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About William Clarke [Convict "Fortune" 1806]
William CLARKE was born 28/10/1770 Lincolnshire, UK
William was convicted of receiving stolen property and sentenced to 7 years transportation. He arrived in Sydney Cove on 12/7/1806 on "Fortune".
William married Anna Maria SINGLETON in 1810 at Windsor and they had the following children
- Alice 1810
- William 1811
- Samuel 1814
- Joseph 1817
- John 1819
- Susannah 1821
- Rosannah 1828
William died 12/6/1848 at Sydney City and was was buried at St Matthews Cemetery, Windsor.
- http://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I49127&ged=purne...
- http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/clarke/william/120643
- http://www.thetreeofus.net/6/251064.htm
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250380187/william-clarke
Not to be confused with
- William CLARKE, convict - arrived "George the Third" 12/12/1834
- William CLARKE, convict - arrived "Scarborough" 1788
The following history on William Clark/e was kindly provided by Roma Waldron, descendant of William's son Samuel Clark/e, who married Bridget Timmins.
William Clark b. c:1770, Lincolnshire, England, m. 1.Sep.1810, in Sydney, Ann Maria Singleton, b. 25.Oct.1793, Sydney, (daughter of William Singleton and Hannah Parkinson) d. 31.Dec.1862, buried Wollombi. William died 12.Jun.1848, Windsor, buried: St. Matthews, Windsor. The William Clark/e Story
On a winter's night in February 1805 an upstairs room at a lodging in Rotton Row, Old Street, near Hatton Garden, London, sitting beside a fireplace there sat a sturdy native of Lincolnshire one William Clark (then Clarke) 35 years old 5' 9 1/2" tall with dark or black hair & hazel eyes. Before William, a hawker of earthern ware, stood a constable & an aggrieved householder, fresh from an examination downstairs of certain pieces of earthernware & glassware. Escorted by a constable & aggrieved householder, William Clark left his fireplace & appeared at the office of a Hatton Garden magistrate, where he heard the charge: that he, William Clark, had knowingly received a quantity of earthernware & glassware, feloniously stolen from the aggrieved householder (valued at the trial at the Old Bailey) at 2 pounds 14 shillings & 6 pence.
William Clark arrived at Sydney on 12.7.1806 in the ship "Fortune (1)" . At Windsor in 1810, long before he had completed his servitude, William then 40 married Ann Maria aged 17 the daughter of William Singleton. On the Hawksbury they raised a family of 6, including sons who became founders of their own large branches of the Clark family, & daughters who became wives of founders of other large families in the Hunter Valley, North Western NSW & elseware.
While raising this family of 6, William worked as a labourer and farmed the 100 acre portion he acquired on the north bank of Freeman's Reach near Wilburforce. He also rented a piece of land from G.T Palmer, brother of the original occupier of Richmond Vale on Wallis Creek, & son of the former Commissary General of NSW, John (Little Jack) Palmer. To enable Governor Macquarie & party to undertake the journey across the Blue Mountains, the convict, William Clark, supplied maize & other stores.
In 1815 William received a conditional pardon: he received his certificate of freedom in 1823. In 1825 William found himself deserted by Ann Maria, who absconded with the children. Reunited in 1827, they moved to Patricks Plains where Ann Maria's brother Benjamin, had established himself at the site of the town which later bore his name Singleton.
In 1828 at Patricks Plains Rosanna ( who married John Radnidge of Maison Dieu) the 7th child was born. Between 1828 & 1844, members of the family lived at various places: Maison Deu, de Quirosville, Warkworth, & Bulga Some of the men were wheelwrights.
From 1844 3 of William's married sons, each caught up in a movement of interrelated members of the Clark, McMullen, & Bellamy families, settled at Murray's Run on the south arm of Wollombi Brook. William Clark, the old hawker of earthernware, now enfeebled, went to a benovolent hospital in Sydney, where he died in 1848. From Murray's Run the 3rd of these sons, John Clark, moved with his wife Rebecca (formerly McMullen) to Millfield. Here he worked as a wheelwright & acquired several portions of land. On one of these portions, about 1/2 a mile west of the site of the legendary flaying by John mcDougall of a member of No 7 iron gang, he erected a vertical slab & shingle cottage, to which in later years a son added an annexe. Here, John Clark completed the raising of his own great branch of the Clark family.
Muscical & warmhearted as well as pious (like most Greater Cessnock families of convict origin) the Clarks made a social centre of the homstead near Cedar creek. On festive & informal occasions alike, the Clarks, the Lumbys, the Parrys, the Crafts & the Mortons, sawed away at their bush fiddles (later they bought & learned to play shop fiddles) & dancing went on until dawn. Members of the family made up their own songs & poems (including a piece about Peter Clark, their heroic cousin, grappling in 1863 on Warlands Range, even in his death throes, with the bushranger Wilson). They sang their songs & recited their poems at a more expansive & cheerful fireplace by far than that of their grandfather, William Clark, sitting in February 1805 in an upstairs room at his lodging in Rotton Row, Old Street, near Hatton Garden, London.
from the book Wines, Mines & People
TRIAL OF WILLIAM CLARK
24th April 1805 Old Bailey - The Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex 4th Session
Charles Sumpter & William Clarke were indicted, the former for feloniously stealing, on 28th of February, a set of glass cruets in a mahogany frame, value 8/-, a water pot value 1/-, a pair of salts value 3/-, 3 glass vinegar-cruets value 4/-, 2 glass mustard-pots value 2/3, 2 glass cruets value 2/3 a Japan bottle stand value 1/6, a pot & top value 2/6, a pan value 2/6, 38 earthern dishes value 8/-, an earthern jug value 4d, 3 milk basons value 8d, 38 dishes value 10/-, and 2 pint mugs value 4d, the property of John Few & the latter for receiving the same goods, knowing them to have been feloniously stolen.
ROBERT CRIB sworn: I live at No 228 Holborn, I am a carver & gilder.
On the 26th of February about 10 o'clock in the morning, I was at my door, & saw the prisoner Clark at the corner of Hand-Court, directly opposite my door. In consequence of information, I suspected he was waiting for the prisoner, Sumpter. I then went out, and walked as far as the George & Blue Boar, which is opposite to Mr. Fews, I had not been there more than 2 minutes before I saw the prisoner, Sumpter come out of Mr. Few's with a basket full of earthernware. I followed him till he came to the corner of Hand-Court & saw him give it to the prisoner Clark. They set it down on the ground, & one said to the other, No one will meddle with it. I then went up close to it & they both went into the Gin Shop together., the corner house, they afterwards came out & went up Hand-Court together, they then separated, Sumpter went towards Red Lion Street, & Clarke went on towards Gray's Inn, with the basket on his arm. I followed him to Clerkenwell & not findindg a constable at the Sessions house, I went back & saw no more of him nor the basket till I saw the basket at the office, which I believe to be the same. I acquainted Mr. Few when I came back & in consequence of that information he taxed Sumpter with it in my presence & then he confessed to have given this to Clarke.
JOHN FEW Sworn: In consequence of Mr. Cribb's information, and my believing Sumpter to be a very honest man indeed, I could hardly credit what he had informed me of. I charged him with it. I went down with Sumpter to the Hatton Garden office & the magistrate sent Hancock, the officer, with me to the prisoner Clarke's lodgings, in company with Sumpter. I there saw an immense quantity of earthernware, & I was pretty certain they were my property. These are them (produces the property). Amongst them there were 2 baking dishes with the shape of an hour glass at the bottom. On the 28th we charged the prisoner with it & we searched the prisoner Clarke's lodgings on the same day. I only selected a few of the articles in the indictment. I believe them all to be mine.
Crossed examined by Mr. Watson: QUESTION: Can you swear, independent of any circumstance whatever, that this dish in my hand is yours. You know other people in the trade have dishes so marked ?. ANSWER: They may have. COURT Question (to the prosecutor) What trade did Clarke carry on ?. ANSWER: He is a hawker in earthern ware.
JAMES HANCOCK Sworn: I am an officer of Hatton Garden. On the 28th of February I went along with Mr. Few in the evening to the prisoner Clarke's lodgings, Rotton Row, Old Street. I went into the house & Mr. Few owned the property. I told Mr. few to identify as many as belonged to him & I would take them. I went upstairs & found Clarke sitting by the fireside. I told him he must go with me. I asked the prisoner Sumpter if that was the man who bought them off him. He said he was. The prisoners did not say anything in their defence. Sumpter called 4 witnesses & Clarke 3, who gave them a good character. Sumpter GUILTY aged 35. confined 6 months in the house of Correction & fined 1/-. Clarke GUILTY aged 35 Transported for 7 years 2nd Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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William Clarke [Convict "Fortune" 1806]'s Timeline
| 1770 |
October 28, 1770
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Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
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1798
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| 1810 |
October 26, 1810
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Freemans Reach, NSW, Australia
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| 1811 |
August 21, 1811
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Freemans Reach, NSW, Australia
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| 1814 |
November 18, 1814
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Windsor, NSW, Australia
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| 1817 |
September 14, 1817
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Windsor, Hawkesbury City Council, New South Wales, Australia
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| 1819 |
February 28, 1819
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Windsor, NSW, Australia
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| 1821 |
November 20, 1821
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Freemans Reach, New South Wales, Australia
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| 1828 |
August 6, 1828
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