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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