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- Cassandra Fox wrote 23 July 2023:
Have looked at your website for many years and had rejected my Joseph Clarke b 1804, parents Thomas and Ann - Parker's party on the East Indian because it stated that they were from Cork in Ireland.
My 4 x great grandfather Joseph Clarke was convicted at Cape Town in 1826 at the age of 22, for burglary and given 7 years transportation in 1827 and put on the next ship, the Mariner, to Sydney, Australia. Most of his convict records from Australia state that he was from Warwickshire.
There are a few Joseph Clarke / Clark born around 1804 in Warwickshire. I looked at the 1820 Settlers website again for a Joseph Clarke and found one Joseph Clarke born 1804, father Thomas, wife Ann, children Joseph, Anna/Anne, Elizabeth, Susannah and Harriet. They were part of Parker's party onboard the East Indian and it states that they were from Cork in Ireland. William Parker, a merchant from Cork in Ireland created difficulties for the Colonial Department. The conditions were that he was allowed to take a party of 100 families from Ireland and by late October 1819, Parker had not provided a detailed list of the party. By November 1819 a list was prepared for the Colonial Department who lost patience with him, as it was seen that two thirds of Parker's prospective settlers were from London not Ireland. Source: M D Nash 1987 Settler Handbook geni.com/projects/1820-Settlers-Parker-s-Party/10420.
2 Oct 1819, Thomas Clarke wrote a letter from No 10 Swan Pl, Old Kent Road, asking to be a part of the new settlement in South Africa, as he had come across hard times for his wife and seven kids. Source: National Archives Kew CO48/42 383 eggsa.org/1820-settlers.
Thomas Clarke married Sarah Butler in 1803 in Harbury Warwickshire. They had 3 children all baptised in Harbury, Joseph 1804, Ann 1806 and Elizabeth 1809. Sarah died in Harbury in 1810 and Thomas then married Ann Backwell in 1812 and they had 3 known children all born in Harbury, Hannah 1814, George 1816 and Susanna 1817.
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