Siapa Orang Lipat Kajang?

This Kg Lipat Kajang (in Pahang) that we know of today has seen and blessed many cross-breedings i.e. many intra marriages between the different lineages in the village itself, or inter-marriages of the kampung lad/lass with "outsiders" of their very own choice be it from other towns/districts (or FELDA schemes) in Pahang or other States in Malaysia, some had even taken up brides or bridegrooms from far away places or from different origin/background.......
love knows no boundaries, certainly.

These marriages have produced offsprings some of whom have either came back to settle in Kg Lipat Kajang or somehow have identified themselves or be associated with the fact that either his/her father or mother, grandfather or grandfather originated from Kg Lipat Kajang,
every year we definitely can see droves/herds of them coming back to Kg Lipat Kajang to celebrate the Hari Raya Aidilfitri with their folks, for example, or just to come back for a brief visit, drop by at his/her Wan's (grandma's) delapidated house for a taste of the "sambal buah getah" on the "sengkalan" (know what that is?) or the bitter hot "sireh/betel nut/gambier" grind to small bits and pieces with the "gobek sireh" (know what that is too?) or whatever else the reason why these half-bred Lipat Kajang-ites have been willing to drive their big shiny powerful cars into the village >>> they have become more than half-breds, they have become one of us, Lipat Kajang originals, but with some circuit modifications and some new softwares inserted into them, coming from their Minangkabau or Javanese or Chinese or other original foreign design (ancestry) .

Especially in the early morning on the second day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, I can safely say that you can easily count up to hundreds of cars/vehicles (including motorbikes) of various brands/makes/shapes/sizes/capacity snuggly parked in the compunds of practically every house in Kg Lipat Kajang - they all have come back to enjoy the "uniqueness, naturalness, openness, simplicity, kind heartedness and the spirit of togetherness" of this village even if it is only for one night or just one day, the day when everyone and all will gather at the main graveyard at Tanjung Nyior? (I am not sure of the name, but I believe that is the name), young and old, to dedicate that annual remembrance to those "who have gone before us", i.e. the annual "tahlil kubur" (the annual praying at the graveyard, as mentioned by brother mylias).

Now, we the original Kg Lipat Kajang-ites, have we really known, do we really know and can we identify positively by name or by whatever personal info/data.....who are our forefathers, our ancestors? Can we say, "oh, so and so (name) were the first settlers in this kampung and we all are their direct or indirect descendents .......we are all blood related between one another.....aren't we proud to say definitively that these brave warrior-like so and so were our "datuk nenek".....I for one am very proud to say that if I had known who they were !

I know there a few lineages (family lines) that have produced the villagers of Kg Lipat Kajang of today, but purportedly coming from the same ancestors, the same "datuk nenek", I say "purportedly" or presumably because there are no known concrete info/data or even slightest hints as to the real "who and who" were them, these ancestors of ours who first stepped on this soil, first set foot on Kg Lipat Kajang?

On one of these possible lineages, it was narrated to me that one adventurer (pengembara) from the "kepulauan", a brave invulnerable/inpenetrable (kebal) Bugis man by the name of Tok Hashim was among the first few (not many of them, can count by the fingers I was told, but who and who exactly, their names?) to set foot there on the river bank in this village of ours having arrived via the river from the estuary (refer to my comment on How Lipat Kajang Got Its Name). But only his name, no other info about him I have so far obtained, and I am just wondering how/where to source for such details.

Why did Tok Hashim decided to tie his boat (sampan/perahu) permanently to the riverbank, named the place Lipat Kajang (Pahang), settled there and established his family there???

This Tok Hashim somehow got married (to whom, when and where, I don't have a clue) and produced one son and one daughter, known only as Hj Pin and Singah (f) respectively. There might had been more than just two siblings, but again, no info....

In turn, this Hj Pin got married (to whom, when and where?) and was a blessed with a son names Sabudin, who might not had been the only offspring of Hj Pin, I don't know...

Now, who from my generation or earlier generation in this village does not know who this Sabudin is or was......Hj Sabudin lived a long life (more than a centenarian, I was told but correct me, I may be wrongly told), a brave man, a kindhearted man, a pious man, a man who could cure many ills among his descendents during his lifetime, etc, etc........there is a Jalan Sabudin in Kg Lipat Kajang, named after him.......that was my Yan'g Sabudin (my maternal great grandfather) who I had met and seen in person when he was still alive.

Hj Sabudin married someone (again, I have insufficient info as to who when and where, about this marriage, or that I missed to jot down the info when it was narrated to me), and he produced a few offsprings, daughters, and maybe son(s) including one lady who passed away at the age of 96 years in 1982, she was Hjh Timah Binti Hj Sabudin, my maternal grandmother ! She was my grandma whom I loved so much.

Has that small piece of info shed any light, give any clue as to who I am?

The descendents of Hjh Timah Binti Hj Sabudin, no need to tell lah, you all know already.

Now, the daughter of Tok Hashim, named Singah (f) married this man, Derahim (from another lineage) (when and where.....we also seek this info) and this couple produced many sons and two daughters, according to the narrator who narrated to me...

These sons and daughters of the happy couple, Derahim & Singah (f) (my paternal great grandfather) were known by their respective names and had been identified on official State records by their names - Akib, Kasim, Komen, Abd Rani, Daud, Senan (f) and Sehah (f) (7 of them, have I missed any?........feel free to add)

These names sound familiar to us, isn't it???

Was Derahim together with Tok Hashim, from "over the sea", one of Tok Hashim's hands/helpers? Or that Derahim's father or grandfather (who?) was together with Tok Hashim, or was from a different group of settlers? who were they? from where? What were their ages then?

Abd Rani (Allahyarham - the Late) had lived to be a weathy well-to-do prominent figurehead in the village, reverred, consulted and referred to on many matters.

This is only one lineage (my lineage) that I know of, luckily I had managed to capture some info on this lineage. As for the other lineages, I am inviting everyone sones and daughters of Lipat Kajang (Pahang) please go and dig up for whatever info that you can possibly obtain from anyone anywhere at all, and put it all on record to be shared and cherisehd by us all, in the one and same family that we should be proud of.

As for this lineage from Tok Hashim and Derahim's roots..........my dear brothers and sisters, and all our younger generations, I am happy to share these bits and pieces with you all, but you might already have got more info than what I have, never mind, well and good. In any case please seek and dig for more info so that a genuine concrete family tree can be constructed, that which we can cherish and pass on to our future generations so that they know who they actually are........
it will be not only nostalgic but also history will be established and recorded, an achievement of some sort for all of us.
("Kas Mahmood")








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