Mary Were Clarke

Mary Were Clarke (1754-1844) was the wife of Richard Hall Clarke (1750-1821) of Bridwell, near Uffculme, Devon. He was a founding member of the Society of Unitarian Christians for the West of England in September 1792.  His sister, Mary, married John Rowe, who served for many years as one of the ministers at Lewin’s Mead Unitarian Chapel in Bristol.  See W. P. Authers, ed., Authers, W. P, ed.  Diary of a Devonshire squire 1844: The journal of John Were Clarke, Squire, of Bridwell, Uffculme.   Tiverton:  W. P. Authers, 1982), 4, 8, 28, 42; Priscilla Flower-Smith, “Nonconformity in Uffculme, 1655-1715,” in Uffculme: A Peculiar Parish, ed. Peter Wyatt and Robin Stanes (Uffculme:  Uffculme Archive Group, 1997), 151; Christine Snell,  “Uffculme United Reformed Church,” in Uffculme: A Culm Valley Parish (Uffculme: Uffculme Local History Group, 1988), 60; Jerom Murch, A History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of England (London: Hunter, 1835), 132.