Looking at the photo of the above signboard, Lipat Kajang must have been well populated in the 19th Century......... probably earlier than that. Where did the people come from? Orang Asli? Probably not, Orang Asli were not Muslims. I am told that the population come from downriver, some as far as from Pekan. They related to me that in those days when my great-grandfather had 'kenduri', he slaughtered maybe half a dozen buffaloes (probably I am lying but that is what I understood from the stories they told me). And relatives came all the way from Pekan, 'bergalah mudek ke hulu, bermalaman di tepi Sungei Pahang, memakan masa dua tiga hari mudek dan satu dua hari menghilir, bagi makan kenduri di rumah waris di hulu'. My great-grandfather owned a whole field of buffaloes (so I am told again) and many wives. The buffaloes I cannot prove but the many wives I have the evidence of. Almost the whole kampong Lipat Kajang population are my relatives, with one common male factor, my great- grandfather; and these relatives are the children of various named women ....... they themselves know their mothers but I don't. I have not attempted to make a complete family tree, its too complicated. I have done a sort of semblance of a family tree though.
Lipat Kajang people (or decendents) are encouraged to participate& contribute (Orang Lipat Kajang, atau keturunan, di jemput memberi sumbangan idea)
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