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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Clark, Sheaf, Waterman of Portsea
« on: Friday 08 July 11 04:47 BST (UK)  »
Hello DMClark,
Just to say I got your message and have tried every which-way to reply, but to no avail. :-\ The system won't allow me and I don't know how to convince it otherwise. However, this gives me the opportunity to correct something I wrote in my earlier post. James did not go to the Parramatta Orphan School. I sent to the NSW State Archives for the file and it turned out to be another James Clark. I'm sorry for misleading people about that. I'm now working on the idea that the children stayed together at Dempsey Island, made possible by Louisa's quick marriage to James Fraiser, who may have been Adam's partner. If you send me another message I might have more luck with a reply.
Regards
Steve

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Clark, Sheaf, Waterman of Portsea
« on: Monday 20 December 10 06:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hello All,
I came across this list while googling to find out about Portsmouth commercial fishers in the mid-C19th, what type of fishing they did etc. I'm an academic maritime historian specializing in Australian pearl-shelling, so I know quite a bit about James Clark who was for many years the most influential man in the industry. There's a lot to know about him. Orphaned at three, he died in Brisbane in 1933 a very wealthy man. I also know about his brothers Steve and AJ (Aaron John) because in the 1890s they were part of the syndicate known as the Clark Combination which I have published on in the academic journals. James withdrew from pearl-shelling in 1919, but he had wisely invested in sheep stations with a partner and owned half-a-dozen of the best properties in Queensland by the time he died, one of them running about 140,000 sheep! I don't know anything as yet about any of the other children of Adam & Louisa, and was interested to read from lindynz that Joe went to NZ. BTW, I think it was Steve who was with his father when the cutter Friend went down. After that, and Louisa's death a short time later, James ended up in the Protestant Orphan School at Parramatta, run at the time by the daughter of Samuel Marsden, known in Aus & NZ as the 'flogging parson' - I hate to think what that was like!
Regards

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