Francis Clark and Sons

It narrowly survived destruction when the adjacent photographic studio of Townsend Duryea was destroyed by fire on 18 April 1875.

Her eldest brother, Matthew Davenport Hill, was Recorder of Birmingham, penal reformer and a supporter of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

They decided to migrate to South Australia after two of their children (T. Arthur (ca.1833–1847) and F. Owen (ca.1827–1849)) had died of tuberculosis and another, John Howard, was showing signs of lung problems.

[10] Caroline Emily Clark (6 September 1825 – 18 November 1911) was, with help from her brother Howard, Catherine Helen Spence and others, founder of the "boarding out system" for the relief of destitute children.

September 1843 – 17 December 1920) at the Unitarian Church in Wakefield Street on 17 October 1867 and lived at Parkside, then "Hazelwood", later in North Adelaide.

John Howard Clark (15 January 1830 – 20 May 1878) was company accountant and later editor of The South Australian Register (see main article) Henry Septimus Clark (1835 – 20 February 1864) was Secretary and Engineer with East Torrens District Council, and in 1858 purchased a vineyard (which his fiancé Annie Martin named "Stonyfell") from James Edlin.

[10] He developed the vineyard in partnership with fellow-Unitarian Joseph Crompton (1842–1901), who was also his assistant at the Council and married his sister Susan.

[20][21] Matthew Symonds Clark (1839 – 10 July 1920) was a student at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, married fellow Unitarian Euphemia Martin (c. 1850 – 1 April 1941) at their Wakefield Street Church on 29 August 1874.

He operated a land and estate agency at Australasia Chambers and later an accountancy business on King William Street.

[24] Their children included "Symonds" was the maiden name of his great-grandmother, Thomas Wright Hill's mother.

A portable steam engine and well-boring equipment won prizes at the Royal Adelaide Show in 1887.

Around six months after the Clarks left England for South Australia, Edward Montgomrey Martin (1807–1894) and his wife Ann Martin (née Thornton) (1809–1901), their family and friend William Hitchcox (1821–1902) followed on the Anglia, arriving at Port Adelaide 5 March 1851.

Their children were: They soon met up with fellow-Unitarian Dr. Charles George Everard; Edward Martin rented a premises from him on Hindley Street, where he established a chemists shop, and bought an allotment at Osmond Terrace, Norwood, where they built a house.

[11] A display of gold mining equipment in Pine Creek, Northern Territory features a company advertisement of the period.

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