thoughts on the history and heritage of Chinese Australia
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Early Christmas presents in the Chen Ateak and Leau Appa families in 1861. I wonder if Mrs Chen Ateak and Mrs Leau Appa were friends? From the Sydney Morning Herald, 24 December 1861.
[Actually, there's an interesting story to tell about Mrs Leau Appa... but that will have to wait for another day, or perhaps another year!]
Every time I poke around in series NAA: SP42/1, I find something new and interesting that I hadn’t noticed before.
Today’s find is a photograph of the family of Ah Yin (or Ah Yen), who was a storekeeper at Adelong in southern New South Wales, and his wife, Ah Hoo (or Ah How). The family, with six children, left for China in 1897.
The file NAA: SP42/1, C1916/7308 PART 1 relates to a request for one of the Ah Yin daughters, Sarah (b. 1890), to be permitted to return to Australia in 1910.
More on Sarah Ah Yen’s return to Australia from the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 1915.