Welcome to the Gee Family History BLOG !
I know that we Gee have common roots and DNA but we are geographically far flung . The intent of this BLOG is to act as a place for family and extended family members to write stories and memories.
Some of these memories will be known to many and some to only a few. Please join me on this journey back in time to Darwin and Wyndam then to the present.
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Roberft here. Thanks David for getting the ball rolling.
I will try to continue the momentum with what little I know of the start of the clan.
Being of the 4th generation, I can safely say that for me, the 3rd generation starts with my father Ernest who died 13 Dec 1961. He was survived by his siblings Lena, Doris, David, Winky, Maurice, Glenda and the mystery aunt who was institutionalized in Adelaide.
Their parents were Gee Hong Yet (Fred: died 8 Oct 1975) & Gee Li Kim (died 3 Mar 1961).
After here the info gets shaky. I have the names of Li Kim's many siblings which descend from her 1st generation parents. Her father was Kwong or Fong Sui Wing. He had 2 wives , the 2nd of who was Li Kim's mother. She died in 1929 of cancer.
I have no info on Kwong/Fong Sui Wing, where her lived, where he came from, etc. I also have no idea where the name Gee came since it was not his!
Can anybody fill in more details?
Our Grandfather we called Pop - Gee Hong Yet also had a brother Gee Kwong Yet who was married to Gong Sim. She was a really kind lady (tough as nails)who I remember always gave us chinese lollies when we visited. She worked at Gee's food center and was always hard at work cleaning potatoes from these large sacks.
Gee Kwong Yet had a really interesting habit of cutting out pictures of pretty chinese girls from magazines and sticking them all over the walls.
Gong Sim was typical chinese wife who grew vegetables and while they had a Darwin style stilt home as well as a tin roof shed in the back. They used to live in the shed and only slept at night in the house.
They had a son named George Gee who also lived in Darwin.
Pop was a insulin dependent 'diabetic' and turned blind later in life. Pop also had bad execema. I remember him walking with a dark coloured cane.
He was a man of few words and lived at Gee's Food Center. He had a second wife that came from China (I think she ran away)
How did we get from Zhu (朱) to Gee?
That is a puzzle that I'm sure is to do with the time that Gee family migrated to Australia. I think pop's Dad my grand grandfather came over during the early goldrush period.
I got this quote below from Wikipedia:
Zhu (朱), also denoted Chu, is one of the most common surnames in China, with a population of over ten million. It was the “empire’s surname” during the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu is now the 13th most common surname in China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_(surname)
David
here with mum (formerly May Gee). The Gee grandfather Pop had 3 wives. The 2nd died & the 3rd came from China but left when Pop went blind.
Toy San is the closer name (from the Fong post).
Sean
This is has already become very confusing...We will need to nominate someone to eventually write this all down and then get about 20 fact checkers...
Jason Gee
Perhaps someone can draw a family tree on Excel?
Then the visual types can print out & look at who's who & how they relate. Would prob make it easier to follow.
Each person in the tree could get paragraphs or pages for them where specific biographical info relating to them is added.
eg
Ernest Gee
DOB
DOD
Fought in WW2 in PNG. Met wife in HK & they settled in Wyndam...
Hi All,
Ashley Gee here.
Donna and myself have already done a wee bit of research into the Gee Clan.
We have a Family Tree started (though it needs a lot of blanks filled in). Its been put into a Software program for this very thing so reports and such can be created easily (once all the info is in).
We have also found quite a bit of info from the net (mainly the National Archives of Australia site which has 'travel info' on quite a few Gee family members... including photos and even handprints... very interesting).
We also have a few pages of Lena's book and some research that another Gee family member has done (?).
Donna was lucky enough to inherit Lena's photo collection (which was sizeable). So there are some great old photos in there.
As per the comments above, getting all this info into a sensible order (and getting the facts verified) is quite a task so i think i will post stuff in chunks relevant to one person (or one persons immediate family group) so that everyones comments/contributions can stay together and focussed (hopefully! hehe).
uhm... i think i've said enough here for now so stay tuned i guess
Ashley Gee
(Son of Maurice Gee, son of Hong Yet Gee, son of Chee Poon, son of ????)
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