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Old 04-12-09, 09:53
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Default Henry Robert Clark (Week 4 - MFF)

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Henry Robert Clark - also known as Doodles and Barn Owl

Date and place of birth
8th Nov 1854 at 33 Montague Hill, St James, Bristol, Gloucestershire

Names of parents
George Clark and Elizabeth née Sainsbury

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
16th Oct 1859 with two younger siblings, at Holy Trinity Church, Bristol, Gloucestershire

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
1st July 1884 at Adderbury Quaker Meeting House (Oxon) to Mary Louisa Buck
23-May-1935 at St Augustines, Edgebaston, Warwickshire to Dorothy Margaret Brookbanks

Occupation(s) - if any
Schoolmaster

Military service - if any
None

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on.

1861: 7 Harleston Street, Bristol, Gloucestershire
1871 - 1876: Woodfield School, Wigton, Cumberland
1876-1877: The Flounders Institute, Ackworth, Yorkshire
1881: In Newtown, County Waterford, Ireland doing teacher training
1884 - abt 1900: Paddingham, Nr Winscombe, Somerset
Abt 1900 - 1929/30: The Ferns, Winscombe, Somerset
1929/30 - 1935: 74 Shinfield Road, Reading, Berkshire
1938: 10 Waldon Place, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

I have all the available census records for him.

Date, place and cause of death
20th Sept 1938 at 10 Waldon Place, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Cause of death: Angina, Senile Myocardium Senility, Uraemia, Diabetes

Date and place of burial / cremation
24th Sept 1938, buried at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot, Somerset

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Oh dear, I've not written down if I've ever looked for one!

Memorial inscription - if any
A stone with just his name and terminal dates. He is buried next to my g-grandmother (his first wife). The Friends Burial Ground at Sidcot is in the grounds of the school where he taught for 40 years.
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National Probate Calendar 1938:
CLARK Henry Robert of 10 Walden-place Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire died 20 September 1938. Probate Bristol 18 November to James Edward Grace and Philip Henry Darbyshire chartered accountants and Edmund Walker bank director. Effects £3672 3s 2d.
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Old 15-12-09, 12:28
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Oooooooh!! Thank you so much! I shall be getting a copy of that. Edmund Walker was Henry's son-in-law. At the funeral Edmund and his wife, were horrified that the widow had her golf clubs in the boot of her car as she was going on a golfing holiday after the ceremony! lol
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