[WED]CLAPP, SPEARING, WILKINS

[Tim Curtin]

Amazing!

But one slight problem - Harriett bap 1871 along with Hannah is stated by PR
to have been daughter of George Brown Duckett and Emma.

I would love to meet you some day, we must be related about 10 times over!

Tim Curtin
Canberra,
Australia



----- Original Message -----
From: Mathew Ducket <Mathew.Ducket1@btopenworld.com>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [WED]CLAPP, SPEARING, WILKINS


> There  seems to be a bit of confusion about all this, as a great grandson
of
> George & Harriet Clapp, perhaps I can sort it out. George Clapp 1797-1877
> married (circa 1870) Harriet Spearing 1845-1926. Three children Harriet
late
> Clark (1871-1904), George (1874-1962) & Anna late Duckett (1875-1960).
> Harriet then married her late husband's nephew Charles (son of Charles &
Ann
> nee Brown). This marriage would have been illegal in Britain at the time,
> and took place in Switzerland on 5 June 1878 in the canton of Neauchatel.
I
> have a copy of the certificate. There were three further children Charles
> (1880-1963), James (1883-1918), and Mary (1884-1905). The first family
home
> was Ashton House Farm, Chapel Allerton, this continued in Clapp occupation
> until the 1960s. However, the second family may have lived at May Tree
Farm,
> Chapel Allerton. Harriet Clapp lost her eldest daughter Harriet in 1904,
her
> youngest Mary in 1905, and her second husband in 1906. I have a full
> collection of photographs of both Clapp families.
> Harriet was the second daughter of John Spearing and Anna nee Lawrence
> (married Wedmore 12th. August 1839). I have yet to discover where the
> Wilkins connection comes from. It is interesting to note that both Harriet
> and her elder sister Mary Comer married men of their father's age, and
that
> both husbands came from Ashton (Chapel Allerton). I suspect that John
> Spearing trained as a miller at the Ashton windmill. Certainly Mary and
her
> elder and younger brothers, both Simon were born in Stoughton and baptised
> in Blackford. I have photographs of John & Anna Spearing and of their
three
> daughters, (the third, Elizabeth lived in Hereford), but none of  their
four
> surviving sons.
> I also have earlier records relating to the Clapp family.
>  Matthew Duckett
>
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