Jolly Chau

Brief Life History of Jolly

When Jolly Chau was born on 28 January 1928, in Hong Kong, her father, Ching Chu Chau, was 23 and her mother, Sau Sunn Wong, was 23. She had at least 1 son with William S.Y. Wong. She died on 28 December 2014, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.

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William S.Y. Wong
1930–1984
Jolly Chau
1928–2014
Raymond K.S. Wong
1956–2000

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    World Events (8)

    1929

    13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

    1941

    Japan occupies Hong Kong. Food shortages impel many residents to flee to mainland China. The population drops from 1. 6m in 1941 to 650,000 by the end of the Second World War.

    1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment

    Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.

    Name Meaning

    Some characteristic forenames: Vietnamese Hung, Minh, Hoa, Thanh, Duc, Ha, Anh, Quyen, Lan, Son, Linh, Muoi. Chinese Wing, Hong, Han, Sang, Chi, Hang, Ching, Chiu, Dong, Kam, Man, Ping. Korean Phong, Chung, Nam, Chong, Sinh, Tam, Thai, Tinh, Tuong, Yuet, Hung Kim, Manh.

    Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 鄒, see Zou .

    Chinese: alternative Mandarin form of the surnames 巢 and 晁, see Chao 1 and 2.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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