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Hi Grisel and others.

I have been off the service that starts with ancest for the past 12 months and I see that 233 people now claim Richard Ellis as an ancestor, so I think that I need to do some more research.

My facts are:

Richard Ellis died 8 Apr 1772 Carpenter's Hall; buried Bunhill Fields burial costs 13/6
His Will was written 8 May 1769 ... his daughter Mary Petch sole executrix.

Richard's daughter Mary Ellis married William Petch 7 Jan 1763 St. Anne Soho. Her husband was appointed Page to George 111 23 Apr 1760. Petch was Page of the Backstairs [Kings hairdresser].

Will of Mary Ellis 14 Jan 1823 Hoxton Square names my ancestor, her granddaughter, Martha Rees, nee Martha Tomkins of Carpenters Hall.

Richard Ellis, glazier, leaves Threadneedle St and moves into Carpenters Hall 7 Sep 1759 Minute Book of Carpenter's Hall (which also accommodates Tomkins and Luck), also my relatives.

Joseph Ellis died 13 Aug 1755 Threadneedle Street, merchant, assumed father of Richard Ellis as Richard Ellis also had a father named Joseph Ellis, formerly a chandler of Stepney.

209 Oct 1719 apprenticeship Richard Ellis, son of Joseph Ellis of Stepney chandler, became apprentice to William Carter, a glazier of London.

That is where I need to revisit and find the real father of Joseph Ellis the chandler who died in Threadneedle Street in 1755.

Keith

Can any body provide information on Eystrom farm, Victoria [Southern Rhodesia] to 1919?

I have just located this farm and store was the location for the death of 64 year old John William Clark. He was not married.

Research so far:
John William Clark b. 1859 Folkestone to John Clark and Mary St. George Rees; matriculated to London Uni Jun 1879; taught in father's school Grove House, Folkstone 1881; he and his brother David Paine Clark (b.1869) may be part of march 5 Jul to 13 Sep 1890 on Mashonaland
British South Africa Company C Company
157   Clark   D.   Trooper   C
436   Clark   J.   Trooper   C

Folklore now looks correct: 1905 John W. Clark won silver medal by the British South Africa Company, in their rifle shooting competition of the Victoria Rifle Club.

Death: 29 Oct 1919 Eystrom, farm Victoria [Zimbabwe]

His brother David Paine Clark died in Pietermaritzburg 1923 where he raised his family, including Olympic medalist athlete Marjorie Theresa Rees Clark.

Keith

Thank you Sugarbakers

Could I please join this thread?

I note that there were three adult baptisms on 11 Mar 1887 in All Saints, Wellingborough. One was for Rachel May Jackson, abode, The Grammar School.
Another was for Ethel Rees Clark and I cannot read her abode like Bapton House.
I know that Ethel was a governess and will move back to her father's boarding school Grove House, Folkestone, Kent by 1891.
Thus, those with knowledge of Wellingborough, was Ethel a governess in a private home or was she teaching in a part of the Grammar School complex?
Or other possible suggestions!
Keith