The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameHenry Gostling Clark 
Birth28 Dec 1827, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Death5 Aug 1895, Blenheim, New Zealand
Burial7 Aug 1895, Omaka Cemetery, Blenheim
OccupationArchitect (1851 Census), Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Marlborough
FatherDr Charles Coombes Clark (<1787-1862)
MotherLucy Ellen Graham (1784-1860)
Misc. Notes
Name and occupation of “Commisioner of Crown Lands” from hand-drawn tree given to Brian Oliver by Peter Horneman, great-grandson of Emma Caroline Horneman b. 1836.
Year of circa 1828 and country of birth from Pedigree Chart prepared by Kathleen Maud Brooks (nee Oliver) and forwarded to Brian of nzolivers.com by Helen Shirley Oliver.
Date and place of marriage from Julie Bourke (nee McColl) in a four-pager titled, “Clark Notes” received by Brian in email dated 10 April 2017. Julie is great-granddaughter of Henry Gosling Clark and Emma Caroline Horneman. Brian of nzolivers.com is a great-great grandson of Emma and Henry Clark.
Julie copies:
MARRIAGE
On the 19th February, at St Thomas’s Church, Motueka, New Zealand, Henry Gosling Clark, Esq., of the Moutere, youngest son of Chas.C. Clark Esq., of Twickenham, Middlesex, to Emma Caroline eldest daughter of Captain Horneman H.M.’s Artillery Corps of Motueka.
Julie writes:
Henry to NZ. (Haven’t been able to find ship he came out on, took up land in Lower Moutere, another Clark family there were they related?
Julie writes:
Henry Chief Surveyor of Marlborough 1862 – 1876
Henry Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Marlborough 1879 – 1893
Henry foundation member of the N.Z. In statute of Surveyors.
Married again after Emma died. There was some problem with the will in Papers Past.
Full place of birth, occupation as Architect, from 1851 Census. Census, although hard to read, has his age as 23. This would place his year of birth as circa 1828. Brian has change it to this here.
Date and place of burial and estimated place and date of death, Henry Gostling Clark, age 67, 7 Aug 1895, OC Clarkes Encl. by Brian of nzolivers.com from a Cemetery record.
Full date of birth for Henry Gostling Clark, 28 December 1827 from research file06 in May 2017.
Exact date of death from a document “Descendants of Charles Coombs (Dr.) Clark” received from Linda Burge in an email dated 4 June 2017. Linda’s great-grandmother’s (Frederica J Horneman) sister (Emma C Horneman), married Henry G Clark (b.1827).
Mention of Henry Gostling Clark found in March 2022 in "From Sextants to Satellites: A Cartographic Time Line for New Zealand", by Brian Marshall, published in 2005, Page 27:
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/han...l2005.pdf?sequence=1
“Henry Gostling Clark is appointed Chief Surveyor, Marlborough Province, and holds this position until 1873”.
Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1856/1884. Bride: Emma Caroline Horneman. Groom: Henry Gatling Clarke
Full date of marriage of 19 February 1856 from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.
Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1895/4798. Clark, Henry Gostling, died age 67Y
NOTE: Henry’s second given name from above, and as per his Will found online in March 2022, is spelt including a “T”, “Gostling”.
Full date of death of 5 August 1895 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Record of burial found in March 2022 from Omaka Cemetery, Blenheim records, page 16, Row 17, Plot 223:
EMMA CAROLINE wife of Henry G. CLARK d. 4 Sept 1885 in her 47th year
ADA CLARK b. 24 Jan 1858 d. 29 Dec 1907
HENRY GOSTLING CLARK b. 28 Dec 1827 d. 5 Aug 1895
ARTHUR F. BRANSBURY-CLARK d. [14.4.]1883 aged 21
[Cemetery record notes that headstone is broken and laying down]
Place of death found online in April 2022:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LRBD-BLQ
“At home, Walter Street, Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand”
Extract from The New Zealand Gazette 18 March 1886 found in March 2022:
Inspectors of State Forests appointed
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned officers to be inspectors of Stae Forests, under section 12 of “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” namely:-
Henry Gosling Clark, Chief Surveyor, Blenheim
- J Ballance,
- Commisssioner of State Forests
Extract from The New Zealand Gazette 2 March 1893 found in March 2022:
Land Classification Commissioners appointed
In exercise and pursuance of the power and authorites vested in me by the one hundred and eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892”, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint:
Henry G Clark, Esquire, Chief Surveyor and Commisssioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Marlborough
- W. P. Reeves
- For the Minister of Lands
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Motueka Roll for 1853-64
Clark, Henry G, Place of Abode: Motueka, Calling or Business: Gentleman, Qualification Householder, Moutere
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Roll for 1867/68, 1868/69, 1871/72, 1873/74
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Qualification: freehold, Property: Town of Picton, sections 745/747
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Roll for 1867/68, 1878/79, 1879/80
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Qualification: Ratepayer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Roll for 1873/74, 1875/76, 1876/77, 1877/78, 1879/80
Clark, Henry Gostling, Place of Abode: Lower Wairau, Qualification: Household, Property: Omaka, section, 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1881
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka, part section 4.
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1882, 1884
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Electoral Roll for 1883, 1884, 1886,
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Pelorus Sound, section 155
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimea-Picton Roll for 1887, 1890
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Pelorus Sound, section 155
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1887
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Roll for 1893, 1894
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: gentleman, Qualification: freehold, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
Clark, Lucy Ada Matilda Emma, Blenheim, domestic duties, residential
Clark, Laura Rosamond Sophia, Bankhouse, spinster, residential
[NOTE: Omaka is in the Wairau area, about 2 1/2 miles (4 km) South-West of Blenheim]
Marlborough Provincial Information 1872/73
Crown Lands - Surveyor, H G. Clark.
Wise’s New Zealand Directory 1876, 1886, 1887/88, 1891, 1892/93
Blenheim, Marlborough
Clark H. G. chief surveyor
Wise’s New Zealand Directory 1883/84
Blenheim, Marlborough
Clark H. G. chief surveyor & comnr.C.L. [Commisoner of Crown Lands]
Year of circa 1828 and country of birth from Pedigree Chart prepared by Kathleen Maud Brooks (nee Oliver) and forwarded to Brian of nzolivers.com by Helen Shirley Oliver.
Date and place of marriage from Julie Bourke (nee McColl) in a four-pager titled, “Clark Notes” received by Brian in email dated 10 April 2017. Julie is great-granddaughter of Henry Gosling Clark and Emma Caroline Horneman. Brian of nzolivers.com is a great-great grandson of Emma and Henry Clark.
Julie copies:
MARRIAGE
On the 19th February, at St Thomas’s Church, Motueka, New Zealand, Henry Gosling Clark, Esq., of the Moutere, youngest son of Chas.C. Clark Esq., of Twickenham, Middlesex, to Emma Caroline eldest daughter of Captain Horneman H.M.’s Artillery Corps of Motueka.
Julie writes:
Henry to NZ. (Haven’t been able to find ship he came out on, took up land in Lower Moutere, another Clark family there were they related?
Julie writes:
Henry Chief Surveyor of Marlborough 1862 – 1876
Henry Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Marlborough 1879 – 1893
Henry foundation member of the N.Z. In statute of Surveyors.
Married again after Emma died. There was some problem with the will in Papers Past.
Full place of birth, occupation as Architect, from 1851 Census. Census, although hard to read, has his age as 23. This would place his year of birth as circa 1828. Brian has change it to this here.
Date and place of burial and estimated place and date of death, Henry Gostling Clark, age 67, 7 Aug 1895, OC Clarkes Encl. by Brian of nzolivers.com from a Cemetery record.
Full date of birth for Henry Gostling Clark, 28 December 1827 from research file06 in May 2017.
Exact date of death from a document “Descendants of Charles Coombs (Dr.) Clark” received from Linda Burge in an email dated 4 June 2017. Linda’s great-grandmother’s (Frederica J Horneman) sister (Emma C Horneman), married Henry G Clark (b.1827).
Mention of Henry Gostling Clark found in March 2022 in "From Sextants to Satellites: A Cartographic Time Line for New Zealand", by Brian Marshall, published in 2005, Page 27:
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/han...l2005.pdf?sequence=1
“Henry Gostling Clark is appointed Chief Surveyor, Marlborough Province, and holds this position until 1873”.
Result from marriage search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1856/1884. Bride: Emma Caroline Horneman. Groom: Henry Gatling Clarke
Full date of marriage of 19 February 1856 from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the marriage.
Result from death search on New Zealand BDM website in March 2022:
1895/4798. Clark, Henry Gostling, died age 67Y
NOTE: Henry’s second given name from above, and as per his Will found online in March 2022, is spelt including a “T”, “Gostling”.
Full date of death of 5 August 1895 confirmed from further searching in March 2022 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.
Record of burial found in March 2022 from Omaka Cemetery, Blenheim records, page 16, Row 17, Plot 223:
EMMA CAROLINE wife of Henry G. CLARK d. 4 Sept 1885 in her 47th year
ADA CLARK b. 24 Jan 1858 d. 29 Dec 1907
HENRY GOSTLING CLARK b. 28 Dec 1827 d. 5 Aug 1895
ARTHUR F. BRANSBURY-CLARK d. [14.4.]1883 aged 21
[Cemetery record notes that headstone is broken and laying down]
Place of death found online in April 2022:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LRBD-BLQ
“At home, Walter Street, Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand”
Extract from The New Zealand Gazette 18 March 1886 found in March 2022:
Inspectors of State Forests appointed
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned officers to be inspectors of Stae Forests, under section 12 of “The New Zealand State Forests Act, 1885,” namely:-
Henry Gosling Clark, Chief Surveyor, Blenheim
- J Ballance,
- Commisssioner of State Forests
Extract from The New Zealand Gazette 2 March 1893 found in March 2022:
Land Classification Commissioners appointed
In exercise and pursuance of the power and authorites vested in me by the one hundred and eighty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892”, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint:
Henry G Clark, Esquire, Chief Surveyor and Commisssioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Marlborough
- W. P. Reeves
- For the Minister of Lands
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Motueka Roll for 1853-64
Clark, Henry G, Place of Abode: Motueka, Calling or Business: Gentleman, Qualification Householder, Moutere
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Roll for 1867/68, 1868/69, 1871/72, 1873/74
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Qualification: freehold, Property: Town of Picton, sections 745/747
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Roll for 1867/68, 1878/79, 1879/80
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Qualification: Ratepayer
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Roll for 1873/74, 1875/76, 1876/77, 1877/78, 1879/80
Clark, Henry Gostling, Place of Abode: Lower Wairau, Qualification: Household, Property: Omaka, section, 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1881
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka, part section 4.
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1882, 1884
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Picton Electoral Roll for 1883, 1884, 1886,
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Pelorus Sound, section 155
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Waimea-Picton Roll for 1887, 1890
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Pelorus Sound, section 155
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Electoral Roll for 1887
Clark, Henry Gostling, Qualification: freehold, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: chief surveyor, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
New Zealand Electoral Roll - Wairau Roll for 1893, 1894
Clark, Henry Gostling, Residence: Blenheim, Occupation: gentleman, Qualification: freehold, Property: Omaka part of sec. 4
Clark, Lucy Ada Matilda Emma, Blenheim, domestic duties, residential
Clark, Laura Rosamond Sophia, Bankhouse, spinster, residential
[NOTE: Omaka is in the Wairau area, about 2 1/2 miles (4 km) South-West of Blenheim]
Marlborough Provincial Information 1872/73
Crown Lands - Surveyor, H G. Clark.
Wise’s New Zealand Directory 1876, 1886, 1887/88, 1891, 1892/93
Blenheim, Marlborough
Clark H. G. chief surveyor
Wise’s New Zealand Directory 1883/84
Blenheim, Marlborough
Clark H. G. chief surveyor & comnr.C.L. [Commisoner of Crown Lands]
Spouses
Birth12 Jun 1836, Newington Crescent, Surrey, England
Death4 Sep 1885, Blenheim, New Zealand
BurialOmaka Cemetery, Blenheim
FatherFrederick Edward Horneman (1803-1872)
MotherEmma Frances Devis (1814-1868)
Marriage19 Feb 1856, St Thomas’ Church, Motueka, New Zealand
ChildrenCharles Henry Francis (1856-)
Lucy Ada Matilda Emma (Ada) (1858-1907)
Alfred Edward Augustus (Masher) (1859-1908)
Arthur Frederick Bransbury (1861-1883)
Morton Reigels Stow (1863-1916)
Pauline Fredrica Louisa (Rica) (1865-1938)
Laura Rosamond Sophia (1867-1922)
Percy Octavius (1869-1942)
Florence Edith Elvira (1870-1919)
Julia Mabel Olivia (1873-1874)
Claude Horneman (Died as Infant) (1874-1876)
Harold Fitz Roy (1877-)
Evelyne Violet Isabelle (Died as Infant) (1878-1879)