CLARKE

[amondg]

Pure speculation on William Clarke. The fathers occupation is not correct. I think this has all been for nothing.

1881 census Tranmere Cheshire
Joseph Clarke 36 general labourer
Annie 37
William 15
Annie 9
Margaret 3
James 7
Joseph 8 months

[amondg]

Perhaps you can follow this one:

William Clarke baptized 6 August 1865 Holy Trinity Cheshire parents William Clarke and Jane.

[mckha489]

The 1889 Marriage in NZ to Emma Cotton
can only see one child.  William Ernest Dixon in 1889

Death of Emma 1894

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18941121.2.23?end_date=31-12-1894&items_per_page=10&query=Emma+Clarke&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1894

I cannot see what happened to William Ernest Dixon Clarke, but perhaps you know??

Second marriage 1896 to Christiana COX

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18960318.2.16?end_date=31-12-1896&items_per_page=10&query=cox+clarke&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1889

He is still the only son of William Robert of Pickmere

WW1 record for Leslie Hurstfield Clarke son of William Robert Clarke, born England and Christiana Clarke born Christchurch


So - I would propose that William Robert Clarke husband of Emma Cotton and Christiana Cox is the same man.
He was born in Barton, Cheshire, in 1865 and is NOT the son of William Robert Clarke  & Georgiana.

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1891

Pickmere, Great Budworth, Altrincham, Knutsford

William Clarke (indexed as Clerke on Ancestry) age 57 born Meriden, Warwickshire.   Boot and Shoe maker
wife Jane 59 born Cogshall, Cheshire
address is Pickmere Road


1881

St Mary, Great Budworth, High Street

Willm R Clarke, Grocer and Shoemaker 45. B Meriden, Warwickshire
Jane 47, Cogshall, Chester
Wm R 15, Painter b Barnton, Chesher.
Rebecca 13 born Budworth, Chesher.

1871

High Street, Great Budworth

William Robert Clarke 37 Boot &. Shoe Maker b Meriden, Warwickshire
Jane 39 born Cogshall
William Robert 5, b Barnton
Rebecca   3 b Gt Budworth


A marriage Runcorn, Cheshire 8a 273 4th 1tr 1863
William Robert CLARKE and Jane HURSTFIELD

births

CLARKE William Robert. mmn HURSTFIELD.  1865 Dec qtr, Northwich, Vol 08A page 196
CLARKE Rebecca. man HURSTFIELD. 1867 Dec qtr, Runcorn, Vol 08A, page 163


I haven't noted here the later censuses, or earlier ones, but William Robert senior can be followed in both directions. Jane died and he remarried and had another son

[marchbank]

Thank you Mckha489 and everyone else that helped. I shall print it all off and work through it very slowly, so I can try and make sense of this tree.
Michelle