Misc. Notes
Name, date of death, date 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 writes:
Charles Coombes Clark died 9 Dec 1862, 75 yrs, Lucy died 1 Sept 1860 (these death dates from Memories of Twickenham).
Julie writes:
Book Memories of Twickenham – Page 36 on internet - describes the stained glass window erected by their children in memory of their parents, could have been destroyed in the war as so many of the stained glass windows were destroyed by bombs.
Julie writes:
Lucy Graham =\ chas clark, (Barkway Hertford), Spouse comment Barkway Hartford 2
Julie quotes Actual tanscript of marriage
Marriages folemnized in the Parifh of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex in the year 1813. – Charles Combes Clark – of Barkway in the County of Hertford Bachelor and Lucy Graham – of this Parifh –spinster – were married in this Church by Licence this Ninth Day of March in the Year One thoufand eight hunded and thirteen.
By me Thomas ? Bewerbank ? Vicar
This marriage was folemnized between us Charles Combes Clark Lucy Graham
In the Prefence of Charlottte Graham Thomas Graham
Year of 1791, and place of birth, from RobertJones1892 public family tree on
Ancestry.com in May 2017.
Second name and closer birth year from information in an email received from, Julie Bourke (nee McColl) on 4 June 2017:DEATH Lucy Ellen ClarkThe Morning Post Thursday 6 Sept 1860 -
DEATH CLARK - On the 1st inst. At Twickenham in her seventy seventh year Lucy Ellen wife of Charles C. Clark.
(Julie writes, Birth year 1783, Lucy Ellen Graham)
Brian works out birth year as ca 1784.
Further information in an email received from, Julie Bourke (nee McColl) on 4 June 2017:
Charles Coombes Clark Memorials of Twickenham [off Internet]
Very recently a sixth window has been added on the south side nearest to the west, the design, the drawing and the colouring of which are equally excellent It represents the Saviour, as the healer of diseases, bidding the blind to see and the lame to walk. Its inscription runs thus: “ To the honour of God and in memory of Charles Coombes Clark, obit December nth, 1862, aetat, seventy-five, and of Lucy his wife, obit September 1st, 1860, aetat, seventy-six; erected by their affectionate children.” If the selected subject were not so undeniably suitable for a memorial of one who practised for many years in Twickenham as a medical man, it might have been regretted that the subject was not “the raising of the widow’s son at Nain,” which would have made the series of Gospel pictures on his side of the church more complete. The artists were Messrs Ward and ……