AH HOOK (3)

Description

Biographical informationAh Hook (3) was contracted to work for Donald McLeod on Cheritta Station, Roebourne, as a fencer in September 1881. Brought charges of assault against A. I. Gillam, an employee of McLeod, Gillam was fined £2 and costs. In November 1881, Ah Hook was sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labour and ordered to pay £2 3s 6d costs for absconding from McLeod's service. In July 1882, Ah Hook, was found guilty of sheep stealing and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour (C). [See De Ah Hook]

This may be the Ah Hook who died of sunstroke whilst working as a market gardener in April 1900. If so, then he was the son of Chung Kuey, was born in about 1858 in Canton, China and migrated to Western Australia in 1890. He was buried at 5-mile Well southeast of Touranna near Roebourne (More Lonely Graves of Western Australia, pg 3).Other nameAh Hook (Fencer) (differentiated name)DE AH HOOK (may also be)

Document

AAC-Box-007-0128

Box-007-Sorb-Box-0153

Person

DE AH HOOK

Wallace McLeod

Employment

Job titleFencerEmployerWallace McLeodDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (person)Arthur Charles GillamDonald McLeodSubject (organisation)Cheritta StationSubject (place)RoebourneSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated itemDE AH HOOK

Item information

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

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceCheritta StationDate[date unknown]

UWA Collected

AH HOOK (3)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA