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I am Barry Clacy. Charles was my Great Grandfather.  I have some new information on him.  He arrived at Adelaide on the brig Corsair on 16th November 1843.  He was one of just three passengers on the ship.  I do not believe he married Lillian in Adelaide.  She was in Adelaide but married to a John Thornton with whom she had two daughters.  Charles was still in Adelaide in 1849 as there is a record of him giving evidence in a court case in 1849.  I imagine he would have travelled to Victoria at the discovery of gold.  He was mining at Simmons Reef at Blackwood in the early 1850's.  He may have met Lillian in Adelaide but I think he took up with at a later date.  When Charles died, the information for his Death Certificate was provided by a son in law of Lillian's who was married to one of the Thornton girls.