 The Clarkes' father Jack, a shoemaker transported to Sydney in 1828 for seven years aboard the "Morley", arrived in the Braidwood district as a convict assigned to a pastoralist.He married Mary Connell and took up a leasehold in the Jingeras, which proved too small to support his family of five children.He took to selling sly-grog, initiated his sons Tom and John into cattle duffing, and raised them to believe in his view of the fair and equitable distribution of property.