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Choie Sew Hoy's Story 1 Choie Sew Hoy Family Tree website:http://www.choiesewhoy.com familytree0505.p65 1 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 2 Contents Choie’s Story 3 5 Photos 7 28G Choie Sew Hoy 8 29G Kum Yok Choie 10 30G Kang Lem Choie 21 30G Hok Yan Choie 43 30G Hugh-Hok Yao Sew Hoy 48 30G Hok Ngai Choie 56 30G Choie Hok Poon 60 30G Choie Hok Boon 61 30G Kang Ng Choie 65 30G Hok Jarn Choie 65 30G Shew Low Choie 66 30G Sae Low Choie 67 30G Shew Ha Choie 69 29GKum Poy Choie 13 30G Kang Niel Choie 69 30G Henry Kenny Sew Hoy 15 30G Charles Sew Hoy 74 30G Phyllis Gwendoline Sew Hoy 15 30G Cyril Gilbert Sew Hoy 71 30G Arthur Edward Sew Hoy 72 30G Leslie Wilfred Sew Hoy 73 30G Rona Gladys Louisa Sew Hoy 74 30G Doreen Vera JoyceSew Hoy 74 30G Thelma Sew Hoy 15 29G Violet Sew Hoy (Kum Fon) 16 30G Iris Trengrove 81 30G AudreyTrengrove 81 30G William (Bill) Hoggan 82 30G Anita Hoggan 82 29G Henry William Sew Hoy 19 30G William Henry Sew Hoy 19 30G Daphne Sew Hoy 85 30G Roger Sew Hoy 86 30G Valerie Sew Hoy 85 familytree0505.p65 2 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 Our Family’s Story 3 Our family’s story: Wing Yui Choie (1924-1994) provided us with some information on the history of the Choie family, also known in New Zealand as the Sew Hoy family. He counts back thirty generations from his grandfather Kang Lem Sew Hoy (1888-1940) to the Ming Dynasty when Cheung Gong, the original ancestor, went to Sha Kong village. Cheung Gong had four sons: Yao Choi, Yao Tsing, Dai Jai and Dai Ming. Our family is descended from the fourth son, Dai Ming. Dai Ming had two sons; the older son was Yak Cheuw and the second son was Mao Gui. Our family is descended from the older son, Yak Cheuw. Yak Cheuw’s son was Bing Sum. Bing Sum had four sons. They were Sew Hoy, Sew Ding, Sew Hong and Sew Kung. Our family is descended from Bing Sum’s oldest son, Sew Hoy. Choie Sew Hoy Born in 1838, the son of a farmer, he was raised in the tiny village of Sha Kong [Altar Hill]. Sha Kong, which then had only about 200 inhabitants, is in the Upper Panyu [Poon Yue] district of Guangdong [Kwangtung] Province in China. As a young man Choie Sew Hoy went to the goldfields of California and Victoria. In 1868 he came to Otago and set up in business in Stafford Street as a merchant. He supplied miners and goldfield traders, imported goods, exported fungus [muk yee] and invested widely in gold mining and water-race ventures. In 1888 Choie Sew Hoy’s company built the world’s first gold dredge to work the Big Beach claim on the Shotover River in Central Otago. The huge Nokomai hy- draulic sluicing operation in Southland was the biggest of its type in New Zealand. Choie Sew Hoy was naturalised in 1873 and became a notable figure in both European and Chinese circles. He was fluent in English and signed his letters in English ‘Sew Hoy’. This was mistaken for his family name and he became known by Europeans as ‘Mr Sew Hoy’ and ‘Charles Sew Hoy’. He adopted the name, and many of his descendants in New Zealand have Sew Hoy as their family name. Note: The transliteration of Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet can be a problem. Our family name has at various times been written as Chui, Tsui, Xu and Choie. All these names are represented by the same Chinese character. In New Zealand, Choie Sew Hoy found that Sew Hoy was taken to be his family name. It was adopted by him and some of his descendants. familytree0505.p65 3 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 The generation chart 4 Generation 24 ( Ming Dynasty) Chung Gong Generation 25 Dai Jai Yao Cho Yao Tsing Dai Ming Generation 26 Yak Cheuw Mao Gui Generation 27 Bing Sum Generation 28 Sew Hoy Sey Ding Sew Hong Sew Kung Generation 29 Kum Yok Choie Henry William Kum Poy Choie Chay May Choie Chay Ho Choie Violet Eliza Camelia [Golden Jade] [Golden Sew Hoy Sew Hoy 1855-1932 Upholder] 1868-1942 [Kum Fon] [Kum Loon] 1892-1972 1895-1972 P10 P15 P82 P85 familytree0505.p65 4 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 5 (Arrow town) familytree0505.p65 5 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 Choie Sew Hoy’s story: 6 Born in 1838, the son of a farmer, Choie Sew Hoy was raised in his ancestral village of Sha Kong (She Gang) [Altar Hill]. Sha Kong, which then had only about 200 inhabitants, is 20 km north of Canton (Guangzhou) in the Upper Panyu (Poon Yue) district of Kwangtung (Guangdong) Province in China. After gold was found in California, Australia and New Zealand, many families in Cantonese villages sent young men out to ‘The Gold Mountain’ to earn money for the family. They often went in family or regional groups, so that there was a constant stream of young Chinese men setting out and returning across the Pacific. As a young man Choie Sew Hoy first went to the goldfields of California where he worked as a miner and then to Victoria where he set up as a merchant. In 1865 the Otago Provincial Council invited the Chinese miners of Victoria to come to the Otago goldfields. Choie Sew Hoy arrived in Otago in 1868 and set up business in Stafford Street as a merchant, supplying miners and goldfield traders. He imported goods, outfitted miners, exported fungus [muk yee] and invested widely in gold mining and water-race construction. His two sons Kum Yok and Kum Poy both came out to Otago to join their father in this family enterprise. Choie Sew Hoy had eleven major gold mining operations, including parts of the Shotover River, and the Queen Victoria quartz mine at Macetown. In 1888 one of Choie Sew Hoy’s companies built the world’s first successful gold dredge, to work his Big Beach claim on the Shotover River near Queenstown in Central Otago. His four dredges were the first to be able to work river flats, and could earn up to £40 a day. This revolutionised gold mining methods and started the first Otago dredging boom, using dredges based on the Sew Hoy design. In 1894 Choie Sew Hoy and Kum Poy used their hydraulic mining experience to begin the huge Nokomai hydraulic elevating and sluicing operation in Southland. This mine became the biggest of its type in New Zealand. Choie Sew Hoy was naturalised in 1873 and became a notable figure in both European and Chinese circles. He gave widely to charity, regularly attended race meetings and was a Freemason. He was one of the Dunedin commercial leaders who marched in William Larnach’s funeral procession, campaigned to end the opium trade, and signed the illuminated address of welcome to the visiting Governor, Sir James Fergusson. By 1882 he owned freehold land in Otago and Southland worth £4,432. The daughter of Choie Sew Hoy’s dredge-master recalled him as ‘a well-dressed, kind gentleman who always brought gifts and sweets for her family’, while his 1901 obituary in the Otago Daily Times referred to ‘his reputation for upright and honourable dealing’. Choie Sew Hoy was fluent in English and signed his English letters ‘Sew Hoy’. This was mistaken for his family name and he became known to Europeans in New Zealand as ‘Mr Sew Hoy’ and ‘Charles Sew Hoy’. Choie Sew Hoy had four children by his first wife, Young Soy May. There were two daughters, Choie Chay Ho and Choie Chay May, and two sons. The two sons were Choie Kum Yok [Golden Jade] 1855-1932 and Choie Kum Poy [Golden Upholder] Choie Sew Hoy had two children by his second wife, the New Zealand-born Eliza Prescott (1869-1909), who had worked for him as an English secretary. They were Violet Eliza Kum Fon [Golden Phoenix] Sew Hoy, born in 1892, and Henry William Kum Loon [Golden Dragon] Sew Hoy, born in 1895. Choie Sew Hoy was always concerned for the welfare of people from the Pan Yu and he was a leading member of the Cheong Shing Tong – the welfare group which cared for the poor and elderly among them. It operated from his store in Stafford Street. In 1883 Choie Sew Hoy helped organise the sending of the bodies of 230 miners back to China for burial at ancestral sites. He died in 1901 and unfortunately his own body was part of a second shipment of 498 former miners, which was lost at sea, when the Ventnor sank off Hokitika in 1902. Choie Sew Hoy’s biographer Dr James Ng notes,‘It is still remembered, however, that he wished to be buried in the Cheong Shing Tong’s cemetery in Upper Panyu, with the bodies of otherwise friendless former associates buried around him.’ By the start of the 21st Century Choie Sew Hoy had well over four hundred direct descendants, not only in China and New Zealand but also spread around the world. Sources: Windows on a Chinese Past, vols 1-4, by Dr James Ng, Otago Heritage Press, Dunedin, 1993-1999. Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography, ed by Jane Thomson, Longacre Press, Dunedin, 1998. familytree0505.p65 6 2005/8/11, ¤U¤È 04:03 7 Eliza Sew Hoy (nee Prescott) 1869- 1909, and her children Violet (1892- 1972) and Henry (1895-1970) Sew Hoy.
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