Zengcheng People - Are you from Sun Gai Village?

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Zengcheng People - Are you from Sun Gai Village?
Apr 25, 2007 04:29
KIWICHINESE Points: Join Date: Apr 25, 2007 Status: offline	Are you from the village called "New Street"? I am looking for someone who can help me trace the families of 2 men from that village - buried in New Zealand. One man was age 40 when he passed away in 1918. The other is buried 26 miles away, but I have no idea when he passed away. He was still alive in 1913 though. Both have the surname Chan, and they are from Sun Gai Village.

Apr 25, 2007 04:53	#1
BETHANYBETHANY Points: Join Date: Aug 9, 2006 Status: Offline	Oh, almost one century ago!! Where is the village? In which province? Or any more information?

Apr 25, 2007 04:57	#2
TRAVELDREAM Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Is it Sun Guai Village in Shishou, Hubei?

Apr 25, 2007 05:01	#3
KIWICHINESE Points: Join Date: Apr 25, 2007 Status: Offline	The villages are along the railway line between Hong Kong and Kwangchow - The Pearl River Delta. Yes it is almost 100 years ago - but there are 2 lonely graves in my old home town area... Surely their descendants would want to know where they are? Maybe people will know it by Xinjie - near Xintang.

Apr 25, 2007 09:35	#4
JABAROOTOO Points: Join Date: Jul 4, 2005 Status: Offline	Good luck with your search. It would be interesting to discover what the men were doing and why they left home in the first place.

Apr 25, 2007 15:20

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They would have come to Gum Sarn (Gold Mountain) in the gold rush years, and not having made money, would have travelled to Taranaki to work with kinsmen in the market gardens or fruitshops. The Chinese were sojourners, and they would have planned to go back home once they had made their money. But the 40 year old must have died prematurely, and his family would never have known where he was. i would really like to let their village know of his final resting place. I can only assume their kinsmen buried both of them.

May 10, 2007 05:56	#6
KIWICHINESE Points: Join Date: Apr 25, 2007 Status: Offline	I still have no clues as to who these men are. Is there someone from Sun Gai village. Xinjie - near Xintang.

May 13, 2007 21:00	#7
LIZXLI Points: Join Date: Feb 21, 2007 Status: Offline	Xintang?I am familar with this small town. As for Sun Gai village Xinjie,doesn't it belong to HK? No idea yet.

Jun 10, 2007 04:36	#8
KIWICHINESE Points: Join Date: Apr 25, 2007 Status: Offline	Hi Liz - Do you know where I can email the 2 headstones to? maybe a newspaper?

Jul 7, 2007 01:21	#9
KIWICHINESE Points: Join Date: Apr 25, 2007 Status: Offline	I still haven't had any luck in locating anyone to help.

Jul 8, 2007 20:07	#10
TRAVELDREAM Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Sorry for you! Wish you good luck!

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