Eatock was born in the Central Highlands of
Queensland in a town named
Springsure. Her Scottish-born parents were said to be Jane Lindsay (née Cousins) and her husband, Alexander Wakenshaw. She was their ninth child. Her father, in time, became a
pastoralist. On 18 November 1895, when she was 21 and still living in Springsure, she married an Aboriginal man named William Eatock, who was a
stockman. In 1908, they were in
New South Wales where her husband was working in an
abattoir. They had nine children and they lived in makeshift huts or tents near
Brewarrina, where life was difficult for the family. They agreed to separate, and William took two of their sons, while Lucy took the youngest children and an elder daughter. Lucy could only find work as a
domestic worker, and she fostered the children out to a number of places, including the town of
Bowral. Lucy was annoyed that the CPA had not done more to look after their members and that Noel, especially, had been badly treated. The family left the CPA. Noel did not renew contact with his mother after he completed his sentence. Her son, Lindsay, remained in politics but the rest of the family retired. Lucy's grandchildren became proud of their
Indigenous Australian ancestry and some argued that Lucy had indigenous ancestry, but Lucy herself never claimed this. ==References==