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Thanks Mary for your quick reply, you don't hang about!

Pierce Rice may well be the one.  Ancestry also gave me a reference in O’Kief of the marriage in 1840 of a Pierce Rice and Elizabeth Clarke in the Diocese of Cork and Ross.

I am thinking the connection might have been through the wool or clothing trade; William Clarke was variously described as a wool merchant, woollen draper or woolcomber and lived on Blarney Lane, which appears to have been a centre in Cork for the trade.  In 1810 West’s Directory, there is a Mary Rice linen draper in Cork at South Main Street and later in 1824 a John Rice,Woollen Draper at 79 South Main Street (Pigot’s Directory).  Not overwhelming but a possibility. 

William Clarke had two daughters (Elizabeth and Sarah) and a son Thomas who it is said upset his father by going into the church (vicar of Micheldever in Wiltshire for more than 50 years) rather than his family business.  Perhaps by Elizabeth marrying Pierce Rice he hoped to keep the family business going.

In the event it seems this William’s granddaughter Anna Rice kept the Clarke connection going through marrying a tobacco importer Robert Chambers, who is shown as a mortgagor in 1855 for her cousin William Clarke the tobacco manufacturer, when buying land later to become part of his Farren (or Farran) estate.

The details of young George Nelson Rice’s untimely demise fits in with family lore, that he was training for the church.  Again it may mean nothing but I note that two of the inscriptions on gravestones at Ballinaboy refer to a George Rice, I can’t make out the first one but the second was erected by Geo Rice in memory of his father Thomas who died in 1806; perhaps George Nelson, born in 1806, was named after him - and Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar of course??

I would love to have copies  of the photos you mentioned - I am planning a visit to Cork next month to do a bit more digging, PM to follow!  With regards

Thanks for your post, Rendall was one of my father's (Thomas Hughes Clarke, known as Hugh) many first cousins and they were good friends.  I met Rendall a few times at family events.  I remember being taken for a spin in a kit-car he had built, on the airfield near Rendall's house on the New Forest.  My father was born 1905 and died in 1962. Rendall's father was Dr Henry Clarke, fourth son of Thomas Clarke of Allerton Hall and my grandfather Charles Samuel was the third son.  I never visited Aghamarta, but did go to Farran, Springfort and Nadrid once or twice and saw Trabolgan from the drive (and from the ferry).  I met Sam once, he is a year younger than me, I think; we met at Tracy Park when I was about ten (1957ish), I would like to make contact again!  I have incidentally just made contact with descendants of Helena Schreiber, one of whom  is living in Skibbereen; Helena was one of Thomas Clarke's three sisters, the others married William Lumley Perrier jr as you know, and the other, an Augustus Warren.  They had one son who died young.

Thanks again Mary, the sale catalogue looks interesting, I recently found one for the sale of paintings at Allerton Hall, Liverpool, by the estate of Capt W R Clarke's father Thomas Clarke, in 1926.  That catalogue was marked up with initials showing that a lot of the items were bought in by members of the family - any such indications on this one?  I've collected a few old Clarke Tobacco signs! Martin

That's great, and yes the Rev Robert Warren would have been a nephew of the first Sir Augustus Warren, elder brother to the Rev's father Robert, and both being sons of Sir Robert Warren of Warrens Court.  Warrens Court (aka Kilbarry) is about 1km west of Crookstown and 6 miles west of Farran along the N22,  and presumably part of Cannaway Parish.  http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=1886 is good.

Re the Schreibers, thanks for the information re the Suffolk documents.  Annaghmore House is about 10 miles due south of Farran near Crossbarry and a mile to the east of Inishannon. The Landed Estates website also connects the Warrens with Annaghmore at some time.  So that sorts out all three of William Clarke's daughters. People didn't travel far to match up their children in those days!  Now onto Uncle Oscar in Argentina! Many thanks again, Martin