Location 245
Location #245. Ah Chong Store & Butchery.
Map 11
- Address
- Pigroot Gully
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Area -
Shepherds Creek -
Description -
Location #245. Ah Chong Store & Butchery. Shepherds Creek, left bank - mouth of Pigroot Gully.
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Still Standing -
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Construction Details -
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Location Type -
Dwelling
Commercial Building
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Interested Parties
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| Group | Date | Description | |
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| 1 | 1871 - 1876 | Ah Chong | Details |
| 2 | 1876 - 1887 | Chung Hung Lung | Details |
| 3 | 1887 - 1897 | Lung Soy | Details |
| 4 | c1897 - 1904 | Mrs S Graham (possibly) | Details |
Notes
The table below shows any historical notes about the location.
| Note | Date | Short Description | Note Text |
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| 2819 | 1871 | Ah Chong established his store and butchery. | Ah Chong established a store and butchery at Shepherds Creek. The store was fully equipped with benches for opium smokers and tables for playing dominoes. |
| 2820 | 1876 | Ah Chong sold the store and butchery to Chung Hung Lung. | In July of 1876, Ah Chong sold the store and the butchery to Chung Hung Lung who had a store and a garden further upstream in Shepherds Creek (see location #249) |
| 2822 | 1887 | Sale of the property to the Kwong Shing Wing company. | It appears that the firm of Kwong Shing Wing who were general merchants of Dunedin may have purchased the business at this time (they may have owned it from 1871 but no record of this is known). The Bannockburn branch of Kwong Shing Wing was to be known as the Lang Kin Store. Lung Soy was appointed as manager. |
| 2826 | 1897 | The store is closed down. | The Kwong Shing Wing company cancelled their occupation licence at Bannockburn (Cromwell Argus 2 Nov 1897). It appears that the store closed down at this time. |
| 2827 | c1897 | Mrs Graham and her son may have moved to dwelling #245, | It appears that about this time, Mrs Graham may have moved from Kawarau Station (possibly part of dwelling #285) to dwelling #245 with her son James Brown Graham. Oral family history mentions Mrs Graham living in a disused Chinese hut in the Shepherds Creek area around this time. It may not have been location #245, but may have been close by. |
Images
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| Image Id | Source | Date | Short Description | |
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| 129 | Cromwell Argus via Paul Crump | 25 Sept 1889 | Application for occupation - Kwong Wing Wing, Tiney's Gully | View Image |