Showing posts with label 1906 Marriages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1906 Marriages. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Kan Kim-Kee and Chan Yen-Soon, marriage
A fashionable Straits Chinese Wedding was celebrated yesterday afternoon in Stanley Street, when Mr Chan Yen Soon, fourth son of Mr Chan Kim Boon, married Miss Kan Kim Kee, a daughter of Mr Kan Teow Koh's. The reception was held at No. 9 Stanley Street, the residence of Mr Chan Kim Boon. Mr Chan Kim Boon, the bridegroom's father, is a well-known and highly esteemed resident of Singapore, having been for over forty years employed as head book-keeper and cashier to Messrs. Donaldson and Burkinshaw. Amongst the European guests at the wedding were the Hon. H. Fort, Dr and Miss Galloway, Mr C. Dunlop, Mr and Mrs Knowles, Mr and Mrs F.K. Jennings, and the Miss Jennings, Messrs Gilbert S. Carver, B.G.H. Johnson, H. Millard, C.G. Emerson, and C. Everett. The guests were shown over the bride's room, which was gorgeously decorated. The guests then tasted a number of Chinese sweets of which there were a great variety, and drank the health of the happy couple in champagne. [The Straits Times, 5 May 1906, Page 5]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Chung Lean-Yin and Lim Yin Weng, Marriage, Penang, 1906
The marriage ceremony of Miss Chung Lean Yin, a younger sister of Mr Chung Ah Yong, to Mr Lim Yin Weng was celebrated on the 3rd inst. on a very grand scale at the palatial residence of Mr. Chung Thye Chong, in Church Street, Penang, which was a scene of gay festivity, the numerous friends of Mr. Ah Chong, the brother of the bride, being invited to celebrate the occasion and responding right willingly. The hall and dining rooms were lighted by electricity, while the tropical atmosphere was kept within bounds by electric fans, the plant being installed by Messrs Howarth Erskine & Co., the well-known electrical engineers. [Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 10 January 1906, Page 2]
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