YOCK LUNN WEE SHIN (female)

Description

Biographical informationLock Lunn Wee Shin was born on the 20 October 1883 in Canton, China. She migrated to Western Australia in 1899. She was five feet four and a quarter inches in height. She was the wife of Charles Soong Yocklunn.

She lived at Toodyay in 1925 (E). Her address in 1944 was Lunn's Siding, Toodyay and she was described as an orchardist and market mardener who 'speaks very little english'. Later in 1944 she was living in Yilgarn Avenue, Northam. She had moved to Oliver Street, Northam by 1947.

She had at least one child: Soong Chung Yock Lunn, born in China in 1933. In 1948 he was living with her in Oliver Street, Northam. At just 15 he was already fluent in English, Chinese, French and German. He acted as interpreter in the 1948 stabbing legal case prosecuted by Lee Lee Chong.

She travelled overseas three times: January 1926 to May 1926; April 1929 to January 1930; and January 1932 to June 1938 (D).

BDM Index contains a reference to Wui Sin Yocklunn who died aged 78 in 1959 (BDM 100091/1960).Other nameWee Shin Yocklum (differentiated name)WEE SHIN YOCK LUNN (also known as)Sung Yu Lin (also known as)Date of birth1883Date of death1959

Document

Box-007-Sorb-Box-0726

Chinese Consulate Stamp - Wee Shin Yocklunn

Chinese Schoolboy is Interpreter

Wee Shin Yocklunn Registration File

Person

YOCK LUNN Charles Soong

Yocklunn Wee Shinn pictured around the age of 52 in 1931 on her Certificate Exempting her from the Dictation Test (source: National Archives, K1145, 1931/53).

Family

SpouseYOCK LUNN Charles Soong

Connections

Subject (place)Lunn's Siding, ToodyayYilgarn Avenue, NorthamOliver Street, NorthamSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaFruit growerMarket gardeningRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkNAA CEDT File 1926NAA CEDT File 1929NAA CEDT File 1931NAA CEDT File 1936 extensionNAA War Registration File1939-1948NAA Immigration Files 1925-1957 <Not digitised #808119, 4317172, 11573621>

Item information

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

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceCantonDate20th October 1883

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDate1899

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceToodyayDate[date unknown]

UWA Collected

YOCK LUNN WEE SHIN (female)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA