Year Events
1890 Chan Ah Kee was born (August 10, 1890, Sunday - Chinese 6th lunar month 25th day, Tiger Year).
1896 Wong Sui Cheng was born (October 19, 1896, Monday - Chinese 9th lunar month 13th day, Monkey Year).
1914 Chan Ah Kee (about 24 years old) and wife Wong Sui Cheng (about 18 years old), and several Chan family members left Qing Yuan, China via Hong Kong for Penang, Malaya by cargo ship. From Butterworth, they took the train to Taiping. Chan Ah Kee worked as a kepala in a tin mine in Taiping. Also did some trading.
1915 Chung Chow was born in Taiping (September 22, 1915, Wednesday- Chinese 8th lunar month, 14th day, Year of the Rabbit). Lived in corner house, same row as Qing Yuan Association building in Market Road.
1919 Chan Ah Kee and family moved to Chemor to prospect for tin but were unsuccessful. With resources almost depleted, they returned to China.
1921 Chan Ah Kee, Wong Sui Cheng and Chung Chow returned to China. Chung Chow, age 6. Lived in ancestral village House of Chan, in Qing Yuan. Chan Ah Kee trained to become a Taoist priest.
1923 Chan Ah Kee alone returned to Taiping, Malaya.
1924 Lee Mooi was born in Assam Kumbang, Taiping (November 2, 1924, Sunday - Chinese 10th lunar month 6th day, Year of the Mouse).
1927 Wong Sui Cheng and Chung Chow returned to Taiping, Malaya to be reunited with Chan Ah Kee. Chung Chow about 12 years old then.
1930 Chung Keng Wan was born.
1935+ Chung Chow, then about 20 years started work as an apprentice machinist at the Kamunting Tin Mining Company in Kamunting. Chung Sui Wan was born.
1937 Chung Keng San was born. (December 21, 1937. Tuesday - Chinese 11th lunar month 19th day, Ox Year).
1941 - 1945 Japanese soldiers first landed in Sabak in Kelantan (December 8, 1941). Eventually entered Taiping from the north through Selama. Japanese Occupation: February 1942 to September 1945.
1942 Chung Chow married Lee Mooi (August 21, 1942. Friday - Chinese 7th lunar month 10th day, Year of the Horse). Watch YouTube video.
1943 Chung Sweed Cheng, born December 29, 1943. Wednesday. Chinese 12th lunar month 3rd day, Sheep Year.
1944 Demise of Chung Keng San (November 3, 1944. Friday - Chinese 9th lunar month 18th day). Drown in the Taiping Lake Gardens.
1945 Japanese surrender. British retook Malaya. Chung Chow worked as a machinist at Loke Woh, Barrack Road (the old one-storey factory building was demolished in the late 1990's and was replaced by a new double-storey building presently occupied by Erican).
1945 Chang Chu Tai, born September 2, 1945. Sunday. Chinese 7th lunar month 21st day, Rooster Year.
1947 Chung Chew Pheng, born February 10, 1947. Monday. Chinese 12th lunar month 23rd day, Pig Year. Demise of Chan Ah Kee (2.30 pm, 12 June, 1947. Thursday - Chinese 4th lunar month 24th day) age 57 years at 15 Tupai Road, Taiping.
1948 British administration declared state of Emergency in Malaya- lasted 12 years, June 1948 to July 1960. Chung Chew Wah, born July 20, 1948. Tuesday. Chinese 6th lunar month 7th day, Rat Year.
1951 Chung Chew Hong, born January 24, 1951. Wednesday. Chinese 12th lunar month 6th day, Rabbit Year.
1952 Chung Chew Kiat, born August 29, 1952. Friday. Chinese 7th lunar month 17th day, Dragon Year.
1954 Chung Suit Meng, born April 8, 1954. Thursday. Chinese 2nd lunar month 21st day, Horse Year.
1955 Demise of Wong Sui Cheng (October 28, 1955, Friday - Chinese 9th month 13th day, 1955) at the age of 60.
1957 Chung See Kun, born February 14, 1957. Thursday. Chinese 1st lunar month 15th day, Lantern Festival, Rooster Year.
1960 End of Emergency period: July 31, 1960.
1962 Chung Sweed Lean, born October 2, 1962. Tuesday. Chinese 9th lunar month 4th day, Tiger Year.
1976 Chung Chow & Lee Mooi visited homeland in Qing Yuan, PRC.
1996 Vacated home at 15 Tupai Road in December 1996 - parents lived in Chew Kiat's home in Bukit Mertajam.
1997 Chung Chow and Lee Mooi returned to Taiping and stayed at 237, Lorong 1, Taman Bersatu Kampung Boyan, from September 1997 to August 1998.
1998 Demise of Lee Mooi (August 18, 1998, Tuesday - Chinese 6th month 27th day, Year of the Tiger) age 77 years at Taiping District Hospital.
1999 Demise of Chang Sui Wan (27 December, 1998) at the age of 64
2002 Demise of Chung Chow (10.30 pm, February 10, 2002, Sunday - Chinese 12th lunar month 29th day, 2001) age 87 years at Taiping District Hospital.
