Ann (James) Twigg, J.W.H John, Paul O'Brien Twigg 1824 and Percy Howard Twigg

Now that I know that "the Directory and Chronicle for China..." exists, I've done some looking for other editions of it to see what I can find there. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any of the issues later than 1900 online but a few of the items I have found in others are interesting.

This is from the issue for 1874 which has a listing for my 2nd great-grandmother. It lists her as "Mrs. P.O'B. Twigg, Undertaker, Shanghai". Her Maiden name was Ann James. She and her husband Paul were undertakers and he was sexton of the Shantung Road Cemetery in Shanghai. He died 2 years before this in 1872 after filling an amazing amount of living into 48 years and she lived another 26 years until 1898 at age 70.

The Directory and Chronicle for China... 1874

And the last for this post is a listing for

This next has another listing for my grandfather's father, J.W.H. John in the same job as a few years earlier but lists him as "absent". This was the same year that my grandfather's younger brother Philip Bruce was born so I would speculate that they went back to England for his birth as many children born in China did not survive long.

The Directory and Chronicle for China... 1899

The third excerpt, another page from 1899, still has great-grandfather Twigg working for McTavish and Lehmann (which was in the Hongkew Medical Hall building) but the interesting bit in this one is the listing right above his which is for his brother P. H. (Percy Howard) Twigg as a clerk for the Associated Wharf Company in Shanghai. Looks like he would have been 38 at the time and was living in England 2 years later.

The Directory and Chronicle for China... 1899

By the way, here is the page that the photo on the last page came from. In the details it says that MacTavish and Lehmann's was in the Hongkew Medical Hall.