Go It Ha was the first of his family recorded to have sojourned to the Philippines during the early reign of Qing Dynasty’s Emperor Xian Feng (1851 to 1861). He eventually returned to their home village of Khitang in Jinjiang county (also called Chingkang in Hokkien) of Fujian province.

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