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London and Middlesex / Re: Augustus Horatio Clark
« on: Thursday 24 January 13 18:40 GMT (UK)  »
A huge thanks.  All this information is 100% correct - it clearly took me longer to locate than it did you!  The Charles Harold Clark you mention is my grandfather!  It still unfortunately leaves us without a birth certificate for Augustus Horatio who was certainly born in England (London).  His father (Augustus George Bruce Clark) had five children with Sarah Smith (three before marriage) before dumping her for a French lady whence the French branch of my family - but that's another story!  A very naughty boy!
Thanks again and further ideas always appreciated.
Roger (clairac33)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Augustus Horatio Clark
« on: Thursday 24 January 13 07:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Dawn and Karen.  I fear you may be right and there is no birth certificate to be found.  The baptism certificate is clear and is certainly his - but no date of birth.   The date of birth I have (26 September 1843) comes from his father's Bible, now unfortunately lost.  Thanks again - Roger

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London and Middlesex / Re: Augustus Horatio Clark
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 21:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks David but this cannot be my guy.  I know that he was baptised in October 1843 (found the record on Ancestry).  Did births have to be registered at this time - especially if the parents were not married (as here)?
Thanks again - Roger

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London and Middlesex / Augustus Horatio Clark
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 20:47 GMT (UK)  »
 Any idea how I can locate the birth certificate of my ancestor Augustus Horatio Clark.  He was baptised on October 29 1843 at Saint Dunstan's, Stepney, and is thought to have been born in London on September 26 1843.  But I have been unable to locate his birth certificate.  He may have been born Augustus Horatio Clark or Augustus Horatio Smith: his parents (Augustus Clark and Sarah Smith) were unmarried at the time of his birth.  Thanks for any ideas.

Roger
clairac33

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: The Jersey Children of William Clark
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 18:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much for the info.  I have used the 1841 Jersey census a lot and found all 4 boys at Deziloe's school.  By 1851 only William is left which makes sense (though where have the others gone?).  But I have had no joy locating father and mother in either census.  Any thoughts?  William is thought to have been living in a house on Ann Street in St Helier at the time of his death (February 1835).  Where did the boys live thereafter? 
I have located the baptism in St Helier on March 1 1835 of a William Clarke (spelling sic but the confusion is constant), son of William Clarke and of a Catherine Gibson with members of the Denziloe family as godparents.  That really muddies the waters as I wonder whether these are the people I am after.  Any thoughts appreciated - though I am really rehearsing the issues to myself!

Roger Clark
clairac33

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / The Jersey Children of William Clark
« on: Wednesday 23 January 13 16:19 GMT (UK)  »
I am anxious to find out about the children of a distant ancestor.  It is thought that some of these children were born on Jersey.
The father is one William Clark (1773-1835).  He married second time around a Mrs Beresford about whom nothing is known.  From this relationship were born four sons two of whom were in all probability born on Jersey.  These were Horatio Clark (said to have been baptised in St Helier in July 1833 though I have no documentation for this) and William Alfred Clark probably born in St Helier in 1835.  The boys were educated at a school in St Helier the head of which was a Mr Denziloe.  I am trying to find out more about Horatio and William Alfred Clark and especially about their mother, the mysterious Mrs Beresford, but so far without much success.  Any suggestions gratefully received.

Roger Clark : clairac33

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