Fujian / Amoy headstones
Date Published
: Amoy / Xiamen, cemetery sections, Chinese, cemeteries / graves / headstones
: Australia
: Australia
: c.1870 to c.1890
These headstones identify the birth place of the various men as coming from Amoy/Xiamen or that port's province of Fujian. Without other information it can be assumed that all these men came to the colonies between 1848 and 1852 under contracts.
Amoy headstone, Inverell
Inverell, NSW
IN MEMORIAM
AH MOY MAN AH HAR
DIED MAY 22 1886
光緒十二年四月十九日終
皇清顯福建定安郭夏公之墓
歲次丁亥五月立
Ended/passed away in the Guangxu reign, 12th year, 4th month, 19th day.
Under the Imperial Qing Dynasty, the tomb of the late, revered paternal ancestor, Mr. Koeh Har, from Ding'an, Fujian.
Erected in the cyclical Dinghai year, 5th lunar month. [1886]
Fujian man, Narrabri
Narrabri, NSW
Top (Right to Left): 福建 (Fújiàn)
Central Vertical Column: 省人氏 亞鑾林公之墓
Translation: The Tomb of Mr. Lîm Ah-loân, native of Fujian Province.
Fujian man, Narrabri
Narrabri, NSW
Top (Right to Left): 福建 (Fújiàn)
Central Vertical Column: 省人氏 亞潘郭公[之墓]
Translation: [The Tomb of] Mr. Kok Ah Phan, native of Fujian Province.
Dysha, Amoy
Sale, Victoria
DYSHA
A NATIVE OF AMOY CHINA
DIED 1880
AGED 55 YEARS
RESIDENT IN VICTORIA 25 YEARS
DEEPLY REGRETTED
畐 生于乙酉年 [1825] 五十五歲
皇清亞妹大安李社祖墓
建 光緒庚辰二月廿五日
Translation
Born in the Yiyou year [1825], living to fifty-five years of age.
The ancestral grave of Li Shezu [Lí Siā-tsóo / "Dy Sha"], known by the familiar name Ah Mui, during the Great Qing. May he rest in eternal peace.
Erected on the 25th day of the 2nd Lunar Month in the Gengchen year of the Guangxu reign [April 4, 1880].
The translation assumes that 亞妹 represents the deceased's familiar (milk) name, 李社祖 his formal name (rendered on the English inscription as "Dy Sha"), and 大安 a benedictory expression ("great peace"). Because the inscription lacks punctuation and is weathered, other segmentations are possible.
Thanks to Jasper Shum for his assistance with this translation.
James Sing Amoy
Sale, Victoria
In The Memory
of
JAMES SING
BORN AT AMOY CHINA.
DIED AT SALE 29TH MAY 1919,
AGED 91 YEARS.
