Richard Clarke

Male 1618 - 1697  (79 years)


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  • Name Richard Clarke 
    Birth 1618  Bradwell, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 1 Apr 1697  Bradwell, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I54005  The Hennessee Family
    Last Modified 1 Nov 2019 

    Father Thomas Clarke,   b. 1 Nov 1592, Bradwell, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1627, Holton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Goslinge,   b. 1594, Brome, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1620, (Suffolk), England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years) 
    Marriage 12 Jul 1617  Bungay, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F20262  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ann Winston,   b. 1622, Belton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1640, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years) 
    Marriage 5 Aug 1639  Bradwell, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Margaret Clarke,   b. ~1639, York, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1661, York, Virginia, a British Colony Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 22 years)
    Family ID F20261  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2023 

  • Notes 
    • Biography
      Richard Clarke, the only known child of Thomas Clarke and Elizabeth Goslinge, was born in 1618 at Bradwell (near Holton), County Suffolk, Enlgand. When age 19, Richard sailed to Barbadoes in 1632, on the ship ‘Peter Bonaventure,’ Thomas Harmon, ship Master. Richard married on 31 July 1639, to Ann Winston, at Bradwell, County Suffolk, England. She was born about 1622 at Belton (near Holton), County Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of Henry (b. 1596) and Margery (Kebel) (b. 1598) Winston. They arrived in New York, New York in 1650.[1] New Richard and Ann (Winston) Clark, Sr., had one known child.

      Research Notes
      Elmer S. Clark was of opinion that Richard Clarke was the father of Richard Clarke, but we have found no compelling evidence to substantiate this. In view of the large number of Richard Clark(e)s found in England, and the fact, as Savage has pointed out, that there were some 40 different Clark families who emigrated from England to the colonies, E.S.Clark’s conclusions as to the Richard Clark/Ann Winston parentage has to be just speculation. Pierson, who was a compiler and not a genealogist, elected to accept it, but without proofs. The problem is that the Clark/Winston speculation then had found its way into two separate volumes, which does not give it substance. There is also speculation as to Richard Clarke’s origins, prior to his being “in Southampton, L.I. in 1661,” in such places as New England and the Barbadoes. Again, we have found no documentation for any of these.
      Source
      ? U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
      Elmer Sayre Clark, Clark of Elizabeth Town in New Jersey. (Pontiac, Illinois: 1942) (Fellow Institute of American Genealogy, Member American Association of University Professors.)
      John Camden Hotten (compiler), The Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1962
      Source Citation Place: New York, New York; Year: 1650; Page Number: 21 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. [https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=1818666&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

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  • Sources 
    1. [S14768] "Margaret Clarke (abt. 1639 - aft. 1661)", Ancestors, Descendants & Profile, select tab, "Ancestors", to view her antece.