Early Immigration to Hong Kong

["Dixie" <Dixie@singnet.com.sg>]

Tsuen Wan is located in the western New Territories, close to present-day
urban Kowloon. The district includes neighbouring Kwai Chung and the
adjacent inhabited islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan.
At the 1911 census of the colony of Hong Kong, the Tsuen Wan district had a
population of 2982 persons, of which 2249 were Hakka and 530 were Punti
(Cantonese). 
With the exception of those residing in the market village, all were rural
dwellers living in a score of isolated, self-managing communities of one or
more lineages, with populations ranging from several tens to several
hundreds.
The villages had their own institutions: among them ancestral halls (one or
more for every settled lineage, however small), community temples in the
four geographical parts of the subdistrict, a dozen of schools, and a
considerable number of landholding trusts.

- Dixie