On January 10, 2010, harc3 posted: Hi all. I am trying to find this on a map 广东省深圳市福田区华富北村82栋 (my relative in Shenzhen) I know it is Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in Futian District of Wah Fu North Village Estate 82. I found the Futian district but can’t seem to get Wah Fu North Village other...
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Over the years visitors to our forums had contributed many maps of Siyi and the surrounding regionals. The biggest contributor, however, is Henry Tom, one of our moderators. The forums currently is unsearchable which makes referencing next to impossible and leads to much duplicated postings of the same maps. In these pages we’ll harness...
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My family was originally from KwangTung, Taishan, Dong Hang, Taup Kirk. My grandfather (Lee Yee Hui) settled in Penang at the young age of 17 as carpenter. My father was born in Penang in 1906. His name was Lee Kam Mao. He was also known as Lee Ping Wah or Lee Wai Mao. My...
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This site is devoted to the genealogy of Chinese families from an area of Guangdong, China (中國廣東)commonly known as Siyi (四邑) or four counties. The counties are Xinhui (新會), Taishan (台山), Kaiping (開平), and Enping (恩平). The families in this area have much in common besides geographic location. The great majority trace their origin...
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Taishan (台山縣) or Hoy Sun (Hoi Sun) in the local dialect was part of Xinhui (新會縣) until 1499 when Xinhui’s borders were redrawn resulted in the formation of a new county from the area on its southwest. The new county, Xinning (新寧), is generally accepted to be Taishan’s forerunner. However, one writer said this...
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Song An was born on 1382 and died in 1459 AD. He was the grandson of the first Chow ancestor to settle in the Lei-Ow area. However, just about all the Chow’s currently living in the area are descendants of his six sons. Since 1949 due to political reason his grave haven’t been tended...
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The Chinese first came to British Columbia (BC) from California with news of gold on the Fraser River. They arrived in Victoria and continued northward into the interior. However, the migration directly from China didn’t begin until the spring of 1859 when the first arrival from Hong Kong took place. By early 1860′s it...
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Der She Chow was my mother-in-law. I first met her in May 1977 at her house in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (加拿大沙省舞士阻埠). In keeping with the Chinese tradition of bringing the wedding cakes and roast pork to the bride’s family a month or two before the wedding, Margaret and I flew in from Vancouver during...
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Born in An Kai Lai, Kaiping County, Guangdong, China, (中國廣東開平縣安溪里) May 29, 1909. The second son but third child of Zhong Wan Chow (周宗浣) and Cheng Ho (何成) who had a total of four sons and three daughters. On June 28, 1923 he set sailed aboard the Empress of Australia from Hong Kong and...
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Nanxiong (南雄) county lies in the northeast part of Guangdong province. It has 24 towns and a population of 440,000. Historically, Nanxiong connected Guangdong and Jiangxi which made it the key junction between northern and southern China. It was a marketplace and the central point in the exchange of goods and cultures between Central...
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