WONG PONG (duplicate record)

Description

Biographical informationSee Wong Bong.

Wong Pong is certainly the same person as Wong Bong. He has the same small scar between eye brows and the handprints are the same. He was given two entries by Anne Atkinson because, confusingly, he gave a different birthdate (1887) on his first set of CEDT paperwork in 1908. All four other CEDT files give his birthdate as 1875 and so we have used this date, but a birthdate of 1887 remains a possibility.

Original entry: "Cook at Broome before travelling overseas from December 1908 to June 1910 (E)".Other nameWong Pong (differentiated name)Wong BongDate of birth1887

Photograph of Wong Pong (aka Wong Bong) in 1908 from his CEDT paperwork (source: NAA: K1145, 1908/72)

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceCantonDate[date unknown]

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDate1887

Significant place

RelationTravelled toPlaceBroomeDate[date unknown]

Employment

Job titleCookDate employed[date unknown]

Connections

Subject (person)WONG BONGSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaRelated collectionAnne Atkinson Collection

Item information

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

UWA Collected

WONG PONG (duplicate record)

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA