George Gane Clark (born ABT 1819 and died 1891) and family from Shoreditch

[ewontner]

Hello all,

I am trying to find records for family called Clark from Shoreditch area.

The father was George Gane Clark. I think he was born in any 1819 and he died in 1891. He married as a widower in 1881 to an Eliza Ann Pack (daughter of Charles Fisher Pack. On their marriage he is listed as aged 62 and from Old Street, St Marks, Shoreditch.

He is listed as a merchant. Maybe there are occupational records that can shed more light on him?

The only record I can find for him so far are his marriage from August 1881.

I believe there are some electoral roll records where he is listed in 1870s and maybe that will provide more details on his first wife or his father (which I can't access or view). Appreciate he won't have birth record from 1819 and he might have married pre 1840s.

I believe George Gane Clark and Eliza Ann Pack had a daughter called Eliza Ann Clark born in 1882 and a son called Charles Arthur Clark in 1885 however I can't find anything that links them in the census records apart from 1911 census when Eliza and Charles are listed as brother and sister (and Eliza has since married).

Any help you can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks

Ed Osborne

[PaulineJ]

I can't see any 1882-1885 births in the indexes.

Marriages Dec 1905   (>99%)
CLAPHAM    May Gwendoline        Islington    1b   553    
CLARK    Eliza Maud        Islington    1b   553   
GREENWOOD    George David        Islington    1b   553   
RICKETTS    Walter Robert        Islington    1b   553

Is this the 1911 census (Eliza MAUD Greenwood)? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWGZ-BRL

[MonicaL]

Possible bankruptcy proceedings for him in 1857 and 1865:

www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/7590/page/1402/data.pdf
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22065/page/3998/data.pdf

Monica

[PaulineJ]

Free-to-view transcription.
Baptism 1814.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5V9-KJT

Father to groom, 1861.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJQN-5N2

1881 marriage as George GAIN clark
Event Type   Marriage
Registration Quarter   Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year   1881

[PaulineJ]

CLARK, ELIZA  MAUD     PACK     1882  D Qtr in WEST HAM  Volume 04A  Page 118

CLARK, ELLEN  JANE     PACK      1884  S Qtr in WEST HAM  Volume 04A  Page 143

CLARK, CHARLES  ARTHUR     PACK     1886  M Qtr in  Volume 04A  Page 128

His death in Shoreditch dec 1891.
CLARK, GEORGE  GAIN     77     1891  D Quarter in SHOREDITCH  Volume 01C  Page 122

[Christine53]

He is George Gam Clark in 1871:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRJX-XMF

In 1851 you can find him as George Ganes Clark with wife Harriet and 6 children

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGPX-DXV

[MonicaL]

Pauline, with your birth place index for him, there is this entry in Shoreditch in 1861:

George A (edited to show G) Clark 45 Boot shoe maker, b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Harriet Clark 44 b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
George F Clark 25 b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Harriet A Clark 19 b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Alice J Clark 7 b. Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Henry S Bron 29 lodger and his family...
Carline A K Bron 26
Kate A C Bron 1
Alice A Bron 6 months

Monica

[Christine53]

Possible marriage

George Clark of Hitchin bachelor and Harriet Martin spinster by licence 21 Sep 1834 St Luke Finsbury

[philipsearching]

1881 marriage as George GAIN clark
Event Type   Marriage
Registration Quarter   Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year   1881

It may be worth buying the certificate (unless you can find a church record online) to see if his father is named.
There are too many George Clarks in and around London/Herts to identify his baptism with any certainty (unless we get lucky with a Clark marrying a Gain and find a child.

Philip