Thomasine Roberts, 1890-1964

Contents

Thomasine (Roberts) Clarke with infant, probably Gregory Clarke.

→ Birth

→ Education

→ Career

→ Marriage

→ Children

→ Death

Birth

Thomasine Roberts was born on 24^th May 1890 in Perranporth, Cornwall, the daughter of William Roberts, a mining 'captain', and his wife Annie Matilda Roberts née Stephens.

Education

Thomasine Roberts was said to have been educated partly in Truro. The High School there was founded in the late nineteenth century when its intake was primarily female.

Career

Thomasine left Perranporth, apparently without her father's approval, to train in Westminster as a short-hand typist. During this period she lived in shared accommodation at the newly-built Hopkinson House Ladies Club. By 1915 she was employed by the London and Counties Bank in Westminster, whose customers included Alexander South Clarke: her future husband.

Marriage

Thomasine Roberts was married at the church of St. Mary in Westminster (closed 1923) on 18^th September 1920 to Alexander South Clarke - a motor mechanic, the son of Richard John Clarke, deceased, a former civil servant. Witnesses present were Elizabeth Anne Clarke, his mother, William Welham Clarke, brother of Alexander, and Norma Thomas, née Roberts, the sister of Thomasine.

Children

→ Richard Gregory (1923)

→ Frances April Anne (1927)

Death

Thomasine Clarke died on 18^th May 1964 at Warlingham Park Hospital, in South London from circulatory failure.

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