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Charlie Lum Alien Naturalization:LUM Nuh Gim Gardner Timaru 6 June 1895
Marriage certificate: 1916 #4260 Ngh Gim LUM Internment Hannah C. Lum dob: 24 january 1897 died:20 March 1930 11:30pm buried:22 march 1930 33 Years Plot C2 0132 Headstone 31? 1495 Gim LUM purchase plot Charlie Lum Birth name Ng Gem Lum Adult name Ng Moon Gain bn 1868-1930 North Taishan District China died in China Brother Ng Moon Jem birth name Ng Fook Sau European name Eng Gooe Jim Eng Gooe Jim also had a son Ng Thoan Hok Dr James Ng has written several books about Chinese in New Zealand " Windows of Chinese Past" which mentions The Sue Lee Gardens, Saltwater creek in Timaru as well as the NG family |
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"The Gore gardeners transferred to Allenton in north Ashburton, where at least three Taishan men including Ng Moon Jems1 (birth name Ng Fook Sau; European name Eng Gooe Jim, who was baptised by Rev. R. Jackson in Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Timaru c.1903) had earlier established a garden in c.1911.(40) Ng Moon Jem was from the Koon Yat (Kung Yik, Gongyi) district in north Taishan. He and his brother Ng Moon Gain1 (birth name Ng Jem Lum) and possibly another younger brother had worked at the Sue Lee garden. Probably the Allenton garden had not done well because it struck strong competition from a Zengcheng Cantonese market garden at Tinwald in south Ashburton.(41) The latter was still a five-men garden in 1917, but the former was not mentioned in the Register of Aliens of that year. This was a sure sign that it had closed, the second Seyip Cantonese garden in Ashburton to do so because Rev. Don in 1883 had recorded another garden there of six men apparently headed by two persons of the Yee clan.(42) |
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George Richard Lum
15 March 1917- 26 January 1991 Married Florence Daughter Georgina born 1949 Grandchildren Michael Rush bn 196 Debbie Neil Rush bn 1973 |

















