Clark / Holloway marriage

[Stuart Clark]

Children listed under Spouse for Andrew on FS.

I found this person on FamilySearch:

Andrew Clark

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/G9TS-TBC

[Stuart Clark]

I really appreciate everyone's help so please take this comment with no tone.

I find it simpler myself to have a different thread for each sub thread, otherwise I find one massive long thread with multiple sub threads hard to follow.

[rosie99]

I appreciate what you are saying but for those trying to help it is handy to have all the information in one place 

Well he is consistent from 1851 that he was born in London, Middlesex.  I wonder what took him to Portsea, did the family move there, or maybe he was not bn in London but the family moved there when he was a young child.  It is always difficult to define exactly where in Middlesex someone would consider 'London' to be as it stretches out further than the central areas that you are currently looking at.

Presumably there are no pension records available for him. 

Have you done your DNA 

[Stuart Clark]

Yes Portsmouth is a way from Middlesex.

He is listed as Assistant Clerk of HM Customs Portsmouth 1806. He would have been approx 14/5 yrs old. The entrance exams were quite challenging and as such I assume he was educated. I have been searching for years for a record of his formal entry in HM CUSTOMS which might list his address and possibly parents. No luck.

I've looked for residence in Portsmouth from 1806 to 1823 again with no luck, again too many Clark's.

There is a customs book CUST61/50 Port of Cowes (Isle of White) in which on 25 July 1857 it identifies him as being being put on the Superannuation List at an allowance of £300 per annum.

[rosie99]

I am afraid that familysearch 'trees' always bother me.  I used to do all of my research in the LDS history centre and we discovered then from a couple of 'members' that their one purpose was to 'baptise' dead people and they did not seem to worry whether the person they were putting on their tree was linked to the tree or not, to say that their research was sloppy was an understatement and that was before 'Ancestry trees' really got started.  It was as though they were just collecting names. I have heard others say the same who used different centres to me.

Having said that there are others there that did care 

Have you done your DNA 

[rosie99]

Here is that baptism for Henry, the image is on Ancestry

Henry Clark
Birth Date   24 Nov 1793
Baptism Date   12 Jun 1799
Baptism Place   St Sepulchre, City of London
Father Andrew Clark
Mother Sarah Clark
Abode Green Arbor Court

[Stuart Clark]

Thanks

[BumbleB]

I am afraid that familysearch 'trees' always bother me.  I used to do all of my research in the LDS history centre and we discovered then from a couple of 'members' that their one purpose was to 'baptise' dead people and they did not seem to worry whether the person they were putting on their tree was linked to the tree or not, to say that their research was sloppy was an understatement and that was before 'Ancestry trees' really got started.  It was as though they were just collecting names. I have heard others say the same who used different centres to me.

Having said that there are others there that did care 

Have you done your DNA 

I would agree with your experience, rosie99.  I, too, used to visit the local LDS centre and found the same outlook.  One day a lady was being helped to upload her family tree - "... but I'm not sure that I've got the right wife..."  "It doesn't matter" was the response from the LDS member.