charles clarke

[Seaton Smithy]

You may find him on the PROV Unassisted Assisted Passenger lists arriving between 1871 and 1887:

https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/passenger-records-and-immigration/unassisted-passenger-lists

Unfortunately, the PROV have changed the search function and it is harder to narrow down the search specifically to "Charles Clarke".

If you have his death certificate it may give you an indication of how long he had been in Australia.

[staplehouse]

i have applied for his death cert and when that comes I will inform you , thank you

[staplehouse]

seeing this Charles Clarke was born in 1849, is there any record of him marry before he came to Australian and left wife behind as he married in Victoria in 1878, this would have made him 28 , so have a funny feeling that he could have seeing that he had two wifes and a de facto each having been with about 11 years

[rosie99]

Charles Clarke Age:   22 occ Boot Maker
Elizabeth Hannah Wilson Age:   21
17 Sep 1871
St Mary, Battersea
Father Charles John Clarke occ Boot maker
Spouse Father   Edward William Wilson occ Tailor

[rosie99]

Elizabeth Clarke with her parents in 1881
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6Y-5Q16

Elizabeth is 'Married' with an 8 year old daughter Elizabeth

[rosie99]

1891 still with father

Edward Wilson   72 occ Tailor bn Lincolnshire
Ann Wilson   62 bn Ramsgate, Kent
Elizabeth Clarke   40 bn Chelsea
Mabel Clarke   18   bn Chelsea
Walter Clarke   9 bn Battersea
William Tranter   19


Elizabeth Mabel Clark
Birth Date 8 Sep 1872
Baptism    13 Oct 1872
Battersea, Surrey
Father  Charles Clark
Mother Elizabeth Hannah Clark

[rosie99]

Walter Clarke
Born 21 August 1882
Baptism    12 Jun 1887
Father   Charles Clarke occ Shipster
Mother   Elizabeth Anna Clarke
Battersea St John

[staplehouse]

is this the same family as it is a different woman, Elizabeth Hannah the first and the second one is Elizabeth anna or is this a spelling error

[rosie99]

I would think Anna & Hannah are the same person. They sound the same with an accent  The address on the baptism ties in with the 1891 census 

Elizabeth Mabel Clarke
mmn  WILSON     
1872  Dec Quarter
CHELSEA  Volume 01A  Page 288

Births in Battersea area surname Clarke mmn Wilson

Walter Edward CLARKE
mmn WILSON     
1874  Sept Quarter
WANDSWORTH  Volume 01D  Page 538
Don't know what happened to him 

Walter CLARKE
mmn WILSON     
1881  Sept Quarter
WANDSWORTH  Volume 01D  Page 696
That baptism appears to have birth date wrong by one year