LAM Chooi Lan (1st Wife)

Residence: No.11, Bukit Nanas

From English Newspapers As Sources of Malaysian History oleh Khoo Kay Kim* at http://kekal-abadi.um.edu.my/filebank/published_article/3904/KA4(3)... Page 10 It is, often, through the newspapers too that one is able to trace family ties especially those effected through marriages. For example, Wellington Koo, a well-known diplomat of China, married the daughter of Oei Tiong Ham, the 'Sugar King' of Indonesia who also had large business interests in Singapore. Allan Loke, the eldest son who survived to adulthood of Loke Yew, once the richest man in Malaya, married Lam Chooi Lan whose mother, Chung Siew Ying, was the grand-daughter of Kapitan Chung Keng Quee. Loke Yew was a contemporary of Chung Keng Quee in Larut at the time when that territory was continually ravaged by Chinese disturbances. Chua. Boon San, son of Chua Cheng Bok, married Choo Lai Keun, the daughter of Choo Kia Peng, one of the longest serving Federal Councillors before World War II. Chua Cheng Bok, together with his brother Cheng Tuan, founded Cycle and Carriage (a company still flourishing) in 1899. Choo Kia Peng's other daughter, Choo Sim Keun, married Foo Meow Chin, the eldest son of Foo Choo Choon, the 'patriach' of the Foo clan in Ipoh. Foo Choo Choon, of Penang origin, began his mining career in Taiping, subsequently settling down at lpoh but his business interests extended to as far away as Sungei Besi in Selangor. Another interesting link between two influential families resulted from the marriage between Loke Yaik Foo, son of the well-known Kuala Lumpur personality, Loke Chow Kit, and Khong Sun Lun, daughter of Khong Cheong Tak of lpoh, Khong Cheong Tak's brother, Dr. K.T. Khong, was an outstanding sportsman (a Cambridge Blue), a community leader and a State and Federal Councillor. Interestingly, Lake Chow Kit's fourth daughter, Loke Poh Gaik, married Kitson Khong a barrister and brother of Loke Sun Lun.l4

24lt is extremely difficult to obtain information on the links between elite families. This stems also from the paucity of blographical studies. In the case of Chua Cheng Bok, for example, although a history of the Cycle 8< Carriage Lim,ited has been pub• lished (see Eric Jennings, Wheels Of Progress: 75 Years of Cycle & Carriage, Singapore, 1975), the information given on the Chua family is very sketchy. Chua Chena Bok's son, Chua Boon San, is not even mentioned in the books nor is there any reference to the fact that Chua Cheng Tuan spent a great deal of his time managing rubber estates owned by him and his brother in Selangor and Melaka.

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