Chu Moy , 18991997 (aged 98 years)

Name
Chu Moy //
Given names
Chu Moy
Name
越妹
Given names
Surname
Romanized name
/jyut6/ mui6
Birth
1897
Liucun, Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China刘村, 高要市, 肇庆市, 广东
Birth
Birth
Note: As recorded on her gravestone.
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Marriage of a son
Birth of a daughter
Immigration
Note: Within immigration file SP1122/1, N1959/2217 are details listing the first arrival of Moy Chu - via a flight into Sydney on 24 November 1959. A digital copy of Moy's passenger card may be located within series A1225 most likely within items identified as November 1959 boxes 1 to 7 with barcodes 12574109 to 12574115. Unfortunately although these cards are digitised they are not yet indexed. They are also not in alphabetical or date order so are difficult to search. Microfilm copies of plane arrivals for arrivals for these years are held in the Sydney reading room - C3458, 17 - 30 NOVEMBER 1959. When you next visit you may wish to get a copy of Moy Chu's arrival.
Note: Dexter's immigration file mentions CHU MOY arriving as a dependent 6 Nov 1957.Redident status from 24 Nov 1959.
Residence
Address: 310 Jaffe Rd
3rd floor
Hong Kong
Death of a husband
Note: NSW BDM Index: 40949/1968
Burial of a husband
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemetery
Address: General
Section Chinese 4
Grave 650
Death
Burial
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemetery
Address: Chinese Section
Rookwood Cemetery
Research task
[ANA] Sydney Chu Moy Immigration File - NAA: SP1122/1, N1959/2217
April 17, 2022
User: kerrychoy
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage
herself
Chu Moy
越妹
18991997
Birth: 1899 China
Death: April 12, 1997Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Family with Ah Young
husband
Choy Mun Seui ("Ah Young")
文粹
18781968
Birth: August 12, 1878 Zhagang, Huilong, Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China
Death: December 12, 1968Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
herself
Chu Moy
越妹
18991997
Birth: 1899 China
Death: April 12, 1997Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
son
Choy Kam Wing
錦榮
19152003
Birth: August 10, 1915 36 16 Zhagang, Huilong, Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China
Death: August 16, 2003Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia
10 years
daughter
P_SueKibble.jpg
慧嫻
19252018
Birth: April 20, 1925 46 26
Death: February 7, 2018Hong Kong
son
Private
son
Private
son
Private
daughter
小青
19372019
Birth: February 3, 1937 58 38
Death: January 13, 2019
Birth
Birth
Birth

As recorded on her gravestone.

Immigration

Within immigration file SP1122/1, N1959/2217 are details listing the first arrival of Moy Chu - via a flight into Sydney on 24 November 1959. A digital copy of Moy's passenger card may be located within series A1225 most likely within items identified as November 1959 boxes 1 to 7 with barcodes 12574109 to 12574115. Unfortunately although these cards are digitised they are not yet indexed. They are also not in alphabetical or date order so are difficult to search. Microfilm copies of plane arrivals for arrivals for these years are held in the Sydney reading room - C3458, 17 - 30 NOVEMBER 1959. When you next visit you may wish to get a copy of Moy Chu's arrival.

Dexter's immigration file mentions CHU MOY arriving as a dependent 6 Nov 1957.Redident status from 24 Nov 1959.

Note

No record with Dept of Immigration for any requests to be naturalised. Probably not.

National Archives of Australia
National Reference Service

Reference: NAA1000176226

Dear Ms Choy,

Thankyou for your inquiry dated 28 September 2016 regarding the naturalization records of Chu Moy.

We have searched our database Recordsearch without any success. We have also searched our microfiche cards Immigration Naturalisation index, dated 1904-1989, without success.

A further search of a database that the National Archives has access to is created and maintained by the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs and lists most people who have been granted Australian citizenship, from 1904-1994, we did not have any success there either

Shared note

The family leaves Hong Kong - 1941

Hong Kong fell to the Japanese Army on 25 Dec 1941. About 2 weeks after that event, Chu Moy and her extended family fled the city. Kam Wing Choy as the oldest male had responsibility for arrangements. The group also included:

The group left Hong Kong by overnight ferry to Zhongshan, then to Heshan, and on to the village at Gaoyao. The trip involved a ferry, a boat, bicycles, sedan chairs and walking. Dad recalls it took 4 or 5 days.

Burial
Media object
Chu Moy
Chu Moy
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Chu Moi (c 1960)
Chu Moi (c 1960)