Daniel Martin is Eurasian through and through. His individual identity is a symphony of ancestries spanning across multiple countries and continents on his maternal and paternal sides of his family. But while he’s acutely aware of his Eurasian descent, he knows little of the first white ancestor, Robert Scully, on his maternal side, who came to Asia and began Daniel’s Eurasian lineage. Who was his first Caucasian ancestor and why did he choose to stay?

Armed with one clue in the Scully book, Daniel left for Taiping, Perak, where his ancestors first arrived from Ireland. What Daniel discovered surprised him. He learned about out what his maternal great great grandfather did for a living and also caught a glimpse into his love life.

00:00 Who is Daniel Martin?
00:42 Why did my greatgreatgrandfather come to Malaya?
02:59 Looking through church records in Perak, Malaysia
05:05 Finding their marriage certificate from 1897
08:19 History of Europeans in Taiping, Perak
11:07 Would their interracial marriage have been accepted?
12:59 What happened to my greatgreatgrandmother?
14:58 A teacher and an undertaker?
17:12 Visiting the oldest undertaker in Malaysia
19:04 What happened to greatgreatgrandpa's children?

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