Asal Usul Nama Kuching .....

  Terdapat dua teori tentang asal usul nama Kuching. Teori yang pertama ialah dari Kucing atau Pusak dalam bahasa Sarawak. Yang menghairankan nama Kucing tidak pernah di tuturkan oleh orang di Kuching pada masa itu. Ini sekaligus menolok terus teori ini.

  Teori yang kedua pula ialah dari nama sebuah bukit yang bernama Bukit Mata Kucing. Ramai yang berpendapat dari sinilah nama Kuching berasal. Bagi saya teori ini masih boleh di ikuti. Namun tidak begitu tepat bagi saya.

     Dan teori yang terbaru mungkin agak mengejutkan. Nama Bandaraya Kuching berasal dari nama sebuah anak sungai di Sungai Sarawak yang bernama Sungai Kuching. dan mungkin ini yang telah memberi nama Bandaraya Kuching??????

Cerita Bandar Kuching

Aku hampir habis membaca buku pasal Kuching. Seriously, the content of this book is very good. Aku boleh cadangkan buku ini untuk di jadikan bahan bacaan, especially for those who are interested in Kuching history.
There are few facts in the book that really caught my intention. First of all, I did wonder where the name Pangkalan Sapi came from. It was stated here in the book on page 29; the name came from as a reminder that there were used to be a farm, a private dairy farm called Astana Farm which supplied the European officers and civilians as it was quoted in the book, fresh milks. And occasionally it supplied the European & the Muslims beef from old or indisposed cattle. Pangkalan Sapi was actually the cattle’s watering spot where nowadays the tambang load and unload their fares.
Another one that really caught my attentions was the origin of the Malays elite. Before this I never knew that Merpati Jepang was actually a name of the son of Datu Merpati, whom married to the eldest daughter of Raja Jarom of Johore, Datu Permaisuri. Merpati Jepang then married to Dayang Murdiah, and all the datu had claimed that they were from Merpati Jepang lineage regal geneology. Surprised surprised.
The name of the kampong such as Kampong Gersik, Kampong Surubaya and Kampong Boyan were named after their places of origin or their leaders.