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My great great grandfather was a chinese immigrant at Cayaltí Farm, Lambayeque, Peru.
He was given a patronymic name by his godfathers, the Aspíllagas, thus baptizing him as Pedro Aspíllaga.
I've recently found his signature, where he would write his latin name and his Hanzi name on top. Can anyone help me discover his real name?
Here is the link:
The name appears to look like 黃清泉 or Wong Ching-chuen in Cantonese (Huang qingchuan in mandarin)
I would like to correct my mistake, Lena had informed me on incorrect spelling, the name should be Wong Ching-chuen or Huang Qingquan in Mandarin.
Explanation :)
Wong Ching-Chuen, is a local dialect spelling, Huang Wingquan is a Standard Pinyin in Mainland official tone. Since the familytree is your, you can choose either way to enter to familytree.
Lena
Thank you Lena! So Wong Chin-Chuen is for Cantonese and Huang Wingquan in Mandarin? Considering he was born in 1850, and the record is from 1900 in Peru. At the time, the 2 languages were spoken and written as they are today?
Seems she had an error, she typed "Wingquan" instead of "Qingquan"
Hi .I'm.just wondering if anyone can help . Tracing the family tree is so hard and complicated for me .I was wondering if anyone could help me . My dad was half chinese and never spoke about his family .my dad was born in England. His father my grandad I never met and don't know of any living family. He was called chin or chine due that is the name I've always k own him as having . And knew he was cantonese . I've tried to find more info ..i then found a cencus record stating he was calld ching due and at the bottom of the paper it said English name chung lee . Im so confused . Chins dad my great grandfather was called ching tong due . A joinner master was his proffesion ..Can anyone help as to what would be his right name and any idea of a village he could have come from or the characters to his name im at a loss thankyou so much .
黃清泉 (native Chinese characters) or Wong Ching-chuen (Cantonese spelling) is the right, or Huang Qingquan (Mandarin spelling) are all right.
