- Died
- 1942
Tasmania, Australia - Alternative Names
- Ah Poo (also used)
- Bow, Bill (also used)
- Bow, Billy (also used)
- Summary
Billy Bow is reported as being one of the last two miners on the Blue Tier, Tasmania. He was remembered as 'Mongolian' rather than Chinese. He died at St Mary's hospital in 1942 after falling in his fire.
Related Subjects
Published Resources
Books
- Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997. Details
Reports
- Vivian, Helen, Tasmania's Chinese heritage: An historical record of Chinese sites in North Eastern Tasmania, Unpublished report for Australian Heritage Comission and the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, 1985. Details
Images
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- Title
- Billy Bow standing outside his hut on the Blue Tier
- Type
- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Tasmania - Blue Tier
- Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Scott, Joan, Celestial Sojourn: The Chinese on the Tinfields of North East Tasmania, St Helens History Room Association, St Helens, 1997; Vivian, Helen, Tasmania's Chinese heritage: An historical record of Chinese sites in North Eastern Tasmania, Unpublished report for Australian Heritage Comission and the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, 1985.
Created: 1 June 2006, Last modified: 19 June 2006
