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Title: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: darcy2 on Friday 04 February 11 06:08 GMT (UK)
arthur clarke m. sarah childs 1902 at liverpool n.s.w
sarah d.1927  arthur d.1940 at bankstown
Title: Re: arthur clarke
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 04 February 11 06:25 GMT (UK)
Hi,

What are you wanting help with?


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: arthur clarke
Post by: darcy2 on Friday 04 February 11 11:44 GMT (UK)
any descendants of arthur & sarah clarke
Title: Re: arthur clarke
Post by: mariac on Friday 04 February 11 12:06 GMT (UK)
Hi Darcy2
  Below are births and Marriages for two of  Arthur and Sarah's children. You can check them out on this site

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/searchHistoricalRecords.htm

Births up to 1910

4797/1905  CLARKE  VICTOR S A    ARTHUR S  SARAH  LIVERPOOL   
28170/1910  CLARKE  EDNA E  ARTHUR S  SARAH  LIVERPOOL   


Marriage
72/1934  CLARKE  VICTOR S A    BRADLEY  OLIVE J   SYDNEY 

7590/1932  HUDSON  LEO N     CLARKE  EDNA E     KEMPSEY 

Regards
mariac
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: darcy2 on Tuesday 08 February 11 00:02 GMT (UK)
Thank you for the information. Iwas hoping someone from Arthur Clarke`s family may have any information re his mother Eliza clarke.
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: PrueM on Tuesday 08 February 11 01:38 GMT (UK)
Hi darcy2 :)

You might be waiting a long time if you only want to speak to a descendant of the couple...in the meantime can we help you at all?  What did you want to find out about Arthur Clarke's mother?

Cheers
Prue
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: darcy2 on Tuesday 08 February 11 02:57 GMT (UK)
I am unable to find a death certificate for Eliza Clarke. I searched all B.D.M`S inN.S.W & Queensland & Victoria. Her name is on the Family grave at Rookwood Cemetery but checking burial records at C ofE. Cemetery there is no record of her burial there. I have applied for numerous  death certificates but none match .The date of death on the headstone is 5th Feb.1894
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 03:05 GMT (UK)
Hi Darcy,

Do you have a transcript of the 1894 death cert for Eliza CLARK, registered at Granville NSW ... many of my forebears who lived in and around Granville ended up at Rookwood Cemetery...

 The reference number seems to be  5922

 I will keep looking !

Do you know your Eliza's parents names please

Cheers,  JM

Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: darcy2 on Tuesday 08 February 11 03:26 GMT (UK)
that was the first certificate I applied for. I worked at Rookwood cemetery at one time & am familiar with the area. Eliza`s parents were Thomas & Ann Wade of Liverpool.Ihave all the Wade family history with the exception of Eliza`s death
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 03:31 GMT (UK)
Hi there,


I'm confused ....

From the NSW BDM online index I can see that there's a death in 1940 and registered at Bankstown for an Arthur Sydney CLARKE, and that his parents are listed on that index as Edward and Eliza.

From another online index I can see that there's a double plot at Rookwood, in the Old C of E section with four graves....

Section BBB, row 20, plots 881 and 882
interred 11 May 1891 Edward Clarke aged 64
interred 18 Sept 1891 Sarah McCartney aged 28
interred 5 February 1894 Eliza Clarke aged 71 (wife of the above, ie Edward)
interred 29 January 1914 William McCartney aged 65 (husband of the above, ie Sarah)

I can't see that this particular double plot at Rookwood is associated with Arthur Sydney Clarke, sorry, perhaps your records are more detailed than the online indexes .... :)

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 February 11 04:05 GMT (UK)
A few NSW bDM findings to help the picture along. ;D

Birth of some with correct parental names

REG V18552825 72 In1855 CLARKE SARAH A
   Father EDWARD
    Mother ELIZA
     
REG12848In1874 CLARKE WILLIAM CHARLES
    Father EDWARD
    Mother ELIZA
    LIVERPOOL
   
REG13649In1876 CLARKE HERBERT ALBERT
    Father EDWARD
    Mother ELIZA
    LIVERPOOL
   
REG11683In1872 CLARKE ARTHUR S
                Father EDWARD
    Mother ELIZA
    LIVERPOOL


Marriage

REG 3270 In 1877 MCCARTNEY    WILLIAM
    ToCLARKE, SARAH ANN
     LIVERPOOL


Marriage

REG V1855197 43B In 1855 CLARKE EDWARD
    To WADE ELIZA
    CF

Sue 
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 04:48 GMT (UK)
 ;D  Thanks Sue, 

So there's TWO possible lasses named Sarah Clarke .... one the wife of Arthur Sydney Clarke and the other the sister of Arthur Sydney Clarke.   That would explain the likely connection between the Rookwood grave and Arthur Sydney Clarke , however, the index I am looking at lists Sarah McCartney's age as 28 at that interment in 1891 ie born circa 1863 which  does NOT match up with the 1855 baptism.  However, a transcript of that 1877 marriage of Sarah to William McCartney would clear up her birth details, and it should list her parents names.   I use "should" rather than "would" .... the NSW BDM Reg Gen's records are not complete, particularly for the decades before WWI ....  and particularly for marriages.....

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/historyofRegistrysRec.htm includes the following snippet
" The task of reconciling the Church Records for marriages between 1856 and 1895 was never finalised. Some of the Registry's marriage records from these years still have missing information.  "   (When I come across m.c. with 'missing' info I contact the local parish and/or local family history group to try to find the local records, these frequently do contain more details... )

Darcy, I will presume you are looking for descendants of Arthur Sydney and his wife Sarah (rather than his sister Sarah)
any descendants of arthur & sarah clarke

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 05:02 GMT (UK)
Just to help RChatters following this thread :

Not sure, but from 1870 NSW Electoral Roll for Central Cumberland (ie covering the police districts of Parramatta and of Liverpool)
Edward Clarke, leaseholder near George's Hall
There's several chaps surnamed CHILDS and they are all in the Holsworthy area ... Moorebank, Mills Creek, etc

1878 NSW ER, Central Cumberland
Edward Clarke, leasholder near George's Hall
and again several surnamed CHILDS in the Holsworthy area

1903 NSW ER Parramatta Electorate, Liverpool polling place
CHILDS, Sarah Ellen, domestic duties, living "near Liverpool" 
However, no Arthur Sydney CLARKE at that polling place.  My copies of those early rolls are  NOT keyword searchable, sorry....


I've also had a look for possible inquests for Eliza Clarke or Sarah McCartney in 1891 .... cannot find any noted in my records ....


Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 February 11 05:07 GMT (UK)
I should have thought of this before ::)

Searching NSW bdm with wildcard at the end of CLARK (no E) brings up several more possible births to parents named EDWARD & ELIZA CLARKE.

Sue
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 05:22 GMT (UK)
 ;D

https://www.familysearch.org/ and their "extracted" baptism records for NSW Australia
Sarah Ann Clarke dau of Edward Clarke and Eliza Wade was baptised 25 Nov 1855 at St Lukes, Liverpool ...   from memory I think that's C of E ....

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 February 11 05:59 GMT (UK)
Observation

If the Eliza in the grave at Rookwood (aged 71 in 1894) is the mother of HERBERT ALBERT CLARKE, she was a very mature age mother.

Sue
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 06:05 GMT (UK)
 ;)

Its one of those things that are bothering me about Eliza Clarke !

JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: majm on Tuesday 08 February 11 06:19 GMT (UK)
NSW State Records Office

Deceased Estates INDEX has Edward CLARKE, date of death 14 May 1891, Duty paid 9 July 1891  ;D .... his locality  ;D LIVERPOOL

http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexsearch/keyname.aspx

Slight variation in his date of death (headstone transcription says 11 May 1891, ie weathering altered the number 4) however, this particular record can be ordered online and it may well have information regarding family history .... eg names of the beneficiaries to that estate, where he was living, what the estate comprised of, it could even contain copies of bdm certificates (I was lucky with several of my NSW forebears, I have photocopies of their original certificates that were in their probate packets, fingers crossed that Darcy could be as fortunate !)

Cheers,  JM
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 February 11 06:31 GMT (UK)
I wonder also about the MI date for SARAH MCCARTNEY.

Her death on the indexes appears as 1894 rather than 1891


WILLIAM MCCARTNEY I am not sure.  Maybe....

REG 2130 In 1914  MCCARTHEY  WILLIAM
  Father JAMES
  Mother ELIZA
  At GRANVILLE

Sue   
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Tuesday 08 February 11 06:39 GMT (UK)
A newspaper notice regarding application by ELIZA for the granting of Probate on the will of EDWARD


http://www.rootschat.com/links/0bqi/

Sue



Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: sparrett on Wednesday 09 February 11 02:15 GMT (UK)
Many  matters worked through on this thread have previously been dealt with and, to some extent, resolved and verfied.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,501275.msg3581433.html#msg3581433

I'm sure darcy2 will respond to let us know if there are any other ways to help. 

Sue
Title: Re: Arthur CLARKE
Post by: darcy2 on Wednesday 09 February 11 11:08 GMT (UK)
thank you all for your assistance. Eliza will forever remain a mystery.I have searched every record available. I thought someone may have had some personal knowledge of Eliza Clarke .