Talk:Kwong Sue Duk

Overseas travel
''Moved to talk, is this significant?' RJFJR (talk) 17:58, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Like many of the overseas Chinese, Kwong Sue Duk maintained strong links to China. He met and married two of his four wives in China and several of his children married in Hong Kong.

He travelled extensively, obtaining at least four exemptions from the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 dictation test so that he could return to Australia.


 * In 1853 he travelled from China to California and then returned to Toishan after several years.
 * In 1875 he travelled from China to Cooktown, Queensland and settled there. He made several trips home to China while living in Cooktown.
 * Around 1887 and 1889, while living in Palmerston, Northern Territory, he returned to China.
 * In 1898, Kwong again returned to China after a tropical cyclone in Palmerston.
 * In 1907, the family sailed to Hong Kong, in part to find wives for his sons.
 * In 1925, he visited descendants in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Naturalised?
Probably not. The NAA record is his request to be naturalised. These documents were usually annotated by the approval processes. His application seems to languish in the system like others from Chinese Australians in that time, effectively rejected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Generaldisaster (talk • contribs) 22:19, 12 November 2020 (UTC)