Clare Family

[mckha489]

1865/14206   Fuller   Lilian Margaret   Marian   George Hodge Wilder
1867/22389   Fuller   Rose Emma Frances   Marian Margaret   George Hodge Wilder
1873/33087   Fuller   James Edwin   Marian Margaret   George Hodge Wilder
1877/8452   Fuller   Lizzie   Marian Margaret   George Hodge Wilder   
1880/10815   Fuller   Arthur Charles   Marian Margaret   George Hodge Wilder   
1883/8122   Fuller   William Bennett   Marian Margaret   George Hodge Wilder

So that family well and truly here early.

Back to the Clares. They have to be the family with the least entries on Paperspast I have ever encountered!

[Dnallov]

Soooo, how is the best way forward?  Do we look at each child and do a BDM and look at shipping lists to the UK? 
Do we follow up the Seabrook name in the UK?

So to confirm, the link must start at "Henry Clare" & "Charlotte Elizabeth Seabrook" due to the DNA lines I have... I think.  I will do a quick diagram to explain later today; I have many links through Clare and one via Seabrook - I would like to see more with Seabrook to be sure that isn't coincidental but is all I have at this time

"Henry Clare" & "Charlotte Elizabeth Seabrook" would have both have been in their 70s when Peggy was born so very unlikely to be her parents.  More likely to be one of their Children or Grand Children.

So the plan is now to better map out the next generation after "Henry Clare" & "Charlotte Elizabeth Seabrook".  I have zero information about James Mellows McDonald (married to Charlotte Clare) or William Stephenson (married to Harriet Sarah Clare) - I have both McDonald & Stephenson surnames in my DNA results, but nothing in New Zealand so need to work back a couple of generations to see if there is an actual link.

My problem is also organising all this!

Will return with an update in due course 

[Lucy2]

So the plan is now to better map out the next generation after "Henry Clare" & "Charlotte Elizabeth Seabrook".  I have zero information about James Mellows McDonald (married to Charlotte Clare) or William Stephenson (married to Harriet Sarah Clare) - ....

Hello

Charlotte CLARE married James Mellows McDONALD in 1896.   
There are no registered births appearing for the couple on the NZ Birth Index.
There are no NZ births registered for Charlotte CLARE prior to her marriage.

    ~  Lu

[Lucy2]

... I have zero information about James Mellows McDonald (married to Charlotte Clare) or William Stephenson (married to Harriet Sarah Clare) -

Hi

Not sure how you have arrived at the William STEPHENSON - Harriet Sarah CLARE marriage

There was a New Zealand marriage for a William STEPHENSON to a Harriet CLARE (not Harriet Sarah) in 1892.   No issue to that marriage was registered.

Further, there is this memorial notice in 1893 for Harriet Sarah STEPHENSON
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18930110.2.2.2
     ... inserted by her brother and sister ??   It also has no date of death (I'll go in search of that).

    ~  Lu

[Dnallov]

... I have zero information about James Mellows McDonald (married to Charlotte Clare) or William Stephenson (married to Harriet Sarah Clare) -

Hi

Not sure how you have arrived at the William STEPHENSON - Harriet Sarah CLARE marriage

There was a New Zealand marriage for a William STEPHENSON to a Harriet CLARE (not Harriet Sarah) in 1892.   No issue to that marriage was registered.

Further, there is this memorial notice in 1893 for Harriet Sarah STEPHENSON
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18930110.2.2.2
     ... inserted by her brother and sister ??   It also has no date of death (I'll go in search of that).

    ~  Lu

That was from somebody else's tree - It may indeed be incorrect as I have found a number of issues in the same tree. 

[Lucy2]

Hi

Here is the death registration as per the NZ online death index.

1893 / 1574 - STEPHENSON - Harriett (sic) - 23 years - [bc 1870 ]

Will see if I can locate other info.

    ~  Lu

[mckha489]

Marriage notice
Stephenson/Clare

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18920516.2.12.2?end_date=31-12-1893&items_per_page=10&query=Stephenson+clare&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1890

[Lucy2]

Hi

Yes, correct Harriet (nee CLARE).   Her funeral notice  >

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18930104.2.3.1

[Notice didn't come up under "CLARE" ... as the letter "E" looked more like an "a"    ]

    ~  Lu

[mckha489]

Death

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18930124.2.11.3?end_date=31-12-1893&items_per_page=10&page=4&query=Stephenson+clare&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1890

Isn’t Henry of the Telegraph department Henry junior?
Added, or did they both work there?