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Tear Tack, James Lee

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    Wesleyan Chinese Mission Victoria montage, 1883, by Willets, Ballarat, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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Reverend

Occupation
missionary - Wesleyan
Summary

Rev James Lee Tear Tack was a member of the Wesleyan Chinese Mission in Victoria c1883. He is later recorded in Wise's South Australia Post Office Directory as resident in Palmerston (Darwin) in 1897-1898 and in 1899-1900.

Information compiled by Ian Welch indicates he was ordained in Tngha/Emmaville in 1893, a missionary in Darwin from 1894 to 1899 when he moved to Carins. He died in 1900.

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  • 'The Baron', 'Chinese mission work in Victoria', Weekly Times, 2 September 1899, pp. 10, 14-15. Details

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Title
Wesleyan Chinese Mission Victoria montage
Type
Photograph
Date
1883
Place
Australia - Victoria
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Sources used to compile this entry: 'The Baron', 'Chinese mission work in Victoria', Weekly Times, 2 September 1899, pp. 10, 14-15; The South Australia Post Office Directory (Wise's), 1897-1898, 1899-1900. 'Christian Missions to the Chinese in Australia and New Zealand, 1855 - c1900', compiled by Ian Welch, http://chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/welch/missionaries.htm.