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2nd generation descendants Pi line of descendants were not known
word-line and his children's family roots were
not available.
Forefather Yan Pi Kou was the eldest His conjugal house was
son and heir of ancestor Yan Jen founded in Tung Tsun, Hsia Hsing
Kuei. administrative unit, Ta Pu district.
He stayed behind in Shang According to the old records of the
Chang walled-village and was Yan Clan, he was reported to have
entrusted with the responsibility of moved his family to live in Ting Tou
looking after his five younger hamlet, Li Jen village, Chao Chih
brothers and supervising over their administrative unit, 8th capital,
education. where he was known as ancestor Yan
The ancestral house was Yung Cheng and the founder of the
located in Li Jen village, Shih An branch/clique in Liu Keng, Chiang
administrative unit, 11th capital, Tien district, Yung Chun County.
Yung Chun County. This branch was consolidated
Descendants born from this with other cliques to form the Liu
conjugal house were regarded to Keng, Chiang Tien family Tree,
belong in the upper lineage. They sharing one common ancestor.
were:-
1. Yan Hsun and The branches thus absorbed into the
2. Yan His Chiang Tien ancestral tree were the
former separate conjugal houses
Forefather Yan Pi Ta was ranked as located at Kung Nei hamlet and Ting
the second son of forefather Yan Jen Tou hamlet, Li Jen village, Chao Chih
Kuei but nothing was known as to administrative unit, 8th capital,
whom he obtained in marriage for his Yung Chun county.
wife or whether any off-springs had
been born to him. He lived in the Ta Forefather Yan Pi Cheng took his
Pu district. seat of office as the convenor and he
became known in the latter days as
forefather Yan Yung Cheng.
Founder of the Chiang Tien
ranch/clique
Old homestead in Ou Chia Chuang,
Forefather Yan Pi Cheng was the Ta Pu district
third in line amongst the children of
ancestor Yan Jen Kuei and his place Forefather Yan Pi Chu was the 4th
of residence was at Tung Chun, Ta son of ancestor Yan Jen Kuei and he
Pu district, Yung Chun County. resided at Li Jen village, An Jen
Children born of him would be administrative unit,9th and 10th
considered in status as those capital, Yung Chun county.
belonging inside the lower lineage. He was relegated with the sole
The particulars of his lower ranked responsibility as a steward, to watch
