Verrrrrry interesting! Albert E. was born in Malta in 1867. Could he be Henry's dad? I have no idea of any of the sons' lines or how to trace them. Have you ordered Henry's birth certificate? If he was in the British army, you can get it from the GRO overseas office. Their web site is http://www.statistics.gov.uk My fingers are crossed : ) Sheila ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Timms <itimms@labyrinth.net.au> To: <CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com>; <writechoice@prodigy.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 6:31 AM Subject: RE: [CLARKE] Clarke UK>Malta>Canada > Okay that does it. You mentioned the 'Malta' word... (grin) > > My great-grandmother served as a nurse in Malta where she was married > at the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Floriana, Malta. 23-Jul-1887 > > My Clarke line is: > > Henry Charles Clarke > married: Isabella Sayle > Children are: > Emily Jane (my great-granmother) > Alice > Jack > Thomas (Tom) > Sarah > Frederick James > Kitty (Katherine?) > Ada > William > Minnie (Mary Anne?) > Ernest (Ernie) > > Cheers, Ian > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > % Ian Timms % Disclaimer: All opinions are % > % itimms@attglobal.net % just that! Misconstrue at % > % DBA - Oracle Ingres Informix DB2 % your own risk. ;-) % > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: "Sheila Lowe" <writechoice@prodigy.net> > > To: "Joseph A Arlt" <joearlt@juno.com> > > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:14:19 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [CLARKE] [CLARK] Clarke Family > > > > Good point! Eli Clarke was born in Taunton, which is Somerset/Devon > > Counties in UK. I haven't got anything yet on his father, James. > > Eli's son Albert was > > born in Malta, daugher Emma in Canada. The rest were born in > > England. I have the 1881 census info. > > > > My fingers are crossed. Thanks for your response. > > Sheila Lowe > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Joseph A Arlt <joearlt@juno.com> > > To: <writechoice@prodigy.net> > > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 2:38 PM > > Subject: Re: [CLARKE] [CLARK] Clarke Family > > > > > Can you be more specific with dates & places? I may have > > the line in my data base. Is this USA, UK or Spain? > > > > > > > > > From Joe ARLT........joearlt@juno.com......CLARK Clearing House... > > > On 25 Jun 2001 09:46:45 -0600 writechoice@prodigy.net writes: > > > > > > > > Looking for Clarkes who originated with James Clarke and > > Mary Coles > > > > Clarke, who married in 1828. One son was Eli who married Caroline > > > > Maria Perera de Garcia from Gibraltar. Their sons were Charles, > > > > Arthur, Fred, Eli H., Albert and James. All served in the Leinster > > > > Regiment. Their two daughters were Emma and Sarah.