• 華夏卓姓源流Hua Xia Zhuo Surname Sources    Published in 2001 by the Fujian Nan’an Xiang Yun Yun Feng Zhuo Clan

About this book

Hua Xia means China — this is a book about the sources of Zhuo Clan surnames in China. This was published in 2001 and is 301 pages long.  It was published in Fujian, and offers 23 pages of Fujian-specific information that is not found in the more comprehensive book 中華卓氏源流  (Zhong Hua Zhuo Clan Sources) which was published in 2000 and has over 900 pages.  (Zhong Hua also means China.)

This book was in the possession of Kaitlin Chuo, whose mother and father received it during a genealogy research trip to Fujian several years ago. They were trying to find ancestral records of Kaitlin’s father, a Zhuo clan member whose ancestors had moved from Fujian to Taiwan during the Qing dynasty. To their disappointment, they learned that the Fujian Zhuo clan records had been destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. They were given this book of surname sources as a souvenir of their visit.

In October 2021 Kaitlin, now living in Melbourne, Australia, decided to go through the book and enter the names into familysearch.org, even though she wasn’t sure exactly how to tie her father into the family tree.  During this process, she began to find that many of the oldest names in the book had already been entered into the familysearch tree in 2019, by me (actually by my genealogist Louise Skyles, as my proxy). She began to wonder if it was possible we might be related, and I might have any of her family’s missing records.

She contacted me through the private message tool in familysearch to ask for more information, and we began an email correspondence. Louise agreed to review her book and see if she could find any clues that might help the Chuo family of Taiwan connect to the Fujian Zhuo records. Kaitlin’s mother, still living in Taiwan, had some telephone calls with her that gave her some background information that helped in her research.

Within a couple of days, Louise wrote to Kaitlin with the following:

I have been studying the Zhuo clan in Ren Feng Village仁峰村 (your ancestral hometown in Fujian Province). I have come up with a two-page report.

According to Zhuo An Bang’s卓安邦 study,  Zhuo Jun Shou卓均壽 was your direct ancestor who moved to Ren Feng Village with his brother Jun Lu均祿 and mother around 1370. Currently, there are only 30-40 Zhuo family members living in the village. According to the villager Mr. Zhuo Wu, who your parents met years ago, the Zhuo clan zupu and family temple in Ren Feng Village were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Due to the missing zupu of Ren Feng Village, there was a gap between the first ancestor Jun Shou and the ancestor who moved to Taiwan. However, I used Zhuo Jun Lu卓均祿’s pedigree chart to rebuild your ancestor Zhuo Jun Shou’s family tree, since they were brothers.

In your book, on page 21-22 you will find the pedigree chart of your ancestor Jun Shou.

Here is Jun Shou in the middle of page 21.

Zhuo Jun Shou (yellow highlight)

The dots in the red circle means there is more than one generation in between. So there were about 200 years between Zhuo You Zhi and Zhuo Wei.

Here is the link to Zhuo You Zhi in FamilySearch.

Zhuo You Zhi 卓佑之,  was also known as You Zhi祐之 and Yan Yuan彥遠.  He had three sons, according to the more comprehensive book, Zhong Hua Zhuo Clan Sources 中華卓氏源流.  Since you don’t know which son was your direct ancestor, maybe you can add a son as Mr. Zhuo. Later, if the Ren Feng Village zupu is found or reconstructed by the clan, you will be able to put in more detailed information for your ancestor.