Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN (1868

Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN (1868 - 1943)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN (1868 - 1943) + Charles Macedon CLARKE (1868 - 1931)	William HANN (1837 - 1889)	Joseph HANN (1815 - 1864)

			Elizabeth SHARPE ( - 1864)

		Mary Burge HEARN (1833 - 1894)	James HEARN (1811 - 1857)

			Louisa CLARKE (1812 - 1890)	James CLARKE
				Louisa (CLARKE)

Pic P1. In Loving Memory of
CHARLES MACEDON CLARKE
who died 26th February 1931
aged 63 years
also his beloved wife
ELIZABETH CAROLINE CLARKE
died 1st March 1943
aged 74 years
Buried at Maryvale station

Pic S1. In Loving Memory of
CHARLES MACEDON CLARKE
who died 26th February 1931
aged 63 years
also his beloved wife
ELIZABETH CAROLINE CLARKE
died 1st March 1943
aged 74 years
Buried at Maryvale station

Pic 1. In Loving Memory of
CHARLES MACEDON CLARKE
who died 26th February 1931
aged 63 years
also his beloved wife
ELIZABETH CAROLINE CLARKE
died 1st March 1943
aged 74 years
Buried at Maryvale station

b. 1868 at Queensland, Australia

m. 1891 Charles Macedon CLARKE (1868 - 1931)

d. 1943 at Townsville, Queensland, Australia aged 75

Near Relatives of Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN (1868 - 1943)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Joseph HANN	1815	England	1864	Queensland, Australia	49
Grandmother	Elizabeth SHARPE			1864	Queensland, Australia
Grandfather	James HEARN	1811	England	1857	Campbellfield, Victoria, Australia	46
Grandmother	Louisa CLARKE	1812	England	1890	Brunswick East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	78

Father in Law	Robert CLARKE	1841	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	1918	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	77

Father	William HANN	1837	Wiltshire, England	1889	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	52
Mother	Mary Burge HEARN	1833	England	1894	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	61

Self	Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN	1868	Queensland, Australia	1943	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	75

Husband	Charles Macedon CLARKE	1868		1931	Queensland, Australia	63

Sister	Louisa Clarke HANN	1860		1895	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	35

Uncle	James Charles HANN	1839	Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire, England	1923	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	84
Aunt	Katherine STANWAY	1839		1920	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	81
Uncle	John Thomas HANN	1840	Wiltshire, England
Aunt	Henrietta Georgina TAYLOR	1850	Battersea, Surrey, England	1910	Victoria, Australia	60
Aunt	Caroline Sharp HANN	1842	Wiltshire, England	1880	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	38
Uncle	Edward CUNNINGHAM	1834	Wiltshire, England	1898	Ayr, Queensland, Australia	64
Uncle	Frank Hugh HANN	1846	Wiltshire, England	1921	Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia, Australia	75

Cousin	Eugene Frank HANN			1916	Bullecourt, France
Cousin	John Marcus HANN	1889	Queensland, Australia	1947	Nyah, Victoria, Australia	58
Cousin	Louisa Augusta CUNNINGHAM			1926	North Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Alice Maud Mary CUNNINGHAM	1866	Queensland, Australia	1942	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	76
Cousin	Elizabeth Frances CUNNINGHAM	1867	Queensland, Australia	1901	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	34
Cousin	Jenny CUNNINGHAM	1869	Queensland, Australia	1869	Queensland, Australia	0
Cousin	Isabella Mary CUNNINGHAM	1870	Burdekin Downs, Queenland, Australia	1891	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	21
Cousin	Edward Robertson CUNNINGHAM	1873	Queensland, Australia	1892	Queensland, Australia	19
Cousin	Agnes CUNNINGHAM	1875	Queensland, Australia	1875	Queensland, Australia	0
Cousin	Amy Bond Jessie CUNNINGHAM	1877	Queensland, Australia	1905	Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia	28
Cousin	Arthur Henry Wickam CUNNINGHAM	1879	Queensland, Australia	1942	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	63
Cousin	Norman Clements CUNNINGHAM			1883	Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Helen Maud CUNNINGHAM	1884	Queensland, Australia
Cousin	Arundel Howard CUNNINGHAM	1886	London	1938	Queensland, Australia	52
Cousin	Gladys Gwendolen CUNNINGHAM	1888	Queensland, Australia

Niece	Florence Isabelle KEPPEL	1882	Queensland, Australia
Nephew	Frederick Henry KEPPEL	1884	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Jessie Alice Mabel KEPPEL	1885	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Mary Louisa KEPPEL	1887	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Beatrice Emma KEPPEL	1890	Queensland, Australia	1932	Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia	42
Nephew	Arthur KEPPEL	1891	Queensland, Australia
Nephew	William Hann KEPPEL	1892	Queensland, Australia
Niece	Lilian Olive KEPPEL	1894	Queensland, Australia

Brother in Law	Francis Henry KEPPEL			1919	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Events in Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN (1868 - 1943)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1868		Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN was born	Queensland, Australia	Burial info
1889	21	Death of father William HANN (aged 52)	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 1	18
1891	23	Married Charles Macedon CLARKE (aged 23)		Note 2	60
1894	26	Death of mother Mary Burge HEARN (aged 61)	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 3	52
1931	63	Death of husband Charles Macedon CLARKE (aged 63)	Queensland, Australia	Note 4	60
1943	75	Elizabeth Caroline (Lilly) (youngest Dau) HANN died	Townsville, Queensland, Australia	Note 5
1943	75	Burial	Maryvale Station, Qld	Note 6	60, 90

Note 1: Burial info

QLD bdm
William Hann
Event date: 05/04/1889
Event type: Death registration
Registration details: 1889/C/4659
Mother: Elizabeth Sharpe
Father/parent: Joseph Hann

Hann, William (1837–1889)
from April 8, 1869 Brisbane Courier
The account of the melancholy death, by drowning, of Mr. William Hann, of Maryvale station, at Townsville, will have been read by many old colonists, both in Queensland and Victoria, with sincere regret. Mr. Hann arrived in Victoria with his parents about thirty five years ago, his father having settled on a small squattage in Western Port near Schnapper Point. Mr Hann joined Mr R. McMicking on Mann's station, near Tumbarumba. During the stampede of Victorians to the Queensland "New Country". Mr Hann joined the late Mr Daintree, geologist, in taking up country in the Kennedy district. In 1872, at Mr Hann's suggestion, the late Hon. W. H. Walsh, then Secretary for Works in the Palmer Government, fitted out a party to explore the Cape York district. Mr Hann was the leader of the party, and the result of the expedition was the discovery of the Palmer and Walsh Rivers, and it was this party that first reported the existence of auriferous country on the Palmer, and their report was afterwards verified by Mulligan. During the trip Mr Hann announced the discovery of a tree climbing kangaroo. The statement was received at the time by naturalists with derision, which for long caused him much annoyance and, indeed, up to the time of his death he felt chagrined that he had not recieved credit for having been the first discoverer of this marsupial curiosity. Soon after his return from the expedition he purchased Maryvale station, which he has ever since continued to occupy. During the year of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition he, in company with the Hon. W. Aplin, paid a short visit to England. As an all round judge of live stock Mr. Hann had few equals in Queensland, and his homestead was always a model of neatness. Though somewhat brusque in manner, a kindlier or warmer-hearted man never existed, and the name of William Hann will long be held in affectionate remembrance by the many who were privileged to be counted among his intimate acquaintances.

Note 2: Queenslander (Brisbane) 12 Sept 1891
CLARKE—HANN.—On the 20th Ausrust, at Maryvale
Station, by the Rev. Canon Edwards, Charles
Macedon, third son of Robert Clarke, Esq., of
Bolinda Vale, Victoria, to Elizabeth Caroline (Lily),
youngest daughter of the late William Harm, of
North Queensland and Victoria.

Note 3: Mary Burge Hann
in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Mary Burge Hann
Death Date: 26 Aug 1894
Death Place: Queensland
Registration Date: 1894
Registration Place: Australia
Father:
James Hearn
Mother:
Louisa Clarke
Registration Number: 004148
Page number: 10586

Note 4: Townsville Daily Bulletin 27 Feb 1931
Clarke, Charles Macdeon (Charlie) (1868–1931)

Bush people of the Burdekin Tableland and of the further North will read of the death of Charlie (Charles Macedon) Clark with sorrow. He had lived his life amongst them, and his innate decency and goodness, had won their affection. It is not easy to win a place in the inner heart of bush folk, but once this place has been won it is yours.

Charlie Clarke used to tell how he came to North Queensland. It seems Mr. William Hann on visiting 'Bolinda Vale' in Victoria, was taken with the boy, whose olive skin and dark eyes attracted the tall North Queensland bushman, 'That boy has a skin for North Queensland. You had better let him come to me later on' he said to old Robert Clarke the former owner of the Derrimut short horn cattle. 'So you see' Charlie used to add 'It was my dark skin that brought me to Maryvale.'

This may have been, but no doubt Mr. Hann had sized up the lad's athletic figure, his brightness, and charm, for those old bushmen were wise and knew men in the making. Anyhow Charlie Clarke left the delightful homestead of Bolinda Vale with its lush of grass, and sleek stud cattle, and as a youngster came to Maryvale. Here romance came into his life. He met and later married Lily Hann daughter of that long bearded pioneer, who had suggested his coming north.

I think it was in 1881 that Charlie came to North Queensland. He has lived at Maryvale ever since.

Reared amongst stud cattle, he soon acquired a knowledge of working cattle in numbers on extensive runs. Naturally athletic, he developed into an exceptionally fine horseman. He was good on a rough horse, on a camp or over fences. He used to tell of a hurdle race he rode in at Ingham many years ago, when Mr Grant, who afterwards contributed clever pastoral articles to the Australasian, under the pen name of 'Bendleby' beat him. I wrote of this race on one occasion, crediting the victory to Charlie Clarke but Bendleby seeing this article, wrote at some length in the Australasian, claiming the victory which was justly his. The spirit of the old fellow amused Charlie Clarke, and he laughed over the incident, and enjoyed the reminiscence of the clouting ride on old Leatherhead.

Never a racing man, yet he dearly loved a good horse and enjoyed seeing them race at picnic meetings. The Maryvale horses were useful, for there is a lot of good blood at the back of them, some of the best running back to mares by Confucius, three quarter brother to that great sire, Goldsbrough, bred by C. B. Fisher of Marribyrnong, and brought north by that dashing miner, Frank Studley, who lost his fortune on a wheat gamble, and died penniless on the road to Croydon. Mr. Hann was a friend of C. B. Fisher, and always called Confucius, C.B.F., which was the horse's original name.

Charlie Clarke was a regular visitor to the Lyndhurst picnic races, and then a picnic meeting used to be held at Maryvale. Later the Basalt Hack Club was formed, and on the fine flats, just away from the rippling waters of the Fletcher, the Maryvale horses won many races. Of all the victories I fancy the most prized were those of the Maryvale black boys in the Black Boys race. Charlie always kept a good horse for that race, and the H.N.I. horses were hard to beat in it. The blacks at Maryvale belonged to the place. Most of them were bred and born there. They were part and parcel of the station, so a win for one of the boys, was a victory indeed, and the fine face of Charlie Clarke would flush with pleasure and excitement at the delight of the winning blackboy. The blacks were treated well at Maryvale.

It was this capacity to enter in, and enjoy the little things of life, the friendliness and kindness, that made Charlie Clarke the charming man he was. He was helpful, good tempered, and like most bushmen of his period, hospitality itself.

Recalling his handsome face, his compact athletic figure, his dark, turning eyes, his love of life, it is hard to realise he is dead. But 'At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we shall remember him.'

Note 5: Burial info

The Argus (Melbourne) 6 March 1943
CLARKE.-On February 28, at her resi-
dence. Maryvale Station, Queensland. Caro-
line (Lily), relict of the late Charlie Clarke,
late Bolinda Vale, and daughter of the late
William and Mary Hann, of Maryvale, Char-
ters Towers.

Note 6: Elizabeth Caroline Hann Clarke

Birth
7 Aug 1868
Queensland, Australia
Death
1 Mar 1943 (aged 74)
Queensland, Australia
Burial
West End Cemetery
West End, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia

Source References:

60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

- Reference = (Burial)

- Notes: The Argus (Melbourne) 6 March 1943
CLARKE.-On February 28, at her resi-
dence. Maryvale Station, Queensland. Caro-
line (Lily), relict of the late Charlie Clarke,
late Bolinda Vale, and daughter of the late
William and Mary Hann, of Maryvale, Char-
ters Towers.

- Reference = (Marriage)

- Notes: Queenslander (Brisbane) 12 Sept 1891
CLARKE—HANN.—On the 20th Ausrust, at Maryvale
Station, by the Rev. Canon Edwards, Charles
Macedon, third son of Robert Clarke, Esq., of
Bolinda Vale, Victoria, to Elizabeth Caroline (Lily),
youngest daughter of the late William Harm, of
North Queensland and Victoria.

90. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find A Grave, Title: Findagrave.com

- Reference = (Burial)

- Notes: Elizabeth Caroline Hann Clarke

Birth
7 Aug 1868
Queensland, Australia
Death
1 Mar 1943 (aged 74)
Queensland, Australia
Burial
West End Cemetery
West End, Townsville City, Queensland, Australia

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