Thomas Clark
Thomas Clark was a Haxey man, raising a family in the parish through the 1750s and 1760s. The registers name him — with his wife Mary — as the parents of the Elizabeth Clark who married Thomas Brock in 1776; it is through that marriage that the Clarks join the Brock line.
Two of their daughters were baptised Elizabeth: the first in June 1757, who lived only two days, and a second in April 1759, who survived to marry. Of Thomas himself little more is recorded — Mary's maiden name, his own parents, and where he came from before Haxey are all unknown. A Thomas Clark was buried in the parish in 1756, too early to be this one, who was still fathering children three years later; whether that man was his father is an open question. Beyond his marriage and his children, Thomas Clark keeps his own counsel.
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Behind the Clark wall
Open research · Haxey, Isle of Axholme
Recovering Thomas Clark and Mary of Haxey opened one new generation behind Elizabeth Clark. Three threads could take it further back.
The open questions
- Mary's maiden name. No marriage of a Thomas Clark to a Mary has yet been found at Haxey or its neighbours for 1742–1762 — but that search was run with surname variants off, so it is worth retrying under “Clarke”, and looking in Mary's own parish rather than Thomas's. Her surname is the first door.
- Thomas's own parents. A Thomas Clark was buried at Haxey in 1756 — too early to be ours, who was still fathering children in 1759, but plausibly his father. That burial is a thread to pull.
- Which Thomas. Clark was a common Axholme name; any baptism proposed for Thomas himself needs a second, independent record to tie it to this family before it can be trusted.
The record that anchors the whole branch — the 1776 marriage of Thomas Brock and Elizabeth Clark, “both of this Parish” — is shown in full on Elizabeth's page.