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Clarke - Pearce - Sowerby

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Mar 2017 00:21

Posted by Pat 25 Apr 2016 12:53

Name: James Ainsworth
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1940
Registration district: Ince
Inferred County: Lancashire
Spouse: ----------------------------------- Violet M Ashton Or Cook
Volume Number: 8c
Page Number: 337

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This NOT Mona Violet

from lancs bmd ...............

AINSWORTH James ASHTON Violet May Ince Register Office or Registrar Attended Wigan & Leigh ROI/10/201

AINSWORTH James COOK Violet May Ince Register Office or Registrar Attended Wigan & Leigh ROI/10/201

ASHTON Violet May AINSWORTH James Ince Register Office or Registrar Attended Wigan & Leigh ROI/10/201

COOK Violet May AINSWORTH James Ince Register Office or Registrar Attended Wigan & Leigh ROI/

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Mar 2017 00:13

There is Private Family Tree on ancestry that has Mona Violet Clarke, born 1919, Lancashire

It is Joe & Debbie's Tree


Do you know these people?

Have you made contact with them?

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 12 Mar 2017 08:23

Sarah Clarke
in the 1911 England Census
Name: Sarah Clarke
Age in 1911: 26
Estimated birth year: abt 1885
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: North Manchester
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: 18 Crook St Miles Platting Manchester
Marital Status: Married
Registration district: Prestwich
Registration District Number: 467
Sub-registration district: Newton Heath
ED, institution, or vessel: 14
Piece: 24267
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Clarke 34
Sarah Clarke 26
Anna Clarke 4
John Patrick Charles Clarke 2
John McGinty 74
Thomas Cain 26 - lodger

Mary

Mary Report 25 Apr 2016 19:43

Sarah Mcginty 1886 daughter of John Mcginty 1837 Co Down Ireland ,she married Joseph Clarke 17/3/1906 his dad Patrick Clarke born Ireland 1843

looked for Patrick Clarke and he looks to have married Susannah Tuke born Manchester 1845 ,no sign of a Robert Clarke with same family as yet.

Maryb.

rootgatherer

rootgatherer Report 25 Apr 2016 17:58

Sarah Sowerby was a Clark




If you are SURE that our transcription(s) below differs from the GRO index, you can submit a correction request by clicking on the Info button to the right of the entry in question.


Marriages Sep 1921
Clarke Sarah Sowerby Prestwich 8d 725
Sowerby Herbert V Clarke Prestwich 8d 725

Gillian

Gillian Report 25 Apr 2016 16:39

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will certainly research them.

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 25 Apr 2016 12:53

in Oram Street

Violet Ainsworth 06 Jul 1919 Female Domestic Duties Married 77 2
James Ainsworth 31 Aug 1913 Male Milk Delivery Married 77 1


Marriage the following year

Name: James Ainsworth
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1940
Registration district: Ince
Inferred County: Lancashire
Spouse: ----------------------------------- Violet M Ashton Or Cook
Volume Number: 8c
Page Number: 337

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 25 Apr 2016 12:37

Found a couple of interesting entries in the 1939 register.

George A Sowerby V 22 Mar 1881 Male
Director Fire Hose Co Single 1 169

He's at The Midland Hotel Peter St.

At 49 King Street another coincidence or are the Sowerby's/Clarke's related

Sarah Sowerby 28 Mar 1886 Female
Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 114 2

Herbert V Sowerby 23 Feb 1880 Male
Fur Tractor (Unemployed) Married 114 1

Doris Wolstencroft (Sowerby) 28 Dec 1916 Female
Dry Packer (Manucturing Chemist) Single 114 3

John Patrick Clarke 16 Aug 1908 Male
Garage Attendant (Unemployed) Single 114 4

Annie Clarke 05 Jul 1906 Female
Still Room Maid (Cafe) Single 114 5

Frances O'Brien (Davies, Clarke) 04 Jul 1918 Female
Button Hole Machinist Single 114 6


No sign of them in James Street. Looking for Mona

Gillian

Gillian Report 25 Apr 2016 07:59

Nothing, all I know about the Sowerbys is that they had 2 older girls, probably still lived in Manchester though as my mum was born there.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 24 Apr 2016 13:02

Do you know where they lived? Anything whatsoever?

Gillian

Gillian Report 24 Apr 2016 07:31

No sadly not, it was like getting blood from a stone getting any info from Mona. If they were family she wasn't aware of the fact.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 23 Apr 2016 20:39

Do you know the names of the Sowerby's? A slim chance, but sometimes children were taken on by family members. Worth investigating.

Gillian

Gillian Report 23 Apr 2016 19:53

Yes it would be great. Thanks for that info, worth a little research I think.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 23 Apr 2016 19:38

I wonder if George was just a relative in that case? It would be nice if he were a brother wouldn't it!

There is this Clarke in 1911, who is a cab driver, but it might just be a co-incidence:

Name: William Clarke
Age in 1911: 27
Estimated birth year: abt 1884
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Manchester, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: South Manchester
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County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: 44 Caythorpe St Moss Side Manchester
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Mator Cab Driver
Registration district: Chorlton
Registration District Number: 464
Sub-registration district: Hulme

William Clarke 27
Gertrude Clarke 25
Florence Evelyn Clarke 1
Sarah Louisa Taylor 37

Gillian

Gillian Report 23 Apr 2016 19:17

I know nothing about Robert Clarke or May Pearce, my grandmother Mona only had a short birth certificate with just the name Clarke on it and she always thought her real father was called George as she had memories of a George coming to visit her when she was a small child living with the Sowerby family. She thought George was a taxi driver. Full birth certificate shows Robert Clarke is deceased. I cannot find a marriage for Robert Clarke and May Pearce though on the birth certificate she has entered her name as May Clarke.

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 23 Apr 2016 18:17

Yet another question!! Is there an occupation for Robert on the birth cert? Worth looking at 1911 census using this, you never know..

malyon

malyon Report 23 Apr 2016 18:07

there are a couple of deaths for a robert clarke manchester area do you know when he was born?

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 23 Apr 2016 18:07

Just had a look at the address 1911. Head was an Edwin Moor, and it looks like a lodging house. Probably wouldn't help to investigate this further.
Can I ask how you have heard about the possible "nickname" of George?
I am assuming they never married?

Andrew

Andrew Report 23 Apr 2016 17:44

For ref

Births Sep 1919 (>99%)
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Clarke Mona V Pearce Chorlton 8c 1352

Andy

Gillian

Gillian Report 23 Apr 2016 17:41

I am trying to find any information about my gr grandfather Robert Clarke (possibly known as George). He and May Pearce had a girl on 6 july 1919 in 25 James Street, Moss Side, Manchester called Mona Violet Clarke. She was brought up by a family called Sowerby who already had 2 much older girls. It is possible that Robert was deceased at the time of Mona's birth. Any scrap of information no matter how small would be welcome. Thankyou :-)