Clarke Family

Some Notes and Photographs of the Clarke Family

1816 John Dawson Clarke was a merchant and excise officer. He owned the wherry Harriet and the Spreadeagle public house in Staithe Road

1840 Samuel Clarke was a maltster as well as working for his father John

1867 W Clarke. Baker and publican at the Spreadeagle

1882 Charles William Clarke. Tradesman in partnership with Dale and Riches. Owner of a shop in Ludham High Street and a sweet shop in Staithe Road.

1891 Winter Clarke and wife Elizabeth was licensee of the Spread Eagle Inn Staithe Rd, Ludham. Their son Charles W Clarke married Gertrude Ellen Redgate and was a farmer living on Staithe Road in 1939.

1917 Herbert Charles Clarke, farmer at Walton Hall Farm, Ludham

1939 S F Clarke. Farmer at Grove Farm Catfield and later an artist at Grove Farm Gallery, Catfield.

Charles Clarke and his wife Eliza (nee Smith). Parents of Herbert and Joan


Joan and Herbert Clarke


Herbert Clarke and his wife Dot Clarke and Sidney Frank Clarke (son)

Herbert and Dot

Herbert Clarke, Norfolk Regiment

Grave of Eliza Clarke

The photograph above shows the grave of Eliza Clarke at St Catherine's Church. This grave has no marker and the photograph shows the general area only. The exact position is not currently known.