- Alternative Names
- Le Wah family (also used)
- Lee family (also used)
- Lee Wah family (also used)
Details
James Lee Wah (1832-1909) arrived in Australia c1856. He married Mary Victoria Hubbar in 1878 Together they had seven children: Samuel Robert (1878- ?), Maud Christina Amy (1881 - ?), Alice Percilia (or Perilia) Lavina (1883- ?), Albert John Henry (1887-1892-3), James Emmanuel Victor (1889-?), Violet Anna Victoria (1892-?), Alfred John Edward (1895-196?).
The family is believed to have been brought up in house owned by James Lee Wah on the edge of the Ironbark camp in Sandhurst (Bendigo) and maybe for a short period in a church owned house in Maryborough. They also may have lived in a house owned by James Lee Wah in Tuaggra St, Maryborough.
Sources used to compile this entry: Lee, Chris, 'Unfolding the silence: James Lee Wah (1832-1909) Chinese goldfields miner and Anglican missionary', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2005, pp. 17-30.
Prepared by: Chris Lee, independent researcher
Related Subjects
Family member
Archival Collections
C. Lee (private hands)
- Lee Wah family collection; C. Lee (private hands). Details
Published Resources
Book Sections
- Lee, Chris, 'Unfolding the silence: James Lee Wah (1832-1909) Chinese goldfields miner and Anglican missionary', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), Asian Studies, La Trobe University, 2005, pp. 17-30. Details
Images
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- Alfred John Edward Lee
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- Photograph
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- Australia - Victoria - Maryborough
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- Believed to be Melva Lord, granddaughter of James Lee Wah
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1908 - c. 1909
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Maryborough
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- James Emanuel Victor and Violet Isobel Lee with two of their children
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1915 - c. 1920
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Maryborough
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- James Emmanuel Victor Lee and Violet Isabel Lee (nee Rodwell) with four of their nine children
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- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Victoria
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- Wedding photograph of Violet Ah Gee (nee Lee Wah) with husband and descendants of James and Mary Victoria Lee Wah
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1915
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Maryborough?
- Details
Created: 5 December 2003, Last modified: 21 September 2005
