https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_immigration_to_Sydney
First arrivals to Sydney. The earliest documented Chinese settler was Mak Sai Ying, who arrived in 1818, and purchased land in Parramatta.He married an English woman; Sarah Thompson, in 1823, changed his name to John Shying, and by 1829 held the licence for a Parramatta public house, the Lion.