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JULIE JOY CLARKE
http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person6193.html was born in Melbourne, Australia on 22 April 1951, where she currently resides.
She has one son, Erin David Powell who was born at the Jessie McPherson section of the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne in 1977.
The first school she attended was St.Joseph's Primary School in Hawthorn. She later attended Our Lady's, Yarrunga in Wangaratta and St.Mary's in Altona. She was one of the first girls in the intake into Mount St. Joseph Girls College in Altona West. She attended St. Augustine's school in Yarraville and later, Balwyn High School in 1965.
She was one of the 'forgotten Australians'(non-indigenous) who was made a 'ward of the state' in 1956. The Sydney Herald article on apology to forgotten Australia's is at this link.
She was placed for a short time (between 1956-1963) in a number of Catholic children's homes including Abbotsford Convent.
She is a sixth-generation Australian. Her ancestors sailed from Britian on the
Boomerang
and arrived in Australia in 1853.
Her mother was Dorothy Catherine Clarke (nee Biggs). Her father David Henry Clarke was a Bombardier in the
2/11 Field Regiment
of the Australian Army in WW2 from 1940 - 1945. Her grandfather, Charles Winter Clarke (b. 1873), was a farrier in the 4th Lighthorse Regiment of the Australian Imperial Force from 1917 to 1919, serving in Gallipoli. He sailed from Australia to the war on the H.M.A.T.Nestor . He continued with his veterinary work after repatriation at the Hospital for Horses and Dogs (animal hospital and veterinary college) in Brunswick Street, Melbourne. This site is now used by an architectural firm. See . Charles Winter Clarke was married to Catherine May Farquarhson (b. 1881), it was her father William Farquarhson (b. 1842) who came to Australia with his wife Margaret McComb in 1854. Margaret McCombe was the licensee of the Oxford Hotel at 222 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne between 1899 and 1901, later she became publican at the Globe Hotel, Port Melbourne.
Charle's parents were John Timewell Clarke and Annie Neill. Julie Clarke's grandparents on her mother's side were Mary Anne Elizabeth Victoria Willoughby (b. 1896 - d. 1975) and Vivien Biggs. Mary Anne was a dress maker & seamstress, who lived her early life in Cobram, Victoria. Her father and mother were George Withycombe Willoughby (b.1865) and Catherine Doherty (b. Limerick, Ireland). Catherine Doherty's father was Edward Doherty (b. Ireland, 1820) married Joanna Larkins (b. 1843, Ireland). Edward came to Australia in 1851.
Julie Clarke co-ordinated the Hawthorn Community House at 39 William Street, Hawthorn from 1980-1988 . One of her accomplishments was the initiation of t
