Person:Clara Wallis (1)

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Clara Levina Wallis
b.21 Nov 1870 South Lopham, Norfolk, England
d.6 Feb 1922 South Lopham, Norfolk, England
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  1. Clara Levina Wallis1870 - 1922
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m. Sep 1905
  1. Harold John Sare1906 - 1968
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Name Clara Levina Wallis
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 21 Nov 1870 South Lopham, Norfolk, England
Christening[2] 10 Oct 1875 South Lopham, Norfolk, EnglandSt Andrew's Church
Marriage Sep 1905 Norfolk, Englandto Robert Wallis Sare
Death[3][4] 6 Feb 1922 South Lopham, Norfolk, England
Burial[3] South Lopham, Norfolk, EnglandSt Andrew's Churchyard

1870 - Birth appears to have been registered as Levinia Elizabeth WALLIS. (GRO Index, Guiltcross, Dec Qtr 1870, 4b 234)

1871 - With mother and grandparents at the Village, South Lopham. Recorded as Lavina C. WALLIS, aged 5 months, born at South Lopham.

1875 - Baptism: Mother recorded as Susan WALLIS. Register gives date of birth.

1881 - Clara was residing with her grandparents, Seth and Susan WALLIS. Scholar, aged 10, born at South Lopham. Also residing there was her mother, Aunt Louisa and her daughter Alice, and cousin, Robert Wallis SARE. Clara and Robert married in 1905.

1891 - In service as a ladies' maid in the household of Francis MARSHALL, master of Harrow School, at Hawse End, Above Derwent, Cumberland. Clearly recorded as Clara L WILLIS, single, aged 21, born at Norfolk.

1901 - Living with her mother in Church Road, South Lopham. Her aunt Louisa and cousin Alice also in household at Church Road, South Lopham. Dressmaker, working on own account at home, single, aged 30, born at South Lopham. Recorded as Clara Levina.

1922 - DEATH NOTICE, Diss Express: SARE. On Feby 6th, at East View, South Lopham, Clara Lavinia, dearly loved wife of Robert Wallis SARE, aged 51 years. Funeral 3 o'clock Saturday at South Lopham Church.

Clara's memorial inscription (from transcription by the Women's Institute) reads: In/ Loving Memory of/ CLARA LEVINA/ the beloved wife of/ ROBERT WALLIS SARE/ who died Feb. 6th 1922/ Aged 51 years/ What though in grief we lonely sigh/ For one we loved no longer nigh/ Submissive we would still reply/ "They will be done"./ (Mason: Cooley, Son/ Diss)

References
  1. ↑ 1901 Census.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parish Register.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Memorial Inscription - Women's Institute survey.
  4. ↑ GRO Index, Thetford, March Qtr 1922, 4b 514a.
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