User:Gnangarra/Clarence
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Clarence was the initial settlement of Thomas Peel in the Woodman Point area, formed from the passengers of the Gilmore, the Rockingham and the Hooghly it had comprised of nearly 500 people mostly indentured servants to Peel.
"Captain Stirling could be very persuasive when he liked. The Murray River began to gleam with the allure of far waters, and the proposed townsite, for which two names were suggested — either Georgetown (for the present king, George IV), or Clarence (for the heir apparent) — sound both dignified and agreeable."
—Hasluck, Alexandra (1965). Thomas Peel of Swan River. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 75.
"Thomas Eacott came to the Swan River Colony on the Rockingham with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Anne. They came as indentured servants to Thomas Peel. Elizabeth died in childbirth on the beach and is buried on the beach at Clarence."
"Thorpe, William. born 19 Apr 1855, Clarence Western Australia."
"In January 1830 land at Woodman Point was set aside for a townsite to accommodate new settlers. the town was named Clarence and a large lake near its centre, "Lake Munster" (now Lake Coogee), both after Prince William, Duke of Clarence in the peerage of Great Britain and Earl of Munster in the peerage of Ireland. In 1895 a postal directory mentioned that the suburb of "Lake Munster" was "also known as Coogee". In later years this name was applied more to the area north-west of the lake, while the rest of the area became known for postal purposes as "Woodman Point" and "South Coogee in the 1950'S. Munster was officially adopted as a suburb name in 1954."
"Thomas Peel arrived a little later and Stirling suggested that he settle at a site just behind Woodman Point named Clarence. The town was designated as the area extending east from the tip of Woodman Point, to just beyond the northeast end of Lake Munster (later Coogee), south to the bottom edge of the lake and then back to Woodman Point. On the 31st of December in 1829, Peel began unloading his settlers in Jervoise Bay, but a lack of supplies, exposure, and poor conditions led to deaths and desertion. Two years later Clarence was deserted (WAPC 2001)."
