Clara Walker

b. 25 May 1854, d. 28 Aug 1895
Father*Thomas Walker b. 11 Mar 1818, d. 26 Mar 1895
Mother*Elizabeth Butler b. 6 Mar 1824, d. 1893
ChartsBETTS: John -Family and Descendants
WALKER: John -Family and Descendants
Clara (née Walker) Betts -from Ross Betts
      Clara Walker was born on 25 May 1854 in Hawkesbury River District, New South Wales. She was baptised on 23 Jul 1854 at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Windsor, New South Wales, by Rev. Joseph George Turner.

Clara Walker married James Henry Betts, son of James Betts and Sarah Howlett, on 7 Aug 1873 in East Kempsey, New South Wales.
Clara and James lived at Euroka, Macleay River in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1887.

Clara Betts died on 28 Aug 1895 in Kempsey, New South Wales, at the age of 41 and the cause of her death was recorded as exhaustion after delivery of child and haemorrhage.
She was buried on 30 Aug 1895 in West Kempsey, New South Wales.

Family

James Henry Betts b. 1850, d. 18 Feb 1925
Children

James Betts

b. 29 Aug 1813, d. 3 Feb 1887
Father*John Betts b. 8 Apr 1779, d. 24 Jan 1846
Mother*Hannah Kimmence b. 26 Sep 1779, d. 1843
ChartsBETTS: John -Family and Descendants
     James Betts was baptised on 29 Aug 1813 in Helions Bumpstead, Essex.

James Betts married Frances Goodchild on 12 Jan 1837 at the Parish Church in Little Thurlow, Suffolk.
James was a Carpenter in 1847.

James Betts married Sarah Howlett in 1849 in Stretchworth, Cambridgeshire, in the April-June Quarter.
James lived at 30 Mill Road in Stretchworth, Cambridgeshire, b 1858.
James was a Wheelwright (Immigration record) in 1858.

James Betts and Sarah Betts immigrated on 13 Jun 1858 to Sydney, New South Wales, on board the "Castilian", which had sailed from England on 20 March 1858 under Capt. William Arthur with 430 immigrants on board. James Betts died on 3 Feb 1887 at West Kempsey, New South Wales, at the age of 73 and the cause of his death was recorded as haemipagia (a Stroke). James had been paralysed for 18 months prior to his death.
He was buried on 5 Feb 1887 in West Kempsey, New South Wales.

Family 1

Frances Goodchild b. 9 Oct 1816, d. 1 Aug 1847
Children

Family 2

Sarah Howlett b. 3 Aug 1809, d. 14 Jan 1893
Children

Sarah Howlett

b. 3 Aug 1809, d. 14 Jan 1893
ChartsBETTS: John -Family and Descendants
      Sarah Howlett was born on 3 Aug 1809 in Borrough Green, Cambridgeshire, a daughter of John Howlett and Thomasin.

Sarah Howlett married James Betts, son of John Betts and Hannah Kimmence, in 1849 in Stretchworth, Cambridgeshire, in the April-June Quarter.

Sarah Betts and James Betts immigrated on 13 Jun 1858 to Sydney, New South Wales, on board the "Castilian", which had sailed from England on 20 March 1858 under Capt. William Arthur with 430 immigrants on board.

Sarah Betts died on 14 Jan 1893 in Kempsey, New South Wales, at the age of 83.
She was buried at General Cemetery in West Kempsey, New South Wales.

Family

James Betts b. 29 Aug 1813, d. 3 Feb 1887
Children

Rev. John Taylor

      John was a Minister of the Word at the Presbyterian Church. Smith Street in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1900.

Margaret Anderson