1855 - 1921 (66 years)
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Name |
Joseph John Clarke [1] |
Birth |
4 Mar 1855 |
Heddington, Wiltshire, England (never registered) [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
24 Jun 1921 [1] |
Burial |
Kybunga, South Australia, Australia [1] |
Person ID |
I2546 |
Tucker Family Tree | The descendants of James Tucker |
Last Modified |
2 Mar 2007 |
Family |
Eliza Tucker, b. 23 Jan 1870, Crows Nest, Inman Valley, District Yankalilla, South Australia, Australia d. 25 Aug 1945 (Age 75 years) [1] |
Marriage |
20 Feb 1890 |
Baptist Manse, Paddington, New South Wales [1] |
Children |
+ | 1. Alfred James Clarke, b. 31 Dec 1890, Kybunga, South Australia, Australia d. 15 Jul 1954 (Age 63 years) |
+ | 2. Daisy Jane Olive Clarke, b. 16 Jan 1894, Kybunga, South Australia, Australia d. 1 Oct 1965 (Age 71 years) |
+ | 3. Frederick John William Clarke, b. 27 Jan 1900, Kybunga, South Australia, Australia bur. Kybunga, South Australia, Australia |
+ | 4. Wilfred Tennyson Tucker Clarke, b. 27 Jun 1905, Kybunga, South Australia, Australia d. 10 Oct 1967 (Age 62 years) |
| 5. Mary Myrtle Tucker Clarke, b. 28 Jun 1907, Clare, South Australia, Australia bur. Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia |
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Family ID |
F0741 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
8 Jul 2022 |
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Notes |
- Joseph was born in Divizes in Wiltshire, England, having brothers Alfred and Frederick and a sister Elizabeth (King). He was born with a cleft palate and hence had a speech impediment. He fought with a local boy and won, and even though he was only 9 she told him to run away until the incident wad forgotten. He did, to the coast, and obtained work as a seaman on boats and other vessels, where the older seamen taught him ho to play cards and how to win by cheating. He took his winnings back to England and gave them to hi brother Alfred to help pay for his tuition at Spurgeon's Theological College (Baptist). Joseph joined the Army, under General Buller, and was sent to the first Boer War. Where he received news that his mother was seriously ill, his requests to return home was refused. So he stole a wagon and horses and left amid a hail of arrows and other ammunition. He reached the coast and arrived in England two days after his mother had died. So he followed his two brothers to Australia. The Kybunga property is still owned by Clark Descendents.
Joseph became a Christian and loved to read and study the Bible. On Sundays he would take his Bible to Church with him and would sit in the front row. While the minister was preaching he would thumb through the appropriate verses and if he didn't agree with the visiting Minister's interpretations he would argue his point of view during the Sermon. His wife and family preferred to sit at the back of the church.
(the above details provided from the book "The Tucker Family in Australia" 1992.
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Sources |
- [S1] Cynthis Henley-Smith, The Tucker Family in Australia, (Gillingham Printers Pty Ltd Adelaide, South Australia), 1992, 198 (Reliability: 2).
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