APPENDIX C: Inquests into deaths of Chinese people in the Waranga area
PROV FILE* | NAME | OCCUPATION | PLACE OF DEATH | CAUSE OF DEATH | CHINESE WITNESSES | NOTES | ||||
1856/389 | Ching Mine | Not stated | Whroo | Natural Causes | Nil | Died in tent; had been ill | ||||
1858/360 | A Yea | Miner | Rushworth | Mining Accident (cave-in) | Nil | Working with Europeans - unusual | ||||
1862/857 | Kong Tong | Miner - Main Gully | Main Gully Rushworth | Dray Accident | Bo Fong - cousin | b.Canton; broken back | ||||
1863/972 | Kong Ling | Not stated | Waranga Park Station | Heart & Lung Disease | Sue Ey; Kim Yen | Shepherds at WP | ||||
1865/946 | A Cong | Not stated | Bush nr Rushworth | Strangulation (Hanging) | A Son - miner | b.Canton; apparent suicide | ||||
1865/457 | Ah Hup | Not stated | Waranga Park Station | General Debility | Nil | About 40 yo; in Aust 11 yrs | ||||
1866/196 | Ah Owen | Miner | Whroo | Heart Disease | Ah Lick - miner/brother | b.Canton; about 44 yo | ||||
1870/203 | Ah Wing | Miner | Whroo | Heart & Lung Disease | Ah Chou - gardener | Witnesses knew him 13-14 yrs | ||||
1870/203 | Ah Wing (cont) | prev Ship's Carpenter | Whroo | Heart & Lung Disease | Cong Chong | b.Canton; opium addict | ||||
1871/488 | Ah Toy | Not stated | Chinese camp Whroo | Sanguineous Apoplexy | Nil | Opium used prior to death | ||||
1874/724 | Ah Poo | Gardener | Scotchmen's Gully Whroo | Inflammation of Bowels | Ah Poi - gardener | Chinese doctor Ah Sin had attended; 36 yo | ||||
1874/724 | Ah Poo (cont) | European friend of 10 yrs - unusual | ||||||||
1874/590 | Ah Hing | Not stated | Sailors/Pinchgut Gully, Whroo | Opium Poisoning | Young Hong | Le Look interpreter; uncle in Sandhurst | ||||
1879/207 | Yee Geen | Salesman/Hawker | Mount Pleasant | Spring Cart Accident | Ah Gow (employer) | Died at Chinaman's Bend, Mt Camel Range | ||||
1879/378 | Ah Thom | Not stated | Snake Gully - Rushworth | Heart Disease | Nil | >60 yo | ||||
1882/1058 | Goon Chi | Not stated | Rushworth | Burns - fell into fire | Nil - lived alone | 60-70 yo | ||||
1891/174 | Ah Sue | Miner, cook, gardener | Main Gully Rushworth | Pleuro-pnuemonia | "James" Chil | b.Canton; 52 yo | ||||
1910/431 | Cheong Hong | Retired for 15 years | Main Gully Rushworth | Age, Heart, Lungs, Arteries | "Willie" Ah Kah - mkt gardener | 89 yo; 55 years in Vic | ||||
Total = 16 | ||||||||||
*Public Records Office of Victoria file number - the first figure is the year, so files in chronological order | ||||||||||
Dr J V Heily from Rushworth conducted many of the medical examinations of the deceased. NB Long report on Ah Hing | ||||||||||
