Person Sheet
NameMary Clarke
Birth Dateabt 1803
Birth PlaceNewton-by-Frodsham, Cheshire, England
Birth Memoor possibly Newton-by-Daresbury, Cheshire, England
Reside Date6 Jun 18411109 Age: 38
Reside PlaceKeckwick, Cheshire, England
Reside Date30 Mar 18511110 Age: 48
Reside PlaceNorton, Cheshire, England
Reside Memoage 47, wife of William Clare
Reside Date7 Apr 18611111 Age: 58
Reside PlaceHalton, Cheshire, England
Reside Memoage 58
Reside Date2 Apr 18711112 Age: 68
Reside Place14 Bridgewater St, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
Reside Memoage 68
Reside Date3 Apr 18811113 Age: 78
Reside PlaceLittle Shepcroft Farm, Appleton, Cheshire, England
Reside Memoage 78. See notes.
FatherJoseph Clarke
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 1798
Birth PlaceNewton-by-Daresbury, Cheshire, England
Death Date1 Jan 1846 Age: 48
Death PlaceCheshire, England
Burial DateJan 1846
Burial PlaceAll Saints, Daresbury, Cheshire, England
OccupationAgricultural Labourer1090
FatherWilliam Heesham (1757-1840)
MotherHannah Plant (~1755-1800)
Marr Date5 Nov 18221092
Marr PlaceRuncorn, Cheshire, England
Birth Dateabt 1818
Birth PlaceAppleton, Cheshire, England
OccupationAgricultural Labourer, Gamekeeper, General Labourer
FatherWilliam Clare
Marr Date8 Oct 1848
Marr PlaceSt Paul's, Warrington, Cheshire, England
Marr Memo[Marriages 1848 Dec Warrington 20 867; CheshireBMD C27/2/385 William Clare m. Mary Hesham formerly Clarke]
Notes for Mary Clarke
Year of birth 1806 inferred from 1841 census. Could be as early as June 1801. Later censuses fix it closer to 1803.
A couple of years after the death of Mary Heesom's father William Heesham on 1 Jan 1846, her widow Mary Hesham formerly Clarke married a younger man William Clare at Warrington St Paul's in 1848. This is confirmed by 1849 probate records (filed under William Heesom at Cheshire record office), which mention Mary Clare as William Hessom's widow and relict, and William Clare as her husband.
In the 1881 census, we can find in one household (Little Shepcroft Farm, Appleton), Peter and Mary Clare, their youngest sons Thomas and Harry, along with Peter's elder brother William and his wife Mary.
The ages and places of birth of this William and Mary match (closely enough) the details given by William and Mary in the 1851 census (when Mary's youngest son John Heesom was still living with them), as well as the 1861 and 1871 censuses, so we can be confident it's the same couple.
So the elder Mary at Little Shepcroft Farm in 1881 was Peter's sister-in-law AND mother-in-law! She married her son-in-law's elder brother!
SP 18 Jul 2008
A couple of years after the death of Mary Heesom's father William Heesham on 1 Jan 1846, her widow Mary Hesham formerly Clarke married a younger man William Clare at Warrington St Paul's in 1848. This is confirmed by 1849 probate records (filed under William Heesom at Cheshire record office), which mention Mary Clare as William Hessom's widow and relict, and William Clare as her husband.
In the 1881 census, we can find in one household (Little Shepcroft Farm, Appleton), Peter and Mary Clare, their youngest sons Thomas and Harry, along with Peter's elder brother William and his wife Mary.
The ages and places of birth of this William and Mary match (closely enough) the details given by William and Mary in the 1851 census (when Mary's youngest son John Heesom was still living with them), as well as the 1861 and 1871 censuses, so we can be confident it's the same couple.
So the elder Mary at Little Shepcroft Farm in 1881 was Peter's sister-in-law AND mother-in-law! She married her son-in-law's elder brother!
SP 18 Jul 2008