Our LEW Family Trees

NOTES on G.P.  Lew Family Tree MOTHER's SIDE

Our grandfather, Lew Jun Dick's birth name was Lew Hung Yi. Ping Wong was his paper son name. 

Lew Jim Yok (or Yeuk) was 1 year older than Lew Jun Dick (our grandfather). His birth name was Lew Hung Jim. Our dad also called him Lau Jim. He was our Uncle Bill's father.

Our great-grandfather, Lew Han Won's birth name was Lew Hei. His father was our great-great-grandfather, Lew Yee Wing. 

His father was our great-great-great-grandfather, Lew Sung Lung. Our dad said that one of the grandsons of Lew Sung Lung was a restaurant bus boy in the US. When he returned to China, people thought he was rich and owned a restaurant in the US. His father was addicted to opium and his mother was sold as a slave. 

The oldest generation shown on this family tree is our great-great-great-great-grandfather, Lew Dou Sun.

On the far right of the family tree is Lew Sai Woon, who was the same generation as our dad. He was one of the main people we would meet at Kei Mei Village. His second wife was the last person to live in our house in the village. Our Uncle Jason Yee asked me (Alan) to get a copy of our deeds to the house when I went there in 2009. The wife was staying in our half of the building after Sai Woon passed away. She had both of our deeds, which she gave me.

Lew Sai Woon had two sons. One of them (not sure which) was another person we would often meet. Our dad said he wanted our dad to sponsor him to come to the US, but our dad did not want to do that because he did not trust him. In one of my (Alan) last visits to the village he was there. He lived in Guangzhou where he had a small transportation business. He was in the village just to get away from the city for the weekend. He gave me his card and said I should contact him if I need transportation when I am in Guangzhou. 

Uncle Bill's wife, Barbara, and his daughter, Yvonne, attended our dad's funeral and the restaurant reception afterwards.

NOTES on G.P.  Lew Family Tree MOTHER's SIDE

"Ngo" is how our dad wrote the surname 吳 , which is "Wu" in Mandarin, and "Ng" in Cantonese.

There are two Ngo's in the top row.  The red one, who is directly related to us, ran a Chinese gambling hall in Houston. As shown above, he had three daughters.  The 2nd daughter married "Jong Gee Chuen". His father was a Baptist Minister who married another Ngo/Ng/Wu.  His wife's father was the first dentist in the family, as shown above. He had learned dentistry in the US and taught it to many of his descendants. 

Jong Gee Chuen was our grandmother's uncle (her aunt's husband). He moved from Sunwui to Gung Yik city where he taught dentistry to our grandmother. Our grandmother practiced dentistry in Sunwui where she would go to nearby villages to work on people's teeth. She also did that part-time in San Francisco's Chinatown. 

Jong Gee Chuen had 9 children. Three died in infancy. The other six are shown above. The eldest son, Bill Jung, went to Canada at about age 8. His son, Stephen Jung is a lawyer in Toronto.  His daughter, Lilly Choi, went to Peru where her two children, Maria and Jaime were born. They moved to New York when the children were young. Maria was an Olympic fencer and later became a neurologist (M.D).  

One of the daughters in China (either "Chong (f)" or "Kwok Jel (f)", above) married a man that our dad called "Biu Gung" ("cousin Gung"). He worked as a dentist in Dai Gong city (where we would often stay when visiting Kei Mei village).  They moved there from Gung Yik city after WWII because Gung Yik was heavily bombed during the war. He was 77 years old in 1990. He had given our dad some ancient coins that were found in Sunwui. Three of his daughters were also dentists in Dai Gong. One of those daughters migrated to San Francisco and had an informal dentist office in one of the rooms in the Clay Street building our grandparents lived in.

The second Ngo daughter married a "Joe". They had 9 children, all of whom migrated to the Houston area. Joe King is the only one we ever met. Joe King also had 9 children in two marraiges. 

See the I.I. Berg Family Tree for our mom's side of the family. 

Email me <alanalew@gmail.com> if know of additions or corrections to these family trees.  I will make appropriate adjustments.