Chan Hai Soon / Chan Mei Chen 陳美珍 in the front row, 2nd from the right, holding a new-born granddaughter, Clara Yuen Fong Yu in 1969 (photo courtesy of Kevin Lee)
Chin Hai Soon (aka Chan Mei Chen) and her family
Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files
by Trish Hackett Nicola, Certified Genealogist Emeritus
Thanks for sharing, Trish……nice seeing you on the “Beyond Far East Deep South” Zoom…….Raymond Seid
It was a fact of life with Southern Chinese families – there were no adult males in this early 1969 picture because the men had all rushed off to seek a fortune / ‘gold’ in America, leaving the women behind. This was taken in a photographic studio near Num Bin Toon (pronounced in the Toisan dialect) / Nom Bing Chuen (in Cantonese) – the YEE / YU village, in Sei Yup (the 4 counties).
BACK ROW (L-R): Grandmother’s aunt in-law (the wife of my grandmother’s husband’s youngest uncle) Mrs YEE / YU, grandmother’s daughter YU Siu Kuen
FRONT ROW (L-R): Grandmother’s 2 grandson’s YU Hon Hung & YU Hon Ming, grandmother’s daughter in-law SEETO So Chung, CHIN Hai Soon / CHAN Mei Chen, new-born Clara Yuen Fong YU, and a granddaughter of Mrs YEE / YU