Edward Clarke junior

A minor, the son of Edward Clarke and his wife Sarah née Russ (both q.v.).

1. Unsourced online family trees name three children born to Edward senior and his wife Sarah: Edward (1822-1845), George Hamnet (1824-1850) and Tanner Owen (1826-1878). The younger two boys were baptised in Swainswick 22/06/1828 and Tanner Owen gives his birthplace in the 1851 census as Whitley, Yorkshire, but no birth records of the children have been found so far.

T71/874 Trelawny claim nos. 35 (Hyde estate) and 36 (Hyde estate).

1. www.familysearch.org batch no. I08247-9. 1851 census online (record of Tanner Owen Clarke age 25, West India Merchant, at 14 Fulham Place, Paddington, Middlesex. For a short biography of Edward Clarke senior see http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clarke-edward-1770-1826 [accessed 07/11/2012]. For an account of the lineage of the Clarke family see John Burke, Genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank: but uninvested with heritable honours (London, Henry Colburn, 1835) Vol. 2 pp. 189-191 and Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919), Vol. 1 p. 375.