No connection to our family as far as I can see but posting this in case you can help... email me, pauly@clarkeology.com and I will pass your info on...
Hi Pauly,
I see you have Bakers in your family tree, so here goes...
My grandmother's step-sister was Ada Florence "Florrie' Baker*. she married Walter Henry Clarke
in 1912. They lived for decades at 85 Shakespeare Walk, Stoke Newington and raised 7 children:
Harry CLARKE m. Joyce - 2 girls
Ethel CLARKE m. Bob
Ted CLARKE
Elsie CLARKE m. _____ - children Sandra & John
Ron CLARKE m. Ruby - 2 girls
Florrie CLARKE m. Tom - son Jim
Ruby CLARKE m. _____ - son Tony
The marriages & children are what I can put together from Elsie's travel diary in 1962 when she
and her sister Edie went to visit Florrie in London.
Florrie's sister Ethel and step-siblings Walter May, Leslie, Edith, Leonard, Elsie and Ivy Baker
emigrated to Canada around 1912 with their parents Emma and Henry Baker. My father (Elsie's son)
remembered playing cribbage with Florrie's youngest son Ted while on leave during WW2 and thought
he might have moved to Brighton but eventually lost touch with the family altogether.
Walter Henry Clarke was an egg merchant living at 21 Churchill Rd. Hackney at the time of his marriage to Florrie.
His father was Thomas CLARKE (deceased), fishmonger.
If you have any information about this branch of the Clarkes I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Regards,
Jan, in Ontario Canada
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