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acre (4046.9 sq.m) Market Garden lease on Lanes Creek near Georgetown, under a one year lease. That same year he purchased two allotments in the Chinatown area (Section 19, allots 14 & 15) of Georgetown. In the home village, arrangements were made to send a wife over to Chun Tie and in 1894 Yuen Qui Fa arrived in Cairns and made the journey out to Georgetown to meet her new husband. At 18 years old, Qui Fa was a little older than most of the young girls who migrated to their husbands, but there was still a large gap in ages. Chun Tie was 39 when she married him in the district registry office, Georgetown, on 25 August 1894. Chun Tie was able to sign his name but like most Chinese brides at the time, Qui Fa could only put her mark on the paper. A year later in 1894, Jing Way was born. Chun Tie and Qui Fa went on to successfully raise 10 children. They first lived in Georgetown before moving to further west to Croydon by 1898, where they lived in Samwell Street. Chun Tie took out his Oath of Allegiance and applied for naturalisation in 1898. His application noted that he had been in the colony for 26 years, indicating that he had arrived when he was 17 years old. Chun Tie and Qui Fa sent all of their children to school in Croydon. The family moved to Townsville and when the sons reached a certain age, they took the children back to the village for a Chinese education. Chun Tie left the business and property in the hands of his brother, but he gambled it away on the horses. Chun Tie brought the family back to Townsville in order to repay debts and recoup the family loss. Qui Fa made many repeated trips home to the ancestral village. In 1931, at 54 years and accompanied by her eleven-year-old son Ing Lai, she made what was to be her last visit. She remained for 7 years and returned to Townsville in 1938 just before the war broke out. Due to a lifetime of raising a large family and living in remote and hostile places, Qui Fa became a strict and grim woman. When Chun Tie died she became a formidable matriarch, assuming and wielding a position of power in the family. She was said to be capable of giving “the Look” and cutting family members out, and kept a small black book where notes of misdemeanours were written down concerning members of the family. She maintained a traditional life of San cong, the Three Obedience’s, until she died in 1958 at age 82. Caroline Tups Image unavailable Tommy Ah Foo Margaret AH FOO & child TOMMY AH FOO and CAROLINE TUPS, m. 18.02. 1875 TOWNSVILLE/ CROYDON Born in 1853, China, Tommy Ah Foo migrated to Queensland where he worked first in Townsville and later in Croydon as a storekeeper. He married a White immigrant woman, Caroline Tups, in 1875 in Townsville and they welcomed their first child, a son, in 1876. The couple went on to have a family of 7 children including 5 girls and 2 boys. In 1885, Ah Foo took out his Oath of Allegiance and became a naturalised British subject. Very little is known about Tommy Ah Foo or Caroline Tups. However, when her eldest daughter Margaret was just 4 years old, Caroline was separated from her when the little girl was sent to the village in China with an uncle. Margaret Ah Foo remained with her uncle in China and he arranged a marriage between her and a much older man who lived in north Queensland. He was from the same village. Margaret returned to Townville but authorities could find no trace of her parents or family, and her arrival caused some a stir as she was so young. She was eventually allowed to land and went on to marry Chen Quing Boo. Yet Foy YET HOY and LUK YET HO, married c. 1880 COOKTOWN/ CROYDON Yet Hoy, born Canton c. 1841, immigrated to Queensland in 1874. He commenced commercial operations in Cooktown as a merchant and was married to Luk Yet Ho, a young woman sent over from China. Luk Yet Ho (Ah How), born in 1865 in China, had by the age of 16 married, migrated to Cooktown, north Queensland, and given birth to a daughter Mud Gee (Maggie) in 1881. Three years later, she was married to Yet Hoy again in a Western ceremony on 17 January 1884. Yet Hoy was 27 years older than her. below. By 1887, Yet Foy had a store on the Endeavour River in Marton, a small community on the railway line near Cooktown. He extended his commercial interests to the newly burgeoning settlement of Croydon and he juggled the two places until the family moved to Croydon in 1890. In 1892 a son, Quong Yake (Bill) was born in Sircom Street, Croydon. Luk Yet Ho / Ah How Image unavailable Quong Yake (Bill) born in Croydon house Family residence in Croydon Yet Hoy and Luk Yet Ho had 9 children: two of whom died. Ah How suffered great loss at the death of her second child Liang Gee, who died from convulsions a few months after her birth at Marton on 18 March 1887. Another tragedy struck the family in Croydon in 1899, when their little daughter Gum Lin died as a result of a terrible scalding. Little Gum Lin (incorrectly written into the cemetery ledgers as Pumpkin), unknowing of the terrible danger, took her clothing off and got into the copper of boiling water as if getting into a bath. Her blisters were so bad they covered her body, a vivid memory for her brother. On 29 March 1904, when Yet Hoy was away droving, the older children were at school, and the younger two, a four-year-old and a two-year-old, at home, Ah How gave birth alone to a still born baby. She had a post-partum haemorrhage and died. She was 49 years old. She was buried in Croydon but her bones were later exhumed and sent back to China in 1918. She is only one of three Chinese women to have had her bones returned. Most of the adult children eventually moved to Ingham where they conducted bakeries and stores, but Yet Hoy remained in the Gulf country, in Normanton. By 1916 he was 75 years old and he travelled to China for one last time with his son Bill. Yet Hoy returned two years later and lived in the Normanton, Georgetown and Ingham districts. He died in August 1932 and was buried in Ingham. He was 90 years old. Charley HANN & Mary Josephine SULLIVAN, m. 4.12.1884 CROYDON Charley Hann Mary Josephine Image Sullivan unavailable Image unavailable Charlie Hann was born in China in 1851 and he migrated out to north Queensland, presumably with a male family member, as a child of 8. As he grew up he moved around the north and ended up in the Gulf country, residing for a time at Normanton. In 1884 he met and married English migrant Mary Josephine Sullivan. Mary Josephine Sullivan was born in 1861, in Kent, in England. She immigrated to the colony of Queensland c. 1884 where she commenced work as a domestic servant. She met and married Charlie Hann on 4 December 1884 in Cooktown, according to the rites of the Primitive Methodist Church, in the presence of James CAN TING and his wife, fellow English emigrant woman Ellen CAN TING. At the time Mary was 23 years old and Charlie was 32 years old. Charlie was described as a storekeeper at

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