A genealogy book published in Sibu by the Lau Clan is a treasured property of any Lau family. Usually it is a sponsored project. The book is revised whenever funds are available, or when a tycoon is very interested in updating the genealogy of the clan.
Now that the computer can ease the production of such a book, life is much easier for the committee members.
It is the Chinese tradition to record family members in a book, including every male born in the family, who they are married to. In the past only the male children were recorded, but today, the female names are recorded including their spouses' name. However their children are not named.
In China, during the Cultural Revolution, many of the books were destroyed because they were considred by the Chinese Communist party as among the FOUR OLDS which had to be eschewed. Therefore much valuable cultural history was destroyed.
It is good that the Foochows of Sarawak in particular and many Chinese clans in Malaysia in general keep their genealogy books and revise them from time to time.
The Laus of Sibu have been very meticulous in recording every family in Sarawak with this publication which sees updated editions from time to time. Generous sponsors are greatly appreciated by the Clan Association.
Each publication is an improvement over the years. But this one published in the 1950's is truly one of the best.
(Mr. Lau Hieng Yiing was one of the committee members of the Lau Clan Zuk Puoh)
Congratulations to the 1950's Committee it is now considered a historical document for researchers to study and for families to keep for their future generations.
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The rickshaw puller who saved Lee Kuan Yew
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Mr Koh Teong Koo with his wife, Madam Sit Chu Song, photographed with their eldest son Ko Ming Chiu in a photo taken in the 1940s.
Cassandra Chew
The Straits Times
Tuesday, Jul 01, 2014
Trishaw rider Koh Teong Koo pedals steadily down Oxley Road, pulling up at No. 38, the home of Singapore’s prime minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
A group of his friends trail in a car from a safe distance, expecting him to be turned away by the Gurkha guards at the gate. None of them believes his story that he regularly visits the home of Singapore’s most powerful man.
Then, to everyone’s surprise, the gates are opened and Mr Koh cycles right in.
It turns out their coffee shop buddy is no ordinary trishaw rider, but the only one in 1970s Singapore with close ties to the Lee family.
It is a story the late Mr Koh’s surviving friends relate with relish. What his friends did not know either, was that the Lees always described Mr Koh as the man who saved Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s life during World War II.
His story began in 1934 when he arrived in Singapore from Fujian province in China at the age of 22. Like many of his kinsmen from the Hock Chia dialect group, he became a rickshaw puller.
In 1937, a Peranakan housewife, Madam Chua Jim Neo, got him to start taking her four sons and daughter to school by rickshaw. Mr Lee Kuan Yew was her eldest.
Said Mr Lee’s youngest brother, Dr Lee Suan Yew: “Imagine that, one man pulling at least four of us at one go. You have to be very strong to do that.”
Mr Koh also put his green thumb to work, growing sweet potatoes and cucumbers in the Lees’ backyard at Norfolk Road, in the Farrer Park area, where they lived until 1942. “Teong Koo also taught me how to rear chickens and ducks,” recalled Dr Lee.
But to the Lees, Mr Koh is best remembered for taking care of Mr Lee when it mattered the most – when the Japanese invaded Singapore in 1942.
By then, the family had moved to their grandfather’s home in Telok Kurau, farther from the city, to avoid getting hit by bombs.
One day, Mr Lee, then 19, and Mr Koh were checking their food stocks at the Norfolk Road house when they were ordered by the Japanese to go to a registration centre at Jalan Besar stadium.
They were to be screened by Japanese soldiers, who would decide if they were “cleared” to return home, or if they should be rounded up and taken away. Those who refused to be screened would be punished by the Kempeitai, the Japanese military police.
It happened that Mr Koh’s coolie-keng – the dormitory for rickshaw pullers – fell within the registration centre’s perimeter which was enclosed by barbed wire.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/rickshaw-puller-who-saved-lee-kuan-yew?page=0%2C0
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