AH SOOT

Description

Biographical informationAh Soot 鐘述 was born in about 1875 in Canton, 南合村，China. He migrated to Australia in 1892 and lived in Melbourne, Victoria before moving to Western Australia in 1898. He was over five feet and seven inches in height. He has a wife (Ah Soo, 楊氏), son and daughter living in China.

He shared the lease of a market garden at Bayswater with Ah Lem before travelling overseas in December 1903. He returned to Western Australia in August 1905 (A). He worked on a market garden at Guildford until 1916 when he moved to a market garden at Belmont (B).

Ah Soot was fined 30 shillings for 'Being Found in a Gaming House' in Perth in August 1918 (B).

He travelled overseas a further four times: June 1909 to December 1910; April 1914 to September 1915; October 1920 to December 1921; and April 1926 to September 1927 (D).

In 1939 he was working was a market gardener in Bayswater. In 1948 he was living at 131 James Street in Perth. He returned to China permanently on the 5th of August 1949.Other nameAh Soot (differentiated name)Chung Ah Soot (also known as)鐘述

Photograph and slide

Ah Soot in 1903

Person

AH LEM

Photograph of Ah Soot aged 50 in 1926 from his CEDT paperwork (source: NAA: K1145, 1926/40)

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceCantonDate1875

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDate1892

Connections

Subject (person)AH LEMSubject (place)BayswaterGuildfordBelmont131 James Street, PerthSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaMarket gardeningGamblingRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkNAA CoD File 1903NAA CEDT File 1914NAA CEDT File 1920NAA CEDT File 1926NAA War Registration File 1939-1948NAA Departure Card

Item information

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

UWA Collected

AH SOOT

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA