Towkay Swee Yuen Yap – Family History

SEVEN WIDOWS TO SHARE ESTATE (Yap Swee GF)

The case here is reported in both the Malaya Tribune on 18 December and the Straits Times on 19 December.[…]

Here are are the Supreme Court Justice, J. Murray-Ansley’s findings in the case of Yap Tow Onn vs Woon Ngee[…]

The press has now started calling the case the Seven Widows Case. This is in a way an allusion to[…]

1939 November 28 Six Widows and a Seventh The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Adviser, Page 5 Six Widows and[…]

A continuation of the trial where Yap Tow Onn claims to be a natural son of Towkay Yap Swee Yuen[…]

Yap Toh Onn is claiming that he is the natural son of Towkay Yap Swee Yuen (葉瑞雲) and therefore entitled to[…]

Here I have finally found the mysterious eight wife of Yap Swee. She is not the eight wife in chronological[…]