Joseph and his family arrived Port Jackson N.S.W. about 1836/7 He was a  Soldier in 80th Staffordshire  Volunteers  Regiment The regiment went to Malta then Ireland where they were stationed in Mallow then Parramatta. It is thought that they came out on a convict ship. This has to be confirmed. He is mentioned  on roll call 1836 - 1837 as a private. The last listing of his name found 1843. His regimental number is 1235. It seems that Joseph either took a position with the New South Wales Police force as a constable or took money and land when he decided to stay in Australia.

80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot, 1836-1844  (note recent email below suggesting different regiment for our Joseph Clarke )

Before serving in Australia the 80th Regiment was stationed in Ireland following many years of service in Malta. Assembling in Cork before embarkation, the Regiment was divided into seventeen detachments, which were assigned to convict ships. These detachments sailed at various dates between 13th November 1836 and 18th December 1838. The Regimental Headquarters of the 80th was first established at Sydney but was later moved to Parramatta. The Regiment provided a number of officers and fifty-six of its rank and file for Mounted Police duties. Detachments were hosted to most of the stations and outstations including Norfolk Island where the men faced the task of putting down a convict riot. In April1840 a detachment embarked for the Bay of Islands to become the first British Troops to be stationed in New Zealand. A number of these troops were present, as a military escort, at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The detachment remained in New Zealand until November 1843 when it returned to Sydney to join the main body of the Regiment which was preparing to embark for India. The 80th is the only British Regiment to have served in New Zealand which does not include the battle honour 'New Zealand' on its colours because it took no part in Maori wars.
After long delays the 80th Regiment marched out of the old George Street Barracks in Sydney and embarked in the vessels Royal Saxon, Briton, Lloyd and Enmore. After lying in the harbour for three days they sailed to Calcutta on 16th August 1844. In December 1845 the Regiment suffered very heavy causalities at Ferozeshah, the deciding battle of the wars after the Sikhs. In 1881 the 80th Regiment became the 2nd Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment.( How to trace your military ancestors)
The 80th regiment embarked from for Australia at Cork in 1836. It was then broken into seventeen detachments being sent to New South Wales, Norfolk Island and New Zealand. In 1844 it concentrated in Sydney before embarking for India. (British Regiments in Australia 1788-1870 Website)
 
RICHARD CLARKE  was born 25 September 1833 in Kilshanig by Mallow Cork Ireland, and died 16 April 1914 in Beechworth.  He married MARY MCANANLY 29 August 1859 in Beechworth Catholic Church, daughter of OWEN MCANANLY and ISABELLA MOSS.  She was born 26 January 1843 in Shoalhaven  New South Wales, and died 11 May 1916 in Beechworth. Richard was born in Kilshanig in the Barony of Duhallow, 3 miles from Mallow County Cork Ireland on the 25th September 1833. He was 18 months old when the family emigrated to Australia in 1836. The Clarke family moved to Beechworth at the time of the Gold Rush in the 1850s. Joseph and Daniel, Richard's two elder brothers sent for him to come to the Ovens District.They operated the "Pride and Stringer" mine. The brothers ran a stamping battery at Twists Creek and mined in the Stanley district where Long Dick's Gully was said to have been named after Richard.
When Richard and Mary married in 1859 they both gave their address as Clear Creek. Richard was 22 and Mary 16 years of age. Catherine could not write, her marriage certificate is marked with a cross. This was common at that time. The last known address for Richard Clarke was Finch Street Beechworth. He and Mary are buried in the Beechworth Cemetery R.C. Section A 1229

Notes for MARY MCANANLY: Mary  Baptised Parish of Wollongong County of Camden by John Brettell
Holliday Roman Catholic Priest. Mary gives Illawarra as her place of birth on her marriage certificate. Her usual address is given as Clear Creek. Burial: Beechworth Cemetery  Death Reg Number: 4478  Grave No.: Roman Catholic section A 1229
 
Thank you to Margaret Stickland (dated about 2001)

Notes from ancestry web pages from B & M Chapman ,QLD,

Joseph stayed in New South Wales, being discharged on 31 Jan 1843 (with 20 pound gratuity for service).

Joseph arrived in Sydney in November 1837 and was sent to the detachment to Newcastle in December 1837. Joseph was on the pay lists as being stationed in Newcastle and then Towrang (near Goulburn),(during the building of the Great South Rd).
Joseph and his family lived in the Yass area for about 15 years, then moved to Yackandandah, Victoria, in

the early 1860's. Joseph became a miner, along with 2 of his sons (Richard & Joseph) and daughter Lucy's husband John Kelly. His wife

Mary died in 1873, aged 78. Joseph died in 1881 at Yackandandah, aged about 82.

Email from Kristin, March 2021

The 1850s were the time of the great goldrush in Victoria. Prospectors swarmed all over Victoria searching for their fortune. Daniel started mining at Beechworth with his brother. He is next noted as a carter at Bridgewater in 1853, later a miner and farmer. In 1854 he was in Ironbark and then Sandy Creek. and then noted at Arnold ('s Bridge) in 1873.

Margaret Maroney came from Clare, Ireland. Her father, Thomas, is noted as a farmer. It seems she worked initially, at the Sarah Sands Hotel (in Sydney Rd. Brunswick).

She married Daniel Clarke at St Francis Melbourne in 1854. Her address at the time was Pentridge (not the gaol but the now suburb of Coburg); his was Tarringower (near Maldon). They traveled to gold fields by bullock dray. They finally settled on a farm at Arnold. The property was in Rheola Road, on the south side, about 2 kilometres west of Arnold. The farmhouse is gone with the land consolidated into surrounding properties. In 1993 a few stones and a pepper tree survived. Daniel and Margaret are both buried at Tarnagulla. I could not find headstones.

Two sisters of Margaret also came to Victoria. Jane Maroney married a George Sowlsby (spelt Soulsby in some later generations). Bridget Maroney married Henry Horatio Raven. ( There is a photo of Henry in a book titled The Footsteps Echo written by Lynne Douthat, published in 1989. emails John Raven 2009 )

From a web page by Mary-Anne Duke (nee Soulsby)
George Soulsby came to Australia from the village of Hetton-Le-Hole, in County Durham, England. His father was a stonemason in this village which is part of the coal mining area of Northern England.
Jane Moroney came from Cone, in County Clare, Ireland, with her parents and at least one sister with whom we have maintained contact.
Both George and Jane were living at Jones Creek - Loddon at the time of their marriage. Jones Creek is a creek that runs through the township of Waanyarra It is located halfway between Dunolly and Tarnagulla in Central Victoria.

Another reference
Henry Horatio Raven 1826 - 2 May 1902 of Norwich England son of Ann Paul and Charles Raven, married at the Dunolly School House, Victoria, Australia on 6 Nov 1864 to Bridget Moroney 1836 - 22 Sept 1899 born in County Clare, Ireland.

Bridget travelled to Australia on the Eastern Empire in March 1863, when she gave her age as 19, birth year of 1844. She died 1899 aged 63, daughter of Mary and Thomas Maroney.

For more on the history of Tarnagulla see http://home.vicnet.net.au/~tarnagul/

Margaret Hayhoe moved to the city at the same time. The family lived for a while at 5 Canterbury Road Middle Park. Later they next door to number 3. For many years George's mother, Mary Clarke, lived with the family as did "Uncle" Dan Holland and "Uncle" Bob Hayhoe.