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.