Birth: 24 December 1884 Benwell, Northumberland, UK
Father: William Clark 1840-1908
Mother: Jane Gills 1848-1924
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1926 Chester le Street, Durham, UK
Wife: Mary Armstrong [Rockett] 1890-1958
Death: April-June 1957 NW Durham, UK
Raymond Clark 1926-1960
Mary Jane Clark [Leonovs] 1928-2015
Birth of Joseph William FreeBMD in January-March 1885 in Newcastle T (10B 21).
In the 1891 census as Joseph William Clark aged 6, born in Benwell, Northumberland, and living with his parents (William and Jane), cousin (Thomas William Gill), and a boarder (James Forsyth aged 24, born in Berwickshire, Scotland, single and putting in coal mine) in two rooms in Colliery Row, Whickham, Durham.
In the 1901 census as Joseph W Clark aged 16, born in Selver Hill, Northumberland, single, a pony driver underground in colliery, and living with his parents (William and Jane) in two rooms in Chapel Row, Marley Hill, Whickham, Durham.
His father died in Gateshead in January-March 1908.
In the 1911 census as Joseph William Clark born in Benwell, Northumberland, single, a putter coal miner, and living with his widowed mother (Jane) in three rooms in Grange Road, Whaggs, Wickham, Durham.
In the 1921 census as Joseph William Clark aged 36 years 6 months, born in Denton Burn, Northumberland, single, a shift mine worker at Morley Hill Colliery, and living with Thomas William Gills, his wife (Emily), and their two sons (George Henry and William) in three rooms at Caus G (sic - in the index, Causey on the original), Marby (sic - in the index, Marley on the original) Hill,Swalwell, Tanfield, Durham, Durham..
His mother died in April-June 1924 in Gateshead.
Marriage of Joseph W Clark and Mary Rockett in FreeBMD in January-March 1926 in Chester le Street (10A 798).
His son was registered in October-December 1926 in Gateshead.
His daughter was registered in January-March 1928 in Lanchester.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Joseph W Clark born 24 December 1885 (sic - on the original), married, a colliery shifter, (below) heavy worker and living with Mary Clark (wife?) and two others at 14 Marley Hill Terrace, Whickham, Durham.
Death of Joseph W Clark in FreeBMD in April-June 1957 aged 72 in Durham N W (1A 530).
There are two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Joseph William Clark.
Benwell is just west of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank, and Whickham 2 miles south on the south bank with Marley Hill 2 miles further south on A692.
Joseph William Clark was the husband of Mary Armstrong, mother of Henry Rockett, husband of Doris Grieveson, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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