CHILD GIVES EVIDENCE IN “SEVEN WIDOWS” CASE
The press has now started calling the case the Seven Widows Case. This is in a way an allusion to[…]
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Interesting items from my family history research.
Six Widows and a Seventh (GM)
1939 November 28 Six Widows and a Seventh The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Adviser, Page 5 Six Widows and[…]
Read moreYap Tow Onn claims to be a natural son of Towkay Yap Swee Yuen (葉瑞雲)
A continuation of the trial where Yap Tow Onn claims to be a natural son of Towkay Yap Swee Yuen[…]
Read moreYap Tow Onn – alleged son of Yap Swee Yuen (GF)
Yap Toh Onn is claiming that he is the natural son of Towkay Yap Swee Yuen (葉瑞雲) and therefore entitled to[…]
Read moreMANY TRAFFIC BREACHES
I have never known that it is illegal to distribute printed matter. Maybe it is if you are standing in[…]
Read moreWan Toh Koh and Yap Swee
Here I have finally found the mysterious eight wife of Yap Swee. She is not the eight wife in chronological[…]
Read moreTUCKERMAN Vs TUCKERMAN
We this is on of the sadest tales in my family tree. The evil Rodney William Samuel Tuckerman took his[…]
Read moreArthur Ambrose Marks may be the exector of a will
The Sydney Morning Herald – Tuesday 13 July 1930 Page 5. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.-Probate Jurisdiction.-In[…]
Read moreTRUCK OVERTURNS MOTHER AND SON KILLED.
Another example of how the papers repeat the news and another of my relatives who makes it into the national[…]
Read moreIrwin Oxley Blackman was married to Miss Evelyn Pretoria Barker
Irwin Oxley Blackman, my second cousin, three times removed, was married to Miss Evelyn Pretoria Barker in what seems to have[…]
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