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Post by dlangley on Apr 10, 2019 4:15:46 GMT -5
One side of my Ancestry has Chinese connections, which were formed during and beyond the 1850’s on the Mt Alexander Goldfields and Buckland Valley area, in Victoria, Australia. The name which appears is Suey Sang, but I imagine that this is what English speakers heard. How might it have appeared in Chinese, please and would it appear in our alphabet more accurately as Su Yi Sang? This ancestor came from Canton, but when and how is something I do not know. He was an opium shop owner and a translator. Any suggestions as to how I might possibly find out more about him would be much appreciated.
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Post by jeremychin on Apr 10, 2019 10:46:52 GMT -5
Hello dlangley,
Welcome to the forum. Who is Suey Sang and how is he related to you? Where do you see the name? Is it on a photo or in an immigration record/document? It is going to be hard to find out more about this person unless you have Chinese characters for his name and/or a village name for which he is from. The problem is, the way things are are spelled in English could be translated into a variety of Chinese characters especially because of the multiple tones in the Cantonese and Toisanese dialects, so it is sometimes hard to identify the right one based off of just the English written pronunciation of the name. Is he buried in Victoria? Does he have a gravestone there in which you can maybe glean more information ( like name dates of birth and death or ancestral village? You might want to check online on Familysearch.org, or ancestry.com to see if you can find any ship manifests of his arrival to Australia from Canton, immigration records, and/or census records etc. to start.
- Jeremy
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