Ancestral Villages
Trace the roots of Chinese culture in Jamaica through a visit to our ancestral villages.
ANCESTRAL VILLAGES
Almost all the Jamaican Chinese who arrived prior to 1980 were Hakka and came from a cluster of villages within 20 miles of each other, in the area now known as Shenzhen, in Guangdong Province just north of Hong Kong.That area is sometimes referred to as Fui Toong On, based on the Hakka names for the 3 adjacent districts of Fui Yeung, Toong Guan and Bao On (in mandarin Hiuyang, Dongguan and Bao'an).
The arrivals since 1980 have come from further afield, but most still are from Guangdong and Fujian Provinces.
HAKKA MAP
Hakka names
Click the icon 
below, beside CBA Villages to view the list of villages that have been identified, and select your ancestral village. NB that the underlying satellite image is “offset” from the roadmap and the village pins by about 300 feet.
below, beside CBA Villages to view the list of villages that have been identified, and select your ancestral village. NB that the underlying satellite image is “offset” from the roadmap and the village pins by about 300 feet. MANDARIN MAP
Mandarin names
Click the icon below, beside CBA Villages to view the list of villages that have been identified, and select your ancestral village. NB that the underlying satellite image is “offset” from the roadmap and the village pins by about 300 feet.
below, beside CBA Villages to view the list of villages that have been identified, and select your ancestral village. NB that the underlying satellite image is “offset” from the roadmap and the village pins by about 300 feet. OUR ANCESTRY
Find village
List of Jamaican Surnames and their ancestral Villages.
Surname List
OLDEST MAP
1866 Map
by Volonteri of San'on County (aka Xin'an, later called Bao'an, and Shenzhen)
