Tuesday, February 7, 2012

#14 & 15

Today Raymond Goh alerted me (via our Heritage Singapore Bukit Brown Cemetery Facebook Page)
to the presence of relative #14 & 15 resident at Bukit Brown Heritage Park (布朗山丘守业公园).
#14 Mdm Tan Hoon Neo
#15 Mdm Yeo Wan Neo
#14 is Mrs Choa Kim Keat was  buried in Bukit Brown at Blk 1, Division B, tomb 64.  
Her husband Mr Chua Kim Keat
  • Name: CHUA Kim Keat
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1858
  • Death: 5 JAN 1907
  • Note: Choa Kim Keat was the only son of Choa Kai Hoon, a native of Malacca, who came to Singapore and entered the service of Choa Boon Buan & Co. (chop Khye Guan Tong), Commission Agents in Boat Quay, and who later succeeded his brother Choa Chuan Ghiok as manager, in Rangoon, of the branch business of Leack, Chin Seng & Co., and died there in 1865. Choa Kim Keat himself began life as salesman to Lim Tiang Wah & Sons, and, on the formation in 1886 of the Straits Trading Co. Ltd., he acted as tin salesman until his death at the age of 48 years, on the 5th January 1907. In 1902 , along with Lee Tian Lye and Chia Hood Theam, he went on a trip to China and Japan, and the Kim Ban Choon Club entertained the trio at dinner to wish them bon voyage. In all his dealings, Choa Kim Keat was tactful and upright, and earned the respect of the successive managing directors of the Straits Trading Company and of the European heads of firms with whom he came daily in contact in the course of his tin business. It was his proud delight to exhibit the tangible tokens of esteem received by him from some of the foremost business men of the Colony, who had long retired from the East. For many years, also, he successfully managed the large rice business of Kim Ching & Co. He married a daughter of Mr. Tan Kim Ching, and his son, Choa Joon Hean, who is now in the Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd., is a young man of great promise. 
  • Mrs Choa Kim Keat is Tan Hoon Neo, daughter of Tan Kim Cheng.
    Name: TAN Hoon Neo
    Sex: F
    Birth: ABT 1858
    Death: 1 FEB 1935 in 149 Neil Street, Singapore
    Burial: 5 FEB 1935 Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore Block 1 Division B tomb 64

    Father: TAN Kim Ching b: 1829 in Singapore
    Mother: CHUA Seah Neo

    Marriage 1 CHUA Kim Keat b: 1858
    Married: Y

    Children
    CHUA Joon Hean
    CHUA Female6
    CHUA Female7
    CHUA Female9
    This Saturday (11 February) we can add another connection if we are able to go to seek her grave.
    As if this was not exciting enough,  30 minutes later he posts

    In case you are wondering about the identity of the lady of this tomb every time you walk past Blk 1 by the road, she was the 4th wife of Tan Wi Yan, grandson of Tan Tock Seng. So this lady Mdm Yeo Wan Neo  is #15!

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