Clara Frances Laws ⁸⁰⁴

  Research Notes:

Thomas Stamp notes:
Clara Frances Laws is in your family tree, she is the half-sister of my 3xgreat-grandmother.
Clara Frances was born in 1851 in New South Wales, Australia (probably in Sydney), her father was Richard Willoughby Laws. Her mother was Elizabeth Dutton, the widow of Pelham John Richard Dutton, and the daughter of a Mr. Caleb Wilson.
Elizabeth and Pelham had two daughters: Mary Ann Emma Slade Dutton (born 1841) and Catherine Amalia Dutton (born 1842). Catherine Amalia is my ancestor.

As you may know, Elizabeth petitioned for divorce in 1859, on the grounds of adultery and cruelty (he brutally injured her many times). Clara Frances married Lourenco Edye Almeida Portugal in 1873 in London, and they are both documented in your tree.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. ⁸⁰⁴

Clara married Lourenco Edye, son of Joaquim Maria de Almeida-Portugal and Ellen Cordelia Edye. (Lourenco Edye was born on 2 Mar 1848 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died in 1922 in Sidmouth, Devonshire England.)