Interesting! My late father inlaw started his apprentice as a tailor from a Japanese seamstress in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, KL in the 1920's. Unfortunately, she had to leave Malaya before WWII therefore my late father inlaw continued his tailoring services which is continued by us, his family, until now; a well-known and established traditional Malay tailoring company called Omar Ali.
What an interesting story. I visited your website and read your stories. It can only be said that history needs to be viewed from different perspectives and periods. Thanks for sharing. I will come to your store to check in if I have the chance.
I wonder if Japanese “mail order” brides would have been sought by local Chinese migrants or the mixed race Chinese families in the 1890s? I have Japanese DNA and have absolutely no idea where that came from from the Penang branch. I read that women were prohibited from migration into Malaya and that gave rise to brothels and slavery of Sumatran women in Penang in the early 1800s, who were later taken as concubines and wives by the local Chinese settlers. Many Chinese men had to marry local women. My own great grandfather wedded an orphan from the convent in Singapore. Many Chinese daughters born in Penang in the 1800s had Sumatran mothers, but there were also evidence of Chinese women immigrating to specifically marry local Chinese settlers in the 1880s - they had to have local sponsors to marry. (I had read this court case in the Pinang Gazette and Chronicles dated 1902 on an inheritance dispute detailing 20 years of events.) I’m also really curious when exactly did the British allow whole Chinese families to enter Malaya? My maternal side was a whole family who settled in Ipoh by the 1900s as my grandmother was local born in 1911.
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Interesting! My late father inlaw started his apprentice as a tailor from a Japanese seamstress in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, KL in the 1920's. Unfortunately, she had to leave Malaya before WWII therefore my late father inlaw continued his tailoring services which is continued by us, his family, until now; a well-known and established traditional Malay tailoring company called Omar Ali.
What an interesting story. I visited your website and read your stories. It can only be said that history needs to be viewed from different perspectives and periods. Thanks for sharing. I will come to your store to check in if I have the chance.
I wonder if Japanese “mail order” brides would have been sought by local Chinese migrants or the mixed race Chinese families in the 1890s? I have Japanese DNA and have absolutely no idea where that came from from the Penang branch. I read that women were prohibited from migration into Malaya and that gave rise to brothels and slavery of Sumatran women in Penang in the early 1800s, who were later taken as concubines and wives by the local Chinese settlers. Many Chinese men had to marry local women. My own great grandfather wedded an orphan from the convent in Singapore. Many Chinese daughters born in Penang in the 1800s had Sumatran mothers, but there were also evidence of Chinese women immigrating to specifically marry local Chinese settlers in the 1880s - they had to have local sponsors to marry. (I had read this court case in the Pinang Gazette and Chronicles dated 1902 on an inheritance dispute detailing 20 years of events.) I’m also really curious when exactly did the British allow whole Chinese families to enter Malaya? My maternal side was a whole family who settled in Ipoh by the 1900s as my grandmother was local born in 1911.
You can try to find Karayuki-san the making of a prostitute documentary.
Its about Japanese women sold to brothels in Malaysia around 1900s.