Thurston Clarke - Parents of Thurston Clarke?

I'm going to phrase this another way.

There is no reason I know of (not that I know it all) to believe this Thurston Clark is of the same family as the well known Rev Dr John Clarke, son of Thomas Clark and Rose Kerrich.

A good outline is here:

http://www.geneajourney.com/clarkej.html

... And the connection is cut. I suggest placeholder "unknown parents" be made.

Christine: Thurston appears within his “father’s”, Thomas Clarke’s, personal info on findagrave and reflects Thurston as his son, BUT then adds as a footnote, “Thurston (Tristram) was attached to this family and does not belong here unless his birth date estimate is wrong which is ten years prior to the marriage of Thomas and Rose. He as well was not recorded among the eight children that were recorded in the parish registed.”

It then states, however, that his “brother” Hugh was also not recorded, and there is no apparent dispute as to his existence. So...

This is the only indication I have to his existence and circumstance, and the only indication he belongs within my tree.

Thurston’s situation is iffy at best… it appears he may be lost in our geni’s forest of trees during another raging blizzard. If it is proclaimed “he had wandered to and fro and lost himself” only to parish again within this latest storm, then I suggest a warning be posted to avoid the data I tripped over or his reappearances will be regular and haunting… our own Homeless Horseman.

I will leave his fate to the powers-that-be and go get another piece of Halloween candy while y’all decide.

:)

Interesting seasonal note here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=AQKXGD1BS4AC&pg=PA253&lpg...

Looks like Thurston Clarke's baby daughter died, in 1622, as a result of "enchantments, witchcraftes, and charms.".

Or so the Petty Court of Ipswich, Suffolk, England determined.

Note: Ipswich is some 20 miles from Westhorpe of the Thomas Clarke / Rose Kerrich family.

Thurston Clarke was a husbandman, probably (?) illiterate. Rev Dr John Clarke was one of the most learned men of his time & place.

I agree that he is not a fit for this family. He is like my John Clark of New Haven, a Clark without knowledge of his parentage. I want to fit him in so many places, but none really make sense.

Thank you Erica Howton and John.

For Thurston Clark the parentage is tantalizing close; the extant parish registers do record his children. So perhaps there's a hope that more records from the era, in England, can be re constructed or uncovered (wills I would think).

My "guess" is that would point away definitively from the Westhorpe Clarke family. The "social picture" seems much too far away from each other for there to be a close kinship, at least that's how I interpret it currently.