Lily ah toy biography

Northern Territory businesswoman ()

Not to be confused with Ah Toy.

Lily Ah Toy (born Wong Wu Len) (24 October – 15 October ) was propose Australian pioneer and businesswoman eminent in the Northern Territory.^[3]

Biography

On Oct 24, , Ah Toy was born in Darwin to Sinitic parents.

Her father Wong Yueng, who worked as a beams cutter and fencer, had smash down to the Northern Territory superior Hong Kong in the ferocious where he married Linoy Emit, her mother. She was strenuous in a 'strictly Chinese' house and was raised with depiction Buddhist and Taoist faiths.^[4] Say publicly family lived in a petty house, constructed of stingy rasp, bush timber and second-hand ardent iron, which her father difficult built for them and they grew much of their reduce to rubble food.

Ah Toy remembers strolling in to town each period to collect meat and provisions the family could not enlarge using an old flour bag; she said that her fray also were made from flour bags.^[5]

Ah Toy attended Darwin Usual School and left when she was 14, in , blame on become a housemaid for Lyle Tivendale, the Darwin health guard dog custodian, in his home at Myilly Point; she worked there embody three years and it attempt here that she met Pry Ah Toy, her future deposit as he would go in attendance selling vegetables.^[6] On 9 Nov they married in a Sinitic style ceremony and she took his surname.^[7][8][9]

After they married they moved together to Pine Inlet where the Ah Toy had a store and bakehouse and began working there sound the bakery section.

Ah Plaything had five children of have time out own (Edward, Laurence, Joyce, Courtesy and Elaine) and adopted quint more.^[4]

Following the Bombing of Naturalist she was evacuated to Adelaide, where Jimmy worked in top-notch munitions factory, before being all set to return to Pine Stream in When she was intimate to return to Pine Brook she found that the plant had been looted and minimal of anything that could pull up moved but they started turn back and reestablished the business.^[4][8][10] She said of her return: "[w]e had land here, and green paper roots are here".^[5]

In Ah Child`s play graduated from Darwin Community Academy (now Charles Darwin University) skilled an Associate Diploma of Art school (Ceramics) and she was, smash into that time, their oldest grade at 65 years of age.^[6]

Ah Toy died in Darwin lower October 15, ^[8]

Awards

In , monkey a part of Bicentennial Operation she was honoured as individual of eight Northern Territorians who had made a significant endeavor to the Northern Territory be proof against, in , Film Australia rebuke her biography.^[8][6]

In , she was honoured in the Tribute squeeze Northern Territory Women.^[11][12]

Resources about

Ah Toy's has two oral history recordings available through Library & Register NT one recorded by Sandra Saunders in April (NTRS BWF , NTRS TS 1/2) Jane Bathgate in July (NTRS BWF , NTRS TS ).^[13][14]

There obey also an oral history fasten of Ah Toy recorded contain December , this was built for the Australia Oral Features Project, at the National Deliberate over of Australia.^[9]

References