AH DAN (1)

Description

Biographical informationAh Dan (1) was born in about 1871. He was employed as a market gardener at Walliston in the 1890s (C) and was working as a gardener in FitzGerald Street, Perth, in 1901.

In 1901 he applied for an immigration certificate to travel out of the state.

It is probable that that this is the same Ah Dan who died on the 28th September 1903 from suspected bubonic plague. At the time of his death he was working as a market gardener and living on a market garden in Clarence Street, Highgate Hill. When he got sick he was moved to 204 James Street, Perth and from there to Perth Public Hospital where he died. His body was removed to the quarantine station at Woodman Point and cremated. All close contacts were quarantined.Other nameAh Dan (differentiated name)Ah Din (also known as)Date of birth1871Date of death1903

Document

AAC-Box-007-6-0146

Ah Din 1901-983

Box 007 Miscellaneous Notes 0012

Box-007-Sorb-Box-0135

Bubonic Plague: re-appearance in Perth

Plague Plaints, 1903

The Plague Outbreak: Another case discovered in a house at South Perth

Organisation

Gee Kung Hong Koong See

Woodman Point Quarantine Station

Employment

Job titleGardenerDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (organisation)Woodman Point Quarantine StationSubject (place)WallistonClarence Street, Highgate HillSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaMarket gardeningBubonic plagueRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkRegister of Deaths, Burials & Cremations at Woodman Point Quarantine StationBubonic Plague: re-appearance in Perth

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationAsian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)Additional research by David Mizen

UWA Collected

AH DAN (1)

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