paper trails: anglo-chinese australians and the white australia policy
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Presentation by Kate Bagnall at the 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies on 'Chinese through the Americas', 18 May 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.TRANSCRIPT
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Paper trailsAnglo-Chinese Australians and the White Australia PolicyKate Bagnall
The 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas StudiesChinese through the Americas16–19 May 2012, Vancouver, B.C., CanadaPanel S26: Pacific connections—Chinese in Australia and New Zealand
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‘That famous fighting family’Five of the eight sons of William and Jane Flood Sam of
West Wyalong, NSW, went to fight in World War I
Wyalong Advocate, 24 June 1919Undated newspaper clipping, c. 1915
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Percy and William Flood SamFourteen-year-old Percy and his seventy-year-old father, William, before their departure for China, 1915
NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4032NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4058
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Part of the West Wyalong community
William Flood Sam was described as ‘a good hardworking sober man’ and ‘a man of first-class character’.
Jane Sam was a said to be a ‘highly esteemed resident’ of the district.
NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4058West Wyalong Advocate, 19 October 1944Australian Town and Country Journal, 1 January 1898
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Application letters by Jane and William Flood Sam for son Percy to travel to China, 1915
NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4032
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Percy Flood SamPercy’s handprint and photograph were taken and kept on file so he could be identified on returning to Australia, 1915
NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4032
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Immigration Restriction Act 1901‘An Act to place certain restrictions on Immigration and to provide for the removal from the Commonwealth of prohibited Immigrants.’
NAA: A1559, 1901/17foundingdocs.gov.au/item-did-16.html
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Invisible Australians: ‘The real face of White Australia’invisibleaustralians.org/faces/
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Ablong Flood Sam Joy Lett Tin Hop
Ah Bow Fong Kum Moon Julum Hoong Ling / Sams Tong
Ah Chee / Archie Fong Look / Young Yan Kee Loung / Long Way
Ah Gin / Jong Gutt / Gett Fong Tong Kee Chong Lum Liu Williamson / Too Tong / Mon Howe
Ah Hee / Yee / Choy Hing
Go Hing Kee Chong / Sun You Mon Hoy Win
Ah See Goudy Ky Ling Kiy Chung Moy Hing Win James
Allen / Gum Hip Chong Kong Sing Muller / Ah Tack Wong Young / Yau Kong
Brown Hongue Kum For Poy Yee Lee / Soderblom
Ching Hoy Hooklin La Gog Quon Yee Wing
Chong Dye Hoon Lee (Henry) Reece Yee Ying
Chun Quan Hop War Lee (Thomas and Tom) Shung / Chung /Chang Yen Hop / Daley
Chung Hoy Lee / Kwok Soong Yet / Reid
Chy Wong Jipp / Moy Hing Lee / Quing Lee Speance / Ah Lum / Moon Tong Young
Yin
Cleary Johnson Lee Hin Mun Sung Yee Yin Poon
Finn / Tracey Jong Wah / Lee Lee Kee Chong Tart Lum Bew / Lumbewe
Yum Sume
Anglo-Chinese families and individuals travelling from Sydney, 1900 to 1930s
Compiled mostly from records in NAA: SP42/1, SP726/2, A1
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Eastern & Australian Steamship Company’s Tourist Guide to China, Japan…, 1899
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‘One of our most vigilant officers’Customs Inspector J. T. T. Donohoe worked out of Customs House at Sydney’s Circular Quay. He was said to know ‘more about the Chinese than any other European in Sydney’.
Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September 1898
Customs House, Sydney, c. 1900www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=31441
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nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72209407nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10657524nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79398785nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74307041
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Ethel EdithGo Hing
Two of the four pages of Ethel Go Hing’s file, 1915
NAA: SP42/1, C1915/6424
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Birth certificate register NAA: SP726/2
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Albert Edward Lee
Certificate Exempting from Dictation Test, 1909
Baptismal certificate, 1901
Birth certificate, issued 1909
NAA: ST84/1, 1909/21/21-30NAA: SP42/1, C1909/1908
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Horace La Gog (born Horace Clary)
Horace La Gog’s birth certificate, 1888, made no reference to his (Chinese) father because his parents were not married.
NAA: SP42/1, B1906/3520
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Alfred Ablong‘I have heard rumours of parents selling the birth certificates of their children born in Australia of mixed parentage… I can only think that this has been done with my own certificate.’
NAA: SP42/1, 1914/64nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15451089
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Walter WayPhotographs of four-year-old Walter Way attached to the back of his memorandum of adoption, 1902
Photographs of the boy who returned as Walter Way in 1911
NAA: SP42/1, C1912/906
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Herbert Melbourne Hooklin,aka Mun Kee
‘I have personally examined Mun Kee, who has the typical appearance of a full-blooded Chinese in contradistinction to his reputed brothers who show distinct evidence of their European descent.’
– Dr Reid, Chief Quarantine Officer-General, 1916
NAA: SP42/1, C1916/4059
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Ohho Kong Sing
‘… owing to the special circumstances of his case, the ordinary Certificate was not issued nor the Fee of £2 collected.’
NAA: SP42/1, B1905/1616Australian Town and Country Journal, 23 March 1889
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kate.bagnall@gmail.comchineseaustralia.orginvisibleaustralians.org