AH TOON (6)

Description

Biographical informationIn 1886 Ah Toon (6) was working for Henry Woodman at the Freemason's hotel. On 30 June that year Woodman was charged and convicted in the Albany court for striking Ah Toon.

By 1890 he was working as a market gardener and leasing land on Perth Road from the son of W.G. Knight.

In July 1893 Ah Toon was brought up before the Albany Police Court charged with the theft of a pipe, the property of J. Chester, from the Billiard room of the White Hart Hotel. The prosecutor requested that the case be abandoned and this was complied with by the Resident Magistrate who stated that he had known Ah Toon for fourteen years "and always found him an honest man".

By October 1893 he was employed as a cook by Hassell at Jerramungup. Ah Toon absconded from Hassell's service on the 22nd October 1893 and headed into the bush towards Esperance, after he had accidently shot Jack Stamp in the left shoulder while out hunting tammar wallabies. After two weeks in the bush he returned. He absconded again on 20 November but returned that evening. He was punished by not being reinstated and was sent away (I).Other nameAh Toon (differentiated name)

Document

AAC-Box-007-0093

AAC-Box-007-6-0398

Box 007 Miscellaneous Notes 0030

Box 007 Miscellaneous Notes 13

Jerramungup farm diary 19-22 October 1893

Jerramungup farm diary 20 November 1893

Jerramungup farm diary 4-5 November 1893

Organisation

A & A Hassell

Person

Albert Young Hassell

Employment

Job titleCookEmployerA & A HassellDate employed1893

Connections

Subject (person)Albert Young HassellJack StampSubject (place)Jerramungup Station, AlbanySubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaCookAbscondingRelated collectionAnne Atkinson Collection

Item information

ContributorSchool of Social SciencesSource of informationAsian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)Western Mail, 28 October 1893, 2.Acc 436A/2, Hassell Family Papers, State Library of WA"ALBANY POLICE COURT" The Australian Advertiser, 5 July 1893: 3. » "http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260606755"Local Items." The Albany Mail and King George's Sound Advertiser, 3 July 1886: 2."ALLEGED THEFT FROM A CHINAMAN" The Australian Advertiser, 24 September 1890: 3

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceJerramungupDate[date unknown]

UWA Collected

AH TOON (6)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA