cemetery Aberdeen 1938 There had been another *New Kin Inland Lot No. 2662 (St. Raphael's) Catholic Cemetery War Emergency Cemeteries *Sai Wan Military/War Cemetery Prison Cemetery *Sandy Ridge Cemetery *Wo Hop Shek Cemetery *Cheung Chau Catholic Cemetery *Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery *Chinese Permanent Cemetery Cape Collinson *Muslim Cemetery *Buddhist Cemetery *Military Cemetery *Chinese Permanent Cemetery 263 cemetery in Shum Wan in 1920s, details of which is not known. Removal of all urns was ordered 1949. Earliest graves: 1941. Piper's Hill 1941-45 Refer to the article. Cape Collinson 1947 Stanley Lo Wu 1947 1949 Wo Hop Shek 1950 Cheung Chau Earliest graves: 1957. Cape Collinson Earliest graves: 1960. Earliest graves: 1963. Cape Collinson 1963 Cape Collinson Earliest graves: 1964. Cape Collinson 1967 Tseung Kwan O 1989 * Cemeteries still known to be in existence. Appendix 2 1. Distribution of lots at Sandy Ridge Cemetery Coffin section: 1. General 2. Roman Catholic 3. Little Sisters of the Poor 4. Tung Wah Urn section: 1. General 2. Tung Wah 3. Chiu Chow 4. Yan Ping 5. Chung Shan 6. Hok Shan 7. Sun Wui 8. Tsang Shing 9. Fukien ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g 268 38 Fortune, Robert (1935). THREE YEARS' WANDERINGS IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF CHINA. Shanghai: The University Press, p. 22 (footnote), 39 Inscriptions found at the entrance of the cemetery. However, in Barbara-Sue White's TURBANS AND TRADERS: HONG KONG'S INDIAN COMMUNITIES (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 17, the year stated is 1854. 40 Information provided by the Rev. Carl T. Smith. 41 "The cemetery can be found in an 1863 map, see Hal Empson, p. 132. 42 Smith: A SENSE OF HISTORY, p. 401 43 Ibid, p. 402. 44 A HAND-BOOK TO HONGKONG BEING A POPULAR GUIDE TO THE VARIOUS PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE COLONY, FOR THE USE OF TOURISTS (1893). Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, p. 94. 45 杜瑞樂 (Joel Thoraval)著(張寧譯)(2002):《葬禮與祈禱的安排:香港回教信託基金總會歷史概貌》(1850-1985),載陳慎慶編:《諸神嘉年華:香港宗教研究》(Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, p. 392. 46 Empson, p. 132. The cemetery is also shown in another 1866 map in the same book, see p. 49. 47 Information provided by the Rev. Carl T. Smith. Details regarding the founding of this cemetery are not known as yet. In a 1863 map, at the site of the subsequent Muslim cemetery, an area marked as 'Indian soldier' can be found, which might be an early burial ground for Indian soldiers, but details regarding its founding is not known, see Empson, p. 133. 48 The graves in this cemetery were removed to Cape Collinson Catholic Cemetery, around late 1980s and early 1990s, according to Father Louis Ha, long after the Bethanie had been purchased by the University of Hong Kong in the early 1960s, 49 "For the breakdowns of population figures, see Blue Books or HKGG of the corresponding years. 50 The figure included that of 'British Kowloon,' i.e., the area south of old boundary ================================================================================