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CHONG YOU
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Chong You (aka Ching You) was born in about 1864 in Canton, China. He was five feet seven and a half inches in height.
He worked as a market gardener on the edge of Lake Monger in Leederville in the early 1910s.
He travelled overseas from July 1915 to June 1918 (D).
Other name
Chong You (differentiated name)
CHUNG YOU (also known as)
Date of birth
1864
Document
Box-007-Sorb-Box-0143
Chinese Gardeners and Market Gardens in the City of Vincent on 1911
Chong You aged 51 in 1915 from his CEDT paperwork (source: NAA: K1145, 1915/118)
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Place of birth
Place
Canton
Date
1864
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Subject (place)
Leederville
Subject (topic)
Chinese heritage in Western Australia
Market gardening
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Anne Atkinson Collection
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NAA CEDT File 1915
Item information
Contributor
School of Social Sciences
Source of information
Asian immigrants to Western Australia, 1829-1901 (Atkinson, 1988)
CHONG YOU
(1864). UWA Collected, accessed 30/04/2025, https://collected.uwa.edu.au/nodes/view/16946