Clarinda Orchard
- Born: 30 Dec 1829
- Christened: 28 Feb 1830, Mawgan In Meneage, Cornwall England 19
- Died: 21 Aug 1881, Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, Victoria Australia at age 51 19
Research Notes:
Greg Matheson notes:
Clarinda Orchard was born on the 30th December 1830 and baptised on the 8th February 1830 in Mawgan-in-Meneage. Clarinda was married quite soon after arrival, on the 1st January 1851 to yet another Cornish immigrant, also from Mawgan-in-Meneage, John TREWENACK (26th April 1829-1891) who had arrived on "Henry Lorequer" in 1849, and they raised a family of six in Port Augusta and Kent Town. John was a blacksmith of Wyatt Street Adelaide, then worked in connection with the mines at Wallaroo and Port Augusta. They retired to Norwood. John and Clarinda were both lost at sea, drowned through the sinking of the passenger steamer "SS Gambier" on the 28th August 1891 when, in collision with the steamer "SS Easby", 23 lives were lost in that most dangerous channel of "The Port Phillip Heads" near Queenscliffe, Victoria. The "Gambier" sank in seven minutes. They had been visiting two of their grown children in Sydney. One of their children, Hester Anne, married a second cousin, William Blewett Orchard, the son of Hannibal and Mary (nee Blewett).
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