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Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register, 26 March 1836, Page 1
THE FREE PRESS. Singapore, Friday, 6th July, 1849.
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 6 July 1849, Page 1
Remains of Choa Chong Long was dug up from
his grave in China and supposed to be brought back to Singapore
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The Straits Times, 15 September 1865, Page 4
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Straits Observer (Singapore), 15 April 1875, Page 2
Choa Choon Neo died on 21st Feb 1875
Kam Chwee Seng
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Straits Observer (Singapore), 23 June 1876, Page 2
Kam Cheng Gam
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SINGAPORE DAILY TIMES, 20 September 1879, Page 3
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 2 December 1892, Page 3
Choa Chow Neo was daughter of Choa Chong Long.
She was widow of Koh Kwee Long , when he died , she was remarried to Tan Koon Swee
From Song Ong Siang’s book :
On the 8th of June 1831 a dinner was given to all the influential
residents by Choa Chong Long to celebrate his forty-fourth birthday.
He was born circa 1788 in Malacca, as his father was the Captain China there when the settlement was under Dutch rule. In the
judgment of Maxwell CJ, in the reported case of Choa Choon Neo
v Spottiswoode, the deceased was described as a person born and
domiciled in Singapore but of Chinese descent'. This description is evidently an error. He lived in Commercial Square, and sometimes gave entertainments in European style to the British merchants and was a very intelligent and wealthy man. After the dinner above referred to, a number of toasts were drunk, including the health of Mr Ibbetson, the Resident, and the memory of Sir Stamford Raffles, and Chong Long proposed the health of the Duke of Wellington. Wealthy and influential though he was (for at one time the natives called one of the hills near Tanjong Pagar, now demolished, Bukit Chong Long), he was apparently a man that you could not impose upon or take liberties with. To this day, the following pantun is still remembered
Tinggi tinggi rumah Chek Chong Long
Di bawahnya buat kedai kain
Alang-nya bisa ular tedong
Boleh-kah tangkap buat main?
Tinggi tinggi rumah Chek Chong Long
Di bawahnya di jual pokok
Gua tak takot ular tedong
Karan gua ular sendok.
Mr Chong Long’s house is very high, under it is a cloth shop,
maybe there is a snake, can i catch it to play with?
Mr Chong Long’s home is very tall, under it is a tree,
I am not sacred of a little snake
as I am an even bigger snake than it is !!
He went to China in 1838, and was murdered in a house in Macao by
some burglars in the middle of December. He appointed Mr William
Spottiswoode executor of his will, which contained a devise for ever
of certain properties for sinchew purposes, and this was probably the
first Chinese will which the Courts here had to construe on that point,
when it was held that such a devise was void as being in perpetuity,
and not a charity.
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