Kung hei fat choi! 恭喜發財! Happy new year! As we enter the Year of the Dragon in 2024, here’s a look back at how the Chinese community in the tin mining settlement of Thomas’ Plains (al...
Over the past few years, I’ve been contacted by a number of family historians who believe that their Chinese ancestor came from Shunde, Guangdong. While this is entirely possible, this post iss...
Video, transcript and slides of a talk on ‘Uncovering the stories of Chinese Australian families’, presented at Libraries Tasmania in Hobart on 8 August 2023 When I began researching the hist...
My life over the past 18 months has been radically shaped by the effects of long COVID. I never fully recovered following my initial COVID-19 infection in July 2022, which was followed by two sub...
Family history charts and worksheets can help you plan and organise your research process, and record and visualise the information you uncover about your ancestors. They can be used instead of, ...
In 1968 and 1969, Maisie Fook from Sydney had three ‘reader’s stories’ published in Australia’s best-read women’s magazine, the Australian Women’s Weekly. The first of these told the ...
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While visiting Canberra in January 2021, I looked (again) at a collection of Tasmanian naturalization certificates held in the National Archives of Australia in series A804. Here’s one of the s...
CONTENT WARNING: This blog post mentions suicide. Coohey Fue (c. 1875–1920) worked as a market gardener in Devonport in northern Tasmania. He died by suicide on 10 April 1920 (Advocate, 12 Apri...
Earlier this year I was commissioned by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) to compile a bibliography on Tasmania’s Chinese history and heritage. The bibliography is intended as a tool ...
Note: Terms used in the following population tables reflect the original historical sources and are considered offensive today. Chinese population of Tasmania, 1881–1947 1881 1891 1901 19...