Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin

I received text messages and photos via WhatsAp

p from Mohd Nor bin Hassan on Wednesday, 6 November 2019, regarding his mother, Mazna bt Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin (Mat Amin Pasar) and his grandfather Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin.

He is in contact with anak2 Tok Rashid Serdang/Nek Che'Ma (Gombak) - Pak Hassan, Pak Bidin, and Noni; and anak2 Nek Hendun (Kedah) - Siti Zaleha, Aisyah, and Jaafar.

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MOHD AMIN PASAR

Mohd Amin bin Hassan Long @ Mat Amin Pasar.

Tok moyang Mat Amin Pasar.

Name: Mohd Amin bin Hassan Long (anak angkat Hassan Long)
Call names: Mat Amin Pasar, Pak Amin Pasar, Pak Amin Chow Kit, Mat Amin Chow Kit etc
Residence: Lot 216 Jalan Stony (now Jalan Kelab Sultan Sulaiman), Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur
Occupation: Penguasa Pasar Chow Kit di Kuala Lumpur pada zaman British
Real parents: Unknown
Foster father: Hassan Long bin Datok Nengkong
Keturunan; Jawa

Mohd Amin Pasar married 4 wives:

1. First wife of Mohd Amin Pasar - Baizura
2. Second wife of Mohd Amin Pasar - Sekmah*
3. Third wife of Mohd Amin - Anjah bt Mohd Ariff (her sister Enjah bt Mohd Ariff is Coco's mother)
4. Fourth wife of Mohd Amin - Hasnah

*Sekmah died when her daughter Nek Inche' was 6 or 7 years old, in Std 1.
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Anak2 Sekmah, second wife of Mohd Amin Pasar:

1. Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin (married two wives). Deceased 1955.
2. Aminah bt Mohd Amin
3. Mohd Salleh bin Mohd Amin (Tok Alang Kg Baru, KL)
4. Ismail bin Mohd Amin
5. Hjh Aishah bt Mohd Amin (Nek Inche', Bik Esah)
6. [Jamaliah bt Mohd Amin (adik Nek Inche')]
7. [Nyonya bt Mohd Amin]
8. [Zawiyah bt Mohd Amin]
9. _
10. _
11. _
12. _
13. _

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Two wives of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin:

1. First wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin - Hendon
2. Second wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin - Hjh Burok bt Tamby Chik

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Anak2 Hendon, first wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin:

1. Mazna bt Mohd Noor (sulung)
2. Mohd Kassim bin Mohd Noor (Pak Ngah Kassim)
3. Khatijah @ Fatimah bt Mohd Noor (Bik Jah)

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Anak2 Mazna bt Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin Pasar,
eldest daughter of Mohd Noor from his first wife, Hendon:

1. Prof Mohd Amin bin Hassan (ex-UKM)
2. Mohd Hithir bin Hassan (dulu EPF)
3. Habibah bt Hassan (dulu Cikgu)
4. Hanifah bt Hassan (dulu TKP EPU)
5. Datin Hamidah bt Hassan (juga dulu EPF)
6. Prof Aini bt Hassan (ex-UM)
7. Mohd Nor bin Hassan (saya)
8. Jamaliah bt Hassan (ex-JKR)

The family is Javanese from Mazna bt Mohd Nor bin Mohd Amin Pasar. Mazna used to bring her children to Padang Jawa, to her grandparent's house (Mohd Amin Pasar's siblings). Their son Abu Sujak became Datuk Bandar Shah Alam. (see post on Datuk Abu Sujak). Padang Jawa was an early Javanese settlement.
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Anak2 Mohd Kassim bin Md Nor bin Mohd Amin Pasar

1. Zabedah bt Mohd Kassim (Melawati)

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Anak2 Khatijah @ Fatimah bt Md Nor bin Mohd Amin Pasar - ?
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Anak Hjh Burok bt Tamby Chik, second wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin:

1. Muhammad bin Mohd Noor (Pak Hitam)

Anak2 Muhammad bin Mohd Noor (Pak Hitam)
- from Ramli bin Mohamed (USM):

1. Mohd Khalid bin Mohamad (1946-2003) 
2. Mohd Mokhtar bin Mohamad (1946-2008)
3. Othman bin Muhammad
4. Prof. Ramli bin Mohamed (USM, Penang)
5. Omar bin Muhammad
6. Abu Bakar bin Muhammad
7. Noraihan bt Muhammad
8. Shatar/Satar bin Muhammad
9. Mazlina bt Muhammad
10. Mazura Mastura bt Muhammad

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Relatives who lived in Kg Baru, KL

Those that first came to Kg Baru all stayed around the Kelab Sultan Suleiman (KSS) area.

1. Mohd Amin Pasar's original house was at Lot 216 Jalan Stony
2. Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin & family lived at 113 Hale Road
3. Hassan married Mazna and bought a piece of land at Jalan Raja Ali and built their own house. Mohd Nor lives here.
4. Pak Ngah Kassim & Bik Jah families lived at 113 Hale Road. The big old house was demolished and a triple-storey flat now stands there.
5. Pak Hitam lived on a piece of land behind at 30 Jalan Daud.

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Mazna's family is also related to

1. Tan Sri Aishah Ghani - her children-Astaman, Shaharudin etc
2. those in Kg Periuk, Kg Baru, KL - Awaluddin, Razak, Zainuddin etc

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DATUK MUHAMMAD NOOR BIN MOHD AMIN

Muhammad Noor bin Mohd Amin

He was called Mohd Noor

Photo from Mohd Nor bin Hassan, anak Mazna 6 Nov 2019.

Name: Muhammad Noor bin Mohd Amin

Call name: Mohd Noor
Date of birth: __
Occupation: State Surveyor during British Malaya
Car owned: Borgward
Residence: 113 Hale Road (now Jalan Raja Abdullah) ... big house (rumah besar) with compound
Date deceased: 1955

Father: Mohd Amin bin Hassan Long (anak angkat) @ Mat Amin Pasar

Mother: Sekmah, second wife of Mohd Amin Pasar

Two wives of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin:

1. First wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin - Hendon
2. Second wife of Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin - Hjh Burok bt Tamby Chik

Anak2 Hendon, first wife of Datuk Muhammad Noor bin Mohd Amin:

1. Mazna bt Mohd Noor (deceased 1990)
2. Mohd Kassim bin Mohd Noor
3. Khatijah @ Fatimah bt Mohd Noor

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MAZNA BT MUHAMMAD NOOR

Mazna bt Mohd Noor.

She was called Mazna.

Photo from Mohd Nor bin Hassan, anak Mazna 6 Nov 2019. 

Name: Mazna bt Mohd Noor

Call name: Mazna, Emak

Father: Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin Pasar

Mother: Hendon bt __
Born: __
Deceased: 1990
Husband: Hassan (deceased 1980/81)

Children: 8

1. Prof Mohd Amin bin Hassan (ex-UKM)
2. Mohd Hithir bin Hassan (dulu EPF)
3. Habibah bt Hassan (dulu Cikgu)
4. Hanifah bt Hassan (dulu TKP EPU)
5. Datin Hamidah bt Hassan (juga dulu EPF)
6. Prof Aini bt Hassan (UM)
7. Mohd Nor bin Hassan (saya)
8. Jamaliah bt Hassan (ex JKR)

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MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD NOOR

(Pak Hitam)

Muhammad bin Muhammad Noor @ Pak Hitam.

Bekas suami Mak Bedah (J&J).

Name: Muhammad bin Muhammad Noor
Note: His name is spelled differently for some of his children.
Father: Datuk Mohd Noor bin Mohd Amin Pasar
Mother: Hjh Burok bt Tamby Chik (second wife of Datuk Mohd Noor)
Born: 29 May 1924, Kuala Lumpur (Mazna took care of Pak Hitam when he was a baby)
Education: VI, KL; London School of Economics, UM S'pore

Career/Public activities:
1946-47 President, Selangor Malay Students' Union
1953-57 President, Terengganu Trishaw Pedallers Assn
1954-55 Hon. Sec. UMNO, K. Terengganu Division
1951-57 State Social Welfare Officer, Terengganu
1957-59 State Social Welfare Officer, Kedah
1960-61 Ag. Asst. Director of Social Welfare
1961- ?  Principal Asst. Sec., Ministry of Rural Development (Adult Education)

Occupation: Pengarah, Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (Welfare)
Pak Hitam had a (small) plane crash in Sabah/Sarawak river between 1967 and 1969, while on his tour of duty under Welfare, and water entered his lungs. Pak Hitam frequented GH. His third and fourth wives are nurses.
Call names: Pak Hitam, Muhammad Welfare

Residence: 3191, Guillemard Road, Kuala Lumpur ... bungalow besar dua tingkat, tinggi di atas bukit (rumah pegawai Kerajaan)
Recreation: Badminton

Retired: 29 May 1979 (calculated for age 55)
Died: ___

Wives: 4
Four wives of Pak Hitam:

1. Noraini bt Othman (22 Nov 1930-5 Sept 2005) @ Mak Hitam
2. Che Bedah bt Mohd Yusope (25 Oct 1938-3 Feb 2018)
3. Zaiton bt Hj Siop (born 1937)
4. Ramlah Zainuddin (born 1930)

Anak2 Muhammad bin Mohd Nor (Pak Hitam)
- from Ramli bin Mohamed (USM):

1. Mohd Khalid bin Mohamad (1946-2003) 
2. Mohd Mokhtar bin Mohamad (1946-2008)
3. Othman bin Muhammad
4. Ramli bin Mohamed (USM, Penang)
5. Omar bin Muhammad
6. Abu Bakar bin Muhammad
7. Noraihan bt Muhammad
8. Shatar/Satar bin Muhammad
9. Mazlina bt Muhammad
10. Mazura Mastura bt Muhammad

From Mohd Nor bin Hassan:
Anak2 1-8 from Noraini, first wife.
Anak2 9 & 10 from Zaiton, third wife.

Photo & info of Pak Hitam:

Pak Hitam's biodata in Morais, JV. The Who’s Who 1963. Malaysia and Singapore. I came across his biodata while going through this reference book at USM library in Penang for my research on The Early Malay Doctors.

Pak Hitam's marriage to Mak Bedah.

Photo from rumah Mak Sarah di Banda Hilir, Melaka. Supplied by Rafida bt Sabihim (Fida), isteri Kamarul Akhir bin Mohd Zan (anak Pak Zan who owns Asiana.com)

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Researching Mohd Amin Pasar Chow Kit

Mohd Amin of Kg Baharu, Kuala Lumpur
Selangor, Federated Malay States, British Malaya

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Kampong Baru, KL

Mohd Amin was the first man who opened Kg Baru in Kuala Lumpur. He was a Javanese Muslim.

His residence was at 1 Jalan Stony, Kampong Baharu, Kuala Lumpur.

His house was across the padang from the Sultan Sulaiman Club.

The Sultan Sulaiman Club was built in 1909, and renovated in 1931, and then much later by Jafri Merican Architects and Associates.

Mohd Amin Pasar Chow Kit died in 1936

His daughter is my Nenek Inchek or Aishah bt Mohd Amin.

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What is his full name?

His fullname was supplied by Siti Aishah Mohd Ali (Kedah)
Mohd. Amin bin Haji Hassan - 514 results in NewspaperSG

This "bin Haji Hassan" surname was published in G. M. Gullick's book (a History of Kuala Lumpur) in a footnote, but the person turned out to be a draughtsman or architect, or similar, not someone related to Pasar Kuala Lumpur or Pasar Chow Kit.

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There was a Mohd Amin bin Mahmud present at a gathering in the 1930s at the Sultan Sulaiman Club in Kg Baharu, which was close to his home - across the padang. He was at a gathering with Dr Che Lah bin Mohd Joonos and Dr Abdul Ghani bin Mohammad, both doctors graduated from the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore in March 1930, and were from Penang, but were serving in Selangor.

Dr Che Lah bin Md Joonos later took Mohd Amin's daughter, Aishah bt Mohd Amin, for Hajj in 1962/1963.

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Other possible names (search 1900-1936):

H. Amin - 1914
Mohd Amin - 1924
Mohamed Amin bin Selat - 1927
Mr. M. Amin - 1927
Mohd. Amin, the Malay boxer - 1927
Mohd. Amin bin H. M. Yusope - 1927
Pte. Mohamed Amin - 1928
Mohd. Amin bin Haji Mahmud - 1930
Mohamed Amin - 1932
Mohamed Amin Hashim - 1932
Inche Amin bin Ketchil - 1933
Amin Kechil -1934
Inche Mohamed Amin bin Abdul Rahman - 1936
Mohd. Amin - 1936
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Haji Mohamed Amin bin Amran - 1950 .... not his name as he died in 1936
Mohd. Amin b. Satin - 1961 ...................... he was deceased in 1936
Jalan Mohd. Amin, J.B. - 1973 .................. road named after whom?

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Mohd Amin @ Mat Amin Pasar (Chow Kit)

I have a photo of a man named Mohd Amin but none of his descendants know his surname. He could be Muhammad Amin bin Haji Mahmud or some other surname.

According to historical record, a British Police Sargent Hayes had re-located a Malay community from Malacca to Kg Baru, to keep law and order in Kuala Lumpur, and to balance the largely Chinese community that resided in Kuala Lumpur.

Mohd Amin lived in Jalan Stony, Kg Baru, Kuala Lumpur and worked as a market supervisor at Pasar Chow Kit before the war. He was popular by two call names, Mat Amin Pasar and Mat Amin Chow Kit.

According to Mohd Amin's granddaughter, Salmah Ahmad, Mohd Amin had opened Jalan Stony and therefore Kg Baru. He had built his house according to Malay tradition, much like the Chinese use feng shui. Mohd Amin had used chickens to indicate the direction of his house in Jalan Stony, Kg Baru.

Mohd Amin's house was in front of the Sultan Sulaiman club house.

From his grandson-in-law Pak Cik Hassan bin Mohd Rasid (married to Mak Cik Jamilah bt Mohd Salleh), Mohd Amin probably died in 1936 (my Bapak would have been 5 years old).

Mohd Amin's portrait showed him in baju Melayu and with the Johor type of neckline - telok belanga. I suppose he was originally from Johor or belonged to a Johor family? He was a Javanese Malay man. His hometown in Java is unknown by his existing descendants.

Mohd Amin married 4 wives and had 21 children by 3 wives; a fourth wive was barren after her marriage to Mat Amin (however, she had children from a previous marriage).

An interesting article I found. It bears the names of 2 early Malay doctors who graduated from the King Edward VII College of Medicine in 1930 - Dr MJ Che Lah and his colleague, Dr Abdul Ghani bin Mohamad. Both were Penangites but worked in Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley. Dr Che Lah was from Jelutong and Dr Abdul Ghani was from Bayan Lepas side. Dr Abdul Ghani's daughter is Fadzilah Ghani, a retired nurse in Melbourne.

Majlis, 1 Dec 1932, p.6
General Article.
Majlis Perbahasan di Sultan Sulaiman Club.

Perbahasan (Debate) atas Adakah Perempuan Melayu Patut diBebaskan, telah dilangsungkan di Sultan Sulaiman Club Kampung Baru pada malam semalam, mulai dari pukul 7.20, sampai pukul 9.15, dihadiri oleh kira-kira 50 orang member-membernya termasuk Dr. Che Lah, Dr. Abdul Ghani, Encik Muhammad Amin bin Haji Mahmud, Yusuf, Mahmud Amir, Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad, Ahmad bin Muhammad, Fateh Akhir, Tuan Haji Muhammad Sidin, Tuan Zainal Abidin, Encik Amrah Haji Abdul Rashid, dan lain-lain. Engku Raja Uda menjadi Pengerusi. - Taken from MCP, 21 July 2012,

http://mcp.anu.edu.au/N/SK/79.html

The British officers in Malaya had a separate club that did not accept the "lesser" Malays, including the Malay Sultan at the time. The Sultan Sulaiman Club accommodated Malay members of the community. Members of the Sultan Sulaiman Club were Dr MJ Che Lah, Dr Abdul Ghani bin Mohamad, Encik Muhammad Amin bin Haji Mahmud, Yusuf, Mahmud Amir, Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad, Ahmad bin Muhammad, Fateh Akhir, Tuan Haji Muhammad Sidin, Tuan Zainal Abidin, Encik Amrah Haji Abdul Rashid and others. Engku Raja Uda chaired the club - he later became the first Governor of Penang.

Sultan Sulaiman Club of Kg Baru in Kuala Lumpur
(rebuild in 2007-2009 after the 1932 model).
Courtesy of Jafri Merican Architects and Associates Sdn Bhd

An interesting name in the above article is Muhammad Amin bin Haji Mahmud. Who was Muhammad Amin bin Haji Mahmud? He was a member of the Sultan Sulaiman Club in 1932. Was he Mohd Amin @ Mat Amin Pasar (Chow Kit), the famous market supervisor who lived right across the club house? Does anybody know more about him?


Other links to related Majlis articles:
http://mcp.anu.edu.au/N/SK/M_index.html