See also

Family of John Clarke and Amelia Mary Elizabeth Smith

Husband: John Clarke

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John Clarke

  • Name:

  • John Clarke3,4,5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • John Clarke (1847-1921)

  • Mother:

  • Emma Edwards (1849-1935)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • agricultural / farm labourer and a horseman then a farm bailiff6,7,8,9,10

  • Birth:

  • 5 Apr 1869

  • Buxhall, Suffolk, England1,3,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13

  • Baptism:

  • 2 May 1869 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • son of John Clarke (labourer) and Emma of Buxhall

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1871 (age 1)

  • Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England12

  •  

  • son living with his parents John and Emma, and sister Rose. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

     

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 12)

  • near Whalebone Cottage, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England13

  •  

  • son attending school and living with his parents John and Emma, and sister Rose. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 22)

  • Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • unmarried son working as an agricultural labourer and living in four rooms with his parents John and Emma, and sister Rosa. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 31)

  • Tot Hill, Haughley, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • married servant working as a horseman on a farm and living with Roland Stearn, and his wife Amelia. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 41)

  • Manor Farm Cottages, Hasketon, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • married head of the household working as a farm labourer and living in three rooms with his wife Amelia, son Victor, and daughter Ivy. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 52 yrs 3 mns)

  • Manor Farm, Henham, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • married head of the household working as farm bailiff for the Earl of Stradbroke of Henham and living in seven rooms with his wife Amelia, daughter Ivy, and a visitor his widowed mother Emma Clarke. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 70)

  • 6 Council Houses, Mill Green, Buxhall, Suffolk, England10

  •  

  • a widowed and retired farm bailiff living with widowed Ivy Booth. Born on 5th April 1869

  • Death:

  • Q1 1954 (age 84)

  • Shrodells Hospital, 60 Vicarage Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, England5,14

Wife: Amelia Mary Elizabeth Smith

  • Name:

  • Amelia Mary Elizabeth Smith1,15

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Father:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • house keeper then a dairy woman7,8

  • Birth:

  • 1871

  • Buxhall, Suffolk, England1,7,8,9,14,16,17

  •  

  • no birth index record found, but mother's maiden name was Sparrow by inference from siblings

  • Baptism:

  • 3 Sep 1871 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England15

  •  

  • daughter of Alfred Smith (labourer) and Hannah of Buxhall

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 9)

  • near Lodge, Buxhall, Suffolk, England16

  •  

  • daughter attending school and living with her parents.Alfred and Hannah, brother Alfred, and sister Rose. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 19)

  • Creeting All Saints, Suffolk, England17

  •  

  • an unmarried domestic servant living with George and Anne Simpson and family, and another servant. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 29)

  • Tot Hill, Haughley, Suffolk, England7

  •  

  • married servant working as a domestic housekeeper and living with Roland Stearn, and her husband John. Born in Finborough Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 39)

  • Manor Farm Cottages, Hasketon, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • married wife working as a dairy woman and living in three rooms with her husband John, son Victor, and daughter Ivy. Born in Buxhall Suffolk and married for sixteen years with two children, both of whom are still living

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 49 yrs 11 mns)

  • Manor Farm, Henham, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • married wife doing household duties and living in seven rooms with her husband John, daughter Ivy, and a visitor her widowed mother-in-law Emma Clarke. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Death:

  • 2 Aug 1939 (age 68)

  • East Suffolk Hospital, Anglesea Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England14,18,19

  • Probate:

  • 13 Sep 1939

  • Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England19

  •  

  • of 6 Council Houses Buxhall Suffolk (wife of John Clarke) died 2nd August 1939 at East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital Ipswich, administration of effects of £123 0s 9d (~£5,100 in 2017) to the said John Clarke old age pensioner

Child 1: Victor John Clarke

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Son: Victor John Clarke

  • Name:

  • Victor John Clarke1,20,21

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Winifred Catherine May Toop (1895-1976)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • bakers assistant then a railway porter8,22

  • Birth:

  • 6 Nov 1895

  • Buxhall, Suffolk, England1,8,20,23,24

  • Baptism:

  • 25 Dec 1895 (age 0)

  • St. Mary's Church, Brettenham Road, Buxhall, Suffolk, England21

  •  

  • son of John Clarke (labourer) and Amelia Mary Elizabeth of Buxhall

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 5)

  • Tot Hill, Haughley, Suffolk, England23

  •  

  • grandson living in four rooms with his grandparents John and Emma, and aunt Rose. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • Education Continue:

  • 24 Oct 1904 (age 8)

  • Orford Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Orford, Suffolk, England24

  •  

  • son of John Clarke and born on 6th November 1895, transferred from Stowmarket school

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 15)

  • Manor Farm Cottages, Hasketon, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a bakers assistant and living in three rooms with his parents John and Amelia, and sister Ivy. Born in Buxhall Suffolk

  • War Memorial:

  •  

  • Tyne Cot Memorial, Passendale, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium25

  •  

  • private 46512 1st/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 26 Jun 1915

  • Stowmarket, Suffolk, England22

  •  

  • joined the National Union of Railwaymen as a porter

  • Death:

  • 25 Apr 1918 (age 22)

  • Flanders, Belgium1,26

  •  

  • being killed in action. Private 46512 1/5th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) formerly 172636 R.F.A.

Child 2: Ivy Evelyn Clarke

  • Name:

  • Ivy Evelyn Clarke1,27

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Frederick John Keeble (1906-1949)

  • Birth:

  • 9 Jul 1909

  • St. Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, England1,8,9,27,28,29

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 1)

  • Manor Farm Cottages, Hasketon, Suffolk, England8

  •  

  • daughter living in three rooms with her parents John and Amelia, and brother Victor. Born in Stoke Ipswich

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 11 yrs 11 mns)

  • Manor Farm, Henham, Suffolk, England9

  •  

  • daughter attending school and living in seven rooms with her parents John and Amelia, and a visitor her widowed grandmother Emma Clarke. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 30)

  • 117 Hampermill Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, England28

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband Frederick, and a closed record. Born on 9th July 1909

  • Death:

  • Q1 1980 (age 70)

  • Dacorum "Registration District", Hertfordshire, England29

Sources

1.

Keith Evans personal communication. letter.

2.

Terri Richardson personal communication. email. Cit. Date: 3 July 2007.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1869 quarter:2 volume:4a page:501. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

4.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P1 own copy). Buxhall St. Mary baptisms entry:758. Cit. Date: 1 January 2018.

5.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Watford 1954 quarter:1 volume:4b page:302 page:84. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

6.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:1455 folio:16 page:8 schedule:51. Cit. Date: 17 April 2022.

7.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:1761 folio:53 page:8 schedule:39. Cit. Date: 9 June 2023.

8.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:10864 class:RG78 piece:586 registration district:214 sub-district:1 enumeration district:9 schedule:14. Cit. Date: 5 June 2018.

9.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG15 piece:9511 registration district:216 sub-district:2 enumeration district:17,18 schedule:133. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

10.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:6642I page:4 line:15 letter code:TXGI. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

11.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P1 own copy). Cit. Date: 1 January 2018.

12.

England and Wales Census 1871, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG10 piece:1732 folio:19 page:10 schedule:48. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

13.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG11 piece:1848 folio:18 page:8 schedule:662. Cit. Date: 17 April 2022.

14.

Keith Evans personal communication. letter with flow chart. Cit. Date: 28 May 2002.

15.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P1 own copy). Buxhall St. Mary baptisms entry:792. Cit. Date: 9 June 2023.

16.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG11 piece:1848 folio:15 page:2 schedule:630. Cit. Date: 9 June 2021.

17.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:1463 folio:91 page:3 schedule:19. Cit. Date: 9 June 2023.

18.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1939 quarter:3 volume:4a page:1284. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

19.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1939 page:824. Cit. Date: 10 June 2023.

20.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Stow 1895 quarter:4 volume:4a page:781. Cit. Date: 18 January 2017.

21.

Suffolk Family History Society - Stow and Thedwastre Baptisms 1813-1900, (2011 SFK-BPI-05/P1 own copy). Buxhall St. Mary baptisms entry:218. Cit. Date: 18 January 2017.

22.

FindMyPast Britain, Trade Union membership registers Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Modern records Centre National Union of Railwaymen ref:MSS.127/NU/OR/2/43 folio:224 no:639170. Cit. Date: 29 April 2019.

23.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:1761 folio:54 page:9. Cit. Date: 29 April 2019.

24.

FindMyPast National School Admission Registers & Log-books 1870-1914 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Orford ref:2748/3 1904 no:629. Cit. Date: 29 April 2019.

25.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). Tyne Cot panel:42 to 47. Cit. Date: 29 April 2019.

26.

FindMyPast Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Cit. Date: 18 January 2017.

27.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1909 quarter:3 volume:4a page:999. Cit. Date: 5 June 2018.

28.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1674C page:15 line:12 letter code:DFSO. Cit. Date: 5 June 2018.

29.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Dacorum 1980 quarter:1 volume:10 page:216. Cit. Date: 5 June 2018.