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The Story Of Chew Boon Juan And His Family
Saturday 11 March 2023
Tuesday 22 November 2022
The OH Family Members Visit YLCO Museum
A multitude of members of the Oh family had descended upon the YLCO (Yeoh Lim Chew Oh) museum on 12 November 2022 for a visit.
Ignatius
Chew heard that several of the young Oh’s were in town to celebrate the
birthday of their grandmother, the widow of Oh Kay Lai and decided to open the museum for them. It was their first time visiting the Museum.
(left pix) Oh Lai Kee (3rd from left) with husband Chew Choon Wah and (r) Oh Lai Koon (7th from left) with Yeoh Khuan Joo and Lim Siew Tong. |
That was the initial start to the Yeoh-Lim-Chew and Oh family ties. Today after almost a hundred years the family link is as strong as ever.
(L) Aik Young and Aik Yo pointing to their great grandparents and (R) Thien Yu points to her grandfathers name Oh Kay Lai on the tombstone |
The family members took group photos sang the birthday song before viewing the museum exhibits.
Several of the younger 4th generation members like brothers Oh Aik Young and Oh Aik Yo and Oh Thien Yu were visibly quite interested when discovering their ancestors.
The Oh family member and their descendants (L ) Oh Teik Hee (R) Oh Saw Pheng |
(L) Oh Teik Kam (R) Oh Teik Soo |
(L) Oh Teik Lim (R) the family of the late Oh Teik Sinn |
Chef Chew Chooi Min |
JAG
Wednesday 2 November 2022
All Soul's Day 2022 - Yeoh & Chew At St Michael's Church
Sunday 30 October 2022
YLCO Museum Held It’s Second Open Day
YLCO Museum has photographs and stories of the families |
The YLCO (Yeoh Lim Chew and Oh) family museum had held its second open museum on 29 October. Museum curator Ignatius Chew received a request from Dennis Chew a descendant of Chew Boon Seong the elder brother of Chew Boon Juan and grand uncle of Ignatius.
Dennis Chew
Kean Eng, a third generation Chew lives in Melbourne, Australia and he was in
Malaysia with his family and requested to see the new YLCO museum.
Visiting Chews (from left) Hannah, Wendy, Dennis and Daniel Chew |
Ignatius
invited the YLCO family members again for the viewing and included other guests
such as Commander Ian Anderson who also attended his former Chew museum in
2012, Chan See Foon-Koppen a director of Ipoh Echo and Chew Seng Hian a member
of the Chew Association of Teluk Intan.
Besides
Dennis Chew there were other overseas relatives present that day namely Yeoh
Seng Hock from Melbourne, Oh Joo Hong, USA and Lim Pui See, UK.
Other visiting relatives Yeoh Seng Hock with aunt Yeoh Poh See, Oh Joo Hong and Lim Pui See with dad Lim Keng Hoo and Patrick Kwok |
Yeoh Seng Hock who also returned from Melbourne described the museum as wonderful. He described his forefathers as brave and adventurous to start a new life here and he hoped to discover more about his earlier roots.
Commander
Ian Anderson, the former director of Ipoh World for 16 years, was full of praise
for Ignatius’ new museum. Anderson had seen the first Chew museum ten years
before but said there was so much more to see now.
Commander Ian Anderson with Chin Meng Wai and Ignatius Chew |
“Ignatius has done a wonderful job. The displays are done beautifully and so too for the layout. I am sure two hours won’t be enough to cover all the exhibits in this lovely building. Not forgetting there are four wonderful families that were raised in Ipoh”.
Ignatius had
reorganized the museum and shifted the Lim family room to the 4th
floor of the building same as the other families. He also introduced ring files
of each family with photographs and literature of their history though most
were about the Chews at this time. All the relatives were impressed with the
amount of photographs on display which took them on a walk through time.
' lovely building' ..the 4th floor has 4 rooms to house YLCO museum |
'so many exhibits .. two hours won't be enough to cover all..Anderson |
Amongst the
ring files in the centre room of the museum was a thick yellow book written in
Chinese called the Heng Lim Senior Citizens Community of Xiamen China. It was
presented to Ignatius by Chew Seng Hian, a member of the Teluk Intan Khiam Thye
Chew See Heng Wan Siah association who maintains close contact with the Heng Lim
Community of Xiamen.
Chew Seng Hian presenting Ignatius Chew the yellow book.. December 2021. (r) a page from the yellow book with the four Chew brothers |
Chew Seng Hian with an audience |
In the book
are the photos of the 4 Chew brothers. The 4th brother Chew Boon
Hong was a committee member of the TI association and made contributions to
their ancestral village Heng Lim which resulted in the construction of a
school.
Chan See Foon with Ignatius and Anthony Law |
Chan See Foon, the Director of Ipoh’s community paper Ipoh Echo described Ignatius effort as an “incredible dedication to documenting the families with so much passion and diligence. Bravo, it is a one-man triumph and the families should honour him” she added.
The morning carried on with a birthday song for two relatives, Professor Yeoh Kian Hian and Yeoh Lam Kong whose birthday was around the corner. Ignatius bought them each a cake and all present sang for them a birthday song before taking a group photo. A video was uploaded later as both Professor Yeoh and Lam Kong live in Singapore and were unable to attend.
...the families sang the birthday song .. |
JAG