Elves -- please edit/comment here or message. I'll link these notes to the profile a few days before Jan 6. Thompson-85845 19:38, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

The Wish

Brick Wall - Scotland - Wish 1

William Clark (1797-1882)

(from ELF Tiah Balcer) "Who are the grandparents of Clark-70990? This is a Scottish Clark, not a colonial Clark. Maybe someone in the Scotland project has some resources to break through his brick wall parents?

I have since added triangulation information to his father's profile. In addition to that, the triangulation details were already posted to the mother's profile. The leads to Argyll could be enough for someone with Scottish records to locate the marriage record of the parents."

More information from profile's Research Notes: Exact birth location could be incorrect, though Scotland is believed true. Looking at triangulating paternal DNA matches to this 5th great-grandfather, Balcer-51 has the following interesting potential leads:

• A 10.4CM, 1 segment match, still living in the UK, with an ancestor, William Cuthbert born 1912 in Fenwick, Ayrshire, whose mother was an Agnes Clark with no birth or death data.
• A 9CM, 2 segment match, to someone whose North Carolina Clarks came from a John "Sailor John" Clark born June 5th, 1724, Jura, Argyll, Scotland, died October 8th, 1798, Cumberland, North Carolina who was married to a Catherine McKissick born the same place, no date. Sailor John's tree also includes many more generations of his Scotland Clarks before him.
• A 9CM, 1 segment match, to someone still living in Scotland with earliest Clark ancestor listed as Robert Clark born 1837 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, without a death date and married to a Marion McFayden born 1837 in Kilarrow, Argyllsh, no death date.

ELF Actions and Notes

Thompson-85845 22:52, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Because the 1755 Renfrewshire birth location was stated to be uncertain, I built two of the other paths suggested by the DNA clues to help see where they pointed.

• Investigated ancestors of Agnes Clark. Created profile for her (Agnes (Clark) Cuthbert (abt.1883-)) and added ancestors, focusing on the "Clark" line. Reached the late 1700s (still in Ayrshire), but could not get back far enough to see where it might possibly connect to Thomas Clark (b ~1755).
• Investigated ancestors of Robert Clark, b. 1837 in New Monkland and married to Marion McFadyen. The records I found indicated that Marion was from Lanarkshire, not Argyllshire, but this was the only Robert Clark/Marion McFadyen couple in New Monkland that I found. Created a profile for Robert Clark (abt.1835-1899). I was only able to push back one generation (to early 1800s) -- and speculate one generation further.
• Found no marriage records on ScotlandsPeople for Thomas Clark and Henriette de Melville (or names similar to Melvill). They could have met/married in the US. or married in one of the many areas of Scotland that had little/no records from the 1700s.
• Took a look at "Sailor John" and Catherine McKissick but found very conflicting trees without much in the way of sources. There is a 1724 birth record for John Clark in Jura, Argyllshire, but I couldn't evaluate whether he was the same John Clark who died in North Carolina.