One homeland, three nodes on the Strait. The Lui Chew sailed from the southern tip of mainland China to the Strait of Malacca, where they organised three clan bodies within a single generation. Here is that journey as a map.
In short
The Lui Chew (雷州) migration runs from the Leizhou Peninsula in Zhanjiang, southern China, across the South China Sea to the Strait of Malacca, where the diaspora built three documented clan bodies: the Singapore Lui Chiu Hoe Kuan (1892), the Melaka Leizhou Association (1899) and Persatuan Lui Chew Johor in Muar (about 1913). This page maps that path; the map below is a schematic, not drawn to scale.
A schematic of the route, not drawn to scale. The nodes are placed roughly as they lie along the Strait — Melaka to the north, then Muar, then Singapore at the southern tip — but note the founding order runs the other way: Singapore was organised first, in 1892.
The four points
Leizhou Peninsula 雷州半岛
The homeland and origin of the journey — the southernmost tip of mainland China, in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. From here the Lui Chew sailed south in the long century after 1842.
Singapore · 1892
The Singapore Lui Chiu Hoe Kuan — the oldest organised Lui Chew clan body in Southeast Asia, at the southern tip of the Strait.
Melaka · 1899
The Melaka Leizhou Association at 97 Jonker Street — the oldest in Malaysia, inside today's UNESCO World Heritage core zone.
Muar · ~1913
The Leizhou bang that became Persatuan Lui Chew Johor — the best-documented Lui Chew clan history of the three.
A small people, a long memory, three nodes on the Strait.
The fuller account of each node — and the negative-evidence finding of why so few Lui Chew clan bodies formed elsewhere in Southeast Asia — is on The Global Lui Chew.