Clarke

Clarke family page

Henry Jackson Clarke, born at Faldouet in Jersey in 1858, with his grandchildren

Record Search

Direct links to lists of baptisms, marriages and burials for the Clarke family can be found under Family Records opposite. If you want to search for records for a spelling variant of Clarke, or for any other family name, just click below on the first letter of the
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New records

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A photograph of St Helier Harbour and the Esplanade with West Park in the background, taken between 1863 and 1866 by George Bashford. The dark rectangular structure on the shoreline is what was the large shed of Frederick Clarke's shipyard

Origins of surname

This name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is from a medieval occupational name for a scribe or secretary. Originally it only referred to a member of a religious order. The word clerc, from the old English for priest, eventually came to be used of any literate man, particularly the professional secretary and the scholar.

Early records

Although the name appears in the Grouville marriage register in 1707, when Thomas Clark married Elizabeth Hielhard, it was not included by the compiler of our Comprehensive list of Jersey surnames, so does not feature in any Jersey records which predate the church registers.

Variants

• Clark
• Clarke

Family records

Family trees

• Descendants of Thomas Bond Clarke
• Descendants of Patrick Clark
• Descendants of John Webber, wine merchants (it is not clear exactly why and when this family changed its name to Webber Clarke in Jersey)
• Descendants of Jean Clarke, shipbuilding family
• Descendants of Joseph Clark

Church records

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• Clarke baptisms in Jersey
• Clarke marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Clarke marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Clarke burials in Jersey

Family histories

• Frederick Clarkes who were prominent in shipbuilding and politics

Newspaper records

• 1838 Jersey Times report

Great War service

• Clark family members who served in World War 1

Occupation records

• Clarke Occupation identity cards
• Arthur Edward Clarke, deported to unknown French or German prison 'for receiving stolen articles and black market activities'

Family wills

• Clarke family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

• Clarke burial records 1820-1978

Family businesses

• C Le Masurier and Co
• K Clarke was a stationer at 59 King Street in the 1850s
• Edward Clark was a baker at 19 Queen Street in the 1830s, followed by his wife Elizabeth after his death

Family photographs

Family gravestones

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Tips

The church record links above will open in a new tab in your browser and generate the most up-to-date list of each set of records from our database. These lists replace earlier Family page baptism lists, which were not regularly updated. They have the added advantage that they produce a chronological listing for the family name in all parishes, so you do not have to search through A-Z indexes, parish by parish.

We have included some important spelling variants on some family pages, but it may be worth searching for records for a different spelling variant. Think of searching for variants with or without a prefix, such as Le or De. To search for further variants, or for any other family name, just click on the appropriate link below for the first letter of the family name, and a new tab will open, giving you the option to choose baptism, marriage or burial records. You will then see a list of available names for that type of record and you can select any name from that list. That will display all records of the chosen type for that family name, and you can narrow the search by adding a given name, selecting a parish or setting start and end dates in the form you will see above. You can also change the family name, or search for a partial name if you are not certain of the spelling

The records are displayed 30 to a page, but by selecting the yellow Wiki Table option at the top left of the page you can open a full, scrollable list. This list will either be displayed in a new tab or a pop-up window. You may have to edit the settings of your browser to allow pop-up windows for www.jerripediabmd.net. For the small number of family names for which a search generates more than 1,500 records you will have to refine your search (perhaps using start or end dates) to reduce the number of records found.

New records

Since August 2020 we have added several thousand new records from the registers of Roman Catholic, Methodist and other non-conformist churches. These will appear in date order within a general search of the records and are also individually searchable within the database search form