Matilda Lo Keong (c.1856 – 18 December 1915) was a
New Zealand storekeeper, homemaker and community worker. She was born in
Bao'an District,
China
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in c.1856. Lo Keong was the first identified Chinese female immigrant to New Zealand, where she raised the first known family of pure Chinese descent.
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1850s births
1915 deaths
New Zealand social workers
New Zealand traders
Chinese emigrants to New Zealand
19th-century New Zealand people
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