Direct Ancestors in 'The Scroll'
11th/12th Centuries
Sir Kenith (Kenneth) DeClarke
Born: Jan. 7, 1009
Northumbria, England
Died: 1077
Sir Edwin DeClarke
Son of Sir Kenith
Born: 1041
Died: 1099
Married: Elinthe De Clark De Capellanus (MacAlpin)
1044-1102
Sir Thomas De Clarke (Rochdale)
(Son of Sir Edwin and Elinthe)
1071-1130
Married: Lady Elwen DeMonfort (Elwen Rochdale DeClarke)
Note: Rochdale is a town just north of Manchester
Born 1076 Normandy, France
Died -1135
Sir Andreas De Clarke Capellanus
Son of Sir Thomas and Lady Elwen
1099-1159
Born: Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Died in Woodchurch, Kent, England
Married 1119: Lady Andrea Capellanus De Healey (or Healy)
Born: 1100, Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Died: 1160 in Kent
12th/13th Centuries
Sir Anketillus Clarke Capellanus De Healey
Son of Sir Andreas and Lady Andrea
1120-1180
Note: Healey is a small village in North Yorkshire, England
Married (about 1141): Lady Elizabeth Healy Pillsenbarger
1125-?
Sir Anketillus Clarke Woodchurch
Son of Sir Anketillus and Lady Elizabeth
1141-1168
Born: 1141 - Woodchurch, Kent, England
Died: 1168 – Woodchurch, Kent, England
Married: Lady Lorena Price 1144-1168
3 Children:
• Rodgerus Woodchurch
• Rodulphous Clark Woodchurch
• Sir. Anketillus Clarke Woodchurch II
Sir Anketillus Clarke Woodchurch II
Son of Sir Anketillus I and Lady Lorena
1166-1191 (25 years)
Born: Woodchurch, Kent
Married: Lady Inez (Woodchurch) Sherwood
Note: (Inez could be Agnes) 1169-1191
Birthplace: Sherwood, Canterbury, Kent
Died: Kent (Possibly in childbirth)
Daughter of Sir Thomas Sherwood and Lady Sherwood
Sir Rodger (or Rodgerus) Clarke Woodchurch
Son of Sir Anketillus II and Lady Inez
1191-1243 (52 years)
Born: Woodchurch (Ashford Borough), Kent
Married: Lady Isabella Woodchurch (Wakehurst)
1198-1260
Born in Woodchurch
Children: Thomas (Born 1216), Isabel, Henry, Rodger
13th/14th Centuries
Sir Thomas Clarke Woodchurch
1216-1286
Married: 1240, Woodchurch, Kent, England
Lady Anne Harvey (Lady Anne De Clerke of Woodchurch) born Harvey
1219 (alt 1216) -1242 (alt. 1267)
Born: London
Died: Woodchuch, Ashford, Kent, England
Daughter of Sir Walter Harvey and Mary (Dering) Harvey
Sir Simon Clarke Woodchurch
1242-1308 (or 1241-1307
Born: Woodchurch
Died: Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, England
Married: Lady Susanna Clerke
Daughter of Baron David le Clerke and Baroness Angharad de Malpas
Born 1242, Kent
Died: 1266 Woodchurch
Clark Woodchurch
1266-1290
Married: Benedicta Shirt
Born 1270, Kent Died 1335, Kent
Only 1 child because Clarke died, Peter, born 1291
Rev. Peter Clerke, Heir of Munsidde
1291-1368
Died: Ashford, Kent, England at age 77.
Buried: All Saints Churchyard, Orpington, Kent
Married: Countess Bennetta Church, 1315 in Ashford, Kent, England
1298-1325
5 Children
Sir Thomas Clerke (Clarke; Clark)
Born 1315, Woodchurch, Kent, England
Died March 7, 1368 (same year as his father) at Manor of Beaumes, Berkshire
Married: Lady Katherine Northos /
1320-1375 (?)
Married: Maud Matilda de Burgh 1320-1375
Sir Thomas Clarke II
Born 1347 Beaumes Manor, Shinfield, Berkshire, England
Died 1377 Wrotham, Kent
Married 1372 - Eleanor Rowlinge (Rowlings)
Born 1352, Canterbury, Kent, England
Died: 1420 Wrotham, Kent, England
Daughter of Sir Peter Rowlinge and Lady Rowlinge
Thomas (Esquire) de Clarke (Clerke) III, Esq.
Born 1375, Wrotham, Kent
Died 1446, Wrotham
Married 1393, Wrotham, Kent: Lady Sarah (Clarke) Forde
Born 1378, Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent
Died 1418, Forde, Wrotham, Kent
Daughter of Henry Forde and Maud de Echingham
15th/16th Centuries
Sir John Clarke I
Born 1394
Died 1482
Married Lady Susan Agnes Forde
Born 1399, Kent
Died 1482, Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent
Forde Hall (later Ford Place) is an English Manor House in Wrotham Kent
Baron John Whitfield Clarke, Baron of the Exchequer (Sir John II)
Born 1425 or May 1420) Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent
Died Dec. 9 (or 18), 1480, Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent
Married about 1439-1445, Kent : Lady Alice Elizabeth Tatesham
Born August 1425, Fawnes Manor, Tatesham, Kent
Died Oct. 12, 1489
Parents: Talran Tatesham (1400-1485) and Alice McCoy (1405-1480
Source: St. George Church Ancient Parish, Wrotham, original registers 1558
Sir John Forde Clarke III, Baron of Forde Hall; Baron of Exchequer
Born August 6, 1448, Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent
Died July 6, 1497, Kent St George Church, Great Bromley
Married 1470, Wrotham : Lady Lucia (Lucy) Moyle (Lucombe)
Born May 10, 1450 Canterbury, Kent (alt. London)
Died Jan. 20, 1491 Wrotham Canterbury Cathedral Clooister
Lucia's father, Walter, was commissioner for Kent. Appointed 1454 Judge of the King's Bench, until death. Knighted 1465. Lucy is named in his will.
Sir James Clarke, Baron of the Exchequer
Born 1480 (alt 1485), Wrotham, Kent
Died: Sept. 20, 1554
Married: 1508, Forde, Wrotham, Kent: Elizabeth (De Ferrers) Clarke
Born 1486, Warwickshire
Died Oct. 16, 1558
Est. 10+ children
George Thomas Clarke, Gent.
Born: 1510
Died: March 6, 1559 Wrotham, Kent
Married: 1508, Forde, Wrotham, Kent: Elizabeth Joan Wilsforde
Born 1517 Cranbrook, Kent
Died 1570 Wrotham, Kent
James Thomas Clarke, Gent.
Born July 5, 1537, East Farleigh, Kent
Died July 13, 1614 East Farleigh, Kent (buried here)
Married: May 27, 1565 to Mary Saxby (Daughter of Sir Edward Saxby, Baron of the Exchequer and Elizabeth Fisher)
Born 1542 East Farleigh, Kent
Died 1615 Surrey
4 sons (Walter; William; Peter; Edward) & 4 daughters (Elizabeth; Anne; Grace; Barbara)
James Clark, Gent. left a will on 13 July 1614. His estate was probated on 1 Nov. 1614
William Edward Clarke, Esq.
Born Dec. 30, 1569 East Farleigh, Kent
Died June 12, 1610 St Andrew. Holborn, Middlesex
Married: Feb 10, 1599, St. Andrews, London to Mary Roberte (Robarte) Weston
Born 1579
Died 1614
Daughter of Sir Jerome and Lady Mary Cave Weston
Some of their children emigrated to British Colonial America in the early 1600s. One son, Capt. Jeremiah Clarke, became Governor of Rhode Island (1605-1651 Died Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
17th/18th Centuries
James Thomas Clarke (Clark), Gent.
Born 1602 (or 1608), London
Died 1674 Stratford, Fairfield, CT (British Colonial America)
Married: Nov. 7, 1633, London to Sarah Harvey
Born 1611
Died 1689
Came to British Colonial America 1637, New Haven CT aboard the “Hector”
Children: Samuel Clark, born 1626; James Clark II, born 1641; Mary Clark, 1645-1722; Ebenezer Benjamin Clark, born 1651
Mary Clark
Daughter of James & Sarah
Born Jan 6, 1645 New Haven, CT
Died Feb 3, 1722 New Haven Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT Married 1660, New Haven CT to William Chatterton
Born 1634 (arrived America in 1657))
Died Feb 1, 1700, New Haven
Mercy Chatterton (Francis)
Daughter of Mary and William
Born: Nov. 22, 1662 Hartford, CT
Died: Oct. 13, 1745 Hartford, CT
Married: 16 January, 1683 Hartford, CT to Sgt. John Francis
Born Sept. 4, 1658
Died Dec. 28, 1711
Numerous children, including 2nd-born James Francis, born 1685
James Francis
Born Oct. 13, 1685 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
Died 1756 Berlin, Hartford, CT
Married: Nov 3, 1713 (first wife) to Elizabeth Howard
Born Sept. 8, 1689 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
Died April 13, 1728 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
3 Children: Ann (born Aug 23, 1714), Elizabeth and Mary
Ann Francis
Daughter of James & Elizabeth
Born Aug 23, 1714, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT, British Colonial America Died Sept 5, 1757, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT, British Colonial America Married: Jan 8, 1736 to Zebulon Goodrich (prominent family in England)
Born Nov 22, 1713 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
Died July 9, 1788 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
8 Children: Including 2nd born Elizabeth Goodrich (born 1739)
Elizabeth Goodrich
Daughter of Anne and Zebulon
Born June 4, 1739 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT, British Colonial America Died June 22, 1807 Ontario, New York, USA
Married: Nov. 23, 1758, Newington, Hartford CT to Maj. Thomas Lusk Jr.
Born May 2, 1738 Farmington, Hartford, CT
Died Feb 16, 1806 Bloomfield, Ontario, New York
Maj. Thomas Lusk Jr. was an officer in the American Revolution, earning a commendation from the Governor.
8 Children
18th/19th Century +
Thomas Lusk III
Born July 8, 1780 West Stockbridge, Berkshire, MA
Died June 6, 1845, Spencer, IN
Married: name/date uncertain
4 children: Daniel, Sarah, Thomas IV and Uzal
Thomas (Septus) Lusk IV
Born 1807 New York
Died (uncertain)
Lived in Ohio Township, Spencer, IN
Married: Mary Elizabeth Bowlin
Born Jan 28, 1806, Virginia
Died March 25, 1885 Rockport, IN
7 children: Including Margaret V. Lusk, 1850-1913
Margaret V. Lusk
Daughter of Thomas & Mary
Born 1850 Ohio Township, Spencer, Indiana
Died Nov. 25, 1913
Married: Dec. 16,1869 Spencer, IN to Samuel Melvin Savage
Born May 1847 Indiana
Died Jan 30, 1910 Rockport, IN
6 children: Including Elizabeth Savage
(also: Sophia, Thomas, Louis Napoleon and James)
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