AH SING Billy

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Biographical informationGrandson of William Ah Sing (1) and son of William Ah Sing (2).

From Irwin Districts Historical Society newsletter January 2023:
“Another well known Irwin Chinese was Billy (William) Ah Sing, a grandson of William Ah Sing of Middle Swan. Billy Ah Sing married Elizabeth Edwards at South Greenough in 1910. They had several daughters and a son, Mervyn William, born at Bookara in 1913. Billy Sing (having dropped the honorific ‘Ah’ from his name) was a fettler on the MRCo and WAGR, and built a cottage in Church Street, Dongara in the 1920s where he and Elizabeth raised their family. Billy died in 1971 and Elizabeth in 1972, and both are buried in Utakarra Anglican Cemetery. Their son Mervyn Sing was also a fettler, a well-known player for the Dongara football team in the late 1930s, and was the first traffic inspector appointed by the Irwin Road Board in 1933 to manage traffic on Point Leander Drive after it imposed a 15 mph (24 km/h) speed limit on the road. Mervyn Sing enlisted in the army in 1941, serving in Syria and then in the provost corps in the Northern Territory until 1946. The (Ah) Sings are remembered today in the heritage-listed Sing Cottage in Church Street, and the street name Sing Way.”Date of death1971

Document

Irwin Districts Historical Society Newsletter - 23 January 2023

Person

SING Mervyn

Billy and Elizabeth Ah Sing, courtesy of Irwin Districts Historical Society

Family

ParentAH SING William (2)Other relativeAH SING William (1)

Connections

Subject (place)DongaraRelated collectionCelebrating 200 Years - National Foundation for Australia-China Relations ProjectAnne Atkinson Collection

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ContributorSchool of Social Sciences

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AH SING Billy

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