Background: Jim, my husband and I have just returned from a 6 week holiday to visit family and friends in England, Germany, Finland and Hong Kong. I have enough material for my blog for the rest of the year, but I have decided to start with a few weeks of family history. While great contacts were made re: the Simmons/Jones family in England, I have decided to start this blog series "Family History" with a profile of Lily Lee. I met Lily Lee for the first time in Hong Kong, last Friday 15 June 2012. Why did we make contact? Aunty Lily's father, Philip Lee Chun sponsored my grandfather, Thomas Lee Fong to live in Australia, adopted him as a son, and ensured he was educated in Sydney at Newington College. Lily was born in Sydney in 1910 and that makes her a "young" 101, and 102 next October. She was the third youngest of eight children, three girls and five boys ( excluding my grandfather). Aunty Lily moved ...
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