This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clarke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mBJ.2ACEB/1266 Message Board Post: I am going by what I have beentold so far this is it "My" great grandmother Mary Clarke Middle name suppose to be Beatrice Married name was Clarke. Was to have been from Clarke Ireland but I have already found out that there was no Clarke Ireland so it must have been Clare or Cork. She and her husband ? came over before 1895 moved to Nebraska had children, do not know how many. My Grandmothers name was Sylvia Beatrice Clarke she was born in ? (either Nebraska or Colorado) I do not know much about her other than her and my grandfather married and moved to AZ. they were in the 1920 census. After 5 children later she went back to visit my Gr. Grandmother in Denver, CO. who at that time had a rooming house and ?(store). Sylvia left the children at the local orphanage and ran off with the ICE MAN. Do not know who he was. PLEASE HELP IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO.