Our great grandfather was sent onboard a Chinese vessel called a "Junk" by his parents to come to "America" when he was 14 years old and that was around the year of 1874 that greatgrandfather came to America. I have not done any research to find out if there were any trans-Pacific steamships back in the 1870s but from words of our great aunt-Dr. Tso, a PUMC graduate in gynecology, greatgrandfather Jan Wan, last name Jan, the phonetic pronounciation of the Chinese character equivalent to Cheng, he was NOT a stow away but was sent onboard a Chinese junk bounded for America by his parents, our great-greatgrandparents when he was 14 years old, and I traced it back to the year of 1860 that great grandfather was born in "Chung Shan" in the Ching dynasty era of China and already British Crowned Colony of Hong Kong before the "fragrance city"-fishing village was "westernized".
Our great grandfather was sent onboard a Chinese vessel called a "Junk" by his parents to come to "America" when he was 14 years old and that was around the year of 1874 that greatgrandfather came to America. I have not done any research to find out if there were any trans-Pacific steamships back in the 1870s but from words of our great aunt-Dr. Tso, a PUMC graduate in gynecology, greatgrandfather Jan Wan, last name Jan, the phonetic pronounciation of the Chinese character equivalent to Cheng, he was NOT a stow away but was sent onboard a Chinese junk bounded for America by his parents, our great-greatgrandparents when he was 14 years old, and I traced it back to the year of 1860 that great grandfather was born in "Chung Shan" in the Ching dynasty era of China and already British Crowned Colony of Hong Kong before the "fragrance city"-fishing village was "westernized".