DELVE INTO THE ARCHIVES
THE AUTHOR
Andrew Martin
Cambridgeshire-based family historian, who has been researching his family tree since 1996.TOPICS
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Category Archives: Clarke
There’s something about Mary…
A few weeks ago I wrote about my Clarke/Bailey family at Hartismere Union Workhouse. In that posting, I mentioned that whilst I had located the Bailey/Clarke family group, the wife (my gtx4 grandmother – Mary Bailey née Clarke) was missing … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Crime, Family Tree, Genealogy, Suffolk
Tagged 1841, assault, Black Sheep Sunday, Botesdale, Caroline Clarke, child abuse, children, court, cruelty, disease, Elizabeth Smith, Emma Bailey, flogging, gaol, Guildford Hunt, guilty, hard labour, Hartismere Union, ill-use, ipswich, Ipswich Journal, Ipswich Record Office, jail, John Thornton, jury, Louisa Bailey, malnourished, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, mistreating, neglect, Overseer, physical abuse, prison, punishment, RootsChat.com, Stanton, step-mother, Suffolk, The Cock Inn, Thomas Palfrey, violence, William Bailey, William Clarke
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The Workhouse
It’s unlikely that anyone would have wanted to go to the workhouse unless they’d lost all hope of finding support elsewhere.. but after two illegitimate children (Caroline and Edward Clarke), and an 1838 marriage to widower Mr William Bailey, Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Clarke, Littleport, Suffolk
Tagged Alfred Bailey, Amelia Bailey, Back Hills, Caroline Clarke, Castle Hill, Charles Bailey, Edward Bailey, Edward Clarke, Ellis Bailey, Eye, Fanny Bailey, Francis Bailey, Gressenhall, Hartismere, Hartismere Union, Henry Flowers, Ling House of Industry, Louisa Bailey, Mary Bailey, Mary Clarke, Mildenhall Road, Philip Bailey, poverty, William Bailey, workhouse
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Can’t see the Woods for the trees
Caroline Coe, originally uploaded by familytreeuk. Caroline Clarke, my paternal great, great, great grandmother, had presented me a problem for many years, but 2009 appears to have ended the mystery of who she was and where she came from. After … Continue reading
Posted in Bailey, Botesdale, Cambridgeshire, Clarke, Littleport, Mildenhall, Suffolk
Tagged Botesdale, Caroline Bailey, Caroline Clarke, Caroline Coe, Caroline Howlett, illegitimate, Suffolk, Wattisfield
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