DAVENPORT in or around Fulbourn, Cambs, 1780-1850

[mudgeeclarke]

I am interested in any DAVENPORT surname or family connection living around Fulbourn, adjacent Cambridge, Cambs in the time around 1800.

My paternal G GF Richard CLARKE bc1831 is NPE, and in my Y DNA researches for clues, I find that DAVENPORT (and Barton and Wilson) regularly pop-up, but the paper connections are not clear and the DNA matches although close, point to 500 years or so, not 200 years.  Still, if this is smoke, there may be a fire.  :-)

Does any kind soul know of any DAVENPORT, or Davenport connection, in or around Cambridge/Fulbourn in the era, more specifically, say 1820-1850. 

For a rather lengthy explanation of my general FamHist situation in regard to Richard Clarke, please refer to Facebook and the pages "The Richard Clarke Enigma".

Cheers.

[davidft]

Not sure what you are looking for here. Would I be correct in assuming by NPE you mean Richard's father is not known. If that is the case there is an online tree on Ancestry that suggests that the father is James Hart (mother Eliza Clarke). If you have not come across this before you could try contacting that person to see what light they can throw on the parentage question.

Ah I see Eliza Clarke does not marry James Hart until 1839 so that possibly throws doubt on him as the father

[mudgeeclarke]

Many thanks for your comment.  This brick wall is covered in Ivy by now so every thought counts !  Yes, the reason I suspect James Hart was not the biological father is that both Richard and his younger brother Alfred, born before the marriage, carried the name of Clarke once they left the family home (basically, once mother Eliza Clarke Hart died).  The 1841 census showed them as Hart but I understand that was usual practice for enumerators, with children in a house hold.  By 1851, Richard was a boarder elsewhere, as a Clark(e).  If you have Facebook, you may want to read a longer summary at, The Richard Clarke Enigma.  I'm just turning over every stone, and Davenport is a name that appears (multiple Davenports) as having the same "mutations" as my DNA although I need paper not science to confirm. There has been a suggestion to check the Hugenot church in Cambridgeshire, but I do not have access.  Patras is another name which is somewhat close, which sound somewhat French, too.  Thanks again.  Cheers.