Events
Date of Baptism: 17 February 1630/1.
Place of Birth: Pickering, Yorkshire.
The baptism is recorded in the parish register.
Date of Burial: uncertain.
Place of Burial: uncertain.
Burials are recorded in Ellerburne, Yorkshire, in 1706 and 1718. But a "Jane Clark vid" appears on a list of tenants of Thornton from about 1680.
Relationships
Father: John Clarke.
Mother: Ann Scales.
See the Commentary section.
Spouse: Jane Lyon. Married 14 December 1657 in Thornton Dale, Yorkshire.
The marriage is recorded in the parish register.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Francis Clarke (baptized 14 January 1671/2 in Pickering, Yorkshire - buried 18 March 1680/1 in Pickering).
Joseph Clarke (baptized 18 August 1674 in Pickering - buried 12 November 1674 in Pickering)
Jacob Clarke (baptized 25 February 1676/7 in Pickering) married Alice Eccleston 17 May 1705 in Ellerburn, Yorkshire.
Evidence
John’s baptism (Pickering parish register):
[1630]
John Clarke fil: Johanis Clarke bap: eod. die. [17 Feb]
John’s marriage (Thornton Dale parish register):
John Clarke of Wilton yeoman and Jane Lyon of Farmonby intending to marry together desired publicasen thereof might be made wch I did upon the two and twentyth and nyne and twentyth of November last and the sixt of December instant being three severall Lords dayes and were married by Luke Robinson upon the day and yeare in the margent ./
[margin] xiiije Decemb 1657
In the indenture by which John Hill purchased the manor of Thornton:
...one messuage or tenement and hempegarth and a little close of meadow or pasture ground therewith used, now or late in the tenure or occupacion of John Clarke...
Land listed as John Clarke's in the Farmanby enclosure of 1671:
In Hills Dike 2 2 4
In Westends 1 1 0
In Low High Rig 0 2 5
In Sellay Wray 0 1 12
4 2 19
Baptisms and burials of John’s children (Pickering parish register):
[1671]
Francis the son of John Clarke baptized the 14 January
[1674]
Joseph the son of John Clarke baptized 18 of August
[1674]
Joseph the Son of John Clark buried 12 of November
[1676/7]
Jacob the Son of John Clarke, of Wilton was baptized - 25 of February
[1680/1]
Frances the son of John Clarke was buried the 18 of March
Burials (Pickering parish register):
[1681]
Jan the wife of John Clarke buried 25 October
Burials (Ellerburne parish register):
[1706]
Johannes Clarke de Wilton Sepr. Aug. 29
[1718]
John Clark of Wilton bur:d Aug:st 26
Commentary
John’s parentage
John was married in 1657 and lived in Pickering. The only plausible baptism that I have found is in Pickering in 1630/1. The baptism entry records John’s father as John Clarke. The elder John Clarke’s first child seems to have been baptized at Pickering in 1626. The Pickering register records the marriage in 1624/5 of John Clarke and Ann Scales.
References
Pdfs of transcriptions of the 1668 indenture and 1671 enclosure at maltonbuildingsgroup.com.
Yorkshire parish registers and bishops' transcripts, digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 23 February 2019.