AH HONG (8)

Description

Biographical informationAh Hong (8) was born in about 1869 in Canton, China. He migrated to Western Australia in 1892 leaving a wife and two sons in China (A). He was five feet, five and a half inches in height.

Before visiting his family in China in July 1901, Ah Hong was a shop assistant.

In 1916, he was recorded as working as a shopkeeper in Claude Street, Katanning. In 1919 he was gardening at Broomehill.

Ah Hong moved to Albany in 1920 and worked on Suey Wah's market garden in Middleton Road.

He made five more visits overseas: June 1910 to March 1911; July 1915 to June 1916; March 1918 to August 1919; June 1924 to November 1926; and August 1929 to January 1930.
[Ah Hong's Certificate Exempting him from the Dictation Test (CEDT) files can be accessed via the 'Related Link' below.]Other nameAh Hong, 1869- (differentiated name)Date of birth1869

Document

AAC-Box-007-8-0315

AAC-Box-007-8-0322

Organisation

Suey Wah's Market Garden, Albany

Sun Lock's Market Garden, Broomehill

Photograph and slide

Ah Hong (8) in 1901

Ah Hong pictured at age 40 on his CEDT in 1910 (source: National Archives, K1145, 1910/116).

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDate1892

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceBroomehillDate[date unknown]

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceAlbanyDate[date unknown]

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceKatanningDate[date unknown]

Employment

Job titleShopkeeperDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (organisation)Sun Lock's Market Garden, BroomehillSuey Wah's Market Garden, AlbanySubject (place)Middleton Road, AlbanyBroomehillClaude Street, KatanningSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaMarket gardeningShop keeperShop assistantRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkNAA CEDT File 1901NAA CEDT File 1910NAA CEDT File 1915NAA CEDT File 1918NAA CEDT File 1924NAA CEDT File 1929

Item information

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

UWA Collected

AH HONG (8)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA