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James CLARK
1795 - 1870 (74 years)
Has 10 ancestors and 24 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name James CLARK Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 10 Jul 1795 St. Peters, Broadstairs, Kent, England 
- Date from baptism register, place from 1851 census
Baptised 20 Sep 1795 St. Peter’s Church, St. Peters, Broadstairs, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 Nov 2021)
"Clarke / James, Son of Thos: & Mary. / [Born] July 10. / [Baptized] [Sepr:] 20."
Gender Male Occupation From 1821 to 1835 Labourer - When his children were baptised.
Residence From 1823 to 1835 St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England - At this time the register was distinguishing between Ramsgate and 'St. Laurence'. Most families were shown as resident in Ramsgate - it seems by now it had well out-grown the old centre of residence.
(When daugther Caroline was baptised everyone on the two-page spread was shown as having abode of St. Laurence; new church opened? - far fewer baptisms - St. George's Ramsgate was created from St Laurence in 1827 )
Residence 1841 Southwood, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England - With his wife and three children, George, Thomas and Caroline.
Occupation From 1841 to 1851 Ag. Lab. - Shown simply as a labourer when most of his children were baptised, but specifically as an ag. lab. in the 1841 and 1851 censuses.
Residence 1851 2, Philpotts Row, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England - With his wife and two youngest children, Thomas and Caroline, shown as being in the village of St. Laurence.
Died Sep Q 1870 The Union Workhouse, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England - GRO ref: CLARK, James q3 1870 aged 79 Thanet RD 2a 497
Place from abode in burial register
Buried 9 Sep 1870 St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 8 Aug 2024)
Siblings5 brothers and 4 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas CLARK, b. Abt 1754, bur. 10 May 1817, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England (Age ~ 63 years) (Father) 
Mary SETTERFIELD, bap. Between 22 Aug 1756 and 23 Jul 1758, St. Mary the Virgin Church, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England, bur. 8 Sep 1824, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England (Age ~ 68 years) (Mother) Notes - (Research):Most trees on Ancestry (at the time of writing there appears to be 94), if they show parents of James, show them as William Clark and Mary Hatcher, and show James as born c 1791 in St Peters.
However, this appears to be unlikely. A William Clark did marry a Mary Hatcher, but this was in Dover in 1782. They did have a son James, but baptised in Dover in 1789. It seems far more likely that James was the one born St. Peters (as the 1851 census suggests), but claiming to be c. 4 or 5 years older than that he was giving a birthplace about 20 miles from where he was actually born or that he was born in St. Peters but baptised in Dover. In addition, there is a (different) James in Dover in the 1841 census, age given as 50, with a (probable) wife Sarah and family; this may well be the son fo William and Mary.
James being the son of Thomas and Mary née Setterfield would explain an atDNA match I have and several my brother has with descendants of James.
Person ID I33435 All Last Modified 8 Aug 2024
Father Thomas CLARK, b. Abt 1754, bur. 10 May 1817, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England (Age ~ 63 years) Mother Mary SETTERFIELD, bap. Between 22 Aug 1756 and 23 Jul 1758, St. Mary the Virgin Church, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England , bur. 8 Sep 1824, St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England (Age ~ 68 years) Banns of marriage From 10 Nov 1776 to 24 Nov 1776 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 Nov 2021)
"Banns of Marriage betwen Thomas Clarke Bachelor of this Parish
and Mary Stterfield spinster of the same ..."
Married 1 Dec 1776 St. Mary the Virgin Church, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 16 Nov 2021)
"Thomas Clarke of this Parish Bachelor
and Mary Setterfield of the
same a minor Spinster were
Married in this Church by Banns with Consent of Parents
this first Day of December in the Year One Thousand seven-Hundred
and seventy six by me W. Abbot - Curate
This Marriage was the + Mark of Thomas Clarke
solemnized between us The Mark + of Mary Stterfield
In the + Mark of William Webb
Presence of John Goulder"
The surname Clark is inconveniently common, but there seems to be only one Mary who fits well as my ancestor. It is clear that at the time their were 2 Thomas and Mary Clark(e)s having children on Thanet. They appear to separate neatly, though, into one where the baptisms were at St. John's, and another where after 2 children baptised at St. Laurence's the others were baptised at St. Peter's. Mary is part of this latter family. The marriage of one Thomas and Mary was too late for them to be the parents of the St. John's family, but nearly 6 months before the first child of the other family was born, a very likely gap.
I am therefore confident that (provided I haven't missed a Mary and the one baptised in 1782 is my ancestor) then so are this Thomas and Mary.
Family ID F1733 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Catherine TWIST, b. Abt 1795, Luddenham, Kent, England , d. 11 Jan 1868, Southwood, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England (Age ~ 73 years) Married 7 Sep 1817 St. Laurence’s Church, St. Lawrence in Thanet, Kent, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 8 Aug 2024)
Shows James Clarke, Batchelor married Catharine Twist, Spinster, both 'of this Parish'.
Both maid their marks, witnesses Thomas Ashenden and John Philpot both signed.
Children6 children Last Modified 8 Aug 2024 Family ID F10758 Family Group Page | Family Chart