Looking for Lung Jun and Soon Sui Villages

[lrchan]

I have just started my search after tracing back my mom and her parents back through Angel Island Immigration Station. According to Immigration Records, the birthplaces of my grandparents were Lung Jun and Soon Sui Villages in the Toyshan District, (Taisan). My grandparents arrived in the 1920s to the US.

Any help appreciated, I could not locate the villages on some of the Taisan databases on the Internet, but figure the spelling might be off. The family name is Chin.

Thanks.

Larry

[wongroots]

Larry,

On the Soon Sui side do you know if it is an Ng village? I think that is the name of my mom's village. I've already used this site recently to help find the village on my dad's side and wasn't planning on researching my mother's side of the tree. However, depending on how far this thread goes, I may reprioritize.

Thanks, Dave

[wongroots]

I just checked the village database and their are 9 Shun Sui's in Toisan. I believe Shun Sui = Soon Sui.

Anyhow, if your Soon Sui is an Ng clan, then we have something in common.

[lrchan]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your responses, I too have been concentrating on my grandfather's village, as that is where he and my grandmother were also married, according to Immigration records.

I have never known my grandmother's family name before marriage, but I will see if any relatives know and post back whether or not it was Ng.

Thanks!

[lrchan]

Dave,

On the Taishan Genealogy website, the following quote is found in the People and Clan section, I wonder if my grandmother's village that you believe is Shun Sui is called Shun Shui and it is relatively close to what may be my grandfather's village, Lung Kun, if Lung Kun = Lung-k'ou. Wonder if this Shun Shui would be the same village as your mom's?

"American immigration records suggest that most emigrants from Taishan came from the north-east of the county, along the line of the Xinhui-Xinning Railway. This makes eminent sense as that was and is the main transport corridor to and from Guangzhou, Macau and Hong Kong by road and ferry.

This railway was removed during the Japanese War, and has never been rebuilt. However the "T'ai-shan (Sunning) Kwangtung Province China" 1:250,000 topographical map drawn by the US Corps of Engineers in 1948 shows its route.

The line from the Xinhui border travelled south for about 20km to Taicheng Town with a short spur line west to the port of Kung-i-fou on the Tan River. Within five kilometres on either side of this line lie the villages of Heng-ling, Ta-hsiang, Ling-pei, Shui-pu-hsi, Tu-kang, Ma-kang, Hsieh-pien, Pei-k'eng and Ch'ao-?ang-li.

From Taicheng Town, the line continued west to the town of Pai-sha-chiu-hsü. Within five kilometres on either side of this line lie the villages of Ch'ang-an-li, Yung-an-li, Wen-ch'iian-shih, Ch'ü-chin-hsü, San-ho-hsü, Lung-k'ou, Hsi-hua-shih, Chiao-i-t'ang, Hao-tzu-lang, Ch'ang-an-li, Chu-wu, Nan-hsing-li, Hsin-sheng-li, Ch'ao-ching-hsü, SHUN-SHUI, Ta-hai-hsü, Ch'ang-kang-hsü, Tung-hsin-k'eng and Nan-ch'ang-shih."

[wongroots]

Larry,

That Shun Sui might be the one. Again, I'm only assuming Soon Sui is Shun Sui and also their are 9 Shun Sui's. Also remember that you are pronouncing in Cantanoese while the villages that you've written are in mandarin. Xin Hui is mandarin and Sun Wui is cantonese for example.

Anyhow, the most important thing for people here to be able help you is if you can get the name of the villages in chinese characters. On a headstone would be a good place to start if you do not know.

Which one was from Shun Sui? GM or GF?

[lrchan]

Unfortunately, I do not have anything in Chinese characters of the name of the villages...Lung Jun is my GF while Soon Sui is my GM village....but I am still looking for more information. What I have so far was on the Immigration papers.

Thanks.