It was a very fine day. – Llife, times and background of Charles Septimus Clarke

Peatling Hall

In his 1862 diary (the only one remaining of his life in England) CS Clarke was a regular visitor to his elder brother John Sanders

Sir John Onesby

The Clarke pedigree chart gives the following information about Christopher Clarke: “Christopher born at Morton May 18th 1722 married Ann daughter of John & Jane

The Hague

The pedigree chart gives the information that Robert Clarke (born 1677 at Normanton) married Elizabeth Newbould “of the Hague Hall in the parish of Havely

The Clarke Pedigree

“There were three Brothers who came from the North Riding of Yorkshire and took large farms in the West Riding of the same County, viz

Cholera and The Deaths of John and Sarah Clarke

Due to the collapse of the banking business co-owed by Clarke, Phillips, Mitchell and Smith John Clarke was forced to sell much of his property,

The Auckland Years

In 1881 CS Clarke bought Section 28, Lot 60 at 83 Grey Street in Auckland City and he and his wife Mary Ann and his

The Coltmans

That family of Charles Septimus Clarke’s mother Sarah were the Coltmans, a “Unitarian industrialist family” from Leicester. They were nonconformists – protestants who did not

The Three Gabled House

In 1866 Clarke purchased an 80 acre farm on the south side of the harbour with a small house and cow shed. In 1868 he

The Diaries

CS Clarke kept a diary that he wrote in nearly every day from the age of 19 until just days before he died at the

Early Days in Little Omaha

“The early settlers had a very hard time as there was no regular trader, here no store, no school and no Post Office. Our first

Settling in New Zealand

In the words of Charles Septimus Clarke in his notes about the history of Leigh: “On reading a letter from an Albertland settler to a

New Parks

CS Clarke and his sisters and brothers were born at New Parks, a farming estate on the outskirts of Leicester. A history of the property

CS Clarke Early Life 1843-1862

Charles Septimus Clarke was born on the 15th of August 1843, the 7th son and youngest child of John and Sarah Clarke (nee Coltman). Like

The Queen of Beauty

In 1865, aged only 19, CS Clarke immigrated to New Zealand on the ship “Queen of Beauty”. As was befitting of his “gentleman” status in