Ancestry of
William Mather Clarke

(1805–1878)

William Mather Clarke

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Clarke 
  • Mother:
  • Roxana Phelps   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1805 
  • Birth Location:
  • Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Nov 1878 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Notes: 

  • William M. Clarke was a New York broker on Wall Street with the firm Delaney, Iselin and Clarke. His residence was at the Berkeley House near Central Park in New York City.

• Marriages for William Mather Clarke

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  • Spouse:
  • Isabella Staples
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1836

• Sources for William Mather Clarke

  • ¹ Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 02 SEP 1931, p. 15, Obituary for daughter Isabel Clarke Forbes.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Litchfield, p. 52, Birth record for William Mather Clark.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1850, New York Ward 15 Eastern Half, Image 107 of 269.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1870, New York Ward 21, Dist. 21, p. 19, Image 19 of 77.
  • ⁵ New York Marriages, 1686-1980, Marriage record for Frank Blackwell Forbes and daughter Isabel Clarke.
  • ⁶ New York Tribune (New York, New York), 22 NOV 1878, p. 1, Obituary for William M Clarke.
  • ⁷ New York, U.S., State Census, 1855, New York County, New York City, Ward 21, E.D. 1, Image 22 of 78.
  • ⁸ The New York City Directory, 1852-1853, 107.
  • ⁹ U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, 1857, New York City Directory, p. 156.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, New York Evening Post, 09 MAY 1867, Wedding of Frank B Forbes and daughter Isabel Clarke.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 21 SEP 1923, Application for daughter Isabel Clarke Forbes.
  • ¹² Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 1, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 239.
  • ¹³ Stiles, Henry R., M.D., A Supplement to the History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., Containing Corrections and Additions, Albany: J. Munsell (1863), 94.