Anne (Clark) Boddy (1839 - 1899)

Born 1839 in Carthorpe, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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John Clark was born in 1808, near Ripon in Yorkshire. He was the first child of Leonard and Sarah Clark. In 1833 John married Margaret Cooper, of Thornton Steward, at Kirklington. He was a “wheelwright and carpenter and an eloquent Methodist preacher”. John and Margaret lived in the small North Yorkshire country village of Carthorpe from at least 1834. That was the year in which their first child – their son William was born. The couple had four other children, all of whom were born in Carthorpe: Leonard, born October 30, 1835; Mary, born August 30, 1837; Ann, born 1839; and John junior, born 1840. The family remained in Carthorpe until early 1850, when they left for Natal as settlers under Byrne’s Emigration Scheme of 1848-51.

John Clark and his family left England on 16.2.1850 as part of the Byrne Emigration Scheme to Natal. However, on arrival, he found the land allocated to him to be unsuitable, so did not take up his allotment, but moved to Durban. In 1854 he moved to York, Natal, the town established by the Haidee Settlers. ^[1]

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1. ↑ http://theclarksofclarkroad.com/book/chapter-9-john-clark-of-york-natal/ Added on 5 Sep 2020 by Ian McArthur