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This and ColouredColonials.yolasite. com provide help to trace your Asian ancestors before ColouredC Was he a Malay? Was he or she from Japan?

Was your ancestor from China, India, Afghanistan, the Philipines, Timor, Java, Ceylon or Burma? Do you know what State of Australia they worked in? Can you guess where roughly they worked? If you can say yes to these questions then we may be able to trace them. If you know if they came back to Australia after visiting their people overseas then we guarantee that photographs of them and further details will be found

31/10/2022

Is this our Wong Hoy?

21/09/2022

Luna Park, Sydney (undated) Edward Hopkins

20/05/2022

SS Changte made monthly sailings between Queensland and Hong Kong. (SLQ Negative no.: 178338) As they aged, many Chinese labourers faced a life of destitution once they became unable to perform har…

15/05/2022

Scrap of paper found on the body of an unknown Chinese man in February 1870. (QSA Item 348625 -138) In compiling the Queensland Chinese Death Index[1] I found the cause of death of 316 Chinese thro…

29/04/2022

Cleared scrub around the bed of the Cape River with views to Mount Davenport. (R. Daintree, 1868) SLQ Negative number: 63419 Queensland had numerous transient towns usually associated with mining o…

05/02/2022

""FAMILY BIOGRAPHY
BY HELEN ELLEMS (BING CHEW)
MY HALF FULL LATIONS
UNRAVELLING THE THREADS
Like many of the remnant families of
Croydon’s golden days the heritage of
the Bing Chew family exhibits rich
hybrid vigour. This project will follow
my family’s Chinese threads and in the
process will expose the alliances and
moral customs of earlier Croydon
times.
Rosie and Olfore, a couple from the
Clara River moved to Archer, just near
the Croydon airport, and had my great
grandmother Minnie who was a turning
point in the cultural structure of the
family. Minnie married Tommy Bing
Chew in 1909 and had an indefinite
number of kids with him including
Peter, Mary Susan (Sue Ping), Rosie,
Harry, Archie, Jack, Annie, Marjorie,
Edward and Norma Beatrice. Many
died young. They worked on Oakland
Park and Strathmore Stations where
Tommy was the cook.
Annie married Chin Foo Sue Ah Sam
linking us to other Chinese families.
When Chin Foo Sue died Annie had a
child called Walter Phillip Ah Sam with
Obadiah Phillip Lucas, also of mixed
Chinese heritage. Mary Sue Ing
married Vincent Dowling and Marjorie
married Ernie Diehm
It was always known that Tommy went
back to China when he was 70 and
that Minnie didn’t want to go. Some of
the later children may have been born
after Tommy’s departure because
Minnie then ‘married’ Albert Edward
(Boxer) Ah Foo, sixth child of Emily
Ann (Henley) and James Ah Foo,
consolidating the China connection
and revealing another extraordinary
dynasty.
Minnie had my grandmother Norma
Beatrice, and even though she was
named Bing Chew it was very possible
she was Boxer’s child. My
grandmother Norma had my dad
Wayne, who was also named Bing
Chew, and the story goes that my true
grandfather wanted to marry Norma
but his family wouldn’t allow it, so they
say.
It is the disclosure of this secret
fathering that has set me on the trail of
my family’s heritage through its
inscrutable Chinese connection.
This project will have several steps:
Family Tree – Helen is working with
the Heritage, Culture and Tourism Unit
of the Council, her family and
associated families to trace the family
ancestry through its Chinese threads.
1. Helen and Jana will present a
power point presentation at the
CHINA Inc conference of 11-12
February. They will network with
Chinese ancestry scholars,
experts and descendants for
further research direction.
2. They will organise Susan Gibson
of the Cairns Museum to provide
oral history training for Croydon
families – for Chinese and all
other cultural stories for the record
and to contribute to the research.
3. Helen will pursue the research
recommendations at the
conference – Dr Kevin Rains
(Chinese descendancy from
Croydon), Sandi Robb (finalising
Chinese in the North PhD thesis),
and other specialists.
4. The team will prepare a
photographic booklet with
information tracing the history of
the Bing Chew family and how it
interconnects with all of its threads
and provide a copy for all of the
families involved and the Croydon
Shire archives and library at a
presentation event.
If you have photographs or
information about the Bing Chew
family and relatives, please contact
Helen (07 47456169) or Jana (07
4748 7151). I will organise digitised
copies and return the originals to
you. At the end of the project I will
put a Photo Book together of the
family history and give associated
families a copy.""
Croydon Newsletter 2022

27/12/2021

Thanks to a dedicated group of family historians and volunteers, you can now access information about Victoria’s non-European residents during the White Australia policy – without leaving home.

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