Social Enquiry on
Condemned Prisoner
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Name
陳就
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Sex
: Male
Agc
: 52 years
Native Place : Wai Yeung, Mainland China.
Religion
: Nil
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General Information
Prisoner was born in his native place in Mainland China In about 1929. His father owned a Chinese wine shop and 2 wives. Five sous and one youngest daughter were born and Prisoner ranked 3rd in among siblings. According to information gathered, Prisoner's
father was a habitual drunkard who idled at home before and after
oming to Hong Kong. Family tie used to be loose and children were left to their own preferences. Prisoner only studied up to primary 4 standard in Mainland China when he attempted watch repairing apprenticeship. He also took the lead to migrate into Hong Kong alone in 1946 when he was only about 17 years old. His father, other siblings and then his natural mother followed suite from 1949 onwards.
Since arrival into Hong Kong, Prisoner worked and resided within the came district where he made his livelihood although he had erected a wooden hut upon the Valley Road upland in Hunghom which was left inhabited most of the time. When his father and siblings, came to Hong Kong, Prisoner merely assisted them to erect separate wooden huts in the same district instead of enlarging his empty hut for making a family together. As a result of fire they were resited to Wang Tau Hom and later, the group of family members were granted public housing in Rm. 229, Block 17, Wang Tau Hom Estate, Kowloon since January, 1963 with the father as the householder. Prisoner's natural mother brought along the grandchildren of her deceased 2nd son came to Hong Kong in 1962 just in time to be put under the same roof. Same as in Mainland China, life pattern and family relationship remained similarly detached. Besides those married and lived apart, Prisoner and the remaining siblings rarely stayed at home but at places of work. Prisoner was reported to be the only one keeping up visits to his parents and young nephews from time to time and making financial contribution. The other siblings only returned to take a brief family dinner on important Chinese festival occasions. When his aged father became paralysed after a traffic accident in 1977, Prisoner was the only one running about for his father's hospitalization, traffic compensation claim as well as settling him into the Tung Wah David Trench Home for the Aged since 29.3.1977. However, being independent in nature and preferred to keep his own problems by himself, Prisoner rarely talked about his work and outside activity to anybody nor was anyone interested in each other's business.
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