The Market Gardener Who Saved A Boy - William Herbert Clark 1916 - 1974

William Herbert Clark

On the 10th of October 1927 William Herbert Clark, or Bill as he would be called by family,  arrives at the Western Australian Port of Fremantle on the SS Baradine, he is traveling with his parents John Henry Clark and Margaret Davis Clark (nee Boyd) and his 6 other siblings. Their journey started 40 days earlier,1st September 1927,  in Deptford, London England, where William was born on the 30th of July 1916.

It would seem that Bill's family would immigrate to Australia on an assisted immigration scheme, they were to settle in Northcliffe, in the south west of Western Australia on the 16th of April 1929 as part of group 143. Bill would remain on the family farm until they walked off the land some time  between 1931 and 1936.
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God Speed & Safe Return : William Henry Bathurst !899 - 1987

William Henry Bathurst 1899

William Henry Bathurst was the third child of miner William Henry Bathurst (1873)  and  Mary Bathurst (nee Fancke) born on the 23rd of April 1899 on the Victorian goldfields in Ballarat.

With stories in the Ballarat newspapers of large amounts of gold being found in Kalgoorlie  and Kalgoorlie being the said to be "the richest square mile on earth"(Ballarat Star 14 Jul 1899)  William's parents decide to take him at the age of 10 weeks  and his two sisters Harriett aged 4  and Myrtle aged 2 and try their luck on a new goldfield in the west, they all depart Melbourne Victoria on the 30th June 1899 on the Australian United Steam Navigation Company ship the "SS Paroo".  Their trip is along the south coast of Australia with stops at Adelaide and Albany and they disembark in Fremantle.