England	Samuel CLAYDON Born: 4 September 1812 Essex England Died: 1874 Buried: Church of England burial ground, Mt Vincent  NSW
		Occupation:  Storekeeper

Samuel CLAYDON
Father:  Unknown                                                  Mother:   Judith CLAYDON

Samuel Claydon (2) (1812-1874) was born on 4 September 1812 in Essex England to Judith Claydon, father was unknown. 

Samuel married Dinah Buckle on 15 October 1833 at Kirby-Le-Soken in Essex England when he was 21.  They had four children born in England – Dinah (1834); Samuel (1837); James (1841); and Christiana (1845).

Samuel and his family emigrated to Australia on the ship Charlotte Jane arriving in NSW on 8 October 1848 as assisted immigrants.  On arrival they settled in the Mt Vincent area in the Hunter Valley and had four more children – Ellen (1848); Sarah Ann (1850); Martha (1852); and Henry (1855)

Various certificates show Samuel’s occupation being farmer in 1859 at Huthfield and a storekeeper in 1865 at Mulbring Creek.

In 1855 Samuel Jnr and his father featured in a court case: Joseph Williamson was yesterday summoned before the bench at East Maitland for a breach of the Pound Act, having charged excessive damages on six head of bullocks, the property of Samuel Claydon, at Huthfield near Sugar Loaf, on 3^rd October.

Claydon had six working bullocks impounded by Williamson in the East Maitland Pound on 3 October, for which he gave a note of hand for 5 shillings a head.  The damages were claimed to be excessive as the fences were in a very insecure state.

Samuel Claydon Jnr said the bullocks had broken into a wheat paddock but the fences were very low and in a very insecure state.  Part of them were sapling fences.

For the defense George Mitchell states that he knew Mr Williamson’s fences at the Sugar Loaf and that a person might go for miles before they would meet better fences.  Witness saw one of the bullocks jump the fence about 5 weeks ago.  The fence was about 4 and a half feet high.  Claydon had a bullock that would jump over a ten foot fence.  The Bench dismissed the case. (reported in the Maitland Mercury on Saturday June 2).

Samuel Claydon therefore had to pay the 5 shillings per bullock as the Bench thought he had not been overcharged.  Having lost the above case Samuel Claydon now charged Mrs Wilkinson with unlawfully detaining his cattle:- Eliza Wilkinson was then charged with impounding 6 head of cattle, the property of Samuel Claydon, on 18^th October.  The Witnesses called were Samuel and his son Samuel John.  It appears that on the evening in question Claydon’s bullocks were in Williamson’s bush paddock and Mrs Williamson, being afraid that they would break into the wheat paddock drove them into the stockyard, and gave them up in the morning.  They were not sent to the Pound.  The Bench dismissed the case.

Samuel died 4 September 1874 aged 62 years, cause of death being Epilepsy that he had had for many years.  He is buried in the Church of England burial ground at Mt Vincent in the same grave as his wife Dinah.