Lucy Elizabeth Beach
Marriage of Lucy and Milson's daughter Lucy ElizabethThe Age, 18th January 1890WISE—BEACH.On the 18th December, at the Christian Church, Cheltenham, VIC by M. McLennan, Evangelist,Alfred James Wise, second son of Henry Wise, builder and contractor, Hobart, to Lucy Elizabeth, only daughter of Harry Milson Beach, builder and contractor, Oakleigh, VIC
Divorce of Lucy ElizabethDaily Telegraph, Launceston 7th Dec 1900DIVORCE PETITION. HOBART, Thursday.— At the Full Court to-day there was a petition for divorce by Lucy Elizabeth Wise against her husband on the ground of cruelty and adultery.The petitioner stated that she was married to respondent, Alfred James Wise, on December18, 1889, at Cheltenham, in Victoria.She lived with her husband in Victoria and at Zeehan, TAS.About six weeks after the marriage her husband treated her cruelly by depriving her of necessaries.Her husband was a carpenter and earned from 8s to 10s a day. He came home at unreasonable hours and was always intoxicated and at times punched her and at one time threw a razor at her.In December 1898 she left him because she could not get food and went to her father's house. Her husband asked her to come back once after she left him but she refused. There was a child, the issue of the marriage, which was in her charge. She knew a barmaid named Annie Ross at Zeehan.— The affidavit of James Joseph McLoughlin stated that respondent and Annie Ross were living at North Lyell as man and wife — Another affidavit from William Taylor, licensee of the Montagu Hotel, was to the effect that respondent and Annie Ross stayed it his place as man and wife —The Court said they would give their decision on the 14th Dec.
Lucy ultimately re-married to Joseph Hawkes and they lived at 5 Yardley St, North Hobart where both her father Milson and mother Lucy also resided in their final years.