Registration and family identity
Sukesang'a was an Irgen Gioro clansman from a *booi* household associated with Harmin. Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* identifies the household under the Bordered White Banner *booi* and notes that it had been transferred from the Plain White Banner *booi*. Its allegiance date was unknown. Both Banner registrations are relevant historical facts, and *booi* should be understood as an institutional relationship within the Banner order rather than as a blanket prohibition on official service.
Military service in a later generation
Sukesang'a's grandson Yasiha served provisionally as a *xiaoqixiao*, a Banner officer, and participated in campaigns in Zhejiang and Fujian. He received the hereditary merit title *yunqiwei* and retired because of illness. The dignity then passed to his son Yamuqina. The qualification indicating provisional service must be preserved; the grandson's military distinction was not won by Sukesang'a, and inheritance of the distinction did not entail appointment to the same provisional office.
Other recorded descendants
Later descendants included Yalong'a, formerly a *xiaoqixiao*; Jinbao, a sixth-rank *booi da* or manager within a *booi* organization; Mase, a second-class *huwei* guard; and Wangsi, a *hujunxiao*. A more distant descendant, Qishier, whose recorded name consists of the Chinese characters for “seventy-two,” was listed as a serving *xiaoqixiao*. He was an individual, not a count of seventy-two soldiers. The precise administrative affiliation of the *booi* household and the posts attached to each official are not identified.
What needs confirmation
The historical location of Harmin, the date of the transfer between Banners, the precise rank assignments and the intervening ancestral relationships still require archival verification.
Sources and Bibliography
- Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org
Source links were inherited from the research manuscript. Individual assertions have not all been independently verified against archival originals.
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