It seems that I have finally managed to locate the UK connection to our Clarke family.
My grandmother Ann Young Clarke, always told us her grandfather was Jesse Clarke from England, I am South African, and at this stage we do not connect to the big Clarke family in Durban KZN area, just had a story of two brothers came from England, the one married a white woman, the other a mixed woman (my great great grandmother) and their sister later came to look for them. I have since found descendants of the sister who after married was Mary Ann Bagg.
In our family names there are a couple of second names which are surnames, e.g my grandmother and that gave me the clues on how to find the UK family. As well as the same names our first Jesse named his children. What I have found is this:
1841 Census in Catherston - Lewis
Richard CLARKE Male 35 Ag Lab Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Ann CLARKE Female 35 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Richard CLARKE Male 14 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Ann CLARKE Female 12 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Susanna CLARKE Female 11 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Ruth CLARKE Female 9 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Ellen CLARKE Female 7 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 James CLARKE Male 5 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 John CLARKE Male 2 Yes HO107-280F2p19
3 Jesse CLARKE Male 7 months Yes
That youngest is Jesse as this age corresponds with his death certificate in South Africa. In our family there is Ellen, Susan, John, Jesse, Ann and Richard repeated and Richard's wife here, Ann, her maiden name was Ann Young.
I dont see many people looking up this same particular family, just one person who it seems found a Painter living with them ten years later.
Please can someone help/find/connect
Would really be great to see what happened on that end and to share the info I find with Richard and Ann's other children.
Also in other news, another family name repeated is John Goldie Clarke. and I found a John Goulding in the same area as the clark's at some point.
