Robert Clark (1857-1898)

Dates

Birth: October 1857 Horends Place, Lambeth, Surrey, UK
Father: Richard Clark 1831-1867
Mother: Sarah Garrad 1827-1875

Christening: 1 November 1857 St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, UK

Marriage: 16 September 1886 St Marks, Kennington, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Jane Baker 1863-1903

Death: May 1898 St Saviour, London, UK
Burial: 1 June 1898 Southwark, London, UK

Children

Elizabeth Ettie Alice Clark [Fairchild] c1887-1957
Charlotte Sarah Clark 1889-1976
Robert Edwin Clark 1890-1909
Frederick Richard Clark 1892-1959

Notes

Birth of Robert Clark in FreeBMD in October-December 1857 in Lambeth (1d 271).

Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Robert Clark baptised on 1 November 1857 at Lambeth St Mary, Lambeth, parents Richard and Sarah Clark. "Page 115 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey in the Year 1857 [...] Nov 1 No. 914 Robert Son of Richard, a Carpenter, and Sarah Clark of Horends Place".

In the 1861 census as Robert Clark aged 3, born in Lambeth, Surrey, and living with his parents (Richard and Sarah) and sister (Sarah) at 64 Tyer Street, Lambeth, Surrey. Four other families were living at the same address.

His father died in Lambeth in 1867.

In the 1871 census as Robert Clark aged 13, born in Lambeth, Surrey, an errand boy, and living with his widowed mother (Sarah) and sister (Sarah) at 6 High Street, Lambeth, London. Two other familes were living at the same address.

His mother died in Lambeth in 1875.

I cannot locate him in the 1881 census.

Marriage of Robert Clark and Elizabeth Baker in FreeBMD in July-September 1886 in Lambeth (1d 580).

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Robert Clark aged 28, father Richard Clark, and Elizabeth Baker on 16 September 1886 at St Marks, Kennington, Surrey.

In the entry for the baptism of his daughter Charlotte Sarah on 1 January 1890 at St Mary the Less, Lambeth he was a porter living at 223 Mayall Road.

In the 1891 census as Robert Clark aged 33, born in Lambeth, Surrey, a railway porter, and living with his wife (Elizabeth J), son (Robert) and two daughters (Charlotte S and Elizabeth E A) in thrre rooms at 28 Northway Road, Brixton, Lambeth, London.

Death of Robert Clark in FreeBMD in April-June 1898 aged 40 in St Saviour (1d 70).

Entry in Deceased Online for Robert Clark buried on 1 June 1898 in Southwark.

Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Robert Clark born in Lambeth, Surrey in 1858, parents Richrd and Sarah Clark.

Relationship

Robert Clark was the husband of Elizabeth Jane Baker, my first cousin twice removed.

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