Louis’ great great grandfather was SONG GUN WONG he was an only child and very spoiled. As a child he was playing marbles or similar and ended up hitting his eye and blinding himself in one eye. His family was teased as he was growing up that he was “ruined” because he had been too indulged and he was now useless.
He grew up and had 5 sons and some daughters.
Son 1: DU GUAN WONG : We have met his decendants in China. They live in the “old” village. When we did the family trip in 1991 it was one of his family who gave us old rice bowls and also the family who went out to get some special grass to boil a brew for Lulu to drink for her cystitis.
Son 2: DU NAM WONG: (Louis’s great grandfather) He was the first in the family to go to the USA. This is our branch. . We need to look on the family tree document in Sacto that Ai Gong’s brother in Alameda created about 10 years ago to know how many children he had etc. He was the first person to go to USA. He was the father of MUN GONG WONG & BO GONG WONG (Louis’s grandfather).
Du Nam is the man with whiskers in the portrait (photograph). Louis carved a sculpture of him that was confiscated during the Cultural Revolution in China. That bust was returned in recent years and was still upstairs in the house in the village in 1999 when Jackie last visited .
Du Nam was told by a fortune teller that he would die by the age of 40 years, so he went back to China to die. He ended up living a very long life back in China.
It was DU NAM’s wife that would give Louis her bottom lip to suck on as a pacificer when he would cry as an infant!!! She also carried baby Louis in her arms for the first 40 days of his life. She would only give him to Mar Toy Hong (Dad’s mother) to breastfeed. She kept him in her arms day and night for the rest of that time.
Ha Goo remembers and told Mom that Du Nam’s wife was really mean and all girls were terrified of her because whenever she saw a girl child she would rap them on the head with her knuckles. As she grew old she completely changed and started to give money away instead of knuckles to the girls.
MUN GONG had 2 surviving sons and 2 surviving daughters. He went to USA and he was the sponsor of Gim Ming Wong to USA.
Daughter 1: Yang Goo Hoo
Daughter 2: 3 Goo Hoo (Tham goo hoo)
Son 1: Father of Chang Gong (the guy with the glass eye)
Son 2: 2 Gong (Ngee Gong) who is the grandfather of Jeanna, Father of Ho (The guy who swapped the ring that Kai Moo helped buy for Mom when he went back to China to wed.) and Moi Goo.
BO GONG (Louis’grandfather) had 10 children. 5 boys and 5 girls. Only 2 of the 5 boys survived, so they adopted some other boys to replace the deceased sons. Bo Gong had a bad fall as a child and it stunted his growth. His torso was short and so his hands reached down to his knees. Thus he could not go to America as he couldn’t do physical labor. BO GONG did very well for himself. He worked in HKG and had a shop called ACK ON CHENG in Sheung Wan. It was the “agent/fixer” (known as Zhong Hao) for Toisan going to USA. Upstairs there were beds for the bachelors. Downstairs there were lots of chairs and a counter. They would help with boat tickets, sending money, keeping and arranging documents etc. Mom went there too when she married Dad. They slept in Nam Ping hotel (Southern Peace Hotel) but would go “call” at the shop. Q Gong in HKG has taken us to see the location. It became a herbalist shop but I think it recent years it has been demolished and is now a highrise tower.
BO GONG’s Children:
Son 1: GIM MING WONG (Louis' father)
Son 2: DA MING WONG (Calgary, father of Simon)
Sons 3 – 5 died and were substituted by adoption of Nathan’s grandfather and Foo Sok’s grandfather.
Daughter 1: 3 Goo Hoo (Tham Goo Hoo) We have never seen her. Mom saw her once when they went to Canada in 1986. She lived another flight away from Calgary.
Daughter 2: 4 Goo Hoo (Thee Goo Hoo) Phoenix, very wealthy from 2 supermarkets , now deceased) ( she had a bulbous nose)
Daughter 3: 5 Goo Hoo (Mmm Goo Hoo) Seng’s mother
Son 3: DU QIN WONG : This branch had 5 sons, including a set of twins. Twin 1’s descendants are “FONG and WENG HEE who are also related to CHAI (Julie) Wong. Also related to Ha Goo (Ock Teng Yee’s wife) and Jiang her brother. Twin 2 was Ai Gong’s father
Their was a 3rd surviving son too.
Therefore Gim Ming’s father and Ai Gong’s grandfather were brothers
Son 4: DU DIEU WONG: This is the father of Sam Wong (Bok Gong and Bok Wong, Dora’s in-laws). He was the man who met Louis in San Francisco and it was because of them that Louis also chose to go to Sacramento.
Son 5: Unknown WONG: This was a poor branch of the family. Sandra remembers that when Gim Ming WONG would send money back to China he would send to them sometimes.
