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Fong, Shu Ack

Alternative Names
  • Fong, Nellie (school name)
  • Fong, Shu Ack Chan (also used)
Summary

Shu Ack Fong married Slit Schin (Thomas). They took over Thomas' father's Pine Creek garden in 1933. Shu Ack was the daughter of a Cavenagh Street tailor. After the bombing of Katherine in March 1942 when she was seven months pregnant with her fifth child she was evacuated south. She returned to Pine Creek the following year and the couple lived their till 1949 when their older children began high school.

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Archival Collections

Northern Territory Library

  • Shu Ack Fong collection, c. 1942 - c. 1948, 0497; Northern Territory Library. Details

Published Resources

Book Sections

  • Giese, Diana, ''Where others failed, the Chinese succeeded': Collecting and re-evaluating the history of the Chinese in the context of top end Northern Territory history', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 261-273. Details

Journal Articles

  • Rees, Mary, 'Nellie (Shu Ack Chan) Fong', Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 6, 1995, pp. 45-51. Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Giese, Diana, ''Where others failed, the Chinese succeeded': Collecting and re-evaluating the history of the Chinese in the context of top end Northern Territory history', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 261-273.

Created: 23 June 2006