Birth
Anne Browne was born 9th February 1794 in
Hassingham, Norfolk, the oldest child of Alexander Browne
and his wife Elizabeth. Family legend claims descent from the Brouns of Colstoun in
Wiltshire.
Marriage
At Cringleford on 21st September 1820 Anne married Charles Clarke of Hulver Hill in Henstead near Beccles in Suffolk.
Abstract of marriage settlement of Anne Clarke née Browne.
Transcription by A. S. Clarke, grandson of Anne Browne:
This indenture of three parts made the 19th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Between Charles Clarke the younger of Henstead in the County of Suffolk Batchelor of Arts Scholar of Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge on the first part Anne Browne of Cringleford in the county of Norfolk spinster of the second part and William Unthank of Heigham in the County of the City of Norwich gentleman John Johnson Tuck of Witton in the said county of Norfolk gentleman Alfred Inigo Fox of Mettingham in the said County of Suffolk clerk and William Creasy Ewing of Cringleford in the said county of Norfolk gentleman of the third part whereas a Marriage is intended shortly to be solemnized between the said Charles Clarke and Anne Browne And whereas the said Anne Browne is possessed of Four Thousand Pounds part of the capital or joint stock of Navy 5 per centum annuities … and by virtue of a codicil to the last will and testament of Alexander Browne gentleman her late father deceased bearing date 26th May 1818 she is entitled to the
sum of £500 payable to her after the death of Elizabeth Browne widow her mother and which is thereby charged on the Rectory impropiate of Ilketshall St Andrew in the said County of Suffolk … the said Anne Browne is also possessed of other personal estate of the value of £1500 … and whereas by virtue of the last Will and Testament of Anne Neave bearing date 27th of June 1799 the said Charles Clarke is entitled to the sum of £900 … and to the sum of £500 both to become payable after the death of Anne Clarke his mother … also to £2100 by virtue of the last will and testament of Nathaniel Knights bearing date 12th of October 1794 and by virtue of a certain Indenture bearing date 24th of June 1803 between William Brown gentlemen of the first part Charles Clarke Shipmaster and Anne his wife of the second part and Richard Dreyer Clerk Thomas Baker Clerk and Samuel Clarke Gentleman of the third part … the above mentioned sums to form a trust fund or marriage settlement for Anne Clarke, wife of Charles Clarke the younger.
Note: In 1942 A.S. Clarke's transcription ended at this point after a Luftwaffe bomb fell on his automobile servicing premises. Indeed, this marked the end of his project to write a comprehensive account of the Clarke family history. It was never completed.
Death
Date of death: 25 Mar 1873 Where died: Bergh Apton, Norfolk Given name: Anne Surname: Clarke Age: 79 Address: Beccles, Suffolk Informant - Name: J. South Clarke Qualification: - Address: Eyke, Suffolk Cause: Anasarca, Hydrothorax Certificate - When Registered: Q1 1873 Where registered: Loddon Volume: 04b Page: 149
Will of Anne Clarke
This is the last Will and Testament of me
Anne Clarke late of Beccles in the County of
Suffolk and now
residing at Bergh Apton in the County of Norfolk, Widow. I
appoint
my sons James South Clarke William Welham Clarke and
Richard John
Clarke
Executors of this my Will. Whereas under or by virtue of
an Indenture dated the nineteenth day of September one thousand
eight hundred and twenty and made between my late husband
The
Reverend Charles Clarke of the first part, myself by my
then name of
Anne Browne of the second part and
William Unthank, John Johnson Tuck
Alfred Inigo Suckling and William Creasy Ewing of the
third part
(being the settlement made previously to my marriage with my
said
late husband) the Trust monies stocks funds and securities
therein
comprised are held by the Trustees thereof Upon Trust after my
decease
for the benefit of or to pay and divide the same unto the only
or all or
such one or more of the Children of my said late Husband and
myself
or unto all or such one or more of the lawful issue born in our
lifetime
or the lifetime of the survivor of us of our only child or of
all or any of
our Children or both unto such only or all or such one or more
of our
said Children and all and every or such one or more of the
lawful issue
born as aforesaid of our only Child or of all or any of our
Children at
such an age or ages time or times in such parts shares and
proportions manner
and form and with under and subject to such conditions charges
instructions
or limitations over (provided the same were to or in favor of
some or
one of the objects of the said power) as my late Husband and I
by deed or
as a survivor of us by any deed or by Will in writing or any
other writing purporting to be or being in the nature of the
Will of the
survivor of us to be by such survivor signed and published in
the
presence of and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses
shall
direct or appoint And whereas on the marriage of my daughter
Augusta
Emily Barber I as the survivor of my said late Husband
appointed
to her the sum of one thousand pounds Sterling part of the said
Trust monies stocks funds and securities comprised in the said
Indenture
of Settlement. Now I as the survivor as aforesaid of my said
late
Husband do by this my last Will and Testament and by virtue of
the power or authority given to me as such survivor of my said
late Husband by the said Indenture of Settlement and of every
other power
and authority enabling me in this behalf give and bequeath and
also direct
and appoint that the residue and reminder of the said Trust
monies stocks
funds and securities after payment and satisfaction thereout of
the said sum
of One thousand pounds Sterling so already appointed by me as
aforesaid shall
be paid divided and applied by the Trustees and Trustee for the
time
being of the said Settlement in manner following, that is to
say, that
the sum of Five hundred pounds Sterling part thereof to be paid
on
my death to my daughter Maria Louisa Gillett that the sum
of One thousand pounds Sterling further part thereof be also
on
my death paid to my daughter Caroline Honor
Clarke that One
thousand pounds Sterling further
part thereof be on my death retained
and held by the said Trustees and Trustee of the said Indenture
of
Settlement Upon Trust to invest or continue the same invested on
such stocks funds and securities as provided by the said
Indenture of
Settlement for the Investment of the said trust monies had
thereunder and
if and in case my said daughter Caroline
Honor Clarke shall be living
at my decease and shall then be single and a Spinster Upon Trust
to pay the interest dividends and annual produce of the said
last
mentioned sum of One thousand pounds and of the Securities
Stocks
and funds on which the same shall be invested unto her my said
daughter Caroline Honor Clarke
during her life if she shall so long
continue unmarried and at the decease or marriage which shall
first happen of my said daughter
Caroline Honor Clarke or if she
shall not be living at my decease or shall not then be single
and a
Spinster then on my decease Upon Trust to pay and divide the
said
last mention some of One thousand pounds and the Stocks funds
and securities in which the same shall be invested unto the
Child
or Children of my late son Alexander
Browne Clarke who shall be
living at my death and who shall then have attained or shall
afterwards attain the age of twenty one years to be equally
divided between
them if more than one and as to the remainder of the said trust
monies stocks funds and securities comprised in the said
Indenture
of Settlement including the said last mentioned sum of One
thousand
pounds and the Stocks funds and securities in which the same
shall be invested in case there shall not be any child of my
said late
son Alexander Browne Clarke living at
my death or none who shall
then have attained or shall afterwards attain the age of twenty
one
years (but subject and without prejudice to the prior interest
therein)
I direct and appoint that the same shall on my decease be paid
and
divided in equal shares and proportions unto between and amongst
my Children said James South Clarke,
Mary Anne Smyth,
the said Caroline Honor Clarke,
Augusta Emily Barber,
Maria Louisa
Gillett, and William Welham
Clarke, Edward Knights Clarke and the
said Richard John Clarke I give and
bequeath to my said daughter
Caroline Honor Clarke if and in case
she shall be unmarried and a
Spinster at my death a sum of One hundred and fifty pounds
and I give and bequeath to my said sons James South Clarke William
Welham Clarke and Richard John
Clarke the sum of One thousand and
and five hundred pounds And I direct the said said several
Legacies or
such of them as shall become payable to be paid within six
calendar
months after my decease And I declare that the said James South Clarke
William Welham Clarke and Richard John Clarke shall stand and
be possessed of the said sum of One thousand and and five
hundred pounds
hereinbefore bequeathed to them Upon Trust that they or the
survivors
or survivor of them his executors or administrators do pay the
same unto
all and every the child and Children of my late deceased son
Charles
Francis Clarke who shall be living at my decease and who shall
then
have attained or shall afterwards attain the age of twenty one
years
to be equally divided between them if more than one and if but
one
then unto that one child absolutely. And in case all or any of
the
said Children of my said late son Charles
Francis Clarke shall
be under the said age at my death then Upon Trust that they are
said
James South Clarke William William Clarke and Richard John
Clarke and the survivors
and survivor of them his executors and
administrators do lay out and invest in their or his names or
name
of the said sum of One thousand and and five hundred pounds or
the share
or shares thereof to which such minor Child or Children
respectively shall be
presumptively entitled in any of the Stocks or funds of this
Kingdom to be from
time to time transferred for others of like nature as occasion
may require
and do until such child or Children so under age as aforesaid
shall
respectively attain the age of twenty one years or previously
die receive the
dividends and annual produce of the said stocks and funds and
invest the
same dividends and annual produce in such stocks or funds as the
aforesaid
and repeat such receipts and investments as aforesaid so that
such dividends
and annual produce and resulting dividends and annual produce
may
accumulate in the nature of compound interest and I declare that
such
dividends and annual produce and resulting dividends and annual
produce
and all accumulations of the same and the Stocks and funds in
which
the same shall be invested shall go along and be payable and
transferable with the Capital or share or accruing share from
which the
same shall arise to the person or persons who under or by virtue
of the
Trusts aforesaid shall become entitled to such capital or share
All the
remainder of my personal Estate after payment of my debts my
funeral and
testamentary expenses and the pecuniary legacies hereinbefore
bequeathed or such
of them as shall become payable including the said Trust Legacy
of One
thousand and five hundred pounds and the stocks and funds in
which
the same shall be invested and the dividends and income and
resulting
dividends and income thereof at all accumulations of the same
and of
the stocks and funds in which the same shall be invested in case
none
of the Children of my said late son Charles
Francis Clarke shall at
my death have obtained or shall afterwards obtain the age of
twenty one
years I give and bequeath unto and equally to be divided between
my said
Children James South Clarke, Mary Anne Smyth, Caroline Honor Clarke,
Augusta Emily Barber, Maria Louisa Gillett
, William Welham
Clarke,
Edward Knights Clarke and Richard John Clarke and I do hereby
expressly declare that all advances made by me to or for any of
my
said Children or of my late Children and for which I shall
not
have taken and at my death hold any of the note of hand or
other
security were intended by me and shall be considered as having
been
gifts and I direct that no claim be made by my said executors or
any other person or persons in respect of the same. I give and
devise
all real Estates in which I have any beneficial interest unto my
said son James South Clarke his heirs
and assigns And I give and
devise to my said Son James South
Clarke all estates if any vested
in me as a Trustee or Mortgagee to hold the same to my said Son
his heirs and assigns upon the Trusts and for the purposes for
which
the same were held by me In witness whereof I the said Anne Clarke
the Testatrix have to this my last Will and Testament set my
hand this
twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight
hundred and seventy.
Signed by the said Anne Clarke the
Testatrix as and for her last Will and
Testament in the presence of us present
at the same time together with her who
in the presence of each other have subscribed our
names as witness hereto.
J. M. Robberds Solicitor Norwich
R. J. Wilkins his Clerk
Proved at Norwich, the eighteenth day of
April 1873, by the oath of James South
Clarke,
the son, one of the Executors, to whom administration
was granted. Power reserved of making the like
grant to William Welham Clarke and
Richard
John Clarke the sons also, the other executors.
The Testatrix Anne Clarke Clarke was
late of Bergh Apton in the
County of Norfolk Widow and died on the twenty fifth day of
March 1873 at Bergh Apton aforesaid.
Under £6000. No leaseholds. Messrs Fosters Burroughs & Robberds,
Solicitors Norwich.
Certified to be a correct copy
Double probate at Norwich August 1874.