Tan Tiang Choon 陳長春
Tay Seng Neo 鄭成娘
中曆癸丑弍年岩桂月吉立 1913
Nek Minah 爪棉𦛨
中曆癸丑弍年岩桂月吉立 1913
民國祖
考諱長春陳公 Tan Tiang Choon
妣謚成娘鄭氏 Tay Seng Neo
佳城
Sons
1896 Dec 21
The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, The Philippines For the Year 1912
Powell and Co, Auctioneers House and Estate Agents
Tan Tiang Choon, storekeeper
Cheong Koon Seng, a cashier
孝男
榮海 Tan Eng Hai
榮吉 Tan Eng Keat
榮業 Tan Eng Giap
孝女
淑麟 Tan Siok Lin
孫
桂馥 Tan Quee Hock
桂龍 Tan Quee Leng
女孫
月英 Tan Guat Eng
仝立
甲寅年八月吉立 1914 8th moon
民國顕妣棉𦛨陳門爪氏 Nek Minah
孝男
榮吉 Tan Eng Keat
榮業 Tan Eng Giap
奉祀
An amazing story emerged after I informed the descendant about the rediscovery of her great great grandparents - Tan Tiang Choon and Tay Seng Neo. She checked with her aunt, who informed that her ancestor married another wife who was a Boyanese and buried below her husband. So I looked around my archives and indeed find another wife tomb,which I can't decipher her name until now .... for the Boyanese lady was called Nek Minah - inscribed in the tomb as 爪棉𦛨. She borne him two sons as seen from her tomb ...
Tiang Choon passed away in 1919 while his Boyanese wife passed away in 1914. His wife Tay Seng Neo would have passed away much earlier sometime around lunar 8th month 1913 based on tomb date.
The tomb built for Tan Tiang Choon and his wife Tay Seng Neo then in 1913.
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2
The Straits Times, 25 August 1913, Page 8
This would be the death of Mrs Tan Tiang Choon nee Tay Seng Neo
Malaya Tribune 1919 Aug 1,
One of the oldest Straits born Chinese residents of Singapore passed away on Wednesday morning , at his residence in Killiney Road, in the person of Tan Tiang Choon at the good age of 82 years. Coming from Malacca when a mere lad, he entered the service of Messrs Powell and Co, which was then just started by the late Mr H T Powell, and for 53 years he continued in that firm, retiring only 3 years ago, when his chief Mr J T Lloyd sold his interests to a limited company and retired on his going home. The funeral will take place on Sunday morning, and the burial will be in the Hokkien cemetery in Bukit Timah Road
Tan Tiang Choon was born circa 1837 in Malacca and came to Singapore as a mere lad,. He started work in Messrs Powell and Co around 1863 and worked there for 53 years before retiring as a storekeeper in 1916
Sons
Tan Eng Hai
Tab Eng Keat
Tan Eng Giap
Cheng Sim Kok Association
1896 Dec 21
Straits Times
Tan Tiang Choon was the executor of the estate of Cheong Ann Bee. His son, Tan Eng Hai, married the granddaughter of Cheong Ann Guan (brother of Cheong Ann Bee).
Tan Tiang Choon was the executor of the estate of Cheong Ann Bee. His son, Tan Eng Hai, married the granddaughter of Cheong Ann Guan (brother of Cheong Ann Bee).
He was the storekeeper of Messrs Powell and Co
Powell and Co, Auctioneers House and Estate Agents
Tan Tiang Choon, storekeeper
Cheong Koon Seng, a cashier