- Summary
The name of Louey Ah Mouy's first wife is not known but they had three children: Alice and James who were both deceased by 1869 and Emily who was sixteen in 1877 and so born c.1861. Louey Ah Mouy and his second wife, Ung (nee Chuck), had three children: Mee How, Kum, Fon. Victorian Births, Deaths and Mariages list five children (Chee How, Enah, Fon How, Kwong and Ling) all registered in the same year. Kwong How (male) was born on 4 April 1869 at Napier Street, Melbourne. Enah (female) was born 5 July 1873 at 348 Albert Road, South Melbourne. Chee How (male) was born 7 September 1877 at 322 Albert Road, South Melbourne.
Mee How married Monica Kung and they one child: Stanley. When Enah married Henry Joseph Chawkley on 9 December 1908 she was described as Enah Pinkey, widow.
Related Subjects
Family member
Member
Archival Collections
B. Chawkley (private collection)
- Baden Chawkley; B. Chawkley (private collection). Details
Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History)
- Ah Mouy family collection, AM; Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History). Details
Published Resources
Books
- Cronin, Kathryn, Colonial Casualties: Chinese in Early Victoria, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982. Details
- Loh, Morag, Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese in Victoria 1848-1985, Victorian Government China Advisory Committee, Melbourne, 1985. Details
- Yong, C.F., New Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Australia 1901-1920, Raphael Arts, South Australia, 1977. Details
Online Resources
- Yong, Ching Fatt, Ah Mouy, Louis (1826-1918), Australian Dictionary of Biography, D. Pike, vol. 3, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969, 19-20 pp, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030019b.htm. Details
See also
- 'Mr L. Ah Mouy Dead: First Chinese in Victoria', Sun (Melbourne), 1918. Details
- 'Victoria's First Chinese: Store of the gold fever: One letter brings 37,000 immigrants', Richmond Guardian, 18 May. Details
- 'A veteran Chinese: Death at Middle Park', Herald (Melbourne), 30 April. Details
Images
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- Chinese Progress Association 2nd Annual Ball
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- Photograph
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- 26 November 1924
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Construction of Denyer's Building Swanston St, Melbourne with Ah Mouy Bros building next door
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- Photograph
- Date
- 14 May 1914
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Swanston Street
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- Construction of Denyer's Building Swanston St, Melbourne with Ah Mouy Bros building next door 2
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1914
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Swanston Street
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- Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn (3rd from right?) and friends by a car at a picnic in Melbourne
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1920s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Frank (Tung Foo) Chinn (with flowers, possibly second from left) and friends at a picnic in Melbourne.
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- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Monica Kung seated in cane chair
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- Photograph
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- Stanley Ah Mouy reading book
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- Photograph
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Sources used to compile this entry: NAA, B13, 1923/15625; Museum of Chinese Australian History collection; Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Created: 15 April 2005, Last modified: 30 July 2008
