FONG KEE Mary Tereaser (female)

Description

Biographical informationFong Kee Mary Tereaser was born on 17th July 1919 in Broome, Western Australia. She was the daughter of Fong Kee and Mary Fong Kee and sister of Harold, Frang, Arthur, Mollie and Jacob, and half sister of Ignatius.

She travelled overseas twice: once as an infant on her mother's CEDT from December 1919 to April 1920; then again in May 1928 when her father and all of her siblings left for China. She returned to Australia in November 1937 (D) and lived with her father and her brother, Harold, in Cavanagh Street, Darwin, Northern Territory. He brother Arthur joined them in 1938.

In 1942 she married Phillip See Gow Chin (b. 1893, d. 1949), in Canterbury, New South Wales.

Other nameFong Kee, Mary Tereasar (differentiated name)FONG KEE Mary (also known as)FONG KEE Teresa (also known as)Date of birth17th July 1919

Fong Kee Mary Tereaser aged 8 in 1928 from her CEDT paperwork (source: NAA: K1145, 1928/48)

Family

ParentFONG KEEFONG KEE Mary (female)SiblingFONG KEE Harold FONG KEE Frang (?Frank)FONG KEE Mollie (female)FONG KEE ArthurFONG KEE JacobFONG KEE Ignatius

Connections

Subject (place)BroomeSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkNAA CEDT File 1919 for motherNAA CEDT File 1928

Item information

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

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceBroomeDate1919

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FONG KEE Mary Tereaser (female)

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