Clara Seekamp

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Background

Clara Lodge was born at Clare Lodge, Ireland[1] c.1819.[2] She married George William (Claud) Du Val, and they had three children together.[3]

Arriving in Australia in 1847[4] she became a teacher of languages and a well-known actress at the Gravel Pits.[5] She had taken Seekamp's name by early 1854.ref>Anne Beggs Sunter, 'Seekamp, Clara Maria (1819–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seekamp-clara-maria-13282/text23875, accessed 27 October 2013.</ref>

During the 1880s she was living at 56 Gertrude St, Fitzroy. Clara died c1893 at Coburg, Victoria.[6]

Soon Clara Maria Du Val (Duval), née Lodge, infatuated Seekamp. a teacher of languages, Clara had arrived in Victoria about 1847 and conducted a theatrical company.

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

After the Ballarat Times newspaper was closed down by the government in the aftermath of the Eureka Stockade, and its editor Henry Seekamp was arrested on the 4th December 1854 and charged with sedition, Clara Seekamp took over the role of editing the newspaper.[7]

In the News

BALLARAT (from the correspondent of the Argus)
January 29th 1855 - ... a manifesto from Mrs Seekamp, as startling in its time, as energetic in its language, italics, and capitals, ...I only hope that Sir W. a’Beckett will at once perceive that a lenient sentence upon Mr Seekamp and a quicker return to his editorial duties. ...[8]
10. MRS SEEKAMP – Mr Frazer moved, pursuant to amended notice, That a Select Committee be appointed to enquire into the claims of Clara Seekamp, as set forth in a Petition signed by her, such Committee to consist of Dr Evans, Mr Gillies, Mr Brooke, Mr Lock, Mr McLellan, Mr Loader and the mover; with power to send for persons and papers; three to form a quorum.
Question – put and resolved in the affirmative. [9]
7. MRS SEEKAMP – Mr Frazer moved, pursuant to amended notice, That, in accordance with the recommendations of the Select Committee, this house will, on Tuesday next, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole to consider the propriety of presenting an Address to His Excellency the Governor, requesting for the sum of £500 be placed upon the Additional Estimates for 1861 for the purpose of compensating Mrs Seekamp.[10]

See also

William A'Beckett

Duncan Gillies

Ballarat Times

Henry Seekamp

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.


References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. Anne Beggs Sunter, 'Seekamp, Clara Maria (1819–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seekamp-clara-maria-13282/text23875, accessed 27 October 2013.
  3. Anne Beggs Sunter, 'Seekamp, Clara Maria (1819–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seekamp-clara-maria-13282/text23875, accessed 27 October 2013.
  4. Anne Beggs Sunter, 'Seekamp, Clara Maria (1819–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seekamp-clara-maria-13282/text23875, accessed 27 October 2013.
  5. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  6. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  7. The Eureka Trails publicity brochure, undated.
  8. Mount Alexander Mail, 02 February 1855.
  9. Victorian Votes & Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 21 May 1861.
  10. Victorian Votes & Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 26 June1861.

External links

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seekamp-clara-maria-13282



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