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Elizabeth Mary Clements was born in London, Middlesex, on 11 August 1813.^1,3 and was baptised on 5 September 1813 at Spitalfields Christ Church with St Mary & St Stephen in Tower Hamlets.²

She married Thomas Spencer Forsaith, son of Samuel Forsaith and Elizabeth Emberson, at Congregational Church, Broad St in Hoxton, East London, Middlesex, on 17 May 1838.^4,1,5

She and her husband Thomas left Plymouth on the 14 June 1838 in the ship Coromandel and arrived in Sydney on the 2 October before continuing on to New Zealand.⁶

She and her husband Thomas arrived in Melbourne on the Pioneer from New Zealand in March 1856 accompanied by their child Charlotte.⁷

Elizabeth was present at the wedding of Samuel Ludbrook Clarke and Mary Lee (Hannah) Christopher at 'Brick House', Queen St (home of the bride's mother) in Auckland on 30 June 1857.^8,9,10,11,12

She and her husband Thomas arrived in Melbourne on the Otago from New Zealand in March 1867.¹³

She and her husband Thomas left Melbourne on the Claud Hamilton in November 1873, bound for New Zealand.¹⁴

She and her husband Thomas left Melbourne for New Zealand in March 1882 on the Rotomahana.¹⁵

She and her husband Thomas returned to Melbourne in April 1884 on the Berengaria from the UK.¹⁶

She signed a will dated 27 June 1895 in Parramatta, New South Wales, in which she appointed her husband sole executor and beneficiary.¹⁷

Elizabeth was named executrix and beneficiary in the will of Thomas Spencer Forsaith, her husband, dated 13 June 1898 in Parramatta, New South Wales; she was to receive £50 and all "wearing apparel, watches, clocks, jewels, trinkets, ornaments of the person usually worn by me or by her, or belonging to me at my decease, and all musical instruments, plates engravings, pictures framed or unframed, linen, plate, china, glass provisions and other consumable stores, furniture fixed or movable, and all other household effects, including livestock horses, cows, also vehicles, harness, garden tools and stable appendages, and other property whatsoever that may be in or about or ordered for any house I occupy" plus she was to inherit, along with the other executors, most of his remaining land holdings in Australia and New Zealand.¹⁸

She was widowed at age 85 on the death of her husband Thomas on 29 November 1898.^19,1,20

Elizabeth Mary Clements, Thomas Morell Macdonald and Walter Forsaith Lawry were appointed executors of Thomas Spencer Forsaith's estate in Sydney, New South Wales, on 22 December 1898.²¹

Elizabeth died on 27 January 1900 in Parramatta, New South Wales, at age 86.^22,23,24 She was buried on 29 January 1900 at the Rookwood Cemetery in Rookwood.^22,25,26

Her will was probated in Sydney, New South Wales, on 15 June 1900 with administration granted to David Smart Walker (being one of the Sydney based executors of her husband's will), as her husband had pre-deceased her. The estate was sworn at under £82 nett.²⁷

Robert Clements was born in Stepney, London, Middlesex, on 9 January 1761. His father William was a gilder.¹ He was baptised on 11 January 1761 at Stepney, London, Middlesex.¹

He married Mary (---?---) in England circa 1798. This assumption is based on the children born to Robert and Mary and also baptised in the same place as Elizabeth Mary (Spitalfields Christ Church), being Joshiah Frederick (b.14 Mar 1800), Charlotte (b. 11 Oct 1801), Sarah (b. 12 Dec 1803), William (b. 14 Dec 1805), Squire Caleb (b. 11 Nov 1811) and Edmund (b. 25 Jun 1815).²

He was a witness for the prosecution at Benjamin Wolfe's trial at The Old Bailey on 2 December 1801for the theft, on 16 January, of a mahogany dressing-case, value 20 shillings from Robert's show-room. Due to the conflicting evidence, Wolfe was judged not guilty, and it appears Robert did not get the dressing-case returned.³

He signed a will dated 1837 in Hoxton, Middlesex.⁴

Robert's death was registered in January 1838 at Gt James St in Hoxton, East London, Middlesex.^5,6 He was buried on 4 January 1838 at the Bunhill Fields Dissenter's Cemetery.⁵

He married Elizabeth (---?---).¹

She married Robert Marshall in Lanchester, Durham, on 29 December 1811.²

Nellie Lora Clifford was born in Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, on 20 November 1911.^3,4

Robert Rowntree Clifford was born in Medway, Kent, on 24 July 1907.^2,3
He was listed in the 1921 census at 45 Park Ave in Gillingham, Kent, with his father Alfred (an auctioneer and surveyor), mother Amy, siblings Maurice (10), Derek (5), Sylvia (3 mths), Amy's mother Alice and two servants.⁴

Robert's marriage to Edith Mary Joan Barnard, daughter of Howard Clive Barnard and Edith Gwendoline Wish, was registered between July 1937 and September 1937 in Medway, Kent.¹

He was listed in the 1939 Register at 17 The Grove, Bearsted in Maidstone, Kent; he was a schoolmaster.³

Robert died on 11 May 1978 in Shamley Green, Surrey, at age 70.^5,6

His will was probated in Brighton on 27 July 1978 with effects of £61784.⁶

Alfred Clift-Matthews was born in Truro, Cornwall, on 29 June 1901.^2,3,4
He was listed in the 1921 census on HMS Emperor of India in Malta where he was serving as an Ordinary Seaman.⁵

He married Ruby Lillian Florence French, daughter of William George French and Lilian Mary Ann Eliza Goff, at Baptist Church, Weston Park, Hornsey in Wood Green, Middlesex, on 21 July 1951. She was a secretary and the divorced wife of Ernest Thomas Gill, although no mention is made of her second marriage to Francis O'Neill. He was a widower and a 'keeper' of the Chapel where they were married.^1,6,7

Alfred died on 27 May 1976 at The Bungalow, Grubbs Lane, Kentish Lane in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, at age 74 from carcinoma of the lung.^8,4

Ethel Lucy Cloete was born in Murree, Punjab, Bengal, on 9 August 1876. She was the daughter of Henry Newman Cunningham Cloete (1848-1932), a civil engineer and Mary Emily Read Cloete.^1,2 She was baptised in Murree, Punjab, Bengal, on 14 September 1876.¹

She married James Algernon Stevens, son of John Foster Stevens KCSI and Frances Louisa Jeremie, in Ranchi, Calcutta, Bengal, on 23 July 1901.³

She was widowed at age 58 on the death of her husband James on 11 December 1934.⁴

Ethel died on 6 May 1952 in Kitale, Trans Nzoia Distrct, at age 75.^2,5,6 She was buried on 7 May 1952 at the Kitale Cemetery, Cherangani Rd in Kitale.⁵

Her will was probated on 17 December 1952 with effects of £14783/0/5 in England.⁶

Norman Victor Clutterbuck was born in Queensland on 30 June 1897. He was the son of John Austin Clutterbuck and Mary Macnamara.²

He married Jessie Teresa Mitchell, daughter of William John Dunstan Mitchell and Georgina Mary Mulford, in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1929.¹

Margaret Fredrica (Peg) Cockburn was born in New Zealand on 12 September 1916. She was the daughter of William Reginald and Lilian Murdoch COCKBURN.^2,1,3

She married Graham Redver Williams, son of Arthur Henry Williams and Mary Baird Armstrong, in New Zealand in 1942.⁴

She was widowed at age 76 on the death of her husband Graham on 17 August 1993.^5,6,1

Margaret died on 12 June 2006 in Auckland at age 89.^7,1 She was buried at the St Andrews Church.¹