I am trying to find where and when Thomas CLARKSON's wife, Catherine BUCK, was born and who her parents were. Any help would be very much appreciated. There is much written about Thomas CLARKSON and his work on the abolition of slavery. His Cambridge record (ex Ancestry) gives his marriage to Catherine, dau. of Robert BUCK, of Newton, Suffolk, Jan. 19, 1796. Other literature gives Catherine's father as William BUCK of Bury St Edmunds. So is it William or Robert? Several authors give Catherine's place of birth as Bury St Edmunds, others give St John's, Florida ! but none gives sources. It is certain that Thomas and Catherine lived at Playford Hall, Suffolk. They are there in the 1841 census and both born out of County which suggests Catherine was not born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. In the 1851 census Catherine (CLARKSON) was a widow, still living at Playford Hall, aged 77, and born Homerton, Middlesex. This is the best evidence for her year and place of birth so I am looking for Catherine BUCK born ca 1774, Homerton (Hackney).