- Born
- c. 1906
Australia - Occupation
- actor and fruit merchant
- Alternative Names
- Chinn, Tom (also used)
- Chinn, Tommy (also used)
- Chinn, Vance (also used)
- Ma Tung Gow (also used)
- Summary
Vance 'Tom' (Tung Gow) Chinn (6th son of Maa Mon Chinn and Loola Kow You) took part in musical comedy in Melbourne. When the family came to Melbourne in the 1910s, Vance and his four elder brothers set up the Chinn Brothers wholesale fruit and vegetable business. The Chinn's house, at 104-106 Little Bourke Street, was directly behind Her Majesty's Theatre. In the 1950s Vance married a woman called Rose.
Related Subjects
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Sibling
Images
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- Title
- Lula Kow Yonn and her younger children
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1913
- Place
- Australia - Tasmania
- Details
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- Title
- Members of the Chinn family
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1903
- Place
- Australia - Tasmania - Weldborough
- Details
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- Title
- Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn and friends in Melbourne
- Type
- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn dressed as a manservant outside Her Majesty's Theatre
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1920s - 1930s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn dressed as a soldier beside Her Majesty's Theatre
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1920s - 1930s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
- Details
See also
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- Title
- Friends of Vance (Tung Gow) Chinn
- Type
- Photograph
- Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Museum of Chinese Australian History collection.
Created: 16 March 2003, Last modified: 15 October 2011
