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New York connection Marguerita Clarke

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*Karen*

*Karen* Report 22 Jul 2010 20:37

Thank you for your help Jonesey

The information you have provided is great I have Marguerita living at the Broughton Road address on the marriage certificate so definately her sisters traveling on the voyages you found.

Florence also travelled in 1949 she is shown as a U.S citizen the address she leaves the UK from is correct The Grove Wallasey which is where my father grew up. Would it be possible to find the address she was travelling to?

Jonesey

Jonesey Report 22 Jul 2010 06:46

Marguerita and Ada returned to the UK in 1937. They were travelling to 20 Brougham Rd, Wallasey:

Name: Marguerita Clarke
Birth Date: abt 1911
Age: 26
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 27 Sep 1937
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage: Boston
Ship Name: Franconia
Search Ship Database: View the 'Franconia' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Cunard White Star
Official Number: 147216

Marguerita Maclachlan then returned to the UK in November 1956 heading this time for The Grange, Grove Rd, Wallasey:

Name: Marguerita Maclachlan
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1911
Age: 45
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 6 Nov 1956
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Queen Mary
Search Ship Database: View the 'Queen Mary' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Cunard Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 7602/01

In 1957 returning to the same address:

Name: Marguerita Maclachlan
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1911
Age: 46
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 4 Nov 1957
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Queen Mary
Search Ship Database: View the 'Queen Mary' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 7602/01

Same address again in 1959:

Name: Marguerita Maclachlan
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1911
Age: 48
Port of Departure: New York, New York, United States
Arrival Date: 29 Jun 1959
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Cherbourg
Ship Name: Queen Elizabeth
Search Ship Database: View the 'Queen Elizabeth' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd
Official Number: 7601/01

There also appears to be a record of her arriving in New York on 31/5/1955:

Name: Marguerita Maclachlan
Arrival Date: 31 May 1955
Ethnicity/RaceĀ­/Nationality: British (English)
Place of Origin: Britain
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Queen Elizabeth
the address she was making for was 201 East 71st St, New York.

On her arrival on 11/9/1956 she was heading for 317 Prospect Ave, Lanaroneck, NY:

Name: Marguerita Maclachlan
Arrival Date: 11 Sep 1956
Ethnicity/RaceĀ­/Nationality: British (English)
Place of Origin: Britain
Port of Departure: Southampton
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Queen Elizabeth


The New York passenger lists on Ancestry only show details up to 1957 so no details of her later arrivals are shown.

Presumably this is her family in 1911:

CLARKE, George Henry Head Married M 47 1864 Warehouseman For Raw Cotton Merchant Douglas Isle of Man VIEW
CLARKE, Martha Wife Married
20 years F 43 1868 Seacombe Cheshire VIEW
CLARKE, Harriett Daughter Single F 18 1893 Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, Florence Daughter Single F 16 1895 Apprentice Typewriters Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, Ada Daughter F 14 1897 School Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, George Henry Son M 11 1900 School Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, Elsie Daughter F 9 1902 School Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, Alfred Son M 6 1905 School Liverpool Lancashire VIEW
CLARKE, Margerita Daughter F 0 (1 MONTH) 1911 Seacombe Cheshire VIEW

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
22089 Reference:
RG14PN22089 RG78PN1310B RD452 SD3 ED37 SN11

Registration District:
Birkenhead Sub District:
Wallasey Enumeration District:
37 Parish:
Poulton cum Seacombe

Address:
Woodcroft Seacombe Prom Seacombe Birkenhead County:
Cheshire

It may be coincidence but there is evidence of a Florence Clarke b1895 Liverpool and an Elsie Clarke c1903 Liverpool, Last UK residence Wallasey travelling to New York in 1930. Florence had been to NY previously in 1928. May be they were Marguerita's sisters.






*Karen*

*Karen* Report 22 Jul 2010 00:12

Anyone help with passenger list leaving New York My mother told me that my Step Grandmother Marguerita Clarke was American I have since discovered she was born in 1911 in Wallasey Cheshire UK she did travell to NY several times the first I can find

September 12th 1936 traveling with sister ada clarke

september 6th 1956 now married and named Maclachlan but traveling alone

september 5th 1957

april 30th 1959


any help why she was there? how long she stayed?