Category: People
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Samuel Yaupaung
Sam 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
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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Esther Grace Kee Chong
With 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
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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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
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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Wesleyan Methodist church – Tingha
The 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
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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