Ernest Clement Clarke

1886-1949

This directory contains the limited information and documents we have about Kate and Anthony Clarke's 2nd child Ernest Clement.

For details of Kate's life, see her own directory.

For details of Kate’s very interesting first husband Anthony, including his families with other wives, see the AJCheeper/Clarke directory.

Ernest Clement was born in 1886, probably in April or May, while the family was living at 24 Edwards Tce, St John Cardiff. But we've been unable to find a birth registry entry.

He was baptised, with his elder sister Violet, on 20 Jun 1886, at St Johns Cardiff, and his age was stated to be 1 month. His father was identified as Anthony Clarke, commercial traveller, and his mother as Kate, and their residence was stated to be 24 Edwards Terrace, Cardiff.

He appears on the Census entry in 1891 (left-side, right-side), where he is shown as Ernest C., born in Cardiff, and 4 years old (suggesting a birth-date after 4 April 1886).

He appears again in the Census for 1901, where he is listed as Ernest C., born in Cardiff, and aged 14.

His nephew and niece Barbara Copeland/Sidebotham and Vivian Watson both said that he lodged with Kate Antoinette in Watford for many years. Vivian said that he died a bachelor, has no memory of his employment, and said that he didn't have particularly good health. Barbara has an impression that he did the pools (and Barbara would have been 6-8 years old at the time of his presumed death in the early 1950s at c. 65, and Barbara knew Kate Antoinette well until her death, by which time Barbara was 38).

A death registry entry gives a date of death of d. June Qtr 1949 (Southend 4a), at 63. But, given that Barbara and Vivian remember him in the early 1950s, that entry may be spurious.