Person:Isaac Clark (36)

Isaac Clark was baptised on 11th February 1746 at Lydiard Millicent in Wiltshire, son of Joseph Clark (also known as Joseph Lewis) and his wife Mary. Isaac appears to have been the fifth of seven children.

Isaac’s next sighting is on 15th May 1769, aged 23, when he married Ann Ody at Lydiard Tregoze, a neighbouring parish to Lydiard Millicent. They returned to Lydiard Millicent after their marriage, having nine children baptised there between 1769 and 1789.

Isaac died aged 44, being buried at Lydiard Millicent on 22nd June 1790. His youngest son was less than a year old at the time. Ann survived him by less than two years.

1. ↑ Lydiard Millicent, Wiltshire: Parish Registers (Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham).

   Baptisms 1745 / Isack the Son of Joseph and Mary Clark Feb[ruary] the 11th [i.e. 11 Feb 1745/6]

   This baptism has been linked to the Isaac Clark who married Ann Ody on the basis that it is in the same parish that Isaac and Ann settled after their marriage, at a plausible time, and Isaac and Ann seem to have been recorded under the surname Lewis for one of their children’s baptisms, when the Joseph Clark who was the father of the Isaac baptised in 1746 was in other records explicitly called Joseph Clark or Lewis (being the illegitimate son of a Mary Lewis).

2. ↑ Lydiard Millicent, Wiltshire: Parish Registers (Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Chippenham).

   June 22d 1790 Isaac Clarke P[auper?] buried