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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 05 July 12 07:48 BST (UK) »
SS Rockton arrived Fremantle from Sydney 1896 (trip number 113, no date)

Mrs C. DANKS
Miss A. DANKS

Debra  :)

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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 05 July 12 08:10 BST (UK) »
So, by 1896 JOSEPH and CLARA seem to have parted ways with JOSEPH taking up with one CLEMENTINA by 1916 when he enlisted. He got a pension by 1917 but his "wife is not mentioned.

 I have not yet found their marriage

CLARA has taken one of her daughters toWA

Sue

ADDING-

Is it possible to see if ADA WILSON was on the same voyage, Deb?
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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 05 July 12 08:16 BST (UK) »
SS Rockton arrived Fremantle from Sydney 1896 (trip number 113, no date)

Mrs C. DANKS
Miss A. DANKS

Debra  :)

6 May 1896
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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 05 July 12 08:23 BST (UK) »
Outward passengers from Vic.....the news snippet mentioned from Sydney, via Adelaide and Melbourne

http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=42
DANKS Child  7 years   ROCKTON    Aug    1896    Adelaide    1896/   005
DANKS Mrs C  28 years   ROCKTON    Aug   1896    Adelaide    1896/   005
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DANKS Mr J 34 years    ROCKTON    Jul   1896    Adelaide Jul 1896/005

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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 05 July 12 08:30 BST (UK) »
SS Rockton arrived Fremantle from Sydney 1896 (trip number 113, no date)

Mrs C. DANKS
Miss A. DANKS

Debra  :)

6 May 1896
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ogz/

Cando

Obviously previous trip.  Sue no WILSON of the right age on the passenger list.

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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #41 on: Thursday 05 July 12 09:00 BST (UK) »
DANKS Child  7 years

This is ADA then,(using the Danks Surname) not ANNIS.

Wonder where she was.


Sue
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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #42 on: Saturday 07 July 12 06:11 BST (UK) »
Thankyou to all those who have contributed.  This has been great.  I am in the process of following up on all this info which clears up the mystery of where Clara ended up.

Thank you again

Vicki
Blaxell (from Devon, Eng), Gledhill (from Eng), Grace (from Wiltshire Eng), Hoy (from County Antrim, Nthn Ireland),  Simon (from Nassau, Germany), Wilson (from Cambidge, Eng), Brown (from Oakham, Eng & later Scone, NSW), Newling (from Cambridgeshire, Eng & then Scone, NSW), Ball & Eatons from Worcestershire, Eng), Burris (from Wiltshire, ENg)

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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #43 on: Saturday 07 July 12 08:36 BST (UK) »
Hi Vicki,
Well, we do not quite know where CLARA finally ended up.
A couple of notes of interest......

She is not mentioned at all in her daughters' deaths etc.  One wonders why.

If you do not have evidence to the contrary, I would suggest that the A initial CLARA's name was for ANNIS.

The 1881 census places her in the vicinity of this birth which tallies with other age details and makes a logical choice for her own daughter's name.

Births Mar 1873   WILSON, Clara Annis
 Dewsbury
 9b/643

Knowing this may help in your further searches.
Sue



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Re: Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON
« Reply #44 on: Saturday 07 July 12 08:57 BST (UK) »
Hi Sue

You could be right.  I have her place of birth as Higham, Yorkshire, but this is only about 10k from Dewsbury.
Higham is also listed for her sister Amelia & brother Joseph while George (my great grandfather) was born in Carlton & younger brother Arthur in Barnsley.
A couple of days ago all I knew about Clara once she arrived in Australia was that she married Joseph Danks & had a daughter Annis & that was the end of the info I had.  Now I know she remarried & that she died in 1973 in WA. 

Thank you
Vicki
Blaxell (from Devon, Eng), Gledhill (from Eng), Grace (from Wiltshire Eng), Hoy (from County Antrim, Nthn Ireland),  Simon (from Nassau, Germany), Wilson (from Cambidge, Eng), Brown (from Oakham, Eng & later Scone, NSW), Newling (from Cambridgeshire, Eng & then Scone, NSW), Ball & Eatons from Worcestershire, Eng), Burris (from Wiltshire, ENg)