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21-587: Hong Kong Cemetery , formerly Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery and before that Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery , is one of the early Christian cemeteries in Hong Kong dating to its colonial era beginning in 1845. It is located beside the racecourse at Happy Valley , along with the Jewish Cemetery , Hindu Cemetery, Parsee Cemetery, St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery and the Muslim Cemetery. Hong Kong Cemetery

42-590: A Baptist Mission in Shanghai, and later worked among Chinese immigrants in California, establishing a Chinese-speaking Baptist church in San Francisco in 1855. He retired to Barnwell, South Carolina , where he died at age 49 and was buried in 1863. By 1930, Henrietta Hall Shucks's home town of Kilmarnock prospered enough to incorporate. Baptist promotional literature called Henrietta "Virginia's Fairest Flower"; her fame

63-474: A boarding school for about 15 pupils, both boys and girls. This pioneered education for Chinese girls. By 1844, the expanded school had 32 boarders, and the Shucks also brought many orphans into their home. Henrietta became seriously ill after the birth of their fourth child, but recovered. On November 26, 1844, following the birth of their fifth child, Henrietta Shuck was suddenly taken ill and died at age 27. She

84-526: A delicate daughter, Henrietta. In 1842, the missionaries were allowed to move to Hong Kong , making Henrietta the first Western woman there. The Shucks were the first Baptist missionaries in Hong Kong. Rev. Shuck established the first Baptist church in the British colony (Queen's Road Baptist Chapel; now called Hong Kong Baptist Church), and two more soon followed. They converted Yong Seen Sarng, their language teacher. A year after their arrival, Henrietta set up

105-406: A notable example being Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff , a German missionary who helped to establish Lutheran churches in Hong Kong, who is considered the first Lutheran missionary to China. Another notable missionary interred here is Henrietta Hall Shuck , the first American female missionary to China. There are also a number of Chinese burials, all of them Christians, some of them were involved in

126-584: A result, a special Japanese section of the graveyard was designated. Notable burials at Hong Kong Cemetery include: A scene in John le Carré's novel The Honourable Schoolboy takes place in the nearby racetrack as well as the cemetery. The cemetery is a popular place for filming movies and TV shows. The UK folk artist Johnny Flynn released a song in 2008 about the cemetery, found on the album A Larum . List of cemeteries in Hong Kong The following

147-574: Is a list of cemeteries in Hong Kong . Henrietta Hall Shuck Henrietta was born in Kilmarnock, Virginia , to Colonel Addison Hall (1797–1871) and his wife. At 13 she was sent to a girls' school in Fredericksburg, Virginia . She was baptised at a camp meeting sponsored by Morattico Baptist Church at age 14. After moving to Richmond, Virginia , upon the death of her mother, Henrietta studied at

168-651: Is a public cemetery managed by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department . Hong Kong Cemetery contains 79 scattered Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 62 from the Second World War, which are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission . The Protestant Cemetery is built as a series of terraces ascending a hillside. The older graves tend to be at the bottom of the hill; those from

189-673: The 1930s and 1940s are generally at the top. On a number of occasions, remains in the Protestant Cemetery have been disinterred to make way for road developments, and have been placed in niches in an ossuary, which continues to be used for contemporary cremations. The niches provide basic information on each individual. Some sections of the Protestant Cemetery tended to be reserved for particular groups of deceased, e.g., army, navy, Hong Kong Police. There are two main categories of graves that can be found in Hong Kong Cemetery: As

210-701: The Classical and English School and taught Sunday School at the First Baptist Church in Richmond. She met Jehu Lewis Shuck of Lewisburg , Greenbrier County , a student at the Baptist Seminary. Both belonged to the American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions . Rev. Shuck and his fellow student Robert Dunlavy Davenport (1809–1848) were ordained on August 30, and each married on 18 September 1835. Henrietta

231-552: The Davenports sailed to Bangkok. In September 1836, the small Shuck family arrived in Macao , about 90 miles from Canton , and where the Chinese government allowed foreigners. The missionaries worked there about six years, until the end of the first Opium War (1839–1842). Henrietta established a small boarding school, with two to eight pupils at a time. She also bore another son, Ryland, and

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252-515: The United States, speaking to various Baptist mission groups, including the newly formed Southern Baptist Convention . Sarng became a sensation in Richmond. The First Baptist Church of Richmond paid for his return journey, and sent him with warm clothing and a year's salary; they corresponded for many years. Rev. Lewis Shuck remarried, to Elizabeth Sexton, who died in China in 1851. Rev. Shuck established

273-415: The cemetery are diverse and exemplify the social structure at the early stage of the colonial era . It is widely understood that the cemetery is for the burial of the privileged group of the society, mostly British. Notable people of that era buried in the cemetery include Sir Robert Ho Tung and his first wife, Sir Paul Chater and Sir Kai Ho . Most Christian missionaries to Hong Kong are also buried here,

294-491: The late Qing revolution and uprisings led by Sun Yat-sen, including Yeung Ku-wan , who was assassinated by the Qing Government in Hong Kong. A number of Japanese were buried in the cemetery, mostly those who resided in Hong Kong during the early colonial era. Some of them were Christian, but most were followers of Shinto . The Japanese custom of burning incense during memorial rites led to complaints from some Westerners. As

315-500: The name states, this category of graves for British military dead, spanned from the late 19th century until the early 1960s (when the Government of Hong Kong established another cemetery near Sai Wan for military dead in 1965). At the beginning of the colonial era, the British garrison force had the same problem as those in India : weather. Some of the members of the force could not adapt to

336-720: The sick and wounded from the German-leased territory of Qingdao , on the Shandong peninsula in north-east China. Evidence shows that most of them are naval personnel. Before the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, Britain had sent two battalions from the Royal Scots and Middlesex Regiments to Hong Kong for garrison duty. This cemetery provides evidence of the presence of these two battalions. There are in all 62 military graves of World War II Commonwealth service personnel – mainly from

357-535: The tropical weather of Hong Kong and died owing to tropical disease, while others fell during the Boxer Rebellion – mainly in 1900. At the time being, it is the major cemetery for military dead along with Stanley Military Cemetery . There are about 100 military graves of World War I – 79 of them are in Hong Kong Cemetery, mainly the soldiers who died in Hong Kong and Kowloon Military Hospital, which received

378-609: The year 1941 – maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission . The British force in Hong Kong used the cemetery as their burial ground until 1965. One notable military burial is Driver Joseph Hughes, a recipient of the George Cross . There are also two monuments erected by the Royal Artillery in memory of their fallen comrades, which were later moved to the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence . The civilian burials in

399-711: Was 17 years old and her friend Mary Frances Greenhow Roper (1819–1896) just 15. Days after both couples were set apart for foreign missions at a service conducted at Richmond's First Baptist Church, they embarked for China (and Siam for the Davenports). They stopped in Burma and Henrietta visited the grave of Ann Judson (whose memoirs had inspired her), but did not meet her husband Rev. Adoniram Judson . Their ship reached Singapore in March, 1836, where Henrietta gave birth to their first child, Lewis (named for her father and grandfather), and

420-658: Was buried in Hong Kong Cemetery . Many of her letters were soon published and republished as missionary literature, Travels in China and Memoirs . In 1845, Rev. Shuck returned to the United States to search for another wife, as well as raise funds for a chapel in Canton. Their sons Ryland Shuck (1837–1912) and Lewis Hall Shuck (1836–1911) also returned to be raised by their grandfather in Lancaster County, Virginia . Rev. Shuck also brought Yong Seen Sarng, with whom he toured

441-634: Was second only to Lottie Moon . Virginia's Baptists celebrated the Shuck Centennial in 1935 with a memorial service, commemorative marker at her birthplace and pageants in Norfolk , Bluefield , Newport News , Lynchburg and Danville . They also sponsored a biography, endowed two scholarships at the University of Shanghai , sent Dr. George W. Truett (President of the World Baptist Alliance ) on

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