Category: Family History
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Frederick Charles Jack
Frederick 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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William Tootong Williamson
William 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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Mary Ann Fuller – wife of Chen Quin Jack
Mary 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
What 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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