Clara's story is a little complicated.

My grandfather and her son, Eugene 'Roy' Worthington stated on his marriage certificate that his parents were Harry Worthington (cabinet maker) and Clare Budd, yet his birth certificate listed Mildred Clara Worthington and no father. We thought until recently that Roy had simply plucked two names out of the air on the day of his marriage to hide the fact that he had not known his father.

The Children
The civil indexes reveal that Clara had a number of children with no father identified:

	1. Harry Oswald Budd WORTHINGTON (b. 1906 Cobar, NSW; d. 22 Nov 1907 Cobar, NSW; buried Cobar)
	2. Eugene Roy WORTHINGTON (b. 28 Dec 1909 Paddington, NSW)
	3. Reginald WORTHINGTON (b. 1912 Paddington, NSW)
	4. Jack WORTHINGTON (b. 18 Dec 1913 Paddington, NSW)
	5. Leah WORTHINGTON (b. 2 Sep 1915 Paddington, NSW)

Clara's Death Certificate

Clara died at the age of 66 (certificate states age 62) on 16 Jan 1950 at Coogee, Randwick, NSW. The informant was her son, John Arthur Goodwin.
The certificate states that Clara married twice:
1) Thomas Arthur GOODWIN in Sydney, NSW when Clara was 23 (1907 or 1911) and there were two children from this marriage - John Arthur GOODWIN aged 36 (b. 1914) and Katheen L. GOODWIN aged 33 (b. 1917)
2) Robert Hamilton McBLANE in Sydney, NSW when Clara was about 32 (they married 1920) and there were no children from this marriage.
Robert Hamilton McBLANE b. 1883 Ilfacombe, Qld.; parents Robert Hamilton McBLANE & Margaret BURKE; occupation - schoolteacher; d. 1937 St Peters, NSW; buried Rookwood Cemetery, NSW with Clara.

Thomas Ernest Goodwin
The father of Clara's two youngest children was Thomas Ernest Goodwin.
Thomas was born on 13 September 1878 at Goulburn, NSW to Thomas Goodwin and Margaret (nee Murphy).
On 23 Jan 1917 Thomas enlisted for WWI service with the 1st Battalion, and on 3 Oct 1917 he was killed in action in France.
After his death, Clara as "reputed wife" was awarded a war pension on behalf of Jack and Kathleen Goodwin.

Who was Roy's Father?
Only science could provide a solid answer to this question, but most likely candidate at this stage appears to be Harry Oswald BUDD (b. 1880 Cobar, NSW; parents James BUDD & Caroline Noble PENNINGTON; d. 1919 Sydney NSW; buried Waverley, NSW).
I have nothing to support this other than:
a) he was from Cobar, was a similar age to Clara (he was four years older) and was presumably living in Cobar at the time of birth of the first child (Clara would have been 22 years old and Harry 26)
b) Clara's first child was named Harry Oswald Budd Worthington
c) Clara's son Roy gives parent names on his marriage certificate which seem to be an amalgamation of the real parents' names, ie he did not pull the name Budd from nowhere.
Budd was most likely only the father of Clara's first two children, as Clara appears to have moved to Sydney by the time of Roy's birth in 1909.
Harry Oswald BUDD died in Sydney at the age of 35 in 1919 (when Roy was only 10 years old) and his death certificate says he was an engine driver, not a cabinet maker. In the time between Roy's birth and his death, Harry Oswald Budd married Elsie Olive White (1910, Cobar, NSW) and they had three children.

The Other Children

It is certain that John Arthur GOODWIN and Jack WORTHINGTON were the same person. John Arthur Goodwin enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Paddington during WWII, he listed Clara McBlane as has next of kin, and his record shows he had the same birthdate as Jack Worthington. He was a member of the 2/30 Infantry Battalion. He married Dorothy Mary BYRNE in 1941 at Burwood, NSW and died on 25 Feb 1978 at the Western Suburbs Hospital, Sydney, NSW at the age of 65.

Kathleen Leah GOODWIN died at the Rachel Forster Hospital, Redfern NSW on 30 Oct 1989 aged 74 years. This is consistent with the 1915 birth date of Leah WORTHINGTON. She was cremated at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville, NSW on 8 November 1989. The death certificate shows that Kathleen never married and had no next of kin, and the informant appears to have been a hospital worker.

The other child, Reginald, was possibly adopted by a family named Lawson. On his marriage certificate he called himself 'Reginald Worthington, known as Lawson'. On 26 Sep 1932 at Kogarah, NSW he married Mary Grace Giltrow. He was a 20 year old pastrycook at Kogarah. On his marriage certificate he stated that he was born at Paddington, that his mother was Clara Worthington, and he listed no father.