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 20 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. her family paintings to lier son-in-law), who d. 12th May, 1702, he had one daughter, I. Hester, m. Mr. Harris, of Mark, co. Somerset. By Alice, his second wife, who was buried at Weston Zoyland, 26th August, 1710, he had two other daughters, II. Joan, baptised at Weston Zoyland, 2nd April, 1704, buried there 26th April, 1712. III. Mary, baptised at Weston Zoyland, 15th January, 1708. By Hester, his third wife, who survived him, and whose wiU was proved at Wells, 24th March, 1766, he had further issue, a son and five daughters, I. WiiiiAM, of whom hereafter. IV. Hester, baptised 21st March, 1718, m. Mr. Napper. T. Jane, baptised 3rd December, 1720, buried 7th May, 1731. VI. Christiana, baptised 4th May, 1723, m. Mr. Brewer. VII. Rachel, baptised 2nd February, 1724, buried 12th October, 1736. VIII. Joan, baptised 6th June, 1729, m. 28th October, 1749, Thomas Martin, Esq. of Middlezoy. Philip Clarke, d. 11th December, 1742, aged 69, and was buried at Weston Zoyland. His only son, William Claeee, of Willakc; was bap- tised at Weston Zoyland, 27th December, 1726, and resided at his father's place near Middlezoy, where he was married, and his eldest son was born. By Elizabeth, his first wife, who was buried 23rd April, 1762, he had two sons and three daughters, I. William, of whom hereafter. II. Gabriel, baptised 26th December, 1767. I. Elizabeth, baptised 14th October, and buried 12th November, 1754. II. Elizabeth, baptised 14th Sepitember, 1755. III. Grice, baptised 5th January, 1760. William Clarke m. secondly, by licence dated 26th July, 1762, Mrs. Mary Keene, but by her, who was buried 30th December, 1789, had no issue. He d. March, 1771, and was buried 29th of that month in the same place, with his father and mother ; his eldest son, William Claeke, of Weston Zoyland, s. to his father's lands, and served as church- warden for Weston Zoyland, 1784. He m. by licence, dated 2nd May, 1771, Amy Sparke, of Chedzoy, near Bridgwater, co. Somerset, and had issue, I. William, of whom hereafter. II. John, baptised 14th March, 1776, accidentally killed near Bridgwater. III. Joseph, of Wiveliscombe, co. Som- erset, baptised 2nd December, 1779, had two sons, 1 Joseph, d. s.p. ; 2 William, of Falmouth, Cornwall, England, m. and had issue, IV. Richard Perry, of Barnstaple, co. Devon, England, m. Mary Snow, of Marley, and had, 1. Richard Perry (Rev.), m. and had issue; 2. John, d. s.p. ; 3. Charles Snow, of Barn- staple, m. and had issue. William Clarke d. intestate. His eldest son, William Claeke, of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, London, baptised 11th July, 1772, at Weston Zoyland, settled when young in London, and subsequently resided at Barnstaple, co. Devon. He m. 18th February, 1796, Sarah Turner, of Weston Zoyland, and had issue, I. Charles, of Chelsea, co. Middlesex. England, m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Howe, of Merridge, near Bridg- water, and d. March, 1878, leaving two surviving sons and four daughters. II. William John Tueneb (Hon.), of whom hereafter. III. Lewis, of Essenden, Victoria, Australia, left two sons and seven daughters. I. Sarah Turner, m. Richard Comer, of West BeiTuudas, and d. s.p., 1843. II. Caroline, m. Mr. Mead. III. Louisa, m. James Hearn, formerly of Lower Petherton, co. Somerset, and afterwards of Thorngrove, and d. at her residence at Brunswick, May, 1890, aged 78, leaving issue four sons and four daughters, several of the sons being well known amongst pas- toralists. She had lived in the colony of Victoria for forty-nine years, and survived her husband many years'. William Clarke d. 1819. His second son, Hon. William John Titenee Claeee, Member of the Legislative Council of Victoria, formerly of Fivehead, co. Somer- set, went to Australia in 1840, settled first in Tasmania, and afterwards at Victoria, where he acquired a great estate. He m. Eliza, daughter of Rev. George Pyke Dow- ling, of Puckington, co. Somerset (by Anne Biggs, his wife, of an old and wealthy family of Bristol merchants), and had issue, I. William John (Hon. Sir), Bart, of Bupei'tswood. II. Thomas Biggs, b. 1833, settled in Australia, m. Hannah, daughter of Henric Nicholas, Esq. of Caywood, Tasmania, and d. leaving issue four sons and three daughters. III. Joseph, of Mandeville Hall (see next article). The Hon. W. J. T. Clarke d. in 1870. Arms — Or, two bars az., between four escallops, three in chief and one in base, gu., with two flaunches of the second. Crest — In front of a dexter arm embowed in armour, the hand in a gauntlet ppr., grasping an arrow in bend sinister or, flighted arg., three escallops also or. Motto — Signum quserens in vellere. Residence — Rupertswood, co. Bourke, Vic- toria, Australia.