All of these children, apart from Albert, remained in New Zealand where they married, had children and died.

Albert chose to return to Australia and was possibly the inspiration for the emigration of his brothers, George, Robert and Edmund Evelyn (known as Ted). Albert was 10 years older than the eldest of these three who were all born within four years of each other.

It would have been difficult, given their Chinese heritage, for these men to come to Australia. The introduction of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, one of the first pieces of federal legislation in Australia, and the ideology of a White Australia that supported such an Act, meant that they would have been characterised as 'Chinese', not 'Australian' or 'New Zealanders'. They were, according to Kate Bagnall, subject to similar exclusionary and discriminatory measures as full-Chinese.

Australian born, part-Chinese, Albert may have avoided excessive scrutiny by virtue of his Australian birth certificate. He may also have sponsored the others to come. This would explain why Albert is listed on Robert's death certificate as his father.

They all anglicised their names further from Wong Gye to just Gye. The original anglicised version of the name came from their father's name, Wong Ah Gye. In Chinese, their name should have been Wong. But neither their father nor they ever used this name in Australia.