kpopmum62
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I am trying to trace my husbands family who came from the Canton region. Family name is Ng.
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Post by kpopmum62 on Aug 10, 2014 8:44:41 GMT -5
I am trying to trace the ancestral home of my husbands grandfather. We do not know his name but only that he was wealthy, owned land and ships. He had a bank in Thailand, 3 wives and 4 children. He had 2 Chinese wives and 1 Thai wife of Chinese decent. One of his sons, Ng Jui Teik, emigrated from Poh Leng to Malaysia during the 1940s. His wife Tan Mui Yang was the daughter of a Judge and she was a teacher by profession. This is all I know. The grandfather's name has never been mentioned. My eldest brother-in-law knows where the ancestral home is but we have never visited it. Can anyone please help:
1. What is Poh Leng now called? 2. Does anyone know of this family? 3. Where is the family home situated? - this last question is interesting because the home is very large and when the communists took over the family home was inhabitied by many families. Each set of rooms taken over by families I have heard numbered over 40.
I did hear that my father-in-law's brother moved to the house from HK in the 1980s and died there. HIs adopted son also lived there. But we do not know his name.
I have been searching for years but because I do not speak Chinese I am finding it very difficult to trace anything related to my in-laws family.
Incidently, the family were from the Teochew dialect.
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Post by laohuaqiao on Aug 10, 2014 9:30:21 GMT -5
kpopmum62, From what you have written, your brother-in-law has that information. Have you asked him?
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Post by lachinatown on Aug 11, 2014 9:50:14 GMT -5
Please post any Chinese characters you have.
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