Hilda
Hilda Eva Louise
Is this Hilda, rather than Rosalind - I'm still not sure!
Daily Gleaner July 5, 1907
PORT KINGSTON'S DEPARTURE.
The Direct Line steamer Port Kingston, Captain Jones, sailed yesterday for Bristol with the following passengers
. . . Miss Lilian Leahong . . . Miss Hilda Phang.
Daily Gleaner, November 22, 1917
AN EVENING OF MUSIC AND SONG
An enjoyable concert in aid of the Deaconess Home was given on Tuesday night last at the St. George's school-room.
There was a large and select audience among whom were General and Mrs. Blackden .and His Lordship Bishop deCarteret, who presided. His Excellency the Acting Governor, one of the patrons, was unavoidably absent.
The programme was successfully carried through and all the artistes acquitted themselves excellently. The platform was most tastefully decorated under the direction of Miss Phang.
. . . .
"Laddie in Khaki,” sung by Miss Hilda Phang, was certainly an attractive item and earned most hearty applause. In response to the encore she repeated the chorus.
Was this also Hilda?
Daily Gleaner, 1918 01 18
Children's Fete & Afternoon
Concert to be
Held at King's House
SOME FURTHER DETAILS
Next Meeting of Committee
will be onTuesday
Morning Next.
THE EDITOR, .
Sir,—The next meeting of the Flag Day Committee will be held at King's House on Tuesday at 9.30 a.m.
In my account of our last meeting I omitted to mention that Miss Phang has kindly consented to sing for us, and also that Mrs. Lionel DeMercado has secured the services of several young ladies to help sell the programmes. Mrs. Grace enlisting a.similar band to help with refreshments.
His Excellency the Governor who manifests the most kindly interest in our plans, suggested that his rose garden will be a particularly suitable place for tea. This suggestion the committee gratefully accepted.
. . . .
I am, etc.,
K. H. BOURNE,
Hon. Sec. F!ag Day Committee
Jan. 17th, 1918
Two references raise the possibility that Hilda spent some time in Canada:
Daily Gleaner, July 24, 1918
Among the passengers who recently left the island on a holiday to the United States and Canada, was Mr. Chas. Phang, merchant of Balaclava. He was accompanied by hie daughter, Miss Hilda Phang.
In August 1919, according to Ellis Island records Hilda,
along with her sister Rosalind, passed through New York,
both on their way to Shanghai, China. Rosalind certainly
reached Shanghai, but there is so far no indication that
Hilda did.
Daily Gleaner, October 26, 1929
Among those who arrived on the 'Lady Rodney' [from Canada] on Thursday were Capt. and Mrs. Peter Blagrove, Miss H. Phang and Miss Olive Farquharson, a daughter of Mr. A. W. Farquharson.
In April 1932 Hilda Phang was a passenger on the 'Jamaica Merchant', sailing for Europe with a cargo of Jamaican produce.
At some time after this Hilda apparently married an American called Doran, though there is, so far, no information on her husband; could he have been connected with George Sokolsky's publishers Doubleday,Doran?
At the time of the death of her mother in 1951 and of her sister, May Soohih, in 1971, she was referred to as living in the USA.
It would be very interesting to receive more information on the life of Hilda Phang, the third of the Phang sisters.
report in various U S newspapers in November 1919:
Hilda and Rosalind Phang, daughters of wealthy Chinese, parents living in the island of Jamaica, have never seen their motherland. Raised in the West Indies and expensively educated incEngland, the attractive pair recentlycsailed for the Orient via Sun Francisco, bearing the message of modernity to their secluded sister-members of the great Mongolian race.
The Misses Phang speak English and French with scarcely a trace of Oriental accent. They also know their mother tongue and "enough Japanese to get along in California."
'Do we not live in the security of overlooked and forgotten facts?'
George Sokolsky, husband of Rosalind Phang, 1933.
The Phang Sisters of Jamaica
