Leicestershire – It was a very fine day.

Peatling Hall

February 2023 Raewyn Leicestershire, The Clarkes of Ulley 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

Cholera and The Deaths of John and Sarah Clarke

March 2017 Raewyn England, Leicestershire, The Clarkes of Ulley Hall

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 Coltmans

March 2017 Raewyn England, Leicestershire

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

New Parks

February 2017 Raewyn England, Leicestershire, The Clarkes of Ulley Hall

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

February 2017 Raewyn England, Leicestershire, The Life of CS Clarke

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