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Interested in finding decendents

Posted: 2 Sep 2013 2:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
My great grandfather was Robert Sheriff Clark (b. 1874 d.1955) My mother's records from 1900 - 1930 census confirm he came from Canada in 1892 at the age of 18 and his parents were from Scotland. He was married to Lucy Odell who d. 1918. Can anyone help us trace our roots back

Re: Interested in finding decendents

Posted: 2 Nov 2014 5:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
only find one reference to him with his full name


U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Robert Sheriff Clark


Name:Robert Sheriff Clark

County:Sussex

State:New Jersey

Birth Date:14 Dec 1875

Race:White

signed in 1918
occupation gardener
next of kin Lucy Jane Clark of Lafayette NJ
not native born
not naturalized citizen
not a declared alien

BUT doesn't say where he was born and father citizen ship not given

1900 census, just married to Lucy, in the USA for 8 years so 1892 although looks like 1882 then over written 1892....but born Feb 1874



1910 United States Federal Census
about Robert S Clark

Name:Robert S Clark

Age in 1910:36

Birth Year:abt 1874

Birthplace:Scotland

Home in 1910:Independence, Warren, New Jersey

Race:White

Gender:Male

Immigration Year:1882

Relation to Head of House:Head

Marital Status:Married

Spouse's Name:Lucy J Clark

Father's Birthplace:Scotland

Mother's Birthplace:Scotland

Household Members:
Robert S Clark 36
Lucy J Clark 32 b NY, mrd 510 yrs, 5 children 5 living
Albert A Clark 9 children all born NY
Clinton S Clark 6
Robert J Clark 4
William H Clark 2
Kenneth Clark 0[1/12]
Herbert V Odell 22 br in law, b NY
Nancy Odell 62 mother in law, widow, 4 children 4 living, b NY


1920 census, immigrated 1895


Robert S Clark 43 widow, machinist zinc mine
Clinton S Clark 16
R James Clark 15[13]
William V Clark 11
Kenneth Clark 9
J Alden Clark 8
Clifford Clark 6
Lucy J Clark 4[4 4/12]
Dorothy M Clark 2[2 8/12]



1930 census also says 1895 as immigration date


immigration date would vary if he gave his date of entering USA (1895)and not the date he left Scotland (1882?)


will be hard to pinpoint him as Robert Clark not exactly unique.

his marriage record may give his parents name.
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