YUEN BOW

Description

Biographical informationYuen Bow was born in September 1884, Canton, China (1887 on his war registration paperwork in 1939). He migrated to Victoria, Australia in 1901 and then to Western Australia in 1929. He was five feet two inches in height. His wife (b. 1895) remained in China.

He worked as a French polisher in the J. W. Wing Furniture Factory. He established the Nanking Cafe, Barrack Street, Perth, in partnership with Kum Yuen. He lived at 9 Yarwood Place, Perth.

He travelled overseas five times from Victoria before coming to Western Australia. He applied for a CEDT in 1949 and left Western Australia permanently in February 1950. Other nameYuen Bow (differentiated name)Date of birthSeptember 1884

Document

Box-007-Sorb-Box-0740

Yuen Bow CEDT 1950 (NAA Item ID: 1743471)

Photograph and slide

Yuen Bow 1939

Yuen Bow aged 66 in 1950 pictured in his Certificate Exempting from the Dictation Test (source: National Archives, K1145, 1950/1).

Connections

Subject (person)YUEN KUMSubject (organisation)Cafe Nanking Co. LtdJ. W. Wing & Co. Ltd Furniture Factory, PerthSubject (place)Barrack Street, Perth9 Yarwood Place, PerthSubject (topic)Chinese heritage in Western AustraliaFurniture polisherRestaurateurRelated collectionAnne Atkinson CollectionRelated linkNAA War Registration 1939NAA CEDT File 1950

Item information

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

Significant place

RelationPlace of birthPlaceCantonDate1884 or 1887

Significant place

RelationImmigrated toPlaceAustraliaDate1901 (Vic)

UWA Collected

YUEN BOW

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA