The file will at least give you the years and places Clyde was living in NSW.
They obviously made up....as Clyde was born 9 Apr 1925.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69683820Williamstown Chronicle 17 Jan 1920
MARITAL DIFFERENCES.
MOTHER-IN-LAW IS BLAMED.
John Arthur Cooke, a returned soldier, for whom Mr McComas appeared, was asked by his wife, at the local Court on Tuesday, for maintenance for herself and their child.
Mrs Lilias May Cooke said that defendant was her husband, with whom she could not live on account of "his dirty, low, lustful ways."
Her husband had taken the bed from under her, the day he was turned away from her mother's home. She had bought the bed, and the "duchesse", and the wardrobe, struggling to make a home.
To Mr McComas- My mother did not call him names. While he was at her mother's he paid her nothing. The last money he had given me was £3. When he went to the front he left me to draw £4/11/- every fortnight. He had not said when my mother (Mrs Freebody) ordered him out "All right, I will go, but I want my wife and child." My mother had not said "No you won't : I can afford to keep her on the money my dead son left me."
At interviews, she had, in December, her husband had not said to her that he had a home ready for her at Footscray. He is a "most audacious man for telling lies." She had not told her husband she was ready to go to him as she could not " put up with her mother any longer." Nor had she made appointments to meet him.
She had replied to the Mayor, when he had suggested going in for a house, " Not for a while."
The defence given was that Cook had offered his wife a home at Pilgrim street, Footscray, but she insisted on living with her mother.
He was getting £3 a week and was quite prepared to maintain his wife and child.
John A. Cooke, assistant slaughter man, gave evidence on the lines sketched by his counsel. He did not know the real cause of the trouble.
He could take her to a home straight away. The furniture there had been provided' by the Repatriation Department.
She had told the Mayor she could not put up with her mother. He told her he had rented a place at 16/6 per week.
Mr H. Hick.-You know you had no right to take that furniture away: it belonged to your wife.
The Bench adjourned the case for a fortnight, to give the parties an opportunity to come together. Meanwhile, Cooke must pay his wife £1 per week for her maintenance.
Cooke agreed to this course.
Cando
