Hi... I don't think the line that Richard mentioned is the one you are looking for, but, here's the info that is in my data base on Thomas, son of John Clarke, b. 1509-1515 d. Mar. 3 1559.... >From Joe ARLT........joearlt@juno.com......CLARK Clearing House... Compulsive Genealogy Searcher, ARLT, CLARK, COSTELLO, COVERT, FALANGA, GUIDETTI, HIGGINS, KONEN, PARISI, RIDER, TOMPKINS, Van AUKEN & WAGNER Caution...DATA MAY CONTAIN ERRORS... Thomas CLARKE #555 b. Cir 1544, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG, m. Abt 1572, in Probably ENG, Dorothy __________ #10023, b. Abt 1550, Probably ENG. Thomas died 1588, ENG. Dorothy: Best guess for birth date & location... I. Joan CLARKE #10024 b. Abt 1572, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG, d. 1574, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG, buried: 24 Jan 1573/74, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG. II. Thomas CLARKE #10025 b. Cir 1575, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG, d. Jan 1575, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG, buried: 11 Jan 1574/75, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG. III. Mary CLARKE #10026 b. Cir 1576, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG. IV. Thomas CLARKE #10027 b. Cir 1578, Finningham, Suffolk, ENG. ------------------------------- Also... http://www.online.emich.edu/~jbonevic/Clarke/clarkegen1.html 7. Thomas2 CLARKE (John1). Baptized 4 January 1543/1544 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. Residence Finningham, Suffolk, England.      Thomas Clarke was taxed in Finningham in the subsidy of 1575/6. He and wife Dorothy were among others in a final concord recorded in the Feet of Fines of lands in Finningham and Gislingham in 1581. Sources: G. A. Moriarty, "Clarke-Cooke (alias Carewe)-Kerrich," NEHGR, Vol. 75 (1921), pp. 273-301.      He married Dorothy ------, About 1672.      They had the following children:  15i. Joan3 CLARKE. Buried 24 January 1573/1574 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. 16ii. Thomas3 CLARKE. Baptized 9 January 1574/1575 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. Buried 11 January 1574/1575 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. 17iii. Mary3 CLARKE. Baptized 3 April 1576 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. 18iv. Thomas3 CLARKE. Baptized 16 August 1578 in Finningham, Suffolk, England. -------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:51:02 -0700 "kloverholt" <kloverholt@msn.com> (by way of Sue <sudown@cwnet.com>) writes: > Greetings Clarke cousins, > I wonder if the following message from Richard is related to John > Clarke, b. > 1509-1515 d. Mar. 3 1559 of the Hundred township of Hartimore, > Westhorpe, > Suffolk, England? I have a son from John1 named Thomas b. Jan 4, > 1543 > married to Dorothy (MNU) but no children on this line. Would love to > build > the branch on the tree. > > Richard, is this your John1, Thomas2? If so, could you give info > about John3 > and spouse and children to connect with your John4? > > Thank you, Kathy in Colorado > John1, John2, Thomas3, Joseph4, Joseph5, Thomas6, Joshua7, Job8, > Job9, Louis > Kossuth10, John Corrin11, Eunice12, Patricia13, Kathy14 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard M. Clarke (by way of Sue <sudown@cwnet.com>) > <rmclarke@snet.net> > To: <CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 3:49 AM > Subject: [CLARKE] Clarke. From Massachusetts to Iowa. > > My Clarke Family Richard M. Clarke rmclarke@snet.net > Descendants of John Clarke > > Generation No. 1 > > 1. JOHN4 CLARKE (JOHN3, THOMAS2, JOHN1) was born October 07, 1685 > in > Beverly, Beverly, MA, and died 1760 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA. He > married > MARY TOBEY November 02, 1709 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA, daughter > of JOHN > TOBEY and JANE. <snip> > =====message truncated========list limit set to 20K======= > > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > CLARK Resources at RootsWeb > http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames/c/l/CLARK/ > List Manager's address CLARKE-admin@rootsweb.com > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.