yue
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Post by yue on Jan 30, 2024 2:26:08 GMT -5
Thank you Henry, I will try that option
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Post by collaredkf on Mar 31, 2024 1:46:12 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
Thanks so much for this fascinating sharing about the Chen / 陈 family surname. I'm new here and reaching out because I need some help tracing my ancestry on my mother's side, which is Hakka.
My maternal great-great-grandfather is Chin Kong Fatt, who migrated from China to Kudat, in North Borneo, we estimate, in the late 1890s. He ran a traditional Chinese medicine or bone-setting business. By 1941, he had passed on. He had three English-educated sons (Chin Yau Foong (DOB unknown), Chin Yau Yin (b. 1905) and Chin Yau Fai (b. 1906) ) who later moved to Singapore and Penang in the 1930s, and a daughter (name unknown), who married Lim Giang Kong, a Chinese Cathechist at St. Patrick's School in Tawau from 1933-1941.
My challenge is that we don't have any Chinese characters for any of the names except the surname 陈. We do not know the ancestral village but the Chins were Anglican Christians at the time of migration from China.
Might anyone have encountered 陈 family lineages that stretch to British North Borneo during this time period, or is there some record in the 族谱 of an Anglican Christian branch of Chins?
Hoping for your kind help, thank you!
Ann
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