My two little grand daughters Maudie and Lottie have a most interesting double -strand link to Clavering. This is their story. In the 1850s many Clavering families migrated to Sydney. These included the Chipperfields from Hill Green farm and the Monks of Sheepcote Green (census 1841). Romance blossomed in the colony of New South Wales and Susan Chipperfield became Mrs Monk. Her granddaughter Judy Morrison married Barry Reading... Meanwhile back in Clavering James Bowtell (Bowkal) and his family were struggling after also working on the same farm (Hill Green) as Thomas Chipperfield - and moved to Great Chishill but within two decades all the Boutell/Bowtell children had moved to St Pancras, London. In 1966 one Chas Boutell, ignorant of his Essex heritage, travelled from London, overland through Europe and Asia to the Northern Territory in Australia. Tim Reading and Emma Boutell are the parents of Maudie and Lottie. I think they should call their Victorian home "Hill Green" or at least make a trip back to Clavering one day!
Helen Boutell , New South Wales
