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James Whitehead CLARK
Abt 1840 - 1903 (~ 63 years)
Has 67 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name James Whitehead CLARK Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Abt 1840 Stockbury, Kent, England 
- Date and place from censuses
Only pos birth reg I've found -
GRO ref: Clark, [Male] q2 1840 Hollingbourn RD 5 249; GRO online index does not show a mother's maiden name, suggesting he was illegitimate
Baptised 26 Apr 1840 St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Stockbury, Kent, England - From Kent FHS CD 19
Shows James Whitehead CLARKE, mother Ellen
Gender Male Died Dec Q 1903 Milton Reg Dist, Kent, England - GRO ref: Clarke, James q1 1903 aged 78 Milton RD 2a 606
Patriarch & Matriarch 
Thomas WHITEHEAD, b. Est 1677, d. Aug 1732 (Age ~ 55 years) (3 x Great Grandfather)
Eleanor Catharine (“Ellen”) CLARK, bap. 23 Dec 1817, St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Stockbury, Kent, England, d. Yes, date unknown (Mother) Notes - Not only do his Christian names give a clue as to his father, but his marriage record gives his father's name as James Whitehead.
This could be either James b c. 1788 or his son b c 1811. The latter seems more likely to me (although James senior was very fecund, fathering 18 legitimate children!)
James appears to have grown up with his maternal grandparents, being the son of their eldest daughter, Eleanor alias Ellen. Both he and his mother were with them at the time of the 1841 census, and he was with them in 1851 - shown as 'son'.
Person ID I6090 All | The descendants (and other halves) of Richard Whitehead and Mary née Grigsby Last Modified 22 Aug 2024
Father James WHITEHEAD, b. Abt 1811, Stockbury, Kent, England , d. Yes, date unknown Mother Eleanor Catharine (“Ellen”) CLARK, bap. 23 Dec 1817, St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Stockbury, Kent, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry Family ID F925 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Maria GRIGSBY, b. Jun Q 1846, Hucking, Kent, England , d. 31 May 1911, 9, Pemberton Terrace, Newington next Sittingbourne, Kent, England (Age ~ 65 years) Married 14 Oct 1865 St. Mary Magdalene’s Church, Stockbury, Kent, England [1] - GRO ref: Clark, James to Grigsby, Maria q4 1865 Hollingbourne RD 2a 1015
(The 1881 census shows that James' wife Maria was born Hucking, so it was clearly this Maria who married him and not the other Maria Grigsby whose birth was registered in Hollingbourne RD in 1846, as checking her mother's maiden name, and finding her parents marriage and her with her mother in the 1851 census shows the other Maria was born in Boxley.)
Last Modified 22 Aug 2024 Family ID F926 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Date and place from censuses
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Sources - [S41] Stockbury Parish Registers (KFHS transcribed data), Kent Family History Society, accessed 4 Apr 2011), Entry for the marriage of James Whitehead Clarke to Maria Grigsby. (Reliability: 3).
99 1865 Oct 14 By: B
CLARK James (25) Labourer (B) of X Tp (S of) James WHITEHEAD (Labourer)
GRIGSBY Maria (19) Servant (Sp) of Thurnham (D of) Edward (Labourer)
Wit by: Mary Ann Milner, Susan Grigsby
- [S41] Stockbury Parish Registers (KFHS transcribed data), Kent Family History Society, accessed 4 Apr 2011), Entry for the marriage of James Whitehead Clarke to Maria Grigsby. (Reliability: 3).