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Read more: Sites of Remembrance: Family & Local HistoryMarilyn Sue Dooley Email: goldensherds9@hotmail.com There is a Chinese proverb that says, ‘Upon the roots of the tree rest fallen leaves’. Among overseas Chinese communities, there was a cultural and familial obligation to return the bones of the dead to their home villages. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, burial registers and newspapers documented…
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Read more: Scattered legacyScattered Legacy is a Chinese Australian Historical Society initiative funded by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. The project, through the creation of a national, digital archive, connects thousands of scattered, local, and personal artefacts to tell the story of Chinese Australian history. It connects items from local museums and private collections to thematic essays…
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Read more: Discovery through context – Jenny WrightJenny Wright Unwrapping the layers of my great-great grandparents’ story has taken 14 years of extensive research (so far). As readers of this newsletter would know, the story can be wellburied when an ancestor is Chinese. The knowledge I gained from researching public records and newspaper reports, visiting theplaces they lived, and learning from local…
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Read more: Researching family history – Irene PoonWedding outfit of Go Shee Poon, Irene Poon’s paternal grandmother.Source: Leigh McKinnon, Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, 1998. Have you ever wondered about the lives of your ancestors and the environment in which they lived? In 2014, I caught the bug to research my family history. I charted the usual family tree of my family, starting…
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Read more: Writing a biography of Mavis Gock Yen (1916-2008)Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh Image: Mavis, aged 18, on a boat to Tientsin, and in Beijing, early 1950s.Source: Siaoman Yen & Richard Horsburgh My wife, Siaoman Yen, and I have embarked on a project to write a biography of Siaoman’s mother, Mavis Yen. Some CAHS members will already be familiar with Mavis as the…
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Read more: ‘Leaving a Legacy’ – Mandy GwanI suspect I will never know the reason my greatgrandfather, Wong Yee Gwan, decided to leaveChina in the early 1870s and make his way to New South Wales. His incoming passenger recordand application for naturalization (if they exist) have been elusive. But is pinning down exactlywhen he came or chasing a reason why, really that…
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Read more: First Steps in my Chinese Australian family history journeyBy Marilyn Sue Dooley Ah Yin Ah Yin (c1844 -1885)Cantonese Storekeeper & Publican of Armagh Farm, Rosewood Diggings, Central Queensland. Dorothy Jean (Munns) Dooley (1916 – 1996), Rockhampton, Central Queensland.Source: Marilyn Sue Dooley. Source: Marilyn Sue Dooley. No other image of Ah Yin has emerged in the decades since Mum handed me his photograph, which…
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Read more: The Ninth CHINA Inc “no fuss” ConferenceLocation: Darwin, Northern Territory, 20-23 September 2024. The Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Incorporated (CHINA Inc.) is in association with the Chung Wah Society’s NT Chinese Museum for the event titled “Northern Gateways: Chinese Heritage and History in Northern Australia.”