Elizabeth Collins (nee Clark) - memoir of her family, compiled 1914-1917

MLMSS 4074

fonds

1915 - 1917

153111

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - photocopy
Textual Records - typescript

James Swales Clark (1812-1851) was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire; he was employed as steward at 'Flowery Field' the residence of Cheshire merchant Thomas Ashton. In 1835 he married Elizabeth McDonald (1810-1899) from Largs, Scotland. Elizabeth's brother Thomas McDonald, persuaded by family friend the Rev. John Dunmore Lang, had emigrated to Australia in 1831. James and Elizabeth with their children, Macdonald (b.1836), Susanna (b.1838), and James (b.1840), and Elizabeth's widowed mother, left for Australia in 1842 on the 'Thomas Hughes'.
Arriving in Sydney in early 1843 the family went to the Hunter district; James worked for Helenus Scott at 'Glendon' and then later settled at Bulga, near Singleton. The Clarks had four more children, Ashton (b.1844), Mary (b.1847), Harriet (b.1849) and Elizabeth, born in 1852 after her father's death the previous year. Of the Clark children, Mary died in 1857 and the others were married as follows : Macdonald to Susannah McAlpin in 1863; Susanna to William T. Squire in 1875; James to Mary Daws in 1875; Harriet to John W. Eather in 1872; Ashton to Sara Eather in 1885; Elizabeth to Thomas S. Collins in 1879.

Elizabeth Collins' memoir contains details of the lives of her parents and their families - the Clarks in Yorkshire and the McDonald's in Largs, Scotland; her sisters and brothers and their families; other families of the Bulga district