Biography:
Charles Clarke
10/11/1823 –06/02/1899
Charles Clarke
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Plot 590 Charles Clarke (1823-1899)
Charles was born 10 November 1823 and baptised in St Peter’s 14 December. He was the second son of Charles King Clarke, a master baker, and his wife Mary (née Hatchett), although as his older brother had died in infancy he was effectively the oldest of seven boys and three girls.
Charles seems to have left Berkhamsted before the 1841 Census. In 1853, in Stowmarket, Suffolk, he married Miriam Keturah Rust, daughter of a woollen draper from that town. It is unclear whether the couple were to have no children or whether they had four and lost three in infancy – Charles’s 1911 incorrectly completed census return and the absence of evidence of where they were between 1853 and 1861 make it impossible to tell.
In 1861 Charles and Miriam were living in Chipping (High) Wycombe where he was a baker and grocer, employing another baker in the business, but by 1881 they had moved to St Clement, Ipswich where Charles continued as a baker.
Miriam died in Suffolk in 1883 and Charles must have returned to Berkhamsted where he died 6 February 1899.
His brother David (1841-1921) lies here with him. Their parents are buried together in Plot 179.
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Plot 590 Charles Clarke (1823-1899)
Charles was born 10 November 1823 and baptised in St Peter’s 14 December. He was the second son of Charles King Clarke, a master baker, and his wife Mary (née Hatchett), although as his older brother had died in infancy he was effectively the oldest of seven boys and three girls.
Charles seems to have left Berkhamsted before the 1841 Census. In 1853, in Stowmarket, Suffolk, he married Miriam Keturah Rust, daughter of a woollen draper from that town. It is unclear whether the couple were to have no children or whether they had four and lost three in infancy – Charles’s 1911 incorrectly completed census return and the absence of evidence of where they were between 1853 and 1861 make it impossible to tell.
In 1861 Charles and Miriam were living in Chipping (High) Wycombe where he was a baker and grocer, employing another baker in the business, but by 1881 they had moved to St Clement, Ipswich where Charles continued as a baker.
Miriam died in Suffolk in 1883 and Charles must have returned to Berkhamsted where he died 6 February 1899.
His brother David (1841-1921) lies here with him. Their parents are buried together in Plot 179.
Relatives
- David John Clarke — brother
- Charles Clarke (179) 1873 — father
- Mary Clarke — mother
- Mary Ann Grieve — sister
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