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For many immigrant Chinese one of the factors which eventually
anchored them to life in Australia was the birth of Australian-born
children who grew up more accustomed to the opportunities and restrictions
in Australia than to those in China. Descendants are now third,
fourth and fifth generation Australians.
 Jack
Chong, Dubbo, about 1915. (Dubbo Museum and History Centre)
In 1939 Jack Chong's mother, Ah Kee Chong, filled in an application
for registration as an alien in Australia. She was born in China
in 1884 and arrived in Australia before the turn of the century.
Her husband, James Chong, was also born in China. Ah Kee and James
Chong were among those Chinese who settled in Australia and brought
their children up in local communities in regional New South Wales.
James, Ah Kee, Jack and other members of the Chong family are buried
in Dubbo cemetery.
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 The
Lowe family, Tingha, about 1919. (Private collection). From left
to right: Ned, Jack Joe Lowe, Mavis, Marge, Fong Quain Lowe holding
Ronald.
From 1918 to 1998 members of the Lowe family owned the Wing Hing
Long store in Tingha.Their story, and that of the store, can now
be experienced through a visit to Wing Hing Long which, in 1999,
opened as a community managed museum.
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