The following extract is taken from Cloutlines: A Family History:

Between 1836 and 1839, the number of assisted immigrants arriving in New South Wales steadily increased, with almost 10,000 arriving in 1839 alone.Among the passengers sponsored by the Government and Bounty schemes who arrived in 1839 were twenty-two members of the Clout family who, given the opportunity, had elected to leave behind a life of poverty in their native Kent in the hope of making a better life for themselves in the colonies. They came in four ships, the Royal George, Roxburgh Castle, Cornwall and Neptune. Each ship bore the family of a direct descendant of Thomas Clout and Jane Munn of Hawkhurst, a village in the Weald of Kent.