Lung Hing Village and Du clan in Taishan

[mitrophan]

 I'm trying to identify the ancestral village of my late great uncle whose paper name is Chin 陳, but real surname is Doo 杜 


In one of the NARA interrogation files it gave names to nearby villages: 

Q: What are the nearby villages to that village?

A: SUEY TEN VILLAGE, about half a li east; SUEY BEN VILLAGE, two lis. north; 
    GOCK YON HOW VILLAGE, one li west; UNG WAH VILLAGE, about one li south.

I searched for Lung Hing at Village DB: Search and it came back with multiple search results but not sure which one is the right one:


Searching for villages whose name begins with “lung hing”.


# County Area Heung Village

1

台山 / Toishan

1　

永康鄉 / Wing Hong Heung

龍慶 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

2 龍興 / Lung Hing (劉 / Lau)

3 西南鄉 / Sai Nam Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (余 / Yee)

4 石化鄉 / Shek Fa Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (黃 / Wong)

5 五十鄉 / Ng Sup Heung 龍慶 / Lung Hing (伍 / Ng)

6 白水鄉 / Pak Sui Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (譚 / Hom)

7 東坑鄉 / Tung Hang Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

8 溫泉鄉 / Wan Chuen Heung 龍慶 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

9

2　

斗洞鄉 / Tau Tung Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (伍 / Ng)

10 塘面鄉 / Tong Min Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (雷 / Louie)

11

水樓鄉 / Sui Lau Heung

aka 隴海鄉 / Lung Hoi Heung

龍慶 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

12 龍慶 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

13 3　 六村鄉 / Luk Chuen Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (陳 / Chan)

14

4　

荻海 / Dik Hoi

龍興 / Lung Hing (余 / Yee)

15 龍興 / Lung Hing (余 / Yee)

16 密逕泮鄉 / Mut King Poon Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (李 / Lee)

17 6　 潮境鄉 / Chiu King Heung 龍興 / Lung Hing (黃 / Wong)

18

7　

三合鄉 / Sam Hop Heung

龍興 / Lung Hing (陳,余 / Chan, Yee)

19 龍興 / Lung Hing (馬 / Ma)

20 10　 小江鄉 / Siu Kong Heung 龍慶 / Lung Hing (吳 / Ng)

21

開平 / Hoiping

2　 人和鄉 / Yan Wo Heung

aka 魁岡 / Fui Kong 龍慶里 / Lung Hing Lay (譚 / Tam)

22 3　 蜆崗鄉 / Hin Kong Heung 龍興里 / Lung Hing Lay (黃 / Wong)

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[gckimm]

Hi:

May I ask if the interrogation file for your great uncle refers to his "paper" village or to his actual village? If your great uncle came to the U.S. as the relative of someone with the surname of Chin, perhaps the information he gave was in regard to the false identity. In that case, the villages named in the transcript would not necessarily be close to his actual village.

Is Lung Hing his actual village or the village of the person surnamed Chin whose identity he used? I did find in the Village DB a Lung Hing 龍興 Village in Area 3 of Toishan, Luk Chuen Heung 六村鄉 , but this is a Chan/Chin village.

Greg

[mitrophan]

Hi Greg,



I asked another great aunt who was his brother-in-law and she says his real ancestral village is Lung Hing so I assume the paper ancestral village for surname Chin is also his actual ancestral village, but she wasn't sure the Chinese characters to Lung Hing village. I couldn't find surname Doo in the Village DB. 


-Nelson

[Henry]

mitrohan,

Ask your great aunt for the name of the nearest larger market town where they did most of the shopping from Lung Hing village. If she can write the name of this market town - this would be useful.

Henry

[mitrophan]

Henry,

Actually the NARA file has these excerpted statements:

Q: What is the nearest market to your village?

A: SHUNG JOCK MARKET, about a half a li northeast of my village.

Q: How far and in which direction is SING MOO MARKET from your village?

A: Two lis. north.

[jasonwu]

Hi all,

It seems that there is a 龍興 Lung Hing (Longxing) Village located right to the west of 上澤 Sheung Chak (Shangze) Market and south of 成務 Sing Mo (Chengwu) Market. Please see the annotated Tianditu Map and the pinpointed Google Satellite Map below (click here for the link to the location of Lung Hing in Google Maps).

For reference, in the VDB, Sheung Chak is mainly comprised of 陳 Chan villages while Sing Mo is mainly comprised of 伍 Ng villages. Lung Hing does not seem to be found in the VDB; the circa 1960 index from which the VDB is based did not record every single village in Toishan and had some inaccuracies as well. The family name 杜 is phoneticized as "'To" in the VDB - there are only 3 To villages recorded, all found in the neighbouring 恩平 Yanping (Enping) County.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Jason

[mitrophan]

Thanks Jason! this is indeed helpful.