Hong Kong

Contents

Also see

• China
• Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Other Asian publications.

Information about ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post—1903-1998 (published in Hong Kong) and other databases containing Chinese and Japanese English language newspapers.

Records

• See General Register Office, UK
• There was Civil Registration in Hong Kong, refer External links below. There are no records before 1873.
• "Hong Kong Cemetery" Searchable and browsable database created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images. From Hong Kong Memory. Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong Government.
  • Details of some of the inscriptions from the Ossuary

For expanded cemetery details, see Forgotten Souls : a Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Patricia Lim c 2011. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015724284 . Sample pages Google Books.

Also see the book available online below, Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley by Solomon Bard 1997.

This cemetery is located on the western side of Happy Valley and was previously known as the Protestant Cemetery or the Colonial Cemetery.

• See External links below for the Searchable databases on the website China Families.
• See External links below for the Searchable database The Carl Smith Collection at the Government Records Service/Public Records Office. Note, some or all of this collection is available as images on FamilySearch.
• The Government Records Service/Public Records Office holds some original church registers for baptisms and marriages from St John's Cathedral. See External links below for the website Gwulo: Old Hong Kong which holds some brief records, also including deaths, for the period 1897- April 1931 from the Cathedral magazine.
• FamilySearch Research page Hong Kong for Historical Records. However, some records are classified as China records and it may be clearer to find records directly from the Catalog specifically for Hong Kong, see following item.
• FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes

"Births, deaths, marriages from Canton and Hong Kong newspapers, arranged chronologically, 1828-1862" catalogue entry microfilm 1208508, item 13, which has been digitised and may be viewed on your home computer.

"Europeans - China Coast : [card file]" Carl T. Smith collection. “Individual cards for Europeans residing in Hong Kong and China during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”. Digitised microfilm which may be viewed on your home computer.

Search the FamilySearch Catalog for additional catalogue entries, for example by using keywords Hong Kong, and filtering by English language, and selecting Availability Online. There are many databases available, including Church Registers for Birth, Marriage and Death, Cemetery Inscriptions catalogue entry, Will extracts, Card Files and other data from the Carl T. Smith collection etc, most of which are viewable on home computers. Also see FamilySearch Centres for changes involving microfilms.

• Refer online Hong Kong newspapers, see below, for birth, marriage and death notices.
• See Historical books online below, including
  • Hong Kong Government Reports Online. A researcher advised that he found details of a relative who worked for the Hong Kong lighthouse service in these online government publications. The information was found in an official publication know as the Blue Book in a section "Civil Establishments of Hongkong" which lists information about Civil Servants.
  • Directories and related publications, including The Colonial Office List.
• See Cemeteries for websites such as Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The War Graves Photographic Project, which include pages titled Stanley Military Cemetery and Sai Wan (China) Memorial, in addition to other pages.
• The BACSA Archive at the British Library holds information on both Happy Valley and Stanley cemeteries under file reference Mss Eur F370/81
• The book Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley by Solomon Bard 1997 is available online, see below. It is also available at the British Library in the BACSA Archive, catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/1242. By the same author, but not held in the BACSA Archive, Report on survey and study of old service graves at Stanley Military Cemetery 1984 and Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery 1991, (Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office), the latter may possibly include information about Stanley Cemetery. The 1984 and 1991 publications are available at the Government Records Service Hong Kong, also known as the Public Record Office, Hong Kong in the Library, DDC Call Number 929.5095125 BAR and 929.5 BAR respectively.
• The book British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library, UIN: BLL01009472436 . Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This link lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
• The book Traders of Hong Kong: Some Foreign Merchant Houses, 1841-1899 by Solomon Bard Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1993 is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012493829 . Searchable but not viewable Google Books. "A very useful summary of the wide range of foreigners, from Germans and Americans to Armenians, Parsees and Jews"
• The National Archives, Kew record series CO 1070 index cards in respect of Second World War Hong Kong civilian internees and some prisoners of war are now searchable by name. See TNA blog "Life and death in Hong Kong during the Second World War" 8 February 2024.

Hong Kong Volunteers

Regimental history

• Second to None : the Story of the Hong Kong Volunteers by Phillip Bruce 1991. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012596174

External links

• “Major Genealogical Record Sources in Hong Kong” by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Series J, No. 4 1975. lib.byu.edu. Refers to Civil Registration. "Records prior to 1873 no longer exist". "All pre-war marriage records have been lost". Note however, there appear to be some surviving church records.
  • Immigration Department contact details. This Department is responsible for Civil Registration but the website does not include information about certificates for family history purposes for persons not resident in Hong Kong, so you would need to contact the Department.
• Hong Kong Government Records Service grs.gov.hk. Archives and Library with an online catalogue. Also known as the Public Records Office (PRO), Hong Kong.
  • Hong Kong: Public Records Office Fact sheet dated November 2019. gov.hk
  • Search the Carl Smith Collection of 140,000 index cards. In respect of these records, the website China Families advises "The cards contain information about residents not only in the former British colony, but across China. The catalogue does now allow you to view cards, but they are small in size, and the search results are often very numerous".

  Some or all of these records are available on FamilySearch on your home computers, refer Records above.

  • Government Records Service, in the Archives section, holds some original church registers from St John's Anglican Church/Cathedral. Use the Archives Search to find the catalogue entries, with more details. Note, the actual records are not available online. The records include
    • Record ID HKMS37 Indexes to Registers of Baptism. The indexes relate to baptisms recorded in the relevant registers of the British Chapel Macao, 1838-1887, and of St John's Cathedral, 1887-1928.
    • Record ID HKMS36 Registers of Baptisms 1838-1973. The records prior to 1842 are for Macao.
    • Record ID HKMS38 Registers of Baptisms, St Peter's Seaman's Church 1873 – 1932
    • Record ID HKMS40 Registers of Marriage 1838 – 1975. The series relates to the registration of marriages solemnised at the British Chapel, Macao (1838-1841) and the Anglican Church/Cathedral, Hong Kong (1843-1975).
    • For some brief records from St John's Cathedral, see the Gwulo: Old Hong Kong website below.
• Newspapers, including online
  • Hong Kong Public Libraries
    • Information about Old Newspapers and microforms available, now an archived page (details at 2013/03, it is not clear whether this information is also available on the current website.)
    • Newspapers and Periodicals Services, now an archived page (details at 2013/05, it is not clear whether this information is also available on the current website.)
    • To access online historical newspapers, from the link, Multimedia Information System (MMIS) select Collection then “Old HK Newspapers” to view these online. Previously the website advised the online newspapers are in TIFF format. If you cannot see the newspaper images, you may need to download a TIFF plug-in. The Newspapers available in English are
      • China Mail (1866/01/04 – 1961/12/29)，
      • Hong Kong Daily Press (1864/01/04 – 1941/09/30)，
      • Hong Kong Sunday Herald (1929/01/06 – 1950/10/29)，
      • Hong Kong Telegraph (1881/06/16 – 1951/03/30)
      • Hong Kong Weekly Press (1895/01/03 – 1909/12/24)

Note some issues and pages may be omitted

• The China Mail collection at Archive.org Issues from 1866 to 1961, broken range. Note this collection also includes some editions of Hong Kong Daily Press 1864- 1941 September, Hong Kong Telegraph 1881 June - 1951 March, Hong Kong Sunday Herald 1929 January-1950 October. (Dates as at 2023/12/30. Additional files are being added regularly.) Note there is a "Search text contents" specific to this collection, or browse particular years or issues.
• Overland China Mail was the weekly edition of China Mail, also containing articles from Evening Mail and Sunday Herald, and was published 1848 to 1941.

Overland China Mail is available on Findmypast, category "Newspapers & periodicals/British Newspapers ", with 'County' classified as Hong Kong China, with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites, added Feb 9, 2021. The date range when added was January 11, 1853 to December 30, 1915 being 1853-1861, 1863-1894, 1897-1915; 1848-1852, 1895-1896 added May 2, 2022; 1916 added Feb 22, 2024; (with 1848–1916 planned), with details on a BNA page. For BNA, the 'Region' is classified as South Central China, and the 'County' is classified as Hong Kong, China. It is possible to browse individual editions on BNA, in addition to searching. To browse the Findmypast editions, use the filters under "Narrow your search results" (left hand side of the webpage) "By Newspaper" and "By Date".

• The London and China Express, published in London, with target readership those outside the Indian Empire, is available on Findmypast, category "Newspapers & periodicals"/"British newspapers", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is from November 25, 1858 to July 2, 1931. For more details see Newspapers and journals online.

• China Families, previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Also includes a page Hong Kong
• Cemeteries
  • "Notes for a visit to the Government Cemetery at Happy Valley" by Carl T. Smith Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch Vol. 25 (1985) hkjo.lib.hku.hk
  • "Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong: 1841-1950" by Ko Tim-Keung Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 41 (2001), pp. 241-280 (40 pages). jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free. Limits apply.

  "Voices from the Stones" by Ko Tim-keung. history.cuhk.edu.hk

  • Name studies in a special form of real estate – an empirical study of the choice of christian names as recorded on gravestones by Chan Man Hin, Roger. A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong April 2010. Contains some old maps and images, some extracted from the 1997 book by Solomon Bard, see Records above.
  • First two chapters, with Notes of The Happy Valley A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery by Ken Nicolson 2010 hkupress.hku.hk
  • Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan by Gotelind Müller 2018. crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.
  • "The War Cemeteries and Memorials in Hong Kong" Commonwealth War Graves Commission Information Sheet. dva.gov.au
  • "Deaths Tell The Story Of Life In Old Hong Kong" by Louisa Lim August 21, 2012 npr.org. An article about Patricia Lim and the Hong Kong Cemetery
  • Hong Kong Cemetery Conservation Management Guidelines July 2017. Includes History and images. lordwilson-heritagetrust.org.hk
• David’s Gwulo: Old Hong Kong including
  • Cemeteries in Hong Kong
    • details of an online database of the 6,000+ burials in the Hong Kong Cemetery. For the database, see Records above.
  • St John's Cathedral Records transcribed from copies of the Cathedral Review magazine 1897- April 1931. Also read the Comments for some extra baptismal records. The Government Records Service, also known as the PRO, holds original church registers for baptisms and marriages, see above.
  • [Plan of] Stanley Military Cantonment 1853
• Hong Kong Memory Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Hong Kong Government. “Hong Kong Memory (HKM) is a multi-media web site that gives free and open access to digitized materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage”. Includes
  • "Hong Kong Cemetery" Searchable and browsable database is created by Ms Patricia Lim, with images.
• Hong Kong 1836-1844 in three parts, from "A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers" houghton.hk. Extracts from Chinese region newspapers, Canton Register and Friend of China.
• Rudi Butt’s Hong Kong’s First. A blog about historical aspects of Hong Kong
• British Army regiments in Hong Kong are included in the following which is mainly about British Army Regiments in India. Note, may not be complete. Indian portion of In Search of the 'Forlorn Hope': A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640-WWI) by John M Kitzmiller - lists the location/year of all British regiments that served in India and related regions. (Regiments, Locations) . From Bob Holland’s Rampais website, archived. Kitzmillers's two volume book is available online, see British Army-Historical books online.
• "History of the Port of Hong Kong and Marine Department" Marine Department Hong Kong includes
  • Leading foreign firms in Hong Kong
• 1894 Plague
  • "The Great Plague of Hong Kong" by E G Pryor Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Hong Kong Branch (Hong Kong Branch)) 1975: 61-70. Pdf
  • "Colonialism versus Nationalism: The Plague of Hong Kong in 1894" by P T Lee, The Journal of Northeast Asian History, 2013, v. 10 n. 1, p. 97- 128
  • The K.S.L.I. and the Hong Kong Plague, 1894, now an archived webpage. discovershropshire.org.uk. K.S.L.I.: Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894 lightinfantry.org.uk
  • 'An unexampled calamity' - The Hong Kong Plague of 1894 by Stuart Braga. Originally in Casa de Macau Australia Newsletter, September 2007 and January 2008 issues. www.casademacau.org.au, archived page.
  • "The Hong Kong Plague Medal" by Moira Chan-Yeung and Keith W Poon Hong Kong Med J 2017 Jun;23(3):319–20.
    • There is reference to the book The Whitewash Brigade: The Hong Kong Plague of 1894 by J.J. Platt, M.E. Jones and A.K. Platt. Published by Dix Noonan Webb, 1998. This book is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011169014 .
  • Also see Historical books online, below.
• "Three historic buildings at old Lei Yue Mun Barracks declared monuments" amo.gov.hk. The Barracks was one of the earliest and most important British Army fortifications in Hong Kong.
• The Regiments in China and Hong Kong 1860 - 1935 Battalions of The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the East Surrey Regiment. queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
• Britain's Gateway To Troubled China (1932) Short (1 minute) ‪British Pathé video on YouTube. Full title reads: "Hong Kong. Britain's gateway to troubled China. Loyal Indian Troops impress natives with magnificent spectacle of military precision and discipline." (retrieved 15 May 2014)
• "The Royal Navy East Indies & China Naval Station. A brief History" by Gerald J. Ellott May 2011. ellott-postalhistorian.com
• H M S Tamar, R N Base, Hong Kong royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk
• 1926 Submarines and HMS Titania gwulo.com
• Cyril H H Poole photographs including Submarines of the 4th Submarine Flotilla based at Hong Kong, Singapore, and Wei Hei Wei c 1930s. royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk
• Listen to the 1981 interview with Robert Charles Beckett Anderson born 1895, British officer… served with 2nd Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in New Zealand, Jamaica, China, Hong Kong and India, 1925-1935; served with Hong Kong Defence Force, 1936-1939 Imperial War Museums. Catalogue number 5251.
• "Annotated Bibliography The Basics" by Vaudine England Hong Kong History Project.

Second World War

• The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940 by Tony Banham November 2014 PhD thesis, University of NSW, Australia.
• Hong Kong War Diary : Hong Kong Defenders, December 1941-August 1945 Includes Indian Army Units and Indian Medical Service
• The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A note on the literature and the effectiveness of the defence by Lawrence W C Lai, University of Hong Kong , Discussion paper series, July 2000. Pdf.lib.hku.hk, now archived.
• The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk Hong Kong Baptist University. Includes a Bibliography.
• "Occasional Papers" An historical series of papers on the war and occupation of Hong Kong 1941‐45 from the website Hong Kong Volunteer and ex-PoW Association of NSW.

Maps

• Ordnance Map of Hong Kong by Thomas Collinson, 1846 National Library of Scotland.

Historical photographs online

• Photographic panoramas of Hong Kong, Canton, and Macau 1900-1930. University of Cambridge Digital Library.
• Digital images Marriott collection 1902-1923. The photographs are mainly of Hong Kong. British Empire & Commonwealth Collection, catalogue reference 1998/028 Bristol Museums.

Historical books online

• The Universities of Hong Kong Libraries Digital Initiatives includes
  • Hong Kong Government Reports Online 1842-1941 Click on 'Table of Contents' to see the titles available. Includes the Hong Kong Government Gazette 1842-1941 and the Blue Book 1871-1940. (Details of Blue Books gwulo.com.) Earlier editions of the Blue Books of Statistics are available at the National Archives, Kew record series CO 133, commencing with CO 133/1, for 1844.
    • In addition, Hongkong Blue Book for the year… broken range from 1914 to 1938; including 1920, including "List of Officers" page 73. Archive.org.
  • Hong Kong & the West until 1860
  • China Through Western Eyes Originally covered the period until 1911, although the date of publication may have been later, but this may no longer apply. Includes titles about missionary work. Some items may be extracts only, and are classified Resource Type: Article

DigitalRepository@HKUL This appears to be a more recent website from the same source The University of Hong Kong Libraries, which includes the collections as above, and perhaps additional collections/material. The digital files appear to be in a more modern format, compared with the "older" website.

• The Hongkong almanack and directory for 1846 : with an appendix General information, but seemingly no lists of names.

The Hongkong almanack, and directory for the year 1848 with names

The Hongkong almanack, and directory for the year of our Lord 1850 with names. All digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk

• ‪The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China‬ 1859 Google Books
• The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c. For a range of editions to 1922, see China.
• The London and China Telegraph. Published weekly in London. Covers China, Hong Kong, Japan, Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang), Batavia and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see China.
• Online Directories from China Families University of Bristol. Mostly these focus on Shanghai, although there are some about Hong Kong.
• Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June Achive.org
• Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila also includes Hong Kong. For editions 1909-1917, see China.

"Hongkong Section" digital page 592 Rosenstock's Business Directory of China 1933 Archive.org.

• Hongkong Section digital pages 1060-1296 The Comacrib Directory of China 1925 Combined Chinese-Foreign Commercial and Classified Directory of China and Hongkong. Volume 1. Archive.org
• The Colonial Office List for .... Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See Directories online - Colonial Office List for a broken range 1862-1966. Includes Hong Kong and Wei-hai-wei.
• Barbarian eye : Lord Napier in China, 1834, the prelude to Hong Kong by Priscilla Napier 1995. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese from Notes of W[illiam] H[enry] Hall, R N and W D Bernard 1844 Volume I, Volume II Google Books
• "Note on the Island of Hong-Kong" by A R Johnston .HM Deputy Superintendent of Trade, an article from Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 14. January 1, 1844 Archive.org
• Description of a view of the island and bay of Hong Kong… 1844 Archive.org
• Reports from Committees: Mortality of Troops (China) Session 1 February-10 August 1866 Volume XV. Ordered to be printed by The House of Commons 24 July 1866. Google Books.
• ‪The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General‬ by William Frederick Mayers, N B Dennys, and Charles King 1867. Note: The maps have not been filmed. Google Books
• The China Sea Directory by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
  • The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1867 Google Books. 3rd edition 1886 Archive.org.
  • The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1868. British Library Digital Collection.
  • China Sea Directory Volume III. The Coasts of China from Hong Kong to the Korea etc Edited by Captain Charles J Bulloch, RN. 1874 Archive.org. 2nd edition 1884 Archive.org

A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org

• "Historical Outline of Medical Missions at Canton, Hongkong and Macao" The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East Page 329 Volume 4 July 1875 to June 1876. Google Books
• English Life In China by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. The first chapter is about Hong Kong.
• Hong Kong illustrated : views and news, 1840-1890 by John Warner 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Things Chinese being Notes on various subjects connected with China by J Dyer Ball H M Civil Service, Hong Kong.

1892 edition; 2nd edtion, revised and enlarged 1893; 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1900; 4th edition 1904 with title Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China. All Archive.org.

• Plague
  • Further correspondence relative to the outbreak of bubonic plague at Hong Kong ... Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. August 1894 Archive.org
  • Report on the outbreak of bubonic plague in Hongkong, 1894, to the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography held at Budapest 1894 by Dr P B C Ayres, and Dr James A Lawson. Archive.org
  • Colonial Reports - Miscellaneous. No 6 Hong Kong : Bubonic Plague Presented to both Houses of Parliament June 1896. Archive.org
  • "The Plague. The Recent And Present Outbreaks In Hong-Kong and India" by Edward F. Willoughby The American Journal of the Medical Sciences March 1897. Archive.org.
  • Report on the causes and continuance of plague in Hongkong and suggestions as to remedial measures by WJ Simpson 1903 Archive.org
• A Guide to Hongkong. With some remarks upon Macao and Canton by William Legge. Printed at Hongkong c 1893. British Library Digital Collection.
• Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double. This company had an agent in Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
• Europe in China: the history of Hongkong from the beginning to the year 1882 by E J Eitel, Inspector of Schools, Hongkong 1895 Archive.org.
• The Tourist's Guide to Hongkong, with short trips to the Mainland of China. [With plans, etc.] by R. C Hurley Hongkong 1897. British Library Digital Collection
• "Hong Kong" page 15 The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org
• Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
• Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hongkong published 1911. An official publication. It appears there was an earlier edition in 1907 as part of another Government publication, perhaps the Civil Service List.

Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong 1841-1920 published 1922. Archive.org version, Google Books version.

Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong 1841-1930 published 1932. Third edition. Archive.org version, Google Books version, digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk version.

• Hong Kong: A short history of the colony and an outline of the present political situation in China by A G M. 3rd edition revised 1929 (catalogued as 1900) Archive.org
• Armaments Year-Book : General and Statistical Information published by League of Nations. "Asia and Islands in the Indian Ocean" includes Hong-Kong, page 176 First Year 1924, 2nd Edition HathiTrust Digital Library; "Asia" page 193 1937 edition. Google Books. See the Indian Army page for additional editions of this publication.
• British Rule In Eastern Asia: A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic development in British Malaya and Hong Kong by Lennox A Mills 1941. Issued under the auspices of the Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations International Research Series. File 1 some missing pages noted; File 2 Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection.
• A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The initial pages indicate the situation in Hong Kong to 1941 when the author’s husband a metallurgist/chemical engineer was transferred to India to work for the Inspectorate of Armaments in ordnance factories. By the same author (born in Shanghai, daughter of a tea merchant) The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of Old China 1973. (Searchable but not viewable Google Books, 1987 edition.). Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000594031 A review kirkusreviews.com.
• Shanghai Lawyer by Norwood F. Allman 1943 HathiTrust Digital Library. Includes some chapters on internment by the Japanese in Hong Kong during WW2.
• Prisoner of the Japs by Gwen Drew 1943. HathiTrust Digital Library, Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. The author was an American journalist who was taken prisoner at the fall of Hong Kong.
• China to Me : a Partial Autobiography by Emily Hahn 1944. 2nd file, 3rd file 1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. About the book librarything.com. "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."

Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• Hong Kong by Harold Ingrams 1952 Archive.org. A volume in the Colonial Office's series The Corona Library published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archive.org.
• A History of Hong Kong by G B Endacott 1964, first published 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

An Eastern Entrepôt. A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong by G B Endacott 1964 HMSO. Archive.org

• Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong. The Story of the British Military Hospital Hong Kong 1942-1945 by Donald C Bowie Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 15 (1975) pages 150-290. From Hong Kong Journals online hkjo.lib.hku.hk.
• The Lasting Honour : the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941 by Oliver Lindsay 1980, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

At the Going Down of the Sun : Hong Kong and South-East Asia, 1941-1945 by Oliver Lindsay 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• Captive years : the Occupation of Hong Kong, 1941-45 by Alan Birch and Martin Cole 1982. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Eastern banking : essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation edited by Frank H H King 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire by Jan Morris. Second edition 1993, first published 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• An Illustrated History of Hong Kong by Nigel Cameron 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh 1993. USA title A Borrowed Place : the History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Garrison Memorials in Hong Kong: Some Graves and Monuments at Happy Valley by Solomon Bard 1997. Index of names digital page 155 This is a selection, not a complete list of those in the cemetery. Circumstances of death are usually included. digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk.
• Empire's End : a history of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong by John Keay 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Golden boy : memories of a Hong Kong childhood by Martin Booth 2005, first published 2004. Also published as Gweilo : memories of a Hong Kong childhood by Martin Booth. The author was born 1944. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Fiction

• Tai-Pan; a novel of Hong Kong by James Clavell 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Journals online

• Notes and Queries on China and Japan, four volumes 1867 to 1870. Published in Hong Kong. HathiTrust Digital Library. Archive.org editions 1867, which also contains 1868 (from digital page 198), and 1869. Volume 4, Issues 1-8 [1870] Google Books.
• The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East. Published in Hong Kong. Multiple volumes from Volume 1, 1872 to Volume 21 1894-5 catalogued full view, but Vols. 22 and 23 also noted, cataloged incorrectly. HathiTrust Digital Library A, B and C. From an individual book file, it is generally possible to click on "Find at Google Books" for the Google Books file. Archive.org volumes.
• Hong Kong Journals online The University of Hong Kong Libraries. Although previously there were multiple Journal titles it appears currently (2021/05/02) the only title is Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (previously the range was 1961-2007). Includes
  • "The Colony of Hongkong" From a Lecture on Reminiscences of a long Residence in the East by Rev. James Legge, D.D., LL.D. Originally published in The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East Volume 1 No. 3 (1872). Reprinted Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 11 (1971)
  • "Transactions of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society [Hong Kong], 1845-46" by H. A. Rydings Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Volume 13 (1973)

Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society is also available JSTOR.org from Volume 1, 1960-1. Register, and read 100 articles per month for free, or perhaps you may be able to login through your library.