Her father, Sir Robert Edward Bredon, and her uncle, Sir Robert Hart, were inspectors in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service.
[4] A passenger list of Sacramento Daily Union 18 July 1882 lists Robert E Bredon, wife, child and maid with a destination of China.
[5] She lived through the Boxer Rebellion[6] and wrote an article about the experience titled A Lady Besieged in Peking.
[10] In 1939 her Beijing estate, valued at $3,000, was put up for sale.
[11] Her husband Charles Lauru died in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1944 [12]