Author talk:Louisa Lane Clarke

Sources edit

Probate edit

  • Calendar of the Grants ... 1884, vol. C, p. 190

CLARKE Louisa Lane (otherwise Louisa). Personal Estate £6,585 15s. 4d. 23 February. The Will of Louisa Lane Clarke, otherwise Louisa Clarke late of L'Hyvreuse in the Parish of St. Peter Port in the Island of Guernsey Widow who died 9 November 1883 at L'Hyvreuse was proved at the Principal Registry by the Reverend John Le Mesurier of Bembridge in the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton Clerk and John Alfred Le Mesurier Hayward of 9 Malcolm-street Cambridge in the County of Cambridge Esquire the Nephew the Executors

Census edit

  • 1871 Guernsey

Name: Louisa Lane Clarke
Age: 58
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: England
Civil Parish: St Peter Port
Town: St Peter Port
Registration district: Guernsey
Sub-registration district: A
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Neighbors:
Household schedule number: 81
Piece: 5765
Folio: 69
Page Number: 16
Household Members:
Name Age
Louisa Lane Clarke 58
Theodora L Lane Clarke 20
Emily Smythe 10
Edith Smythe 8
Ada Mary Stacey 7
Edith Harriet Evans 4
Sarah Hayward 28
Matilda Bird 19

  • 1851 Guernsey

Name: Louisa Clarke
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Thomas Clarke
Gender: Female
Where born: Guernsey, Channel Islands
Civil Parish or Township: St Peter Port
Town: St Peter Port
Registration district: Guernsey
ED, institution, or vessel: 5d
Piece: 2530
Folio: 536
Page Number: 32
Household schedule number: 142
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Clarke 46
Louisa Clarke 38
Theodora Clarke 3 Wks
Sophia Hughes 55

Family trees edit

  • Grimm Family Tree

Name: Louisa Clarke
Spouse: John Thomas Clarke
Father: Ambrose Lane (Major-General)
Mother: Elizabeth Le Mesurier
Children: Theodora Lane Clarke
Birth: 1813 Guernsey Channel Islands
Death: 11/08/1883 Guernsey Channel Islands

Also as "Louisa Jane Lane Clarke"

Birth more likely to be England, as next couple of siblings are born or died there or Ireland, and family births not at Guernsey until mid 1820s