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Attached is the only word I have for this mystery.  No other reference to that handwriting.  Is it one or two words.  Name or place name.  Said to be from early 1900s.  Even a language may help.  Thanks.

Hello,

I am posting in Cambs although it may be a Suffolk result eventually.  :-)

Robert CLARKE, son of John CLARKE and Harriet MASON CLARKE was baptized 25 April 1841 in St Vigors at Fulbourn.  The next reference I can find anywhere is in the 1861 census, where he is residing at The Vicarage, Gt. Thurlow, Suffolk, now aged 20.  He is employed as a footman to Vicar WAYMAN and family.

That's all I can find.  Can any good soul here see him for a marriage, death, burial, migration etc.? 

I'm trying to trace male descendants of John Clarke, and Robert is one direct male I need to follow.

Thank you for reading.

Colin

Richard CLARKE b.1831 +/-1year, mother Eliza.  Most likely Fulbourn, nr Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.  I believe Eliza was Eliza CLARKE b.3 Jun 1810, dau of William CLARKE and Mary HANCOCK who married Fulbourn 1800. 

Eliza apparently had another child, Alfred CLARKE b1835/36?, and his baptism is recorded 1836 Fulbourn All Saints in the CFHS Baptism Index, son of Eliza.

I'm trying to find a baptism record for a Richard CLARKE b1831, to Eliza.   She could be shown as a Clarke or a Hancock, I believe.

Can anyone see this Richard birth and baptism, please?

I have his later records 1841 1851 census, etc, with links to Eliza Clarke and Alfred.  I just cannot find Richard's birth/baptism and any link to a father's name.

Thanks,

I'm looking into two issues in the Cambridge/Ely area and they are related in several ways so I wanted to put them in one inquiry.

I'm searching for the death record of Eliza(beth) HANCOCK or Eliza(beth) CLARK(E) in the period 1832-1856 but especially c.1832-1843 in or around North Witchford.  This Eliza CLARKE is possibly the wife of a John CLARKE, and the mother of my GGF and BRICKWALL, Richard CLARKE, b. c1832.

I am not certain that Eliza was married to John CLARKE, (although Richard put them as married on his own marriage certificate 1863), so I am looking for Eliza HANCOCK or Eliza CLARKE - as my GGF wrote several times that his mother's maiden name was HANCOCK.

And, of course, I'm looking for any information of a Richard CLARKE, "born Cambridge, worked on the railways there" (according to what he wrote in later years).

Richard Clarke, my GGF, in respect to his UK birth, parents, and life pre-emigration to Australia, has been a BRICKWALL since 1979.  I have a good record, even pictures, from his life in Australia.  His marriage and death certificates do not help with UK information.

A recent "find" is a Richard CLARKE, aged 10, in the 1841 Census for North Witchford Workhouse, and so it is possible that Eliza HANCOCK CLARKE, and Richard, was from that general location north of Cambridge, IF they were the same family, and she had died before 1841, or was very ill and unable to provide care.  There are three such names shown on some death records around N Witchford in that period.  If I can find these details with 'spouse', I may be able to discount this Richard, or have an eureka moment.

Of course, this is all just "detective" work, as she may have died up to 1856, as all I really have about her death is that Richard Clarke recorded on his November 1856 emigration/ships document that his mother was "dead".  His father, John, was "wherabouts unknown"?.


I might add that in the 1851 Census, there is a Richard CLARKE, aged 19, as a Lodger with a Sarah POOLEY in Cambridge.  I don't know if that is the same Richard from the 1841 Census, and he moved out of the workhouse and down to Cambridge (perhaps to "work on the railways").

Thanks in advance for reading this confusing story.  BRICKWALLS can cause this. 

Any help, tips, suggestions, or an entire history of the Richard Clarke family, will be appreciated.

Cheers, Colin