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Trevor Jack
Read more: Trevor JackTrevor Jack was born in 1917, in Glen Innes, the New England region of NSW. At the time of his birth, local newspapers were filled with reports about the ongoing First World War, highlighting both the heroism and the tragedies faced by soldiers, alongside a growing anti-conscription movement. Meanwhile, life continued as usual in the…
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Everyday Treasures from a Chinese Home
Read more: Everyday Treasures from a Chinese HomeThese are some of the artefacts that came from the home and they include: soy sauce bottles, ginger and pickling jars, Chinese choppers, baskets and decorative soup spoons.
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Sydney Leslie Jack – aka ‘Les’
Read more: Sydney Leslie Jack – aka ‘Les’Uncle Les was quite a character, full of wit and bush wisdom. He quickly became an integrated part of our family and I was close to him. I can remember when Halley’s Comet was blazing across the sky one night in 1986, my grandparents dragged the by-now old Uncle Les from his bed to witness…
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Chinese Opium tin
Read more: Chinese Opium tinThis Chinese opium tin dates from between 1860 – 1900, with it in the collection is a tiny tobacco or opium pipe, may have been owned by Chen Quin Jack or William Tootong, another Chinese ancestor. Both men were gold and tin miners around the Uralla and Tingha regions during the 1860s to 1910s
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The House that Jack built -Hymen Villa, Tingha
Read more: The House that Jack built -Hymen Villa, TinghaChen Quin Jack built the original family home on tin-bearing land. The property was called Hymen Villa. A simple timber building with a few rooms – a kitchen with an open fireplace for cooking
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1905 membership booklet for the Sydney Long Du Association
Read more: 1905 membership booklet for the Sydney Long Du AssociationThis 1905 membership booklet for the Sydney Long Du Association and belonged to belonged to a Fung Gum Moon ⽅⾦滿 (Fang Jinman) — AKA 金滿 “Kum Moon” — from Ho Chung 濠涌 (Hao Yong) village in the south China district of Long Du (隆都)
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Nell’s trip on the S.S. Kumano Maru to China in 1907
Read more: Nell’s trip on the S.S. Kumano Maru to China in 1907In April 1907, Ellen Mon How – AKA Mrs Moon or Nell embarks on a journey to China, aboard the S.S. Kumano Maru. This is collection of mementos from Nell’s trip.
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Discovering a Silk cloth inscribed by Liang Qichao, Inverell, 1901
Read more: Discovering a Silk cloth inscribed by Liang Qichao, Inverell, 1901In 2022, I was fortunate to have Ely Finch visit my home, where I had the opportunity to show him my collection. I had a bag of embroidered silk scarves and handkerchiefs, as well as a beautiful silk cloth that I draped in front of him. I asked, “What about this?
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Fong Mon How
Read more: Fong Mon HowAn educated, refined young Chinese man seeking a better life, joins his fellow sojourners, making the perilous journey to Australia. Chinese born Fong Mon How 方文厚 — AKA: Fong Kum Moon 方金滿 — was born in Canton — Shekki, Heung Shan, in 1869. He first arrived in Australia in 1881.
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Ellen (Nell) TooTong
Read more: Ellen (Nell) TooTongA significant portion of my collection originated from Ellen (Nell) Tootong, and her close family. Nell’s artefacts add to the narrative of her life in Tingha and travels to China. They include family documents, photographs, personal keepsakes and relics — like this front door key to Mrs Ellen Hyde’s House in Tingha. For me, this…
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Tingha Public School, 1899
Read more: Tingha Public School, 1899Quin and Mary Jack’s children all attended the local Tingha Public School, and this photo from 1899 has an inscription that three of the Jack siblings are in the picture: Ethel, Cecil and Billy Jack. If you can identify anyone in these photos, or have any information, leave me a comment.
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AH Jack and Party Mining Leases
Read more: AH Jack and Party Mining LeasesThis collection of 27 mining leases for the Cope Harding, Tingha, Peel and Uralla in northern NSW, and date from 1911 up to 1940. There are two with Quin Jack’s name as ‘Ah Jack’. Some leases were signed by Quin’s son, Les Jack. Most of the leases are for Quin’s half-sister — Ellen Mon How…
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Ah Jack’s mining artefacts
Read more: Ah Jack’s mining artefactsFrom mid-1870 to the 1880s Quin Jack was running his own successful tin-mining operation in Tingha and was regularly featured in Tingha mining reports as Ah Jack and Party. These are some of the mining artefacts and tools.
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Melbourne See Yup Temple & Chen Ah Jack
Read more: Melbourne See Yup Temple & Chen Ah JackA possible mention of Chen Quin Jack from his period on the Ballarat goldfields 1850s-1865, comes from records from Melbourne’s See Yup Temple
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Candle Sticks & the Joss House, Tingha
Read more: Candle Sticks & the Joss House, Tingha陳 觀 植 — Chen Quin Jack’s name in Chinese characters led to an important recent discovery made by Our Chinese Past members Paul McGregor and translator Ely Finch. Chen Quin Jack’s name is inscribed as the donor of these two elaborate gilt carved altar-table candlesticks which date to 1883
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A Chinese Temple Priest -Tingha
Read more: A Chinese Temple Priest -TinghaHee Lun Chinese Temple Priest — Tingha By the mid-1860s Quin Jack was working on the Uralla – Rocky River goldfields in Northern NSW. He arrived in Tingha in the early 1870s. By the 1880s he was already a significant figure in the Chinese community. He had strong business ties, was well connected with the…
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Discovery in a Chinese Printing chop
Read more: Discovery in a Chinese Printing chopA collection of interesting wooden Chinese chops or stamps lead to the discovery of Chen Quin Jack’s Chinese name. This has made me much more aware of the potential importance of each item in the collection.
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Chinese Medicine collection
Read more: Chinese Medicine collectionMy collection also includes this fascinating collection of tiny Chinese medicine bottles. The labels are mostly intact and there’s still medicine in some. One particular medicine is Po Chai Pills 保濟丸 — a traditional Chinese medicine product made from several herbs formed into tiny spherical pills about 4 mm in diameter. It is used as a remedy for the relief of indigestion, heartburn, vomiting, diarrhea,…
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Quin Jack’s abacus
Read more: Quin Jack’s abacusUncle Les said his father — Quin Jack — owned and used extensively this wooden abacus. It has a well-worn patina with exotic oriental markings, and for me as a child, it was fun to play with. I can remember grandpa Trevor teaching my brother and I to count to 10 in Chinese, and how…
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Samuel Yaupaung
Read more: Samuel YaupaungSam Yap Amey – also known Sam Yap Hong and later as Samuel Yaupaung. As you can see by this ‘retouched’ photo was quite a handsome man and from his appearance, it is not inconceivable to assume that he may be a mixed-race Eurasian. Samuel is my great-great-great-grandfather.
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Lee Kee Chong — 李 基 祥
Read more: Lee Kee Chong — 李 基 祥Lee Kee Chong 李 基 祥 born in 1864 in Heung Shan, just south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, Southern China. While not a lot is known about Lee in China, we know that life in Heung Shan would have been a struggle.
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Potstickers & Panning – Presentation
Read more: Potstickers & Panning – PresentationFor those of you who missed my talk ‘Potstickers & Panning’ last year in Sydney and would like to access a copy please download it from the link here
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Potstickers & Panning – 28th Sept -Sydney
Read more: Potstickers & Panning – 28th Sept -SydneyChinese Australian history talk — Opium Wars, conflict and fortuity — from Canton to Tingha via Ballarat — the separate journeys of three Chinese men, their interconnecting lives and interracial relationships. This presentation is accompanied by numerous relevant documents and photographs of people and artefacts.
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Esther Grace Kee Chong
Read more: Esther Grace Kee ChongWith the approach of Chinese New Year and following the birth of Edward, the family embarked on a journey to Chung Shan, China on 29th December 1903 to show off Lee’s business success and his new family. Accompanying Lee on the journey, his wife Agnes, and children Grace (aged 8), Norah (aged 7), George (…
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Frederick Charles Jack
Read more: Frederick Charles JackFrederick Charles Jack was born in 1888 in Tingha, and spent his early life there. Fred left Tingha around 1907 moving to Glenn Innes to take up employment in a Chinese general store, Kwong Sing’s.
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Esther Williamson (nee McClure)
Read more: Esther Williamson (nee McClure)At an early age 16 or 18, Esther left Ireland and traveled to Australia. It’s not known if she traveled out alone or with her parents – father Joseph Mcclure, a farmer, and mother Esther. According to her death certificate, she spent the first 18 years in Queensland and 45 years in NSW
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William Tootong Williamson
Read more: William Tootong WilliamsonWilliam Tootong travelled from China to Australia, possibly during the 1850s gold rushes. He worked as a miner in Rocky River, NSW. In 1861 he is recorded as living in Bundarra. Later settling in Tingha around mid-1870 where he married Irish-born Hester Fuller
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Wesleyan Methodist church – Tingha
Read more: Wesleyan Methodist church – TinghaThe interior of the present Methodist church Tingha, The minister is a Chinese missionary Rev, Tear-Tack. You will notice the congregation are mostly Chinese. This church was built by a Chinese carpenter when most of Tingha’s population were Chinese (it’s possible Quin Jack may have built or helped build the church)
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Mary Ann Fuller – wife of Chen Quin Jack
Read more: Mary Ann Fuller – wife of Chen Quin JackMary Ann Fuller married Chen Quin Jack in 1886 in the Wesleyan Methodist church in Tingha. He was 49 and Mary 18. Together they had eight children: William Henry, Ethel May, Frederick Charles (my great Grandfather), Sidney Lesley, Violet Sylvia, Veronica Pearl, Cecil Ambrose.
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Finding Chen Quin Jack
Read more: Finding Chen Quin JackWhat did Chen Quin Jack look like? This has been the main question the descendants of Chen Quin Jack have all be wanting to know, without a known photo this was an impossible task. Who was Chen Quin Jack? Chen Quin Jack was born in 1837, perhaps in Macao or nearby mainland China. He arrived…
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