Yee - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Yee Family in Singapore, Asia

raphyee — 2009-09-27 07:33:40Z

Hi!! I'm Raphael Yee from Singapore and I also hav a fren called Michael Yee. Our dialect is cantonese and our ancestors were frm Siglap, Canton, China. I researched and tis researcher told me tat my family originated frm Mongolia!! Pls talk to me!!

Re: Yee Git/Tom Yee

kyfcbc — 2009-08-04 23:03:59Z

Hi,

My Dad came from that same village and so some of your info is correct. The Toms were near by and so my family "purchased" their US papers to come over, with my Dad being Sam Tom, when he arrived. I do know that they tended to end up in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, and of course, San Francisco.

Good luck on your search.

Ken

Re: Yee Family in Hawaii

audqyee — 2008-11-26 05:28:05Z

I'm another Yee that was formerly living in the Philippines. I just recently migrated to Arizona on 2006.

My grandfather was Yee Hong Pan. He was a native of Macau, a city in China that was formerly under Portuguese control, as Hong Kong is to Britain. I don't know when he was born but I do know that he spoke Cantonese, just like any other people living in Macau. His father was Yee Wing Pao, and his mother was Chan Park To. My grandfather migrated to the Philippines because of Communism as I was told (but I don't really know). He also left his first family in Macau when he left for the Philippines. He had his second family in the Philippines and he revisited Macau for his first family. So, the first and second family met in Macau. The first family was pure Chinese who don't know how to speak English, the second family was an educated Filipino-Chinese, including my father. I'm part of the third generation starting from Yee Hong Pan. My father was Yee Wei Won. My grandfather was a successful businessman in the Philippines. My grandfather died on 1991, and his business was closed on 2006, the year when we migrated since my father was the one running the business.

I know it's long, but it's just a summary. I'm hoping that this would give you a lead. Your Yee family name may have started in Macau or any place nearby since hs spoke Cantonese, and my grandfather spoke Cantonese. There's a chance we may be a distant relative. GOOD LUCK!!

Re: Yee Family in Hawaii

audqyee — 2008-11-26 05:23:29Z

YEE Hay Koon 1927-2001

t42Moore — 2008-10-18 21:09:28Z

YEE Hay Koon 1927-2001

I photographed this gravestone in the Moore Cemetery, Arlington,Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records.

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YEE Delores Jean 1947-1976

t42Moore — 2008-10-18 21:09:02Z

YEE Delores Jean 1947-1976

I photographed this gravestone in the Moore Cemetery, Arlington,Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records.

This is one of the 196,391 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here.

Researcher looking for records/artifacts related to Detroit Chinatown

detroitchinatown — 2007-11-30 00:58:30Z

To the relative of Yee Jock Leong:

In searching the internet for information on the On Leong Merchants Association of historic Detroit Chinatown, I stumbled upon your website. I am in awe to find that your relative has listed several merchant venues or business ventures in his address book that were located in the core region where chinatown was situated. Do you know your relative's relationship with the places listed in his address book? Did he shop there or did he do business?

I wish to know more about your relative and his history in the Detroit area (if any). I was hoping to contact you on this thread since there is no contact information on your website. My name is Chelsea Zuzindlak. I am a student at Wayne State University and researcher in the Detroit area. I will be compiling archived information and documents that uncover the history of a fairly ignored demographic in the Detroit area. At the end of my research, Friends of Detroit Chinatown in partnership members from other APA community groups, such as the Detroit Asian Youth Project will show an exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum in 2009.

If you are interested, I would like to forward you some information about the exhibit as well.

Best,

Chelsea

Re: yee jock leong

AbyssWriter — 2007-09-29 01:24:43Z

Possibly

Re: yee jock leong

2006-06-15 09:03:58Z

http://fuzzo.com/genealogy/YeeJockLeong/YeeJockLeongbooks.ht...

Do you think that the owner of the book was actually a person who remitted money back to kinsmen in China - looks like the Chinese characters are the equivalent of the English name

Re: YEE, Chong (1838 China) m. Martha Bryant (1851/5 Al)

pw618 — 2006-03-19 03:05:12Z

The death certificate for Martha Yee:

born: 15 Aug 1848 Texas (actually Alabama)
died 7 May 1934
Burial: San Mateo Chinese Cemetery
Husband- Chung Yat Yee
Father - James Bryant
Mother - Febe Sanders

Martha Bryant Yee's family is in Jackson Co. Alabama since before 1850.

The son who went to China to marry, came back to America and lived in Fresno, Ca. His name was Dewey Wo Yee, wife was Gee Shee. They had children: Paul Yee, born abt 1900; Bequie Yee, b.1907 and Kim Q Yee b. 1917

Would like to contact members of this family. We don't have the death dates or info after this.

Chong Yee - Hayward, Alameda, Ca. - news story

pw618 — 2006-02-16 19:56:18Z

YEE, Chong (1838 China) m. Martha Bryant (1851/5 Al)

pw618 — 2005-11-30 08:23:45Z

1900 San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Yee, Chong Yut June 1838 62 China-china-China (m age 23) 41 yrs in US, alien 1859 laundryman
Martha August 1855 44 Al-Al-Al (7 children 6 living) (m age 23)
Geo? April 1884 16 Illinois
Gook (m) Dec 1886 13 Illinois
B'Gon (f) May 1893 7 Illinois
Melon' (f) Nov 1897 2 Californa

1930 Alameda, Alameda, California
Martha B. Yee 79 Tx-Tx-Al
Paul, grandson, Chinese Ca-Ca-Tx Cook age 20

Lo Pak Shan (Lo Bak San) My Dad's Toishan Village

2005-07-16 02:09:49Z

My Dad came with his father from Lo Pak Shan, to Pittsburgh, PA in 1929. Lo Pak Shan was in the Dik Hoi / Tit Ku Hueng area. My Dad passed away in 2003. He left me a map around where he thought it was. Lo Pak Shan means "Old White Mountain".

My question is - are anyone's else's ancestors from Lo Pack Shan and have they ever been there? I'd be interested in knowing what it's like there and how difficult it is to get there. Thanks for any help and I'd be interested in corresponding with other Yee / Yus.

Yee Family in Hawaii

2005-03-13 23:25:21Z

I'm another Yee trying to find out about my Yee ancestry. rom what I've heard in my family, My grandfather was born in March 1903 in Hawaii as Nee Fong Yee and he later changed his name to Francis Yee. I have heard that he went to school at least a part of the time in Shanghai, and that his Family was from the southern Cantonese region of China. I'm not sure how much of this is true but any leads would be helpful. Thanks

Re: Yee Family from Canton Province

coinconnoisseur — 2005-02-28 03:28:56Z

I am part of the Yee family in San Francisco. My grandfather Wong Sun Quong immigrated here in 1928 through Angel Island. He married Yee Suey-Yeong (1918-1993) in China in 1937. Her parents were Yee Bing-Wu and Yee Ng. Her brother Yee-Win-Lai (1899-1974) emigrated to Calgary from China. We are from the "Foot Ho" village in China.

yee jock leong

marywilkey — 2005-02-01 21:24:17Z

regarding your search for address found in book refer to pages containing the address for Curver Mfg Co. I have a round tin photo plate of a family member that was made by this manufacturing company. I believe this to be approximately 75 to 100 years old. Do you have any information about the company? A phone number would be appreciated.

Re: Massachusetts Yees/Lees

2004-12-30 02:56:42Z

Hi Melissa! My name is Christine Lee and I'm from the Boston area. My surname is also supposed to be Yee.....so contact me if you have any questions! Take care....

Re: LotusBlossom and Atom (Adam) Lee

2004-11-27 08:07:37Z

Hello Garry,
Just located your query dated 31 May 2000. How are you doing?
Best regards,
-Atom

Re: Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

2003-11-13 17:09:40Z

The Oakland Carnegie Library is the one I'm talking about. . . which has undergone many renovations over the last couple years (at least the museum has - my favourite place as a kid too). They do have a website unfortunately I don't have the URL as I stumbled on it while looking up something completely unrelated.

m

Re: Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

2003-11-11 22:17:58Z

No sorry. Different family I think. My dad's name is Wing. My mother was Patricia Dougherty. My uncles and aunts are Quon, Olga, Helen, William, John and James. All except Willie are still in Pittsburgh. Olga's husband, Robert, is also surnamed Yee and I think is from Pittsburgh as well. Robert's sister is Anna and she married into the Ung family. As I said, none of them are particularly forthcoming about family history. Have you tried the genealogy department at Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh? I hear it's good but I haven't had a chance to spend time there on any of my visits back. I will pass on your message to my brother Mike who still lives in Pittsburgh and is the source of some of my information. He's not terribly reliable when it comes to responding quickly to such queries however. It may take a while and I make no promises. I vaguely remember the name Yap Yee from somewhere who possibly lived over on the South Side of Pittsburgh - this is a distant childhood memory from the 60's so I could likely have the location wrong and I haven't lived in Pittsburgh for 23 years.

Anyway, good luck.

Re: Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

2003-11-10 20:56:44Z

Yee family goes back to Hong Kong

2003-09-03 19:23:11Z

My name is TaiAnna Yee and my family and I are going back to Hong Kong where my dad was born. We are going back in the Christmas time and I just wanted to let everyone know. If there are any things I should know before going back, please let me know

Re: Dick Hoy/Hoi village

2004-03-02 06:58:33Z

Sam Fou in Chinese means three cities. It is composed of three cities with Dick Hoy as one of the cities. The three cities straddled the Taishan/Kaiping (Hoi Sun/ Hoi Ping) border with Dick Hoy being part of Taishan. After the comminist takeover there was a redistribution and Dick Hoy became part of Kaiping. Sam Fou also became Kaiping's county capital. The name has changed also to Kaiping City.

Tom Lee

2002-09-08 01:19:09Z

My grandfather was associated with the On Leong back in the 1900's, but you listed Ohio and Florida in your address book. I am trying to get more information on him. We were from MN, but I did find that he had lived in New York.

Dick Hoy/Hoi village

2002-07-15 19:16:43Z

My grandfather,Alfred(Chinese name unknown), was also born in or came from the village Dick Hoy( translation given to me by an elderly cousin of my grandfather). The name/s I have been given are Sam Fou Dick Hoy. This may be the names of two neighbouring villages where most of the people were related in one way or another. He was born around 1900/`1901 and was an artist here in Sydney, Australia. He died at about 81 yrs old. Also related to the Ben Yee clan.
Interested to hear from Lisa.
Blessings.

Re: Yee Family from Canton Province

2002-07-15 18:57:15Z

Hello to all the Yee's out there! I am from an old Sydney, Australia branch of the Yee family. My grandfather was apparently born in China in a village called "Sam Fou Dick Hoy" and quite a few of his relatives both close and distant live here. His name was Alfred ( I don't know his Chinese name) and he was related to Claude and Arthur Yee and the Yee Ben clan. I believe he had a number of siblings and that at least one of them lived in San Francisco. When I have more concise info I will update.
Blessings.

Yee Git/Tom Yee

2002-05-03 22:06:02Z

My grandfather was born in the village of Dick Hoi in Toishan County (Canton, China). His chinese name was Yee Git and his American name was Tom Yee. I have a "restored" birth certificate from San Francisco (earthquake and fire) that says his fathery's name was Yee Chee and his mother's name was You Shee, but I don't know how dependable this was. It's very possible that my grandfather took advantage of the fire and earthquake to "acquire" citizenship. He was born approximately 1880 and came to the US 1905-1907. He had a wife and son in China but I have no idea what their names were. He eventually settled in Akron, Ohio and had a Chinese laundry there. He had friends in Pittsburgh, PA (I believe his name was Billy Yat or Yot, not sure of the spelling) and a man named Hing. Any information would be appreciated.

Re: Yee's from Canton

2001-12-11 21:16:11Z

My grandmother's name was Gee Shee. The family immigrated
to the US from Canton in 1938 - entering at the Port of Seattle.
They settled in Pittsburgh. I was recently told that my grandfather
had established himself in the US prior to bringing in the rest of
the family and that when he brought them over he also brought
various "paper sons" with him (which is the reason I've been
given for the reluctance of the older relatives to discuss the
immigration with me). I've just started to research the family
and have hit the "no good records of the maternal line" point
of researching a Chinese family. If you know anything about
my grandmother, I would love to hear it. She died several years
ago and my brother told me that while she was in the hospital,
the doctors discovered that she still had bound feet.

Re: Are there any Seattle Yees?

2001-10-26 05:43:31Z

Yes, plenty! There's a Yee Family Association in Seattle. Search for the website yeefungtoy.org and you'll find a website for the Seattle Yee Fung Toy Chapter. Good luck!

Yee, Henry Foo

2001-03-27 18:35:16Z

My grandfathers name was Henry Foo Yee, (he my anut raised me) Very little is known about him. What I've been told is He was born in New York, at six months old his father took him, (pos. left his wife because she was Unfaithful???) and made thier way to Calif., Santa Barbara, there's the possibility that they went into Canada where it's believed that they have family there, restruant?? possibly owned by a Lee Ying ??, his father died when he was 6 years old, he was then taken out of school and put to work in the laundry in Chinatown in Santa Barbara,

Yee

2001-03-27 18:28:32Z

looking for father

2000-10-26 15:22:48Z

I am looking for Loy Sun Yee that was married to Edna Cosimini in 1953 and lived in North Carolina.He served in Korea in 1954 and had two children Debbie and Gilbert..I would like him to know that he has 5 grandsons..any help would be wonderful

LotusBlossom and Atom (Adam) Lee

2000-05-31 07:40:24Z

Both raised in Albuquerque, NM in the 60's.
Please contact with information. Thank you.

Father

2000-05-16 16:03:27Z

Looking for info on Ngar or Nagar Yee from
El Paso, Texas. He died late 50's or early
60's

Re: Yee Family from Canton Province

2001-07-18 16:10:45Z

The area your father came from, Schlom Fou, is now part of Kaiping, no longer part of Taishan. The literal translation is "Tri-cities". It was on the border between Taishan and Kaiping. Officially it is now called "Kaiping City". There is a lot of Yee's from that area, especially Dickhoi.

HOY and BLOXSOM - PHILADELPHIA

LShort2223 — 2002-07-17 23:48:09Z

Fernwood Cemetery (Yeadon PA)
Thomas HOY - buried 1906
Mary F. Hoy - buried 1930, at age 66
Woodman BLOXSOM - buried 1906
Julia BLOXSOM - buried 1908
All in the same plot. Mary F. HOY is probably the
daughter of Woodman BLOXSOM.
Does anyone have any data to share?
Contact me at 112622@snip.net
Happy hunting,
Al

Mass. Yee's

smleon — 2004-05-08 04:48:39Z

Sorry, I don't know anything on the other Yees. I am looking for info on Joe Yee who moved with his wife from Pgh, Pa. to Brookline, MA. in the 70's. Later he moved up to Montreal to live with family, before passing away.

Re: Yee's from Canton

smleon — 2004-05-08 04:48:39Z

My grandmother, on my Dad's side, was also named Gee Shee. She was wife of Yap Yee from Lee Ben in Canton, China. My Dad was Joe Yee. He lived in Pittsburgh most of his life and lived the last part of it in Brookline, MA. Does any of this information correspond with your research?

Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

smleon — 2004-05-08 04:48:39Z

Does anyone have a current e-mail address for Mila Yee-Hafer?

Re: Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

smleon — 2004-05-08 04:48:39Z

Thanks so much for responding. Your grandmother's name caught my eye. My grandmother's name was Gee Shee and her husband was Yap Yee. One of their son's, Joe Yee, was my father. He and my mother, Julie McCulic, were married and divorced. I was raised in Pittsburgh by my mother. My father lived in Pittsburgh until the mid 70's and then went to Brookline, MA. He had another Chinese family, in Canada, I think. I met his Chinese wife, but do not remember her name. I think they had a son and a daughter. Any chance your brother's name is Wai Yam Yee?

Mark

Re: Looking for Mila Yee-Hafer

smleon — 2004-05-08 04:48:39Z

Once again, thank you Mila for taking the time to reply. I agree, it sounds like different families. I also do not go back to Pgh very much, but appreciate the tip about the Carnegie Library. The one in Oakland was a favorite hangout when I was a boy. Best of luck in your career and march towards retirement. You will still wonder where all of your time goes.

YEE grave found in Pittsburgh PA

Jan82942 — 2001-07-22 22:32:01Z

Found in the Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA, Allegheny County:

YEE SAKE WAH (no dates)

This was just a small tombstone I saw in the oldest division of the cemetery. Most of the stones in this area are of the 1800's. Most of the death dates were around 1885. I saw none that were later than 1909.
I have no other information as this is not my line.

Re: yee jock leong

dml2s — 2002-02-23 15:05:15Z

Sorry, I know nothing about the company other than what was listed in the address books.

Re: Tom Lee

dml2s — 2002-09-09 11:35:05Z

I know nothing of On Leong other than he was listed in my great-grandfather's address books. My grandmother died in 1979, leaving us all but cut off from any relatives, and I've been hoping that cousins would find the address books, recognize a name, and get in touch with us.

Are there any Seattle Yees?

lauracherry1 — 2002-06-13 00:47:30Z

Obit: Tang Fu-Ying Yee

NMFireHorse — 2004-01-15 23:10:35Z

Albuquerque Journal - January 9, 2004

Tang Fu-Ying Yee passed away January 2, 2004, at age 85, in Oakland, CA. Mrs. Yee and her husband were residents of Albquerque from 1950 to 1994, when they moved to California to be closer to their children. She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Song Hing Yee; daughters, Susan Yee Jung and Lotus Yee Fong; son, Wendell Atom Yee; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Mrs. Yee was much loved and will be greatly missed. A Funeral Service will be held on January 11, 2004, at Albert Brown Mortuary in Oakland, CA, with burial on January 12, 2004, at East Lawn Cemetery in Sacramento, CA.

Yees from Massachusettes

jooba10556 — 2002-03-19 17:14:12Z

I am looking for a Doris Yee or anyone who knew a Donald Yee, Kim Sue Yee, around the time of 1938-1946 or so. Boston, Mass area and/or Salem, Mass.
Any info would be a big help,
Thanks,
Mike (Jooba10556@aol.com)

Doris Yee

jooba10556 — 2002-03-19 17:14:12Z

Actually the Doris Yee I am searching for would have had Yee as her given name. She is a sister of my father, Donald Yee, whose family I have been trying to find information on with little luck. Frankly, I'm not even sure she was his sister, though i'm fairly sure. My father grew up in Boston,Salem, Auburn Mass with his family.
thanks you for your response,
Mike

Massachusetts Yees/Lees

MissyMel17 — 2001-06-25 04:12:29Z

I am just curious about my family history. My grandfather's name was Johnny Yee and his wife's maiden name is King Su Woo. He came over here with Ben Yee. Supposedly, Ben Yee was really my grandfather's older brother. There are a lot of siblings that I don't know of theirs. Their last names would be Lee though. They all lived in the Boston area.

Yee name

gndiaz — 2001-07-24 00:17:51Z

I am looking for a Robert Yee who is about 54-60 years old now and was in San Francisco in 1966. His right arm is hung, not useable. He was about 6 feet tall or taller. Half american, half chinese. Can you help?