Hi Lisa. BINGO! BINGO for CLARKE/CLARK! BINGO for Co Cavan! BINGO for NYC merchants! Your timing is perfect as my distant cousin recently found me. He is directly related to CLARKE and FARLEY/FARRELLY in Cavan today & has heard the basic story....which is this: "I have also been told that the entire CLARKE family is related to 4 brothers named O'CLEIRACH who moved there [meaning Balieborough, Nolagh, Relaghan, Kileen] from Donegal in the 1650s. They were related to the family that wrote the Annals of the Four Masters- a key book on Irish history written in the early 17th century." Ultimately, we emante from this group, but yours came to NYC via Canada, and mine, so far, came here directly. My g-g grandmother's wedding Bible includes about 20 prayer cards all in French, but I have not figured who sent them. A couple of points, for others who may also have NYC CLARKE/CLARK family, and then we'll takte this offlist. l) One Rootsweb surname list includes both spellings. Mine, in Ireland show as CLARKE, usually in NYC as CLARK. 2) CLARKE is the most common name in County Cavan. 3) Do you know of any of your family connections to O'CONNELL, FARLEY/FARRELLY, MURPHY? What other surnames do you have? 4) My branch includes three brothers Andrew, James, and Patrick CLARK who established a NYC shoe store than expanded into a mini chain of shops. My cousin said that the family story is they sold the shop to a relative FARLEY, so that they could emigrate to the US around the Irish disapora. 5) My branch is related to Cardinal John Murphy FARLEY of NYC. 6) My gg-grandmother was Annie CLARKE, sister of the shoe shop brothers, also had two sisters in NYC that I have not found. Their parents were Andrew CLARKE and Margaret FARLEY. Opps, I am getting carried away. We need to share more offline. Barb N of NYC lisatutt@googlemail.com writes: > > I'm trying to find out more about my Clarke/Clark ancestors, and am hoping > someone might be able to help me find more information about their years > in > Brooklyn (early 1850s until sometime in the 1870s). > > John Clarke was born in Co. Cavan, Ireland, about 1821. He emigrated in > the > early 1840s, first to Canada, then to the U.S. (in the 1850 census he's a > Teamster in Allegheny, PA) and by about 1853 had a store somewhere in New > York, I presume in Brooklyn as that's where they were living by 1860. The > 1860 Federal Census shows him with his family -- name spelled CLARK -- in > Ward 7, and gives his occupation as "Merchant." In the 1870 Census they > are > in the South Half of the 11th Ward, their name is given as CLARKE and he's > a > dry goods retailer, and two of his older sons are "clerks in store." > > In the 1859 Brooklyn Directory (searched on-line) there are two likely > possibilities -- Ithink he must be either > CLARK, John, dry goods, h. 57 Ryerson or > CLARK, John H., merchant, 86 West N.Y., h. 105 Hicks > > But I don't have access to any directories from the 1860s. Living in > Scotland, I can't make a research visit to any New York libraries are > present! I wonder if anyone would be willing to search for him in any > directories they might be looking up ancestors of their own? > > Also online, I've been able to search the 1873 directory, but I don't know > if the one John Clark listed there (drygoods, 112 Myrtle Ave) is mine or > not > -- I don't know WHEN the family left Brooklyn, only that by the 1880 > federal > census, John and his wife Rebecca are in Kansas, where he was working as a > "local preacher" (I think that means unofficial) -- they were a family of > Methodists -- with one of his sons in Philadelphia and another in Colorado > and two others lost to me. > ************** Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003)

We have Clark from Bailieborough, Cavan. Bernard Married Anna Cooney from Cavan. He was said to be the seventh son of a seventh son from a second marriage. One paper says he was from Crimlin, county Cavan. He came to NY on the 1800's. Any relation to yours. Nancy On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:19 PM, MizScarlettNY@aol.com wrote: > Hi Lisa. BINGO! > > BINGO for CLARKE/CLARK! > BINGO for Co Cavan! > BINGO for NYC merchants! > > Your timing is perfect as my distant cousin recently found me. He is > directly related to CLARKE and FARLEY/FARRELLY in Cavan today & has > heard the > basic story....which is this: > > "I have also been told that the entire CLARKE family is related to 4 > brothers named O'CLEIRACH who moved there [meaning Balieborough, > Nolagh, Relaghan, > Kileen] > from Donegal in the 1650s. They were related to the family that > wrote the > Annals of the Four Masters- a key book on Irish history written in > the early > 17th century." > > Ultimately, we emante from this group, but yours came to NYC via > Canada, > and mine, so far, came here directly. My g-g grandmother's wedding > Bible > includes about 20 prayer cards all in French, but I have not figured > who sent > them. > > A couple of points, for others who may also have NYC CLARKE/CLARK > family, > and then we'll takte this offlist. > > l) One Rootsweb surname list includes both spellings. Mine, in > Ireland show > as CLARKE, usually in NYC as CLARK. > > 2) CLARKE is the most common name in County Cavan. > > 3) Do you know of any of your family connections to O'CONNELL, > FARLEY/FARRELLY, MURPHY? What other surnames do you have? > > 4) My branch includes three brothers Andrew, James, and Patrick > CLARK who > established a NYC shoe store than expanded into a mini chain of > shops. My > cousin said that the family story is they sold the shop to a > relative FARLEY, > so that they could emigrate to the US around the Irish disapora. > > 5) My branch is related to Cardinal John Murphy FARLEY of NYC. > > 6) My gg-grandmother was Annie CLARKE, sister of the shoe shop > brothers, > also had two sisters in NYC that I have not found. Their parents > were Andrew > CLARKE and Margaret FARLEY. > > Opps, I am getting carried away. > > We need to share more offline. > Barb > N of NYC > > > > lisatutt@googlemail.com writes: >> >> I'm trying to find out more about my Clarke/Clark ancestors, and am >> hoping >> someone might be able to help me find more information about their >> years >> in >> Brooklyn (early 1850s until sometime in the 1870s). >> >> John Clarke was born in Co. Cavan, Ireland, about 1821. He >> emigrated in >> the >> early 1840s, first to Canada, then to the U.S. (in the 1850 census >> he's a >> Teamster in Allegheny, PA) and by about 1853 had a store somewhere >> in New >> York, I presume in Brooklyn as that's where they were living by >> 1860. The >> 1860 Federal Census shows him with his family -- name spelled >> CLARK -- in >> Ward 7, and gives his occupation as "Merchant." In the 1870 Census >> they >> are >> in the South Half of the 11th Ward, their name is given as CLARKE >> and he's >> a >> dry goods retailer, and two of his older sons are "clerks in store." >> >> In the 1859 Brooklyn Directory (searched on-line) there are two >> likely >> possibilities -- Ithink he must be either >> CLARK, John, dry goods, h. 57 Ryerson or >> CLARK, John H., merchant, 86 West N.Y., h. 105 Hicks >> >> But I don't have access to any directories from the 1860s. Living in >> Scotland, I can't make a research visit to any New York libraries are >> present! I wonder if anyone would be willing to search for him in >> any >> directories they might be looking up ancestors of their own? >> >> Also online, I've been able to search the 1873 directory, but I >> don't know >> if the one John Clark listed there (drygoods, 112 Myrtle Ave) is >> mine or >> not >> -- I don't know WHEN the family left Brooklyn, only that by the 1880 >> federal >> census, John and his wife Rebecca are in Kansas, where he was >> working as a >> "local preacher" (I think that means unofficial) -- they were a >> family of >> Methodists -- with one of his sons in Philadelphia and another in >> Colorado >> and two others lost to me. >> > > > > > ************** > Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the > web. Get the Radio Toolbar! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003 > ) > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== > Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, > check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message