Lily Ah Toy

Not to be confused with Ah Toy.
Lily Ah Toy
Born Wong Wu Len
(1917-10-24)October 24, 1917[1]
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Died October 15, 2001(2001-10-15) (aged 83)[2]
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Children 5 (5 more adopted)

Lily Ah Toy (born Wong Wu Len) was an Australian pioneer and businesswoman famous in the Northern Territory.[3]

Biography

On 24 October 1917, Ah Toy was born in Darwin. She was of Chinese heritage. She attended Darwin Public School and left when she was 14 to become a housemaid.[4] On 9 November 1936, she married Jimmy Ah Toy, taking his surname.[5] She then set up a general store in Pine Creek. She had five children of her own, and adopted five more. She then moved to Adelaide, before moving back to Pine Creek in 1945. In 1988, she was honoured as one of eight Northern Territorians who had made a significant contribution to the territory. Ah Toy died in Darwin on 15 October 2001.

References

  1. ↑ Henningham, Nikki (24 January 2006). "Ah Toy, Lily (1917 - 2001)". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Lily Ah Toy". Territory Stories. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Giese, Diana (1995). MacGregor, Paul, ed. Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific. pp. 261–273., cited in "Ah Toy, Lily". Chinese Museum. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lily Ah Toy". Australian Biography. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Pine Creek - Places to Go". Weekend Notes. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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