Thanks, we believe that Samuel Clarke is the "male child"......so we have his birth, his marriage, newspaper reports of the assault, and his court appearance, but not his death......so far.....what we really need is a record of his time in jail, and of his release.....where DID he go ??…...

We believe that Samuel Clarke's parents were Bernard Clarke and Sarah Allan, hence the younger Samuel having the middle name Allan.....Samuel snr. was born in 1865.....

Thank you, Yes, Samuel Allan Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Susannah McDowell......he was born at Dundrum, Co Down, Ireland in 1897/98 before Susannah fled to Scotland.....he was Annie Smith Clarke's half brother.....

Thanks for that.....we have been looking for about ten years now, and will never give up.....maybe one day we will find him......

Yes, Hugh Joseph Clarke (1900-1972) married Martha Calvert.....they were my wife's grandparents......she died in 1931.....he re- married to Julia Monaghan....

That's Susannah's first marriage.....Samuel Clarke went to jail in about 1900, for a serious assault on her, and was never heard of again...….the older members of the family never spoke of him, but must have known what happened to him, sadly they are all gone now......

Yes, that is Susannah's second marriage, Annie Smith Clarke was born in 1910, at Ardrossan…..Robert Sanders may, or may not have been her father.....he is not named on her birth certificate....Anne McDowell, maiden name Smyth or Smith was Susannah's mother.....

Thanks for that.....it gets a bit complicated.....Annie Smith Clarke's mother was Susannah McDowell...her second husband's name was SANDERS.....she was first married to the elusive Samuel Clarke, who, she states on Annie's birth certificate "is not the father of this child".....Samuel Clar...

Excellent news !!....just tried it....no problems....

Mmmhhh…..Just to confuse things, I see that there is a another Robert Creed, born 1975 at Irvine, so perhaps Robert Sanders Creed had a son....there is also a Bobby Creed, from Saltcoats, maybe the same person, on that Facebook thingy...Mmmhhh…..

Thanks for that.....He has been on our tree for a while now, and someone said recently, that they thought he was married, and asked if I knew....the marriage on SP does look as though it could be him....maybe someone will pick up on it...…...

Trying to find out if Robert Creed (possible middle name Sanders) was married.....he was born 1937 Ardrossan and died 2003 Saltcoats….possible marriage on SP 1972 Kilmarnock to Mary Dalziel Richmond.....how to tell if it is him, without ordering the certificate ?......