Martha CLARE
1841 - 1903 (62 years)-
Name Martha CLARE Birth 19 Mar 1841 36 Scotland Rd, Warrington, Lancs, England 
[1] - Daughter of James Clare and Elizabeth Clare formerly Roylance, father a white smith, registered at Warrington 26 July 1841 by her mother.
Gender Female 
Census1851 Scotland Rd, Warrington, Lancashire, England [2] Census1901 67 Athol Road, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England [3] Death 4 May 1903 67 Athol Road, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England [4] Person ID I70 Our Family Tree Last Modified 15 May 2017
Father James CLARE, b. Abt 1820 d. 1873, Warrington, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 53 years) Mother Elizabeth RYLANCE, b. 1821, Warrington, Lancashire, England d. 1848, Warrington, Lancashire, England (Age 27 years) Marriage 1841 Warrington St Elphin, Lancashire, England [5] Family ID F103 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thomas SUTCLIFFE, b. 3 May 1840, Ovenden, Halifax, Yorkshire, England d. Between 1898 and 1902, Heaton(?), Bradford, Yorkshire, England (Age 57 years) Marriage 29 Aug 1868 Bradford St Peter, Yorkshire, England [6, 7] - He was 28, a bachelor, a gardener, resident of Horton Bradford, son of John Sutcliffe, a gardener. She as 26, a spinster, a servant resident Manningham, daughter of Joseph Clare, a blacksmith. Witnesses were William Holmes and Christopher Gibson. The source is a copy of the original certificate obtained in 1991.
Children 1. Annie SUTCLIFFE, b. 14 Apr 1870, Armley Ridge, Yorkshire, England d. 15 Jan 1933, Eccleshill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England (Age 62 years)2. Arthur SUTCLIFFE, b. Abt 1875, Birkenshaw, Bradford, Yorks, England d. Abt 1884 (Age ~ 9 years)Family ID F23 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 May 2017
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Event Map 
Birth - 19 Mar 1841 - 36 Scotland Rd, Warrington, Lancs, England 
Census - 1851 - Scotland Rd, Warrington, Lancashire, England 
Marriage - 29 Aug 1868 - Bradford St Peter, Yorkshire, England 
Census - 1901 - 67 Athol Road, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England Death - 4 May 1903 - 67 Athol Road, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Documents 
Our Family History - Marriage of Thomas Sutcliffe and Martha Clare 1868
Histories 
Our Family History - Research on the Ancestry of Martha Clare (1841-1903)
Martha CLARE #70 was my mother's maternal grandmother. She married Thomas SUTCLIFFE #69 at Bradford in 1868. They had two children, Annie #71, who married William BALL #78, and Arthur #304, who died in childhood. Annie and William were my mother’s parents.
Martha's farther, James CLARE seems to have been an interesting character. He was married twice. His first wife Elizabeth, Martha's mother, died at the young age of 28. Within a matter of weeks James had married Mary TWISS, the daughter of his next-door neighbour. At the time Mary had two children of her own, apparently both illegitimate. This very quick remarriage suggests that James and Mary were on extremely friendly terms even before Elizabeth's untimely death. James worked for much of his life as a whitesmith, meaning that he worked with metals such as tin and pewter. Later in life we believe that he owned and ran a pub in the centre of Warrington (possibly called the Wheatsheaf), so had apparently by then become reasonably affluent.
This research traces Martha's parentage.
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Notes - She was a servant living at Manningham, Bradford, at the time of her marriage. Elsewhere ECH reports her birth as in 1839. She was 26 on marriage in 1868, so on this evidence would have been born about 1842. Died at 185, Highgate, Heaton.
In 1861 I think she was at 90 Everton Road, Chorlton Upon Medlock, Lancashire, in the home of John and Elizabeth Shoobridge. She was recorded as a general servant, said to be aged 20, born in Warrington. How she came to more to Bradford is unclear but no doubt was related to her employment.
- She was a servant living at Manningham, Bradford, at the time of her marriage. Elsewhere ECH reports her birth as in 1839. She was 26 on marriage in 1868, so on this evidence would have been born about 1842. Died at 185, Highgate, Heaton.
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