Goulburn or the Coast 3 Traditional Cache
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The Third turn off
Decision time again .
Do we head to Goulburn or to the coast?.
Left turn to head towards Goulburn
Straight ahead to the coast is my preferance
And a bit of history of the area you are heading to if you decide to head towards the sea
The bushrangers CLARKE FAMILY: THOMAS (1840?-1867) and JOHN (1846?-1867), bushrangers, were born near Braidwood, New South Wales, sons of John Clarke.
Their father had arrived in 1825 at Sydney in the Royal Charlotte with a seven-year sentence; he was assigned to a pastoralist.
A shoemaker by trade, he later tanned and dressed hides and made boots for convict servants at Mount Elrington near Braidwood where he rented a small block and in the 1860s became a free settler. He did not farm his land but appears to have lived by stealing cattle.
When gold was discovered in the district in 1852 he and his sons stole the diggers' horses, planted them and then claimed the rewards.
Thomas was arrested in October 1864 for highway robbery but later escaped from Braidwood jail. He went on to steal racehorses, stick up mail coaches and rob travellers
and stores around Braidwood and Moruya, NSW.
Clarke reckoned this trade was worth some £250 a year. In 1866 he was arrested for killing an Aboriginal and while awaiting trial in Goulburn gaol died from influenza on 7 November aged 71; he was buried at Braidwood.
In 1839 Clarke had married Mary Connell, an Irish migrant. Their three sons and two daughters grew up without schooling or religious instruction 'in an isolated community little less than a den of thieves, connected either by marriage or misdeeds'.
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