Category: Businesses
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The Goonicks – A New Lee 李 Family connection
While reading South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian Voices, by Mavis Gock Yen, I made a lucky discovery, a new family connection — Lee Goon Ick, the elder half-brother of Lee Kee Chong. I had come across a George Goonick in Trove research, but hadn’t initially realised the name was conjoined, in the same way…
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The Legacy of Gee Ick & Co: A Historical Overview
Gee Ick & Co., or Gee Yick, was a Chinese import-export merchant founded in Sydney in the early 1860s by Lee Din War. Located at 172 George Street, it traded goods like tea, rice, and gold, and facilitated gold remittances to Guangdong, China, in the 1880s. After Lee Din War’s death in 1907, his family…
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