Nyuk Foong Yong
1906–1953 (Age 47)
Hong Kong
The Life of Nyuk Foong
When Nyuk Foong Yong was born in 1906, in Hong Kong, her father, Tin Chong Yong, was 36 and her mother, Yit Yin Chong, was 37. She died in 1953, at the age of 47.
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Family Time Line
Tin Chong Yong
1870–1907
Yit Yin Chong
1869–1940
Nyuk Lan Yong
1896–1946
Nyuk Fah Yong
1900–1962
Nyuk En Yong
1903–1935
Nyuk Foong Yong
1906–1953
Parents and Siblings
Tin Chong Yong
1870–1907Male
1869–1940Female
siblings
(4)
1896–1946Female
1900–1962Male
Nyuk En Yong
1903–1935Male
1906–1953Female
World Events (3)
1941
Age 35
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.
1946
Age 40
Britain re-establishes civil government. Britain re-establishes civil government. Hundreds of thousands of former residents return, to be joined over next few years by refugees fleeing the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists in China.
1949
Age 43
Mao's communist forces win the Chinese Civil War resulting in a flood of refugees into Hong Kong.
Name Meaning
1 Americanized spelling of Dutch Jong .2 Chinese 雍: from the name of the state of Yong, which was granted to the thirteenth son of the virtuous duke Wen Wang ( 1231–1135 bc ). The son also received the title Earl of Yong, and his descendants adopted Yong as their surname.3 Korean: there are two characters and two clans associated with the Yong surname; one is too rare to be treated here. The other claims its origins in prehistoric tribal Korea. In this early period, tribes would assume the names of animals. It is said that the Yong surname (which means ‘dragon’) came into being when the tiger tribe wished to avoid being named after a man-eating beast. The first recorded ancestor was an official in the court of the Koryŏ king Wŏnjong ( 1260–73 ). 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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