Joseph DANKS & Clara WILSON

[Dundee]

SS Rockton arrived Fremantle from Sydney 1896 (trip number 113, no date)

Mrs C. DANKS
Miss A. DANKS

Debra 

[sparrett]

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?

[cando]

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

[cando]

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
and
DANKS Mr J 34 years    ROCKTON    Jul   1896    Adelaide Jul 1896/005

Cando

[cando]

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.

Cando

[sparrett]

DANKS Child  7 years

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

Wonder where she was.


Sue

[mrshoneybear]

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

[sparrett]

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

[mrshoneybear]

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