Born

• 4 October 1876

Family name

• Minahan

Given names

• James
• Francis
• Kitchen

Parents

• Cheong Ming
• Winifred Minahan

Siblings

• Winifred Cheong Ming

Related to

• Ah Doe
• Ah Yuey
• Catherine Minahan
• Mary Manning
• Richard Minahan

Knows

• Ah Chew
• Chan Num
• Chin Kay
• Chin Shing
• Deung Garng
• E.A. Fortescue Croft
• Ernest Tipp
• W.T. Coldham
• William Ah Ket

Subject of

• A1, 1908/12936, 'Kitchen'. Prohibited immigrant, 1908
• PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT -- James Francis Kitchen
• A10074, 1908/31, POTTER Lionel Frank versus MINAHAN James Francis Kitchen

Mentioned in

Chapter 1: An unexpected welcome

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• …New Zealand, Tahiti and Fiji. James Minahan was one of those bound …
• …Zealand, Tahiti and Fiji. James Minahan was one of those bound …
• …papers, he decided to give Minahan the Dictation Test. This was …

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• …Minahan was unable to complete the …

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• …their handprints and documents, including Minahan’s birth certificate, to assist …
• …government interpreter Harry Hoyling, interviewed Minahan in the saloon of the …
• …Chan Num, who had known Minahan as a boy and had …

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• …establish whether the birth certificate Minahan presented was really his own. …
• …and the mother was ‘Winifred Minahan’. Ever alert to the possibilities …
• …spoken to him. After interviewing Minahan, Mercer was not convinced of …
• …interpreter Harry Hoyling, Mercer told Minahan that he was going to …
• …them in English. He gave Minahan a pencil and paper and …
• …read in Sydney. When asked, Minahan said that he could not …
• …not land in Australia. Consequently, Minahan was to be transferred back …

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• …The next day, Tuesday, Minahan left Melbourne for Sydney on …
• …in Sydney two days later, Minahan was escorted by Inspector Donohoe …
• …issued against him for holding Minahan on board. Habeas corpus …
• …similar to that of James Minahan.4…
• …very similar to that of James Minahan.4…

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• …F.S. Boyce acted on Minahan’s behalf in the matter, …
• …born British subject Minahan was entitled to enter the …
• …and he presented affidavits from Minahan and several Chinese residents of …
• …attesting to the facts of Minahan’s Victorian birth and subsequent …
• …had declared at that James Minahan was a prohibited immigrant, noting …
• …evidence, Justice Street ruled in Minahan’s favour, concluding that neither …
• …the Commonwealth had demonstrated that Minahan was a prohibited immigrant under …
• …Act. Justice Street therefore ordered Minahan’s release.…
• …who had declared at that James Minahan was a prohibited immigrant, noting …

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• …Minahan left the Taiyuan at around …
• …at Circular Quay and arrested Minahan as he left the wharf. …
• …1905’.6 Minahan was brought before the Water …

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• …received a personal letter from Minahan’s Melbourne solicitor, E.A. …

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• …When Minahan was rejected at Melbourne and …
• …is likely that it was Minahan’s uncles in Melbourne, Ah …

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• …These private discussions between Minahan’s solicitor and those representing …
• …for the hearing against James Minahan on Friday, 14 February. However, …
• …Sydney for the hearing against James Minahan on Friday, 14 February. However, …