ROBERT LEES

My great grandparents (mothers side) Joshua and Mary Parsons arrived in Adelaide in 1877 aboard Clipper Robert Lees. Joshua (a "navvy) was killed some years later in an accident on the Port Adelaide wharves. His son Thomas (my mother's father) moved to NSW and worked on the Sydney wharves. The photo of Clipper Robert Lees I posted up is in her later life as Clipper Roscrana. Obtained after some investigative work through the archives of the Museum of SA. Records indicate Clipper Robert Lees/Roscrana was finally disposed of in Liverpool UK to Young and Co for scrapping.

Mr 3rd Gr Grandfather Sidney William Thompson arrived in Australia aboard the Robert Lees with his wife, Isabella Maraget REES and their 3 children, Jane, Sidney and Isabella. They went on to have a further 5 children and lived in South Australia, some members of the family moving to Western Australia and Victoria.

My great grandmother Marion Anna Theresa Hourigan arrived in Australia , single and then married in Adelaide at St Patricks Church Adelaide to Thomas Henry Gray in Oct 17th 1880, they had a number of children not all surviving, lived in Walkerville until her death in 1936.

I am looking into the history of my great-grandmother Catherine Barry from County Cork, Ireland who came to South Australia in 1876 on The Robert Lee. I am interested to know the circumstances of her travelling to Australia as the family believe she travelled with two brothers and a maid and came for her health.