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and guard over the grave of ancestor 1. Yan Chien, and
Yan Jen Kuei, who was interned in 2. Yan Pi respectively.
the hill of Ta Li, from being
vandalized. The hamlet now bore the They separated and split into
new name of Ou Chia Chuang and subordinate cliques, which sprung
came under the jurisdiction of Ta Pu up in Chin Chiang County and
district. identified as the Tai Hsiang branch
Another duty required of him and Nan Ling branches bearing the
and his descendants, was to perform name of the individual villages where
and observe the rites and ceremonies they settled down in this district.
before the ancestral shrine in Ou
Chia Chuang, Ta Pu district, Yung
Chun County. Founder of the branch in Wu Chiang,
Tung An county
Ta Pu branch/clique expanded to The 6th and youngest son of
Chin Chiang County. forefather Yan Jen Kuei was called by
the name of Yan Pi Ho. In his early
Forefather Yan Pi Wen was the 5th years, he lived in Yang Tao hamlet, Li
son of forefather Yan Jen Kuei and he Jen Village, An Jen administrative
lived in Shan Hsia, Pu Wei hamlet, Li unit, 9th capital, Yung Chun County.
Jen village, An Jen administrative The hamlet is now under the
unit, 10th capital, Yung Chun jurisdiction of Ta Pu district.
County, before he moved his family He was a married man but the
to reside at Chin Chiang village, Ta name of his wife and her clan was left
Pu district, Yung Chun County. Pu out and not mentioned in his
Wei hamlet had since been renamed biography. From this marriage, a
as Shan Hsia, Ta Pu district. son was born to him and his name
He married a maiden of the Lu was Yan Shee.
clan and she was a former resident of
Shang Chang walled-village in Li Jen Soon after, he moved his
village, Shih An Administrative unit, household to Hsien Tsoo village Wu
11th capital, renamed as Shih I Tai Chiang administrative unit, Tung An
Ju, Yung Chun County. county, Fu Chien province, where he
Because his wife was barren, founded a new branch of the Yan
he remarried for a second time to a clan and became its first ancestor.
woman from the Chen clan whose
hometown was in Kuan Tien hamlet, 3 Generation
rd
Chih ching village, Ho Feng The son of forefather Yan Pi Kou, who
administrative unit, 24th capital and was the patriarch in order of birth
seat of the county government of and rank within the upper lineage,
Yung Chun. It had since been were
renamed as Shih I Tai Ju. She bore 1. Yan Hsun and
him two sons and they were named:- 2. Yan His.
