Hello all.
I hope this is in the correct sub-forum. Apologies if it isn't.
I had been recommended by a recently discovered cousin about this site.
I have been having some trouble with locating a birth date and parentage for my 2xgreat-grandfather, George Clark. I know from his marriage certificate to his wife, Ellen Louisa Hemmings, that his father is put down as William Clark. It seems William's occupation is either a sailor or tailor. Seeing as George is a sailor, I'd presume that his father was a sailor also.
That is all I know of George's father.
What I know of George Clark is only marginally better.
The marriage took place on 28th Oct 1883 in Bristol. George and Ellen are aged 23. George must have been born roughly 1860. Ellen seems to have put the wrong age down, though, as she was christened 8th May 1859 in Bristol.
George has his birth place down on the England census of 1891 and 1901 as Bristol, Glos. I can find his wife and family on the 1911 England census, but George is not noted down in the household. I thought he may have been away at sea, but searches for him have not shown him anywhere. I did find him (I think) on the Scottish census of 1871 on the ship 'The Lark' in the Thurso river.
George died in Bristol aged 83 on 19th November 1943 and is buried with his three daughters in Canford cemetery, Bristol. I had tried to locate the death date for his wife Ellen, too, in the hope of finding some new information, but she is just as elusive in death as George was in birth.
I contacted the Bristol offices to request a birth certificate for George from the year 1859/60 with a father named William who is a t/sailor, but they replied with a short response detailing that there are many George Clarks with fathers named William. They wouldn't respond as to whether any were t/sailors.
George's son, Albert George Clark (who married Alice Davis) is exactly the same in concerns to his death. There doesn't seem to be any record of Albert George either. Father like son :D
I was wondering if anyone could help spark some ideas or pointing towards an avenue with which to go down? I use ancestry, findmypast, familysearch and various free bmd websites.
I hope this is in the correct sub-forum. Apologies if it isn't.
I had been recommended by a recently discovered cousin about this site.
I have been having some trouble with locating a birth date and parentage for my 2xgreat-grandfather, George Clark. I know from his marriage certificate to his wife, Ellen Louisa Hemmings, that his father is put down as William Clark. It seems William's occupation is either a sailor or tailor. Seeing as George is a sailor, I'd presume that his father was a sailor also.
That is all I know of George's father.
What I know of George Clark is only marginally better.
The marriage took place on 28th Oct 1883 in Bristol. George and Ellen are aged 23. George must have been born roughly 1860. Ellen seems to have put the wrong age down, though, as she was christened 8th May 1859 in Bristol.
George has his birth place down on the England census of 1891 and 1901 as Bristol, Glos. I can find his wife and family on the 1911 England census, but George is not noted down in the household. I thought he may have been away at sea, but searches for him have not shown him anywhere. I did find him (I think) on the Scottish census of 1871 on the ship 'The Lark' in the Thurso river.
George died in Bristol aged 83 on 19th November 1943 and is buried with his three daughters in Canford cemetery, Bristol. I had tried to locate the death date for his wife Ellen, too, in the hope of finding some new information, but she is just as elusive in death as George was in birth.
I contacted the Bristol offices to request a birth certificate for George from the year 1859/60 with a father named William who is a t/sailor, but they replied with a short response detailing that there are many George Clarks with fathers named William. They wouldn't respond as to whether any were t/sailors.
George's son, Albert George Clark (who married Alice Davis) is exactly the same in concerns to his death. There doesn't seem to be any record of Albert George either. Father like son :D
I was wondering if anyone could help spark some ideas or pointing towards an avenue with which to go down? I use ancestry, findmypast, familysearch and various free bmd websites.
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