Robert Clerk

If ever in Tasmania, look up this collection! :: http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=S&id=N... for photos!

Link to photo: http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=617996

There is a collection of letters from Robert Clerk to William Talbot about the Malahide estate:

Papers of Richard Gilbert Talbot, brother of the 4th Baron, 1831-64 Shelfmarks: MSS. Talbot c. 34 (fols. 1-41), d. 4, e. 16, f. 4

Volume of copies of letters from Robert Clerk, manager of the Malahide estate in Tasmania, 1853-64 Shelfmark: MS. Talbot d. 4 Extent: 120 leaves

Index: CLERK (Robert) agent for Talbot estate, Malahide, Tasmania

       Copies of letters to R.G. Talbot, 1853-64
           MS. Talbot d. 4

Catalogue of the papers of the Talbot family, Barons Talbot de Malahide, 13th-20th cent. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1987

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/talbot...

--------------------------- (It seems there must be another Robert Clerk in Australia in 1841 and before that - he is referred to as "Secretary to the Government", but our Robert would only be 19 years old at this time)

---------------------------- (James Andrews) left Scotland in 1832 to join his uncle, Mr. Charles Peters, at ibn gal, who had sent for him and his widowed mother. After a period of farming he joined the late Mr. Robert Clerk, and they worked Malahide estate in partnership.

Andrews' Obit:

   ABOUT PEOPLE. (1920, March 6). Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900-1954), p. 8 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved December 31, 2010, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51140911

----------------------------- The late Mr. Robert Clerk, who managed Malahide, at Flngal, for the late Lord Talbot, and when he retired to reside in Hobart was a Commissioner of Escheat, and for some years Sergeant-at-Arms at the House of Assembly.

Agnes Dora Clerk's Obituary: OBITUARY. (1934, March 28). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954), p. 7. Retrieved December 30, 2010, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24921907

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THE SERJEANT-AT-ARMS. (To the Editor.) Sir,-Your contributor "Argus," who was doubtless brought up at Court, is far more interesting in the dress of the serjeant-at-arms than the Hobart people, who do not care anything about the matter. I would suggest to your correspondent that the official in question; not being in the heyday of youth, may have been afraid to don the silk stockings during the winter season, and indeed it would be nothing short of cruelty to ask even a serjeant-at-arms to go about so lightly clad during the present severe weather. Then, again, he may have adopted the "pants" by reason of attenuated lower extremities. I have seen some clerical dignitaries in the streets whose appearance would have been vastly improved by the adoption of "pants." At any rate, there seems to be no fixed rule in this matter of dress, 

• **as the !ate Mr. Robert Clerk, who was the beau ideal of a serjeant-at-arms, used to wear the very same kind of "pants" with his Court dress...***

   THE SERJEANT-AT-ARMS. (1900, August 28). Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900-1954), p. 3 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved December 31, 2010, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35368802

--------------------------------------------------- Robert, of St. Helens, Hobart, Tasmania, born 2 Aug., 1821; married 21 Oct., 1843, Agatha Bertha, eldest daughter of J.E. Coxl Esq.,; she born 8 Feb., 1824, and has had 8 sons and 4 daughters.

Source: Royal Lineage book, pg 112

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...(Robert Clerk of Westholme, Shepton Mallet 1798-1873).

b. 2 Aug. 1821;

educ. Harrow 1836-8;

emigrated to Australia, where he improved the breed of horses and owned first pack of foxhouse; sergeant-at-arms to house of assembly Tasmania many years. d. Hobary 10 March .....

[Source: Modern English biography: containing many thousand memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850, with an index to the most interesting matter...

By Frederic Boase, 1906

Google books

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CLERKE, ROBERT

Gender: Male

Birth 1821 -

Marriage/Relationship: 1843 - LAUNCESTON, Tasmania ( COX, AGNES BERTHA )

CHILDREN:

63847 CLERK GEORGE PERCY 1852

63843 CLERK FRANKLYN GUY 1855

63848 CLERK ARTHUR TEMPLE 1855

63845 CLERK FREDERICK MALCOLM 1857

63849 CLERKE F 1858

63846 CLERK FANNY AMY 1861

63844 CLERK M 1863

63850 CLERK EDMUND HUGH 1867

[Source: http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=P&id=85595 ]

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BIRTH / DEATH (THIS MUST BE DIFFERENT)

CLERKE, ROBERT

Gender: Male

Birth 1835 - ENGLAND

Marriage/Relationship:

Death: 1890 - HOBART,Tasmania

[Source: http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?detail=1&type=P&id=80104 ]

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FAMILY STATS CONFIRMED

1 http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/individual_record.asp?re...

2 http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/individual_record.asp?re...

3 (whole family) http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/family_group_record.asp?...

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No census on any Clerks before 1857 in Tanzania.

No naturalization records from 1835-1905

No divorces from 1861 - 1920

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"of Calcutta, but at sea, Esq., bach. [d 28 Nov 1819, to Robert Clerk Esq. of Westholme House near Pilton, Somerset the brother, Estate Duty Registers], Dorothy Clerk wid. the mother survived but d without taking admon, £5000, Pts"

[Source: http://www.search.fibis.org ]

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IDENTITY

This person and their pedigree are currently documented from "The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families together with Their Paternal Ancestry" Compiled by Joseph Foster, 1885

[Source: http://www.archive.org/details/royallineageofou02fost ]