Lucy Marion Chew

Lucy's first family was with her first husband, Bertie STILES, but when that relationship broke up, their son went to live with Lucy's brothers around the Cleremont region of Queensland, while the daughters were taken by their father to New Zealand, The elder of the girls, Myrtle, kept a correspondence with Lucy until the 1940s at least.

Apart from then raising a large family with Frank Chew, Lucy was always keen to have a "little shop". She did in fact have two shops in her life. The first was around 1914 on the esplanade at Manly, now a bayside suburb of Brisbane, where both Roy and Eva were born. The second was in Commercial Road at Newstead in Brisbane, near the Newstead wharves on the Bulimba Reach of the Brisbane River, in 1927-28. She and Frank always gravitated back to the Bundaberg/Maryborough Region of Queensland, however, particularly to Howard where she lived for many years.

After Frank died in 1947, she married an old family friend from Howard, Joe Burnett, who had lost his wife some time previously. Apparently Joe and his wife had been friends of Frank and Lucy for many years. Lucy and Joe lived until her death in the small cottage in Queen Street, Howard, that can be seen in the video attached to the Media section of her profile.