Person:George Clark (129)

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George Clark
b.9 Sep 1839 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England
d.29 Sep 1901 Mile End Old Town, London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 22 Oct 1837
  1. George Clark1839 - 1901
  2. William Clark1842 -
  3. Benjamin Clark1845 -
  4. Matilda Clark1846 - 1911
  5. Caleb Clark1849 - 1911
Spouse and Children
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m. 30 Apr 1865
  1. George William Clark1865 -
  2. Harriet Eliza Clark1867 - 1939
  3. Benjamin Clark1869 -
  4. Joseph Clark1871 - 1872
  5. Joseph Clark1873 - 1874
  6. Henry Clark1875 -
  7. Elizabeth Clark1877 - 1960
  8. Caroline Clark1879 - 1881
  9. Charles Clark1881 - 1882
  10. Ada Clark1883 - 1885
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Facts and Events
Name[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][19][20][22][23][24][25][26][31] George Clark
Alt Name[1] George William Clark
Alt Name[12][13] George Clarke
Gender Male
Birth[5][4][6][7][8][9][13] 9 Sep 1839 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandGrace's Lane
Christening[9] 6 Oct 1839 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandSt. Mary's Church, Bromley St. Leonard
Alt Birth[12] Abt 1840 Stratford, Essex, England
Census[8] 1851 Stratford Le Bow, Middlesex, England4 Taylors Place
Education[8] 1851 school
Census[7] 1861 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandMulberry Tree Row, blacksmith
Residence[3] 1865 South Hackney, Middlesex, England
Marriage 30 Apr 1865 Hackney, Middlesex, EnglandSt. John of Jerusalem, Hackney
to Harriet Eliza Chipperfield
Census[12] 1871 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England4 Park Street, labourer at ironworks
Occupation[19][20][21][22] 1872 labourer
Residence[19][20] From 1872 to 1874 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England3 Park Street
Residence[21][28][29][30] From 1878 to 1881 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England5 Devas Street
Census[4] 1881 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England8 Stratfield Road
Occupation[23] From 1885 to 1901 brewer's labourer
Census[6] 1891 Bromley by Bow, London, England8 Stratfield Road
Census[5] 1901 Mile End Old Town, London, England230 Bow Common Lane
Death[31] 29 Sep 1901 Mile End Old Town, London, Englandat 230 Bow Common Lane, of carcinoma of liver, dropsy exhaustion
Burial[27] 5 Oct 1901 Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London, England

George Clark was born 9 September 1839 in Grace's Lane, Bromley-by-Bow, the eldest child of brewer, drayman and labourer George Clark and domestic servant Matilda Wallis. He was baptised at the nearby St. Mary's Church, Bromley St. Leonard on 6 October 1839. The family hasn't been found yet in the 1841 census. Several siblings were born between 1841 and 1851 and baptised at nearby churches: William baptised at St. Mary's Stratford Bow in 1843; and at St. Mary's Bromley St. Leonard Benjamin in 1845, Matilda in 1847 and Caleb in 1849.

By 1851 the family had moved to 4 Taylors Place, Stratford Le Bow, with father George working as a beer seller; mother Matilda; George (aged 11) and three of his younger siblings listed as "scholars" (meaning they were attending school); toddler Caleb; and Elizabeth Evenett, a house servant. Elizabeth was the step-daughter of George William Clark's aunt Caroline Wallis, who had married Thomas Evenett in 1839. Taylors Place was somewhere near Beazley Crescent, visible on Old Ford St on this map.

In the 1861 census the family were living in Bromley St. Leonard at Mulberry Tree Row, which was somewhere off St. Leonard St near the lochs and railway lines. George's father was working as a drayman (e.g. delivering beer), brother William was a brass finisher, Benjamin a brewery labourer and sister Matilda a house servant. George had by this time started working as a blacksmith at an ironworks.

In December 1863 George's brother William married Catherine Bate Ives at St. Philip's Church in Bethnal Green. He was followed down the aisle by his blacksmith brother Benjamin who wed Elizabeth Ann Smith in 1864.

George Clark was married 30 April 1865 at St. John of Jerusalem Church in Hackney to domestic servant Harriet Eliza Chipperfield, daughter of shoemaker and journeyman cordswainer William Chipperfield and ladies shoe maker Ann Green. The marriage was witnessed by George's parents George and Matilda Clark.

After George was married his younger sister Matilda married in 1867 to Harriet's younger brother George Chipperfield, a riveter, boiler maker and labourer at the corn mills. The last of George's siblings to marry was builder's labourer Caleb, who wed Sarah Ann Osborn in 1870.

Meanwhile, George and Harriet started their own family. Less than 9 months after their wedding a son George William was born in Bromley-by-Bow on 13 Sep 1865. After George William followed Harriet Eliza born at 23 Neptune Street in Kennington on 12 Feb 1867, and Benjamin back in Bromley-by-Bow in 1869.

In the 1871 census the family of five were living at 4 Park Street (visible at the northern corner of Victoria Park on this map), Bromley St. Leonard. Harriet's parents William and Ann Chipperfield lived just a few doors down the street at no. 11 along with three of Harriet's siblings, a niece and nephew and two members of the Green family who were listed as lodgers but were likely relatives of Harriet's mother Ann Green. Harriet's other sibling Martha was living with her husband George Peterken and infant daughter at number 26 Park St. So despite living in a big city the Chipperfield family remained geographically close.

In 1871 and 1873 George and Harriet had two sons, both named Joseph, who died before the age of one from pneumonia at 3 Park Street. Their next two children, Henry b. 1875 and Elizabeth b. 8 May 1877 at 5 Devas St, both survived childhood. Sadly after Elizabeth was born three more children died young: Caroline b. 1879 d. 4 Jan 1881 from measles, Charles b. 27 Oct 1881 d. 25 Sep 1882 aged 11 months from "dentition convulsions", and Ada b. 3 Sep 1883 d. 18 Jun 1885 from "measles congestion of lungs". Ada's death certificate gives George's occupation as "brewer's labourer", and other records simply say "labourer" so it's unclear whether George worked as a blacksmith his whole life. The only baptism records that have so far been found for George and Harriet's children are for Charles, bap. 8 Dec 1881 and Ada bap. 20 Sep 1883, both in the same church George was baptised in, St. Mary's Church, Bromley St. Leonard.

George's father died some time between 1871 and 1876, and his mother Matilda died on 19 Nov 1876 due to hemiplegia and "decay of nature" (she was 70 years old).

George and his young family were living at 5 Devas Street in 1881 when Caroline died, and moved before the census to 8 Stratfield Rd in Bromley St. Leonard where they shared a house with George's brother Benjamin and his family. George's brother Caleb as well as Harriet's parents and three siblings (James, William and Caroline) all lived with their families on Devas street. Booth's 1898 poverty map classed Stratfield Road as "poor", and Devas street as "very poor" and suffering "chronic want", and they shared their homes with numerous other families so this demonstrates the Chipperfield and Clark families lived in very difficult circumstances. Harriet's father William died in 1887 on Devas street at the age of 75 due to "senectus", and mother Ann died in 1889 on Stratfield Road due to bronchitis exhaustion.

The first of George and Harriet's children to marry was eldest daughter Harriet, who wed labourer Frederick Lowe in Aug 1888 and gave George and Harriet the first of their many grandchildren a few months later. The next of George and Harriet's children to marry was their eldest George William Clark, a hammerman, who followed suit in 1889 when he wed Frances Wisbey in Holy Trinity Church, Mile End. George and Harriet's daughter Harriet Lowe was living with the Clarks, her growing family, and several boarders at 8 Stratfield Rd in 1891. In 1891 Harriet (Chipperfield) Clark's brother John Chipperfield and sister Caroline Peterken were still living on Stratfield Road but several of George Clark's siblings had moved out to the West Ham area. George and Harriet's son Benjamin married Minnie Hammond at St. Paul's Church Bow Common in 1894 and they moved to the West Ham area around 1901 before returning to Bow Common Lane by 1907.

Some time between 1894 and 1897 George and Harriet Clark moved to 230 Bow Common Lane, where they are found on the 1901 census living with their children Henry and Elizabeth, and grandson Harry Clark (recorded as a nephew - he is listed after Henry and Elizabeth Clark, and is their nephew - but grandson of the head of household George Clark).

George Clark died on 29 Sep 1901 of liver cancer with his wife Harriet at his side. He was buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery.


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St. John of Jerusalem Church, Hackney, where George and Harriet were married
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St. John of Jerusalem Church, Hackney, where George and Harriet were married
St. John of Jerusalem Church, Hackney
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St. John of Jerusalem Church, Hackney
References
  1. ↑ Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England. Mile End Old Town, London, England. Holy Trinity Church Parish Registers
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George William Clark m. Frances Mary Ann Wisbey, 22 Dec 1889.
  2. ↑ General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for Harry Ripley and Elizabeth Clark, married 25 Dec 1906; citing 01c/718/192, Oct-Dec quarter 1906, Mile End Old Town registration district.
    Harry Ripley and Elizabeth Clark marriage certificate
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for George Clark and Harriet Eliza Chipperfield, married 30 April 1865; citing 01b/587/426, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1865, Hackney registration district.
    George Clark m. Harriet Chipperfiueld
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 London, England. 1881 Census
    Bromley St Leonard, folio 124, page 20; citing PRO RG 11/495.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 London, England. 1901 Census
    Mile End, Old Town, Eastern, folio 68, page 12; citing PRO RG 13/336.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 London, England. 1891 Census
    Bromley, folio 106, page 20; citing PRO RG 12/320.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Middlesex, England. 1861 Census
    Bromley St Leonard, folio 47, page 23; citing PRO RG 9/302.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Middlesex, England. 1851 Census
    Bromley, folio 150, page 12; citing PRO HO 107/1555.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," George Clark, bap. 6 Oct 1839.
  10. ↑ Hackney, London, England. St. John of Jerusalem Parish Records
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George Clark m. Harriet Eliza Chipperfield, 30 Apr 1865.
  11. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for George Clark, volume 1b, page 587, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1865, Hackney district.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 London, England. 1871 Census
    Bromley St Leonard, folio 59, page 15; citing PRO RG 10/570.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for George Clarke, born 9 Sep 1839; citing 2/290/246, Jul-Sep quarter 1839, Poplar Union registration district, Bow and Bromley sub-district.
    George Clark birth certificate
  14.   Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England. Mile End Old Town, London, England. Holy Trinity Church Parish Registers
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," Harry Ripley m. Elizabeth Clark, 25 Dec 1906.
  15.   London, England. 1911 Census
    4 Hope Place, Limehouse; citing RG 78, RG 14 PN 1548, registration district (RD) 20, sub district (SD) 2, enumeration district (ED) 1, schedule number (SN) 114.
  16.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1894, Tower Hamlets, Bow and Bromley, Bromley Saint Leonard, Division 1: 293, George Clark.
  17.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1890, Tower Hamlets, Bow and Bromley, South Bromley Polling District, Division 1: 208, George Clark.
  18.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1901, Tower Hamlets, Mile End Old Town SE Ward, Division 1: 174, George Clark.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Joseph Clark, died 5 May 1872; citing 1c/387/1, Apr-Jun quarter 1872, Poplar Union registration district, Bow sub-district.
    Joseph Clark (1) death certificate
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Joseph Clark, died 2 Mar 1874; citing 1c/462/256, Jan-Mar quarter 1874, Poplar Union registration district, Bow sub-district.
    Joseph Clark (2) death certificate
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Caroline Clark, died 4 Jan 1881; citing 1c/450/342, Jan-Mar quarter 1881, Poplar registration district, Bromley sub-district.
    Caroline Clark death certificate
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Charles Clark, died 25 Sep 1882; citing 1c/439/95, Jul-Sep quarter 1882, Poplar registration district, Bromley sub-district.
    Charles Clark death certificate
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Ada Clark, died 18 June 1885; citing 1c/456/69, Apr-Jun quarter 1885, Poplar registration district, Bromley sub-district.
    Ada Clark death certificate
  24. ↑ London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Mary (Bromley St. Leonard, London, England), Baptisms, 1881 pg 38, Charles Clark b. 27 Oct 1881 bap. 8 Dec 1881.
  25. ↑ London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Mary (Bromley St. Leonard, London, England), Baptisms, 1883 pg 144, Ada Clark b. 3 Sep 1883 bap. 20 Sep 1883.
  26. ↑ Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for Harriet Eliza Clark, born 12 Feb 1867; citing 1d/421/345, Jan-Mar quarter 1867, Lambeth registration district, Kennington 1st Part sub-district.
    Harriet Eliza Clark birth certificate
  27. ↑ London, England. City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966
    Burials, 1901 pg 769, George Clark bur. 5 Oct 1901 aged 62 yrs.
  28. ↑ London, England. School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
    Marner Road School, Admission and Discharge Register for Infants, 1878 pg 16A-B, Henry Clark b. 26 Jan 1875 adm. 16 Sep 1878.
  29. ↑ London, England. School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
    Marner Road School, Admission and Discharge Register for Infants, 1880 pg 28, Henry Clark b. 26 Jan 1875 adm. 24 May 1880.
  30. ↑ London, England. School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
    Marner Road School, Admission and Discharge Register for Infants, 1880 pg 27, Elizabeth Clark b. 8 May 1877 adm. 15 Mar 1880.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for George Clark, died 29 Sep 1901; citing 1c/343/121, Jul-Sep quarter 1901, Mile End Old Town registration district, Mile End Old Town Eastern sub-district.
    George Clark death certificate
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