- Born
- 1892
Melbourne East, Victoria - Died
- 1960
Merlynston, Victoria - Occupation
- public servant
- Alternative Names
- Leong Cheong Poy (also used)
- Liang Tock, George (also used)
- Tock, George (also used)
- Tock, George Poy (also used)
- 梁长培 (Chinese characters)
Details
George Leong Cheong Poy Tock was the eldest son of Leong Chuey Tock and his first wife, Chun See. It is believed that he went to school at Scotch College.
George married Australian-born, Ethel Maud Kin Sam. They had two children, Rita Beryl (1914- ) and Leslie Frederick (1917-1971), who were both born in Carlton, Victoria.
In 1929 George worked at the Consular Service of the Republic of China in Melbourne and records suggest he later went to work at the Chinese Foreign Office in Nanjing, China for a period. A caption to a photograph held in the State Library of Victoria and the Millard private collection suggests that he was stationed with Australia’s Consul-general in Burma in the 1930s and went to the United Kingdom before returning to Melbourne.
He died aged sixty-seven in Merlynston, near Coburg in Melbourne.
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; 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; Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages; State Library of Victoria picture collection; Personal communication with Shirley Millard, 12 December 2004; NAA, B13/0, 1929/14774.
Prepared by: Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University
Related Subjects
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Family
Parent
Sibling
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Archival Collections
Chinese Museum
- Shirley Millard collection; Chinese Museum [ 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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- Title
- George Poy Tock
- Type
- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- George Poy Tock and Ethel with their two unidentified grandchildren
- Type
- Photograph
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Title
- George Poy Tock leaning against fence
- Type
- Photograph
- Details
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- George Poy Tock on boat gangway
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- Photograph
- Details
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- Title
- Leong Chuey Tock with children Poy and Joyce and an unidentified young man
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1896 - c. 1898
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
- Details
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- Title
- Wedding group at the marriage of Thomas and Florence Chong in 1916
- Type
- Photograph
- Date
- 1916
- Place
- Australia - Victoria
- Details
Created: 14 May 2004, Last modified: 8 March 2006
