Misc. Notes
Name, date and place of marriage, occupation, from Julie Bourke (nee McColl) in a one-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:
George Clark, Attorney At Law, had a number of Law books published.
George Clark of Hillingdon, widower, married 29 Jan 1783, St John the Baptist, Miss Mary Combes.
Julie writes:
George Clark of Hillingdon Uxbridge married 1739 Elizabeth Ayres. (This could be his father or first wife??)
(Will of William Coombes of Harmondsworth, Middlesex 29 Oct 1570 PROB 11/52) Coombes family seem to go back quite a way in this area. JB
Further detail on place of marriage, from an email received from, Julie Bourke (nee McColl) on 4 June 2017:
George Clark mar. Mary Combes parish record from ancestry No 908 (have printout)
MARRIAGE St John the Baptist Hillingdon Middlesex Mr George Clark Widow of this Parifh and Mifs Mary Combes of Harmondsworth in this County were married in this Church by Licence this twenty Ninth Day of January in the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three By me Thomas Wills Vic. This Marriage was Folemnized between Us Signed
George Clark, Mary Combes In The Prefence of ? Deane, John Curtis, ? Deane Lydia Curtis, Elizabeth Clark
George Clark mar Mary Combes (Newspapers have printout)
Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser Monday Feb 3 1783 Issue 707
Marriage - Last week was married Mr George Clarke, attorney at law at Uxbridge, to Mifs Coombs, daughter of William Coombs, Efq. of Harmondfworth, near Windfor.
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Julie provided a link in an email dated 2 June 2017 to the following list of books that George Clark had published:
https://fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk/author/clark-george-esq-1List of books by Clark, George, Esq:Title: The penal statutes abridged, and alphabetically arranged. Calculated to serve the desirable End of AN Alphabetical Common Place Book Of The Penal Laws. Exhibiting, At One View, The Nature of the Offence; the Penalty annexed to it, for the first, second, and third Offence; the Number of Witnesses and Magistrates necessary to conviction; the Application of the Penalty; the Manner of prosecuting and recovering the Penalty. To Which IS Prefixed, A Collection of Maxims and Rules for the proper Exposition of Statutes; the Whole being essentially necessary for the due Administration of public Justice. Dedicated To The Magistrates Of Great-Britain. By George Clark, Esq.
Published: 1777
Publisher: printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Pater-Noster-Row
ESTCID: T130852
Title: Memoranda legalia: or an alphabetical digest of the laws of England: adapted to the use of the lawyer, the merchant, and the trader. By George Clark, Attorney-at-Law.
Published: 1800
Publisher: printed by H. L. Galabin, No. 1, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street: and sold by E. and R. Brooke and J. Rider, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar; B. Hennington, Stationer, Ingram-Court; P. Norbury, Brentford; and W. Grainge, Uxbridge
ESTCID: T144365
Title: An address to both houses of Parliament: containing reasons for a tax upon dogs, and the outlines of a plan for that purpose; and for effectually suppressing the oppressive practice of impressing seamen, and More Expeditiously Manning the Royal Navy. By G. Clarke.
Published: 1791
Publisher: printed for Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and Debrett, Piccadilly
ESTCID: T107156
Title: An alphabetical epitome of the common law of England; so far as it relates to the security of the persons, property and privileges of individuals. Directing, in a great Variety of Instances, not only to the several Points in which the Law does, or does not give a Remedy, but also to the particular Species of Remedy the Law has provided for distinct Injuries and Wrongs: Interspersed with many other useful Articles necessary to be known for a proper Discharge of the several Duties of public and private Life. With AN Addenda; Shewing the Law respecting Costs in the Prosecution of Actions, and pointing out the Quantum of Costs allowed, &c. By G. Clark, Esq. Author of the Penal Statutes Abridged.
Published: 1778
Publisher: printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Paternoster-Row; W. Flexney, Holborn; and W. Clark, Portugal-Street
ESTCID: T130853
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