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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Raymond Seid on his most recent trip to his ancestral village in Xinhui purchased three very interesting books on Wuyi. These books take the readers to different parts of Wuyi and give a glimpse of the area’s past as the pieces were written by different authors from different eras. Raymond is willing to share...
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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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In 214 BC the Qin Dynasty (秦) conquered Nanyue (南越) and divided the area into three quon (郡) or prefectures, Guilin (桂林), Namhoi (南海), and Cheung (象). Xinhui was part of Namhoi quon (南海郡). Things remained relatively unchanged until the Three Kingdom period (三國時代). In 222 AD, one of the Kingdoms, Wu (吳), established...
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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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Lee Dong is accorded the honour of being the first southward migrating ancestor. He was the eldest son of Lee Hay (李禧) who in turn was Lee Lun’s (李聯) eldest son. Here is a little historical background. In 1126 AD (靖康元年) when the Jins (女真金人), a northern nomadic tribe who were the ancestors of...
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We don’t have a lot of information on him but from data on hand and knowledge of Chinese customs we can make certain deductions. Firstly, it is safe to say that Xie Wingshui was born in 1883 or there about. His second daughter and fourth child, Der She Chow, was born in 1911. Males...
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