Roger Clarke's Family Web-Site

This site contains information and documents about the forebears of Roger Anthony Clarke b. 5 Oct 1949, and Carole Judith Waters (nee Clarke) b. 1 Jan 1955.

Carole and Roger

Here is what I call Carole's and my FamilyWeb - which identifies our ancestors up to the 16 great-great-grandparents. Details about the ancestors in some of these lines are provided below. A bit more about us is at the end of this page.

Our Father - Edward Anthony (Tony) Clarke (1919-2010)

Tony merits his own web-page (link above), but here are some tidbits:

• Tony's Story in his own words
• Tony's World War II:
  • Overview – Jan 1940 to Jun 1946
  • 'A Dunkirk Hero(??) Remembers' – late May 1940
  • 'All at Sea' – Dec 1940 to Feb 1941
  • Greece and Crete – 28 Mar to 21 May 1941
• Tony's Choirs

Our Grandfather on Tony's Side

• Tony's father, Willie Tony Clarke (1892-1955), including:
  • Willie Tony's eldest son, Fred Clarke (1917-2004).
    This is Anne Kratzmann's line, the main family researcher in the last decade (Acknowledgements below).

Our Great-Grandfather on Tony's Side

• This is interesting one - Anthony Jacques Cheeper / Clarke (1837-1918)
  He had 33-34 children by 5 wives, and has over 200 known descendants (that we've tracked down). From the perspective of Tony and his siblings, that included 48 first cousins – 28 half-first cousins (all Cheepers, none of whom they knew of), as well as 20 full first cousins (few of whom they ever met, and indeed few of whom they knew of)
• AJC's families were with:
  • Catherine Spilsbury (10 children, 1858-c.1877), and 44 known descendants
  • Mary Wanless (3 children, 1872-1882), and 32 known descendants, incl. Geoff Clarke (Acknowledgements below)
  • Emma Terry (4 children, 1882-c.1895), and 29 known descendants
  • Kate Davidge (11 children, 1883-c. 1904), and 131 known descendants – our line
  • Amy Clark (5-6 children, 1901-c.1912), and 2 known descendants

Our Grandmother on Tony's Side

• Tony's mother, Ethel Mary Haskins (1896-1968)
• the index page for the Haskins tree as a whole
• the early Haskins (as far back as 1706)
• Joseph Haskins (1840-1913) and the more busy of his progeny:
  • Harry Haskins (1867-1943) – something of a lost line
  • Frederick Haskins (1870-1951) – our substantial line
    • the Cecil Haskins Line since 1894, incl. Peter Haskins (Acknowledgements below)
    • the Queenie Haskins/Clarke Line since 1896 – our line
    • the Freda Haskins/Miller Line since 1905
  • Teddy Haskins (1875-1952) and the Bennetts
• Joseph's brother John Haskins (1837-1917) – the Gloucestershire cousins
• earlier lines:
  • the Roberts Line (back to c. 1750)
• the Ward Line (back to 1735)
• the Darman Line (back to c. 1745)

Our Mother - Irene Gladys Whiteman/Clarke (1926-2004)

• Rene's own page
• her family-lines:
  • the index page for the Whiteman tree as a whole (Rene's father's father's father, etc. - bottom-left corner of Roger and Carole's FamilyWeb):
    • The Upper Whiteman Line (three generations, from the 1790s to about the 1930s)
      • The Dunkley Line – of the 4th child of James Whiteman 1816/17-1899 and Caroline Wagstaff 1820-1893
      • The Henry William Line – the 8th child of James and Caroline:
        • The Herbert Smart Family
        • The Ted Whiteman Family
        • The James Whiteman Family (Rene's father, and my grandfather)
  • the Wagstaff line (Rene's father's father's mother):
    • the upper line (the great-grand-mother who married the Whiteman in 1838)
    • the lower line (containing Rene's only other known blood-relations)
  • the Russell line (Rene's mother's father - centre-right of R&C's FamilyWeb)
  • the Winfield line (Rene's mother's mother - bottom-right corner of R&C's FamilyWeb)

A Little About Tony and Rene's Descendants

1. Roger Clarke, b. 5 October 1949
   m. Linda Spinaze (b. 30 August 1952) on 15 January 1977
   1. Kasia Siobhan Clarke, b. 6 November 1980
      m. Brendan BAIL, 19 March 2005 – with lots of Wedding photos
      1. Troy Anthony Bail, 14 April 2009
      2. Misha Lee Bail, 6 March 2013
   2. Russell Anthony (Whiteman Spinaze) Clarke, b. 26 May 1983
      m. Karen Hopper, 31 January 2014 – with lots of Wedding photos
      1. Darius Aksel Clarke, 21 December 2017
      2. Xavier Wulfric Clarke, 5 November 2020
2. Carole Judith Clarke, b. 1 January 1955
   m. Peter Waters (b. 18 April 1953) on 6 May 1989
   1. Owen Charles Waters, b. 18 July 1990
   2. Lachlan Michael Waters, b. 19 March 1992

Acknowledgements

Some of the information on the site results from my own research. A lot of it of course comes from research undertaken by other people, in particular:

• all of the research on the older Haskins lines was undertaken by Peter Haskins in the 1980s, and checked again in 2007. Anne Kratzmann added greatly to it from about 2002. Trisha Bennett (once she discovered us in February 2008) has added lots more.
• the Anthony Jacques Cheeper/Clarke lines were completely cut off from one another.Geoff Clarke of Walton-on-Thames discovered quite a few elements for some of the families during the 1980s, but we didn't achieve contact until the end of 2003. I started about 1990, but the bulk of the information on this site was discovered by Anne Kratzmann from Kingaroy. Much of her foundation work was done between 2000 and 2003, and once we had Geoff's information, we were able to cross-check it with ours, and consolidate those aspects that we didn't already have. Multiple additional individuals, and whole new lines, were discovered and added from 2004 to 2010
• after Anne proved the existence of a large Canadian branch in 2009, we achieved contact, and additional information was provided by Frank Conrick, Ed Hitchinson, and Gordon Foster, all of Ontario
• the Whiteman lines (my mother's side) started with my own work based on interviews with my mother, but Anne Kratzmann provided the data for the Winfield line and much detail in many other branches. The Wagstaff and Irons lines were greatly expanded by the work of Catherine and Jane Gravelle. The Dunkley line was greatly expanded when Caroline Dickens discovered the site in October 2008

Most of the analysis and text is my responsibility alone. Given the scale of the effort involved, it inevitably contains lots of errors. Please advise me of any errors that are problematical and need to be fixed!! And please feel free to provide additional information about the clan.

This is the home-page of Roger Clarke's Family Web-Site

Contact: Roger Clarke

Created: 2 October 2005; Last Amended: 10 November 2008 (added Tony's Choirs), 31 December 2008 (12 more Canadian Cheeper/Spilsburies), rev. 17 May 2009 (the Amy Clark/Clarke family), 1 February 2010 (Tony's death), 6 March 2011, 29 Dec 2017 (Darius), 9 Nov 2020 (Xavier)