Joseph Clements (1783 - 1862)

Born 1783 in Augher, Tyrone, Ireland

Descendants

Died 1862 at about age 79 in Brown's Creek, King's Plains, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Joseph Clements migrated from Northern Ireland to New South Wales.

When Joseph Clements was born in 1783, his father, John Clements, was 23 and his mother, Mary Simpson, was 23.

He had three sons and two daughters with Catherine Irwin between 1820 and 1835.

Joseph, a weaver, arrived in Australia on 20 Sep 1859 on the ship Abyssinia from Belfast, County Down, Ireland with his wife Catherine, Son James, son Andrew, a farm labourer, and and his daughter-in-law Mary. He came with his family to join his daughter Catherine and son-in-law John McKenna at Kings Plains.^[1]

He died in 15 Oct 1862 at the residence of his son Andrew, Brown's Creek, King's Plains, Australia, having lived a long life of 79 years.^[2][3]

Note

Not married in Australia

Sources

1. ↑ Source Citation State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay (Board's Immigrant Lists); Series: 5317; Reel: 2479 Source Information Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
2. ↑ [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62719417 Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904), Saturday 25 October 1862, page 2 DIED. On the 15th instant, at the residence of his son Andrew, Brown's Creek, King's Plains, Mr. JOSEPH CLEMENTS, aged 79 years, father of Mrs. M'Kenna, of King's Plains and brother of the Rev. Andrew Clements, County Tyrone, Ireland. Much respected.]
3. ↑ NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, CLEMENTS JOSEPH 3384/1862 JOHN MARY CARCOAR.