RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1986
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CARL SMITH

Society's Mission in China did not seem proper as there were no theological students. In addition it was cumbersome.

Dr. Legge rather evaded the question of name by stating, “we shall build a house and call it the London Missionary Society House." After the building was up, it was variously referred to as the Mission House, the London Missionary Society's Institute, Dr. Legge's school, the Malacca College and, by the Chinese, the Ying Wa Shue Yuen.

After all the initial difficulties, the school did begin the Hong Kong phase of its history. Dr. Legge fell ill and the doctor advised that he should return home. He left Hongkong in November 1845 and did not return until August 1847. Upon his return the school took on renewed life.

WHEN THREE CHINESE STUDENTS "FOUND GOD IN BRITAIN”

Dr. James Legge did not have the opportunity to build a solid foundation for the school he established in Hongkong. He had just got it under way when the doctor ordered him home to Scotland for a period of rest. He and his family left Hongkong in November 1845.

Lee Kim-leen,

In the party were also four young Chinese Song Hoot-kiam and Ng Mun-sow, three of his students, and Jane A-sha under the care of Mrs. Legge.

Ng Mun-sow was an orphan boy the Legge family had brought with them when they moved from Malacca to Hongkong. Lee and Song had been former pupils at Malacca. They had not left with Dr. Legge because of parental opposition. They overcame this in time and joined Dr. Legge in Hongkong in 1845.

Before leaving Hongkong, Dr. Legge had asked the Directors of the Mission Society in London if he could bring the boys with him, but he had not received a reply. When he arrived in England, he found the Directors had not approved, but the deed was done.
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1993
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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)

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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.
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