2010 Visiting Xinyi 信宜

The details of this trip, please go to the links shown at bottom.
We arrived at Dawei Village 大圍村 on 4/26 the first time. Picture with my 2 cousins 吳桂邦 and 吳漢邦, their wives 丁榮芳 and 李蓮芳, 吳桂邦's 3 grandkids.

Below are my cousin 吳桂邦's 2nd daughter 吳學珍 (from Shenzhen 深圳) and 1st daughter 吳學瓊 (and her baby from Zhanjiang 湛江, husband in cooking picture). Not shown is his 3rd daughter 吳木榮 living in Nanning 南寧.

Below is 吳漢邦's only daughter 吳枚珍 with her kids; In front of 吳桂邦's house; Neighbors and 黃氏 relatives (right side:my grandmother's nephew, his wife and son).

We went to Gouzhou city 高州 4/27 with 吳桂邦, his wife 丁榮芳, 吳漢邦, his wife 李蓮芳

We went to Xinyi city 信宜 on 4/31 with 吳桂邦, his son 吳學業, his daughter-in-law 黄雄妹, his 3 grandkids, 吳漢邦, and his 3 sons 吳學慶,吳學平,吳學強

2010 Ancestral halls 白石吳氏宗祠

Our first ancestral settlement was at Yulongtan (Fish Dragon Beach 魚龍灘) along the Huanghua River (黃華江) in the northern part of Baishi (White Stone Town 白石鎮). This is a very nice flat area, about 30 min. motorcycle drive from my cousin's hilly Dawei Village (大圍村) in the eastern part of Baishi. The first ancestral hall was built at Poping Village (坡坪村) on the east side of the river with the clan's name Yanling Prefecture (堂號:延陵郡).

Inside the hall, it shows the name of the first ancestor: Ming-cong (明聰) with wife Liang (梁 family name). The name of his second son is Guang-hua (廣華) with wife Chen (陳 family name). For some reason, they built the 2nd ancestral hall for Guang-hua on the west side of the river at Yulongtan with his tomb on the hill at the back of the hall. I didn't get to enter the hall because they didn't have the key.


I am the tenth generation and I have shots of our family book at my cousin's house. My Grandfather is Hou-ling (厚齡) and Grandmother is Huang (黃 family name, I will ask my Huang cousin for details in future). Hou-ling's father is Ru-xun (儒勛). Ru-xun's father is Shang-kuan (上寬).
My father's official name is Ng Piew (吳標, mandarin: Wu Biao). English versions of our last name 吳 are: Woo, Ng, Wu. My mother's official name is Lau Tai (劉戴禧, mandarin: Liu Dai-xi). She said she was adopted from Xie (謝) family.

2010 Visiting Zhongshan 中山

We arrived at Zhongshan 中山南朗鎮 on 4/22 night and went to Litchi plantation 荔枝園 the next day.
All young people live away from Xinyi and live in plantation because of works.

Sun Yatsen's home town 孫中山故居 is just down the street. They use motorcycles for transportation effectively.