Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
William Hislop Clarke
— married
16 Aug 1843 in Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Mother of
Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Died
at about age 26
in London, England, United Kingdom
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Biography
Amelia Elizabeth Matthews was the daughter of Thomas Matthews. She was born in about 1824.[1]
She married William Hislop Clarke, barrister, on 16 August 1843 by licence at St Paul, Hammersmith, Middlesex. The marriage register records that she was a minor.[1]
They had one child, a son Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, born on 24 April 1846 at 11 Leonard Place, Kensington.[2][3]
She died on 30 March 1850, aged 26.[4] A death notice in the John Bull recorded:
DIED ,,, March 30, Amelia Elizabeth, the wife of William Hislop Clarket, Esq., of Notting-hill-terrace, and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.[5]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 [database on-line]. William Hislop Clarke and Amelia Elizabeth Matthews, 16 Aug 1843 (accessed 4 May 2020); citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: DD/0746/02/004. Ancestry Record 1623 #21615466. Free Ancestry Image.
- ↑ Brian Elliott, 'Clarke, Marcus Andrew (1846–1881)', Australian Dictionary of National Biography (accessed 4 May 2020)
- ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (accessed 4 May 2020), database entry for CLARKE, MARCUS HISLOP. Mother's maiden name: MATTHEWS. GRO Reference: 1846 J Quarter in KENSINGTON, PADDINGTON AND FULHAM Volume 03 Page 326.
- ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (accessed 4 May 2020), database entry for CLARKE, AMELIA ELIZABETH. Age: 26. GRO Reference: 1850 J Quarter in KENSINGTON PADDINGTON AND FULHAM Volume 03 Page 209.
- ↑ 'DIED',John Bull [London], 6 Apr. 1850: n.p. Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals. (accessed 4 May 2020).
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