Hello Garry, The Nundle / Hanging Rock area was also a gold field which might have attracted your Clarke family to the district. Cheers Marje > Dear List, > > Thank you for the super quick responses (4) so far. > > Need to check against my previous research on the Clarke family. I know the > family settled in and around Maitland and Morpeth in the from the mid 1840s > to 1852