Thanks for posting it, Andy! His grandfather looks much more interesting...
I can't find his birth/baptism records. The following link says 1805.
He went by the name of Ebenezer Crick in his marriage record to Sarah Sanders in 1834 in Potterspury, Northamptonshire.
He was a journalist/bookseller in Newport Pagnell and then the proprietor of the "Leamington Press" in Leamington Priors before going bankrupt in 1835.
By 1839 he translated a French book under the name C. Ebenezer Clifton, and authored many other books.
https://data.bnf.fr/fr/ark:/12148/cb12597471gMaybe Clifton was his birth place? Or mother's surname?
His first son was christened on 9 Sep 1841 at Moulton, Northampton, Wiliam Clifton Crick, although there are two records and the other was transcribed William Allen Crick. I suppose William was born in Paris but they visited England around the time of his christening, or maybe they went to Paris after that. Their daughter Mary Clifton Crick was also christened in England, Potterspury 1849. I couldn't find the christening records of their second son, Charles (Ernest's father), but his marriage to Anne Warren was advertised in the newspapers and he is referred as the second son of Mr. Clifton-Crick.
In the novel "A Window in Paris", he is named Mr. Charles Clifton and in one paragraph he gave his name as Charles Cleveland Clifton and said he had been a resident in Paris for more than 30 years - this was 1870 (page 208), but this was a fictional work based on real people, so it's likely that the author has changed the names. She wrote under the nom de plume Marianne Farningham, her real name was Mary Anne Hearne.
