Seah Wah-Cheong and Kway Thoo-Yong, Marriage October 1907, Singapore

A CHINESE WEDDING.
INTERESTING CELEBRATIONS

The celebrations in honour of the wedding of the daughter of Mr. Seah Leang Seah and Mr. Kway Thoo Yeng last evening were very interesting and upon a scale in keeping with the high positions occupied by the bridgegroom and the bride's family in Singapore.

H.E. the Governor, Sir John Anderson, was among the many European guests invited, and accompanied by Mr. Seah Leang Seah visited the bride. The back part of the ground floor of Bendemeer was reserved for Chinese ladies. On the lawn the band of the West Kents was stationed and played a charming selection of music as the undermentioned programme shows:

1. Grand March "Pomp and Circumstance" - Elgar.
2. Overture to "The Barber of Seville" - Rossini.
3. Selection from "La Traviata" - Verdi.
4. Vaise 'Lustige Bruder' - Vollstedt.
5. Three Dances from "Nell Gwyn" - German.
6. Selection from "The Gondoliers" - Sullivan.
7. Menuet "No 1" - Paderewski.
8. Two Step "Laughing Water" - Hager.

The bride had to undergo a prolonged ordeal in sitting to receive the congratulations of her friends. She was most gorgeously bedecked, her ornaments representing in diamonds alone an untold wealth. The weight of the gold pins and other ornaments that formed that formed the bride's coiffure could not be estimated. Many of these priceless jewels were family heirlooms and represented the wealth of the family. The trial of sitting must have been no small physical endurance, even although two young aides-de-camp were told off to fan the bride.

The young bride is Miss Seah Wah Cheong, daughter of Mr. Seah Leang Seah and the bridegroom who in accordance with Chinese etiquette has never seen his bride, is Mr. Kway Thoo Yong, a name well known in mercantile Singapore.

A very large gathering of Singapore Society assembled to do honour to the occasion and the beautiful lawns and green swards of Bendemeer afforded complete scope for one of the most attractive social gatherings seen here for a long time.

(The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 9 October 1907, Page 6)

See Kew Lye, Death 3 December 1918, Penang

Mr See Kew Lye of "Cinnamon Hall" Penang passed away at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday. He was the manging partner of Messrs Chin Hin Company of Beach Street, Rice Merchants, Director of the Eastern Shipping Co Ltd and the Ho Hong Bank Limited. He leaves three widows, five sons, two daughters and nine grandchildren to mourn his loss. (S Echo). [The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 5 December 1918, Page 360]

The funeral of the late Mr. See Kew Lye of Penang and Rangoon took place on Wednesday when his remains were removed from his residence, "Cinnamon Hall," in Kelawei Road to the Batu Lanchang Cemetery, says the Straits Echo. The deceased gentleman was managing partner of Messrs Chin Hin and Co. and was also one of the directors of the Eastern Shipping Co. and the Ho Hong Bank. Besides being a businessman highly respected in the Straits and the Far East, he was also the possessor of extensive property in Rangoon and the neighbouring districts. He was a generous supporter of local charitable funds. [The Straits Times, 10 January 1919, Page 8]

Francis Maxwell Allan, Birth 23 January 1879, Penang

BIRTHS. 

At Northam Lodge, Penang, on the 23rd instant, the wife of John Allan, Esq., of a son.

[Straits Times Overland Journal, 1 February 1879, Page 1]

John Allan, Death 27 September 1894, Surrey

THE LATE MR. JOHN ALLAN. 

The death of another old Straits man is reported we regret to say, in the case of Mr. John Allan, of Messrs. Sandilands Buttery & Co., Penang, who died at home on the 28th ult. The news reached Penang by wire the following day. Mr. Allan had been ailing for a couple of months with an attack of fever, contracted it is supposed during a recent visit to the East, when he was in charge  for a time of the Sumatra tobacco estates, in which his firm had an interest. Mr. Allan came out to this Colony in a sailing ship nearly 30 years ago, and has been closely associated with Penang since that time. For about a couple of years Mr. Allan represented Penang as a Member of Legislative Council having been sworn in on the 12th January 1880. Though not taking any prominent part in Council proceedings Mr. Allan always gave useful support to his unofficial colleagues.

[The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 3 October 1894, Page 2]

DEATHS 

ALLAN - at 3 St Andrews Square, Surbiton, Surrey, on 27th inst., John Allan, of London and Penang.

[Glasgow Herald, 28 September 1894]

Giovanni Battista Cerruti, Death, 24 May 1914, Penang

Death. Cerruti. Capt. G. B. Cerruti, aged 63, on Sunday, the 24th inst., at the General Hospital, Penang.

[The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 28 May 1914, Page 6]

Cerruti's Grave

One was a little sorry to read this week that the remains of Signor Cerruti, the patron saint of the Perak Sakai, are to be disinterred from the Penang cemetery and taken back to Italy.

If any white man ever identified himself with this country it was Cerruti, for he lived in the hills with the Sakai and devoted many years of his life to studying them, trading with them and teaching them to improve their miserable conditions of life by means of agriculture and handicrafts.

He won the complete confidence of the Perak Government and held the official appointment of Superintendent of the Sakai, a post that has never been revived since his death.

His book "My Friends the Sakai" was written in Italian and translated by an English lady, who did not make an especially good job of it, but it contains some remarkably interesting first-hand observations and experiences. It is an extremely rare publication in the secondhand book market nowadays.

[The Straits Times, 17 September 1933, Page 5]

Norman Macalister McIntyre, Death, 11 July 1847, Penang

Domestic Occurrence

Death

At Pinang on the 11th instant, Mr. Norman Macalister McIntyre, aged 53 years 6 months & 5 days, leaving a wife and large family to lament his loss.

[Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 17 July 1847, Page 1]

Esther Veronica Tait and Henry Starr, Marriage 8 September 1890, Penang

Domestic Occurrence.

Marriage.

Starr-Tait. - On the 8th instant, at the Church of the Assumption, by the Rev. Father Rivet, Esther Veronica, third daughter of Captain Tait, to Henry third son of Lawrence Starr, of O'Magh County, Tyrone, Ireland.

[Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 12 September 1890, Page 4]