1850-1911, op cit
71 See P H Hase, "Sha Tau Kok in 1853”, op cit
72 The largest shops were
Kwan Tau (144) the household goods shop (Nai Wai, Niwei, in Luk Heung)
2 Wang Hap (Z) the household goods shop (Yung Shue Au)
3 Kwong Yue (M) the grocery (Fung Hang)
4 Yuen Tai (54) the grocery (Tong To)
5 Sam Lung ( ) the grocery (Wo Hang)
6 Yan Hong (10) the grocery (Yim Tin)
7
8 Cheung Ding (FL) the fishmonger (Kwun Lo Ha, Guanlouxia, in Luk Heung)
Wa Shong (4) the fishmonger ("Sha Tau Kok" probably Sha Lan Ha)
9
10 Tak Ding (120) the tobacconist (Luk Keng)
11 Tsui Cheung (4307) the silversmith (Tsai Muk Kiu)
12 I San Cheung (1) the tailor and cloth dealer (Yim Tin)
13 San Lung (954) the tailor and cloth dealer - the largest shop in the market - (Au Tau, Aotou, in Luk Heung)
14 Tung Yue ( ) the carpenter (Sau Hang, Xuokeng, in Luk Heung)
15 Jung Hing ([]) the carpenter (Sha Tseng Tau, Shajingtou, Luk Heung)
16 Cheung Sze (12) the boatbuilder (Sha Tau Kok Sha Lan Ha)
17 Sze Fong Ting (P44) the gambling house (Wo Hang)
18 Nung Sang Tong (WE7) the doctor (Yim Tin)
19 Wo Hing Tong (ABU) the pawnshop (Yim Tin)
Thus, of the largest shops, five were owned by Luk Heung people, four by Yim Tin Yeuk people, two by Wo Hang Yeuk people, two by Sha Tau Kok (Sha Lan Ha) people, two by people from the Thi Tin Yeuk (the area south-west of Sha Tau Kok across the sea, around Luk Keng and Nam Chung), and one each by people from the Hing Chun Yeuk (around Lai Chi Wo), Kuk Po Yeuk, and Sam Heung. Thus, in 1925, not only were the largest shops all operated by people from the Shap Yeuk area, but ownership of these larger shops was spread around most of the Yeuk areas of the Shap Yeuk.
The Basel missionaries make it clear that the shops in the market in 1853 were also all owned by people from the surrounding villages see P H Hase, “Sha Tau Kok in 1853", op cit
71 See J W. Hayes, The Hong Kong Region, 1850-1911, op cit for the places of origin of shop-keepers at Tai O and Cheung Chau, and J W Hayes, The Rural Communities of Hong Kong, op cit for those at Kowloon city. D Faure, loc cit gives details on those at Tsuen Wan and Sai Kung. The fisher ports in the Islands (Tai O, Cheung Chau), and, to some degree Sai Kung on the mainland, had the largest percentage of non-indigenous shopowners, but Sha Tau Kok had fewer "outsider" shopowners even than Tsuen Wan.
74. A contact from Tsat Muk Kiu village, for instance, said that she would go to the market with her wood, sell it, buy what she needed in the market, and return home, passing on her way home the women from Wang Shan Keuk still carrying their wood.