RE: Hakkas with the surname of LIM

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>From jlc_chan@bc.sympatico.ca Thu Apr  3 23:56:09 1997
Subject: Re: Hakkas with the surname of LIM 

> >From PITTOLIM@aol.com Wed Apr  2 18:24:38 1997
> Subject: Hakkas with the surname of LIM
> Status: RO
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have posed this question before, but received little response. Now that
> there is more people participating in this forum, I hope to get some answers.
> I am one Hakka amongst you who do not know my own root. My grandfather
> supposedly came from 'Nam Liang Lung Kiang Vui' or probably Lung Kiang
> Village of South Liang Province, China.  (Is there such a place?) He arrived
> in Lawas, present day Sarawak of Malaysia to work in the rubber plantation in
> the 1920s under the auspices of the British. He subsequently migrated to
> Labuan island of Sabah. Anyone with relatives with similar background? Is LIM
> a Hakka surname by the way? I have been led to believe that it is of Hokkien
> origin. Any comments are most welcome.
> 
> PittPitt:
according to my bit of history of record.The "Lim" clan was  one of
eight main surname-clans of Northerners who migrated to the south
circa 317AD to 581 AD(The Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians).
I am not too sure of the geographic descriptions you were mentioning,
but "Lung Kiang" sounds very Hakka, in fact, a lot of Hakka associations
use such words--"Lung Kong", which is similar.The "Lim's" might have
spreaded a bit more eastern as there are a lot of Chiuchew & Fukienese
people w/that surnames.Hope this tiny bit helps. Rgds,