David...I went to school with a girl by the name of HSU in Euclid, OH. I believe that her father was a Physician in Cleveland, OH. David Weatherill wrote: > Hi Folks; > > I am trying to gain any information on the following. What information I > have is listed below. > > NAME: HSU, Mary. > BORN: 22 December, 1932 > Shanghai, China. > PARENTS: HSU Yu Pai (Father) > SHU Lo Sun Ying (Mother) > It is believed that both parents passed away in China, > sometime between 1950 and 1952. > > Mary HSU arrived in Sydney, Australia, from Hong Kong after leaving China in > 1952. She arrived in Australia, initially Sydney and then came to Melbourne, > Victoria on the ship, "TAIYUAN", arriving on the 4th April, 1957. > > Mary HSU became a naturalised Australian citizen on the 17th April, 1968. > > She did not marry and was a nursing aide in a Melbourne Hospital. > > It is believed she had a Godfather - James A. HUANG, who went to live in > Berkeley, California, U.S.A. It is also thought that a some of her relatives > migrated to the USA from Hong Kong. > > I would appreciate help with: > > * How to get a copy of Mary HSU's birth record? > * How to get copies or any further information of her parents' death > records.? > * How to find out if she had any other brothers and sisters? > * Any information on the family, especially if any still in China, or those > who went to the U.S.A.? > > NOTE: For anyone who is interested, I have a copy of the passenger list of > the TAIYUAN. The ship went from Japan to Hong Kong to Manilla and then > Australia. There were 18 passengers on the ship. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Kindest regards, > > David > ******************************************** > David W.Weatherill dww@statetrustees.com.au > Genealogical Services, > State Trustees, > GPO Box 2462V, > Melbourne Victoria 3001 Australia > Phone: Int+61-3-9667-6340 > Fax: Int+61-3-9667-6776 > ******************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > us immediately by return email and delete the document. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept > for the presence of computer viruses. > > State Trustees Limited > www.statetrustees.com.au > **********************************************************************

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=232 Surname: ------------------------- How do you pronounce the name "Uy"? In Singapore and Malaysia, if you are Hakka it is written as "Ooi" or "Oei" or "Wee", pronounced something like "oooeee". In Hokkien it is "Ng". They all mean Huang in mandarin or yellow. So do you pronounce "Wei" and "Uy" almost like "oooeee"? So how it is transliterated depends on the dialect the person is speaking even though it is the same Chinese character.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=231 Surname: ------------------------- Saw your same posting on Ron Young's website. I have checked the shipping lists for Victoria and it confirms your information and not much more. While checking through the listings for other years I noticed that a lot of names given under surnames may not necessarily be surnames. The name "Ah Kew" could be his given name due to a common practice by the Chinese of adding the prefix "Ah" in front of it. Kew in this instance (based on Siyi dialect) may mean "globe or ball" which is quite a common given name for males or it could be a surname too. For more information about the use of "Ah" go to www.chineseroots.com and select the English site. When you say Canton do you mean the city (Guangzhou)? The province is Guangdong and is very often mistakenly assumed to be transliterated as Canton.

On 26 Jul 2000, at 17:32, Dores Jay-Pang wrote with great flare and wits: > <snip> Some > information I have: Woo Kee Jay Pang or Pang Jay Tack Ghong Tailon 5052 > Queen's Road Central Hong Kong. I do not know what this means. HELP If you > need more questions, please write. Thanks a million Dores > Looks like an address to me. Could Tailon be misspelled? Could it be Tailor? Which would made it a tailor shop in the heart of Hong Kong. HTH Kevin Lee http://www.geocities.com/u_got_jokes ICQ: 41912308 __________________________________________________________ Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. -- Sidney J. Harris

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=230 Surname: ------------------------- Do you have names of other villages in the same groups of people? Maybe by association one can come up with an approximate location.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=229 Surname: PANG, JAY ------------------------- Please help me find any links to my ancestors. I know little. They were two-three brothers who emigrated to USA, Colombia (San Andres Island) and Panama each. I'm in the 40's so I beleive they left Shangai or Canton in the 1800's I know or believe that their mother was from Canton. Some information I have: Woo Kee Jay Pang or Pang Jay Tack Ghong Tailon 5052 Queen's Road Central Hong Kong. I do not know what this means. HELP If you need more questions, please write. Thanks a million Dores

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=227 Surname: PANG, JAY ------------------------- Please help me find any links to my ancestors. I know little. They were two-three brothers who emigrated to USA, Colombia (San Andres Island) and Panama each. I'm in the 40's so I beleive they left Shangai or Canton in the 1800's I know or believe that their mother was from Canton. If you need more questions, please write. Thanks a million Dores

On 26 Jul 2000, at 11:47, Trev Sue-A-Quan wrote with great flare and wits: > Posted on: General China Query Forum > Board URL: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=226 > > Surname: > ------------------------- > > Dear web readers: > > During the period 1853 to 1879 there were 13,541 Chinese who were taken to > work as indentured labourers on the sugar cane plantations of British > Guiana (now Guyana). Several of them are shown to have come from the > village of Kwee Sin, which is the way the Chinese sound was written in > English. Spelling variations of the name also appear as Kwee Sen, Kwee Sum, > Kwee Sun, Kwee Sing, Kwei Sin, Kwai Sin, etc. It is possible that the > letter "K" was used to depict the sound "G" so that the Chinese > pronunciation may be closer to Gwee Sin, Guai Sen etc. Most of the people > from this village departed on boats leaving from Hong Kong and a lesser > number were on boats leaving from Canton so this suggests that the village > may be closer to Hong Kong than Canton. As yet I am unable to locate this > village and suspect that the name may have been changed since the 1870s. > Any information about this village would be welcome. > Trev, I think the village you are looking for may actually be Canton or Kwangzhou. The city is on the bank of the Pearl River so the city is sometimes referred to as the Pearl City. Pearl in Chinese is gee and city is sing. Kwangzhou is also known as Wei Sing and Yeung (goat) Sing. Since most villages were and still are inhabited by people from the same family thus they all have the same surname. If the people in question don't have a common surname than most likely they wouldn't be from a village but a city or town. Another possibility is these people may not actually be from "Kwei Sin" but from that general area. An example would be a resident of Queens when asked will most likely give New York as the hometown. Hope I'm not mudding the water further for you. Kevin Lee http://www.geocities.com/u_got_jokes ICQ: 41912308 __________________________________________________________ If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. -- Turkish Proverb

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=226 Surname: ------------------------- Dear web readers: During the period 1853 to 1879 there were 13,541 Chinese who were taken to work as indentured labourers on the sugar cane plantations of British Guiana (now Guyana). Several of them are shown to have come from the village of Kwee Sin, which is the way the Chinese sound was written in English. Spelling variations of the name also appear as Kwee Sen, Kwee Sum, Kwee Sun, Kwee Sing, Kwei Sin, Kwai Sin, etc. It is possible that the letter "K" was used to depict the sound "G" so that the Chinese pronunciation may be closer to Gwee Sin, Guai Sen etc. Most of the people from this village departed on boats leaving from Hong Kong and a lesser number were on boats leaving from Canton so this suggests that the village may be closer to Hong Kong than Canton. As yet I am unable to locate this village and suspect that the name may have been changed since the 1870s. Any information about this village would be welcome. More information about the Chinese indentured immigrants to Guyana can be obtained at the website http:\\CGRoots.tripod.com

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=225 Surname: ------------------------- Based on the name order of your gf's and ggf's names, Lee would be the surname and the others are personal names. Similarly Wong would be your ggm's surname. I believe in Hawai'i they normally kept the order of Chinese names where the first nmae is the surname.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=224 Surname: Lee, Wong, Soi ------------------------- I am currently searching for any information on my grandfather Lee Lin Soi born in Maui,HI on 10 Jan 1899. His parents names are listed on his death certificate as Lee Tim How (Akehow) and Wong Kow (Kewo)and I'm not sure which is the surname and which is the given name. Lee Lin Soi left Hawaii and came to the United States in the early 1900's but I have no further info on his immigration, his parents, or his siblings (family members say he had a brother?). Any help to interpret the names or info on the families will be greatly appreciated.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=223 Surname: Hom ------------------------- Trying to trace family back to China

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=222 Surname: SIN, and, SON ------------------------- Hello, I found on a record of 1867, the surnames of my chinese ancestors.it was writen (may be with french accent and phonetic) Mr SIN IOT SON and Mrs SON NE LON; if someone could help me to know if these names exist in chinese language, and what part of these names are surnames and first name. I am completly loose with these chinese names.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=221 Surname: ------------------------- There is a village called Na Chow (Na Zhou) in Zhongshan County (previously Heung San)

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=219 Surname: ------------------------- I thought you said your ggf Fu Pan was from Amoy according to your post in Ron Young's Home Page?

On 20 Jul 2000, at 7:44, SERAFIN P. BARRETTO JR. wrote with great flare and wits: > Posted on: General China Query Forum > Board URL: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=218 > > Surname: Huang, Uy, Ng > ------------------------- > > Thank you very much to Nathan. Huang will be my new lead in tracing my > relatives > You should look into two other variations, Wong and Wang. BTW, Huang, Wong and/or Wang is one of the 4 most common surname in China. The 4 surnames combined account for a quarter of China's population. Kevin Lee http://www.geocities.com/u_got_jokes ICQ: 41912308 __________________________________________________________ Turnover is good for the company, as it proves that we are doing a good job in training people.

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=218 Surname: Huang, Uy, Ng ------------------------- Thank you very much to Nathan. Huang will be my new lead in tracing my relatives

Posted on: General China Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=217 Surname: Ng ------------------------- update of email address: ngt@phonewave.net

Nathan Could you give me an idea where the name Hang Hein would have originated,all i know about my GG/Father is that he married in Maryborough,Q'Land in 1866 and his M/C stated he was born Amoy but i believe Amoy and Hong Kong were the ports Chinese came through in that era,any idea's that might help. Garth ----- Original Message ----- From: nathan <nathan@888.nu> To: <CHINA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:53 AM Subject: [CHINA] Tartar > Posted on: General China Query Forum > Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=216 >

Hi Natan Please forgive my ignorance, but I am new to this list and I see your name popping up here and there. Are you able to help me with a query re my ancestor whose name was Ling Ting. from somewhere in Canton. He went to Australia I think on a vessel called the Pleadies? and he married an Irish lass there. He was known as William Ling Ting, Lea Leen ting, William Lington. It is so confusing, but that's about all I have to go on, apart from his marriage cert. Kind regards Jan Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: nathan <nathan@888.nu> To: <CHINA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 9:53 AM Subject: [CHINA] Tartar > Posted on: General China Query Forum > Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/China/General?read=216 > > Surname: > ------------------------- > It is less likely, but possible, that he came form inner Mongolia,