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Pan Ah Shin married Catherine Martin in June 1857 at St John's Anglican Church in Melbourne. They had eight children.
Their children were:
Alice Anne (who married John Ah Sam);
Emily Matilda (who married William Le Sock);
Henry Thomas (who married Helena Lam Son);
Mary Elizabeth (who married John Mah Look);
Caroline Jane (who married Kong Fat);
William James (who married Sara Maud Ah Foo);
Frederick (who died in infancy)
Agnes Louise (who married Charlie Foo and then Henry Woods).
Sources used to compile this entry: Groom, Jocelyn, Chinese Pioneers of the King Valley, Centre for Continuing Education, Wangaratta, Vic, 2001; Twycross, James, 'History, heritage and identity', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), 2005, pp. 41-46.
Prepared by: Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University
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Published Resources
Books
- Groom, Jocelyn, Chinese Pioneers of the King Valley, Centre for Continuing Education, Wangaratta, Vic, 2001. Details
Book Sections
- Twycross, James, 'History, heritage and identity', in Sophie Couchman (ed.), Secrets, Silences and Sources: Five Chinese-Australian Family Histories (La Trobe Asian Studies Papers), 2005, pp. 41-46. Details
Online Resources
- Groom, Jocelyn, 'How the family of Pan Thomas Ah Shin became settlers rather than sojourners', in Chinese in Australasia and the Pacific: Old and New Migrations and Cultural Change, 20-21 November 1998, New Zealand Conference of Association for the Study of Chinese and their Descendants in Australasia and the Pacific Islands (ASCDAPI), 1998, http://www.stevenyoung.co.nz/The-Chinese-in-New-Zealand/Chinese-in-Australasia-and-the-Pacific/Earlier-Chinese.html#5.2%20How%20the%20Family%20of%20Pan%20Thomas%20Ah%20Shin%20Became%20Settlers%20Rather%20than%20Sojourners. Details
See also
- Talbot, Diann, The Buckland Valley Goldfield: A Brief History fo the Rush for Gold, the Deaths, the Chinese Tragedy and the Rebellion that Culminated in the Famous Riot, Diann Talbot, Bright, Victoria, 2004. Details
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- Pan Ah Shin and Catherine Martin
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1857 - 1890s
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- Australia - Victoria - Melbourne
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- Mary Elizabeth Mahlook (nee Shin)
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- Photograph
- Date
- c. 1947
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - King Valley
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Created: 13 September 2004, Last modified: 13 April 2007
