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Jemmy ( Jimmy ) Ah Foo

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Jemmy ( Jimmy ) Ah Foo

Posted: 16 Mar 2012 6:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Jimmy Ah Foo was born abt. 1843 in Canton China.We don't know the year he migrated to Australia or what village in Canton he came from. He married Evelina Vessey ( born in Lincolnshire) in Rockhamton, Queensland, Australia in 1866. He owned a boarding house in Springsure at that time ( he was abt. 23 years of age)and went on to own several hotels and other businesses and became a Chinese Australian Pioneer of Outback and Far North Queensland. Jimmy and Evelina had 13 children who were all musical. I would love to find out what village Jimmy came from in Canton, and what year he migrated, his marriage certificate states his parents were shop keepers.
We have a friend who is trying to find out Jimmy's real name from several signatures in Chinese Characters from signed documents.
If Jimmy came to Australia before 1866 would he have come through Hong Kong and if so are there records? Would those records then tell us what Village he came from?
Jimmy never went back to China ( his wish was to be buried in Longreach, QLD, Australia).Maybe because he married an English girl. They were buried in the same grave.

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