It looks to me as though there has been some mixing and matching of data regarding this family. First of all as Peter said, you need to obtain Elizabeth Clarke's marriage cert from the GRO, to confirm her parish of marriage and her father's name - she married in Huntingdon registration district This may be her and her family in 1851 HO107/1748 folio 422 Thrapston Rd, Brampton , Hunts John Clarke head marr 57 Ag lab b Hawnes Beds Louisa Clarke wife 51 b Wilstead Beds John Clarke son unmarr 22 ag lab b Old Warden Beds Mary Clarke dau unmarr 20 at home b Old Warden Beds Elizabeth Clarke dau unmarr 16 at home b Old Warden Beds William Clarke son 12 farmer's boy b Corrington Cotton End Beds Samuel Clarke son 9 farmer's boy b Corrington Cotton End Beds Brampton was in Huntingdon registration district. 1841 HO107/9/4 folio 9A Cotton End Beds Luizer Clark 40 Lace maker Joseph Clark 15 Mary Clark 10 Lucy Clark 8 Elizabeth Clark 5 William Clark 2 All born Beds. Ages age 15 in 1841 were rounded down to the nearest 5 below, so 40 covered an actual age range of 40-44 I agree with the others who say that Louisa wasn't Selby. I think she was probably Louisa Grey/Gray, baptised at Wilstead on 26 Jul 1801 (IGI- extracted). An IGI entry -extracted- shows a marriage on 29 Dec 1821 at Haynes between John Clark and Louisa Gray. If you check the parish register it may give Louisa's parish of residence. They also had a son Joseph Gray Clarke baptised at Haynes on 11 Jan 1829 (per IGI extracted item so reliable) confirming the Gray surname. The IGI on www.familysearch.org shows a number of children of John and Louisa baptised at Haynes, but some of the dates seem to indicate late baptisms - perhaps living at Old Warden caused them to miss baptising them. I've just found that in my database I have a Robert Donelly who married Catherine Eaton at Brampton on 8 May 1850, and they emigrated to Australia c1853. Perhaps Robert and William Donelly were connected. David --- En date de : Lun 30.6.08, Loretta Everingham <[email protected]> a écrit : > De: Loretta Everingham <[email protected]> > Objet: [BDF] RE INFORMATION ON JOHN CLARKE AND LOUISA CLARKE > À: [email protected] > Date: Lundi 30 Juin 2008, 7h26 > Greeting to all the members, > I don't know whether I can get any help on my ggg > grandparents but nothing ventured, nothing gained. > My research has showed that Louisa's maiden name was > Selby but others have not agreed with her mother's > name. > I am researching John Clarke and his wife who I believe > lived at Cotton End. (Bedfordshire?) They had a daughter > Elizabeth Clarke born in 1834 at Carringdon in > Huntingdonshire and married in 1852 to a William Joseph > Donelly and they came to Australia and were in South > Australia for a couple of years before they shifted to > Victoria where they remained. Elizabeth died in 1918 in > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. > Any information would be appreciated. > Kind regards, > Loretta (Crowley) Everingham > > Be my myspace friend > > http://www.myspace.com/laurie785 > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message _____________________________________________________________________________ Envoyez avec Yahoo! Mail. Une boite mail plus intelligente http://mail.yahoo.fr