- Alternative Names
- Leong Cheong Tock family (also used)
- Leong Chuey Tock family (also used)
- Tock family (also used)
Details
Leong Chuey Tock and his families lived and worked in the Little Bourke Street, Melbourne in the late 19th, early 20th century (1890-1930?). Leong Chuey Tock had two wives. Chun See was his first wife and his second was Ohum Lee (though each wife’s name is often spelt differently in official records). No record of either marriage can be found in Victorian records suggesting they may have married in China. Family descendants believe the wives lived in different houses but ‘around the corner’ from each other. Chun See and her family lived at 136 Little Bourke Street (on the same site as the family factory) till 1915 and then at 64 Little Lonsdale Street till the families’ departure in 1920.
It is believed that Leong Chuey Tock moved to Hong Kong with all his family, except his eldest son, George Leong Cheong Poy and eldest daughter Joyce May. Joyce May was married to George Lew Ton. The family story is that Leong Chuey Tock set up George Lew Ton in a Little Bourke Street business before his departure. Records suggest the families left in 1920.
Not all births appear to have been registered. The children were registered in an anglicised version of their Chinese name and it has not always been possible to match this with the European name that was commonly used on photographs and later in their lives.
Leong Chuey Tock had seven children with Chun See: George or Leong Cheong Poy, Joyce May, Tony, Frank, Lum, Violet and Alexander (who appears to have died as a small child). Lin Dip (born 1905), Ching Mouy (born 1906) and Chin Goot Chong (born 1909) are listed in the birth records and probably refer to either Tong, Frank, Lum, Violet or Alexander, provided there were no other infant deaths.
Photographs suggest Leong Chuey Tock had Ohum Lee had six children. They are: Alice, Connie, Doris, Evelyn, Lily, Queenie. Five children were registered in Ohum Lee’s name. They are: Leong Aye Tock, Leong Min Tock, Leong Chong Ngon Tock, Cheong Quong Leong Tock, Chui Pui Leong Chong Tock.
Sources used to compile this entry: ; Couchman, Sophie, ''Oh, I would like to see Maggie Moore again': Selected women of Melbourne's Chinatown', After the Rush: Regulation, Partcipation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1840 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 171-190; Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages; Personal communication with Shirley Millard 27 November 2004; Bendigo Golden Dragon Museum collection; Chinese Museum collection.
Prepared by: Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University
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Archival Collections
Chinese Museum
- Shirley Millard collection; Chinese Museum [ Details... ].
S. Millard (private hands)
- Shirley Millard private collection, 1890s; S. Millard (private hands) [ Details... ].
Published Resources
Book Sections
- Couchman, Sophie, 'Tong family networks revealed through the camera's lens', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), Asian Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 47-53. [ Details... ]
Journal Articles
- Couchman, Sophie, ''Oh, I would like to see Maggie Moore again': Selected women of Melbourne's Chinatown', After the Rush: Regulation, Partcipation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1840 (Otherland Literary Journal), vol. 9, 2004, pp. 171-190. [ Details... ]
Images
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- Chun See (Leong Chuey Tock's wife) and three children
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1896 - c. 1898
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Chun See Tock and unidentified Tock daughter
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 24 March 1923
- Place
- Hong Kong - Stubb's Road
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- Leong Chuey Tock with children Poy and Joyce and an unidentified young man
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1896 - c. 1898
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Title
- Mrs Leong Chuey Tock [Chun See Tock?]
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1890s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne?
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- Mrs Leong Chuey Tock with Violet Tock and Joyce May Tock
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- Photograph
- Date
- 1910s - 1920s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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Created: 7 May 2003, Last modified: 25 October 2005
