AH CHAN (1)

Description

Biographical informationAh Chan (1) is recorded as having worked for Ah Vam as a market gardener in Peninsula Road, Maylands, with four other Chinese in 1888 (C).

This may be the Ah Chan who died on 2nd July 1896 at Perth Public Hospital of heart disease. He was buried at the East Perth Cemetery in the Chinese Section. If this is the same Ah Chan then he was born in about 1866 because he was around 30 when he died.Other nameAh Chan (differentiated name)Date of birth1866?

Document

AAC-Box-007-6-0103

AAC-Box-007-8-0161

Page21 1888, Collector of Customs - Return of Chinese

Organisation

Ah Vam's Market Garden, Maylands

Employment

Job titleGardenerDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (organisation)Ah Vam's Market Garden, MaylandsSubject (place)Peninsula Road, MaylandsSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaMarket gardeningRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkEast Perth Cemetery burial record

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationAsian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)

UWA Collected

AH CHAN (1)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA