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Wong Hee, Charles

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    The wedding of Tutoy Chinn and Charles Wong Hee, Launceston, 28.9.1904., 28 September 1904
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public servant and fruit merchant
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Charles Wong Hee (ca 1873 - ?) married Tutoy Chinn in Launceston, in 1904. She was 16, he was 31. They had five sons, Norman, Keith, Reginald, Frank and Cedric, and two daughters, Thelma (later Thelma Cremin), and Judith. Charles and Tutoy moved to Melbourne around 1915. At first Charles worked for the Department of Lands and Territories. Later, in the mid-1920s, Charles set up the Wong Hee fruit wholesaling business in Little Bourke Street.

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Title
Wedding portrait of Tutoy Chinn and Charles Wong Hee
Type
Photograph
Date
28 September 1904
Place
Australia - Tasmania - Launceston
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