Family Tree
Key: Male | Female
- Seah Keng Liat 佘庆烈 Secretary, Puning subprefecture yamen, Teochew province, China.
- Seah Eu Chin 佘有进 (佘邦从) (30 Aug 1805 – 23 Sep 1883) J.P., Grand Juror, Hon. Magistrate. The subject of this biography.
- m. Tan Meng Guet 陈明月 (m. 1837 or 1838, d. 1838) Eldest daughter of Tan Ah Hun, Kapitan China of Perak. Died without children.
- m. Tan Meng Choo 陈明珠 (m. 1839 (?), d. 1905) Second daughter of Tan Ah Hun. Four sons, three daughters.
- Seah Cheo Seah 佘石城 (1846 – 1885) J.P. Manager of Eu Chin and Co. from at least 1872, proprietor of Alexandria Gunpowder Magazine from 1880 with Tan Seng Poh, later alone.
- m. Lee Quee Neo 李桂宝 (primary wife), two sons:
- Eng Kiat
- Eng Koon
- m. Lim Kah Lye 林佳丽 (secondary wife), two sons:
- Eng Yeak
- Eng Lok
- Four daughters, not known which born to which mother:
- Wah Yow
- Wah Nghee
- Wah Joo (m. Lim Kok Keng)
- Wah Poh
- Seah Liang Seah 佘连城 (1850 – 27 Jul 1925) J.P., Unofficial Mem. Leg. Co (1883-1890, 1894-1895), educated privately and at St. Joseph’s Institution, proprietor of chop Chin Choon (“Lion” label) and chop Chin Giap, president of the Kongkek from at least 1883, member of various committees including Imperial Jubilee commemoration (Queen Victoria Statue, 1889), Chinese Advisory Board (Feb 1890), war tax committee (1917), Singapore centenary commemoration committee, etc. Purchased Whampoa’s estate (Nanfang Huayuan) along Serangoon Road and renamed it Bendemeer (Mingliyuan). Made fortune first from gambier and pepper, and later from the canned pineapple business.
- m. Mrs. Seah Liang Seah (m. 1867) and two concubines.
- Eng Teck
- Eng Keong
- Eng Tong
- Eng Cheo
- Eng Thye
- Eng Whatt
- Wah Chee
- Wah Cheng
- Wah June
- Wah Yong
- Wah Sim
- Wah Jim
- Seah Song Seah 佘松城 (d. 1910 in Canton, China) Sometime assistant in chop Chin Hin, partner in the Opium and Spirit Farm, one of the winners of the 1890 Flower Show.
- m. Mrs Seah Song Seah (dates?). Four known sons. Daughters unknown.
- Eng Hock
- Eng Yong
- Eng Moh
- Eng Kim
- Seah Peck Seah 佘柏城 (d. 1939) J.P. Sometime assistant in chop Chin Hin, partner in Chin Huat Hin Oil Trading Co., proprietor of Chin Chuan Heng and Co., first Hon. Treasurer of the Straits Chinese British Association for four years, member of the first Singapore Chinese Girls’ School committee.
- m. Three wives (dates?), total of six sons, nine daughters. Names of known children:
- Eng Lim
- Eng Chiang (youngest son)
- Wah Kim (5th daughter, m. Tan Boon Yong)
- Seah Sin Seah (m. Tan Chek Thoo)
- The remaining two daughters of Seah Eu Chin died at a young age, their names are unknown.
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