William Clackson

William Clackson

William Clackson was born circa 1799. He was a shoemaker living in Glasgow at the time of the "Radical War" of 1820. He was sentenced to death for his part in the uprising, but this was subsequently communted to transportation to New South Wales. He left Scotland in the convict ship "Speke" on the 22nd December 1820.

William Clackson arrived in Australia on the 18th May 1821. In the 1828 census he is recorded, age 29, as working as a shoemaker in Sydney, living with his wife Margaret, aged 28, who arrived in the colony on the "Orpheus" in 1826.

On the 10th August 1835 William Clackson was granted, in common with the other Bonnymuir insurgents, an absolute pardon.

References

*The Scottish Insurrection of 1820, Peter Berresford Ellis and Seamus Mac A'Ghobhainn, John Donald 2001, ISBN 978-0-85976-519-0
* [http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/hamish/radical.html 1820 - The Radical War]


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