Biography of Thomas CLARK
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Biography of Thomas CLARK
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Thomas Clark was born on 10 March 1855 in Cowick Street in the St.Thomas district of Exeter. He was one of the eight children of John and Emma Clark.
The 1861 census shows that the family were still in Cowick Street. By 1871, Thomas had left home and was working as a Bank Clerk in Exeter and was living at 4 Queen Street in the city. According to the 1881 census, the family had moved to 57 in Queen Street and Thomas had progreesed to be an Accountant.
How Thomas met his future wife Ellen Eliza Folker is open to conjecture. Perhaps he had moved to Guildford in search of a better job. He married her on 19 January 1885 in her home parish church of St.Nicolas in Guildford, Surrey. Thomas' residence was given as St.Nicolas.
Son Leslie Horace was born in 1886, daughter Violet Zenobia in 1888 and son Fredreick John in 1990. When the census of 1891 was taken, Ellen and Thomas were living at 2 Baillee Road in Guildford with son Leslie. The whereabouts of their other two children at that time is not known.
Eliza died in childbirth on 16 June 1894. The child did not survive.
The 1901 census reveals that Thomas is now in London and living at St.John's Lodging House in Church Street, Marylebone and that he was a Clerk. The census return of 1911 shows Thomas had progressed to be an Accountant employed at Capital and Counties Bank. At the time of the census, he was one of two patients in Highfield Nursing Institute in Edmonton. At the time of his death by heart disease on 28 June 1911, he was living at 77 Lakeside Road in Palmers Green, Southgate, Essex. The death certificate records that Thomas was a Bank Clerk and that his body would be buried.