George Taro Furuya
One of the clever functions in the Vic CEDT Search tool is the ability to search for applicants by Nationality. A search for Japanese nationals will return these eight results. https://www.cafhov.com/vic-cedt-index/?type=advanced&search=Japanese&criteria-terms=all&criteria-field=nationality&sort-field=&sort-direction=&criteria-year=any Untitled Showa by Mayu Kanamori is an arts project that explores the relationship between found photographs and the process of reconnecting to the people in…
Victorian Community History Award 2021
2021 Winner, Victorian Community History Award The project team have great pleasure to announce the “Victorian CEDT Index” is the proud recipient of the Local History Project – Victorian Community History Award 2021. Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV) is very happy to receive this award as it recognises the high value of this resource for the wider history community. It is…
Creative searching: Fong Jow Sang
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) To get the most out of any online resource when searching for Chinese Australians you need to be smart in how you search for names. Every situation is slightly different but here is an example of how I went about searching for ‘Fong Jow Sang’ in…
‘But where is your home?’: Mayu Kanamori reflects on working with CEDT certificates
By Mayu Kanamori (artist, born in Tokyo and based in Sydney) If I answer that terribly limiting question, Where do you come from? I was born in Tokyo, but I live in Sydney now, another question usually follows: But where is your home? This second question assumes that there can only be one home, and…
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Henry Tuckathima Nitobe and Alice Amelia King
By Anne Thorogood (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria Inc) Henry Tuckathima Nitobe was born in Yokohama around 1872. He married Alice Amelia King in 1905, and stated he was aged 33, a laundryman and the son of Toda Nitobe, a potter and Hana or Hama née Jaka. He lived in Yarra St, Geelong. The…
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Banana merchants and the Victorian CEDT Index
By Terry Young (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) The Queen Victoria Market (QVM) has been a constant in my life. I shopped there as a child with my mother. My grandfather and my father were market gardeners who sold their produce to vegetable dealers at the market. I now shop there as an adult…
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How did we transcribe these records?
By Terry Young (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Some of you may be wondering how did this project come about? In 2017, I had the pleasure of contributing to a fascinating project called ‘The Real Face of White Australia’. It was an online project to crowdsource the transcription of Certificates of Exemption from the…
Can’t find your ancestor?: Cheok Hong Cheong and his family
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) The Victorian CEDT Registers contain the names of people who applied for a Certificate Exempting from Dictation Test in order to ensure they could return to Australia without having to sit a dictation test. The decision whether to set the test, designed to be unpassable, rested…
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Born in Australia but travelling on a CEDT?: The O’Hoy and Tong families
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Sometimes you will find people who did not need a CEDT to travel but who nevertheless applied for one. In 1918 several members of the O’Hoy family of Bendigo made a trip to Hong Kong to celebrate Louey O’Hoy’s (Louey Duk Hoy 雷道海) birthday in Hong…
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Issued under Circular 07/5519 and Naturalization: Chin Nooey
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Searching through the Victorian CEDT Index you might find a few entries that do not contain information about the person with a lot of ‘n/a’ written in the fields. When you view the register page you will see ‘Issued under Circular 07/5519’ or words to that…
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The Chinese in Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery
By Terry Young (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) I grew up in Coburg and during those 20 years I never visited the local cemetery. The Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery in Bell Street, Preston is one of the oldest in Melbourne dating back to 1856. Recently I made a decision to visit the cemetery to…
Finding my Dad
By Marie Hammond (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) I joined the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV) to learn more about my Dad’s life in Australia. He was known as George Woon later in life but the name he used when he first arrived was Ah Tow. With the help of CAFHOV member…
Name variations of early Indians in Australia
By Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan (Australian Indian Historical Society Inc) To have some understanding of the various names given to the people from the sub-continent it is necessary to understand that India was, and still is, a series of small nation states with their own distinctive culture and religious differences. That distinction has been…
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Found: Louey Leong Hock
By Anna Wolf (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) In May 2019, walking past the Chinese Museum in Little Bourke Street on my way to a yum cha with my husband’s family, I was thinking that I had not been to the museum for a long time. So when I got home, I looked up…
Studio photographs and the Vic CEDT Registers: Lucy and Leslie Quon Kee and the Vincent Kelly photograph collection
From the last decades in the nineteenth century local photographic studios began opening across Victoria in country towns and Melbourne suburbs. Photographic technology had developed to a point that it was now within the reach of many. Some of the collections of these photographic studios have survived in the form of glass plate negatives -…
Linking CEDT Registers and passenger records
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) While not transcribed in the Victorian CEDT Index, if you examine the digital photograph of CEDT register pages you will often find details of the date of departure and return and the name of ship they travelled on. This information can be cross-referenced and double-checked with…
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Linking CEDT Registers and the B13 correspondence series: Ah Lipp
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Using a person’s name or the C&E number you can use the National Archives of Australia’s RecordSearch (https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au) to search the B13 ‘General and classified correspondence, annual single number series’. This is the main series of correspondence of the Collector of Customs in Melbourne held by…
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Using Victoria, CEDT Book and C&E Numbers and Passenger lists: Mrs Lup Mun
By Sophie Couchman (Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria) Using CEDT applications made by Mrs Lup Mun located in the Victorian CEDT Index, we can see how photography, the Victoria Number, CEDT Book Number and C&E Number and also inwards and outwards passenger list can be used together in your research. Mrs Lup Mun was…
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