Daughter of Samuel Clarke and Catharine Smith
Married Adam Fletcher, 6 February 1832, Flimby, Cumberland, England. He died 20 July 1854, Nebo, Mahoning, Ohio.
Children - Catharine Fletcher, Isaac Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, Samuel Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, John Fletcher, Jane Fletcher, Margaret A. Fletcher, Mary Ann Fletcher
Sketch - Cumberland County, located in northern England’s beautiful Lake District, has been the home and birthplace of many of our ancestors. Midway between Saint Bee’s on the Cumberland coast and Ennerdall Lake which lies amid the most westerly summits of the Cumbrian hills is Cleator Parish. From either of these beautiful and popular resorts Cleator can be reached by a pedestrian in about an hour. In the Cleator Parish church records of 1814 we find this entry regarding a baptism: “October 22: Adam, son of Isaac and Jane Fletcher, Jacktrees, Cartwright.” Jacktrees was a very small farm. It was described in July 1782, as follows:
“To be let—a small, compact estate, situated at Jacktrees, in the Parish of Cleator, consisting of about ten acres of arable meadow and pasture ground, also a neat and convenient dwelling house, and suitable out-offices.”
Apparently Isaac and Jane Fletcher didn’t stay at Jacktrees very long as two years later an entry regarding the birth of their daughter Margaret appears in the St. James Parish register in Whitehaven and their place of residence is given as Scotch Street.
The next entry we find in the records is at Cleator, November 19, 1816: “Burial: Isaac Fletcher of Whitehaven, age 25.” So we see that Adam and Margaret lost their father at a very young age.
Soon afterwards their mother, Jane Williamson Fletcher married again to a man by the name of John Simpson. Some time later the family left Cleator and moved somewhere in the neighborhood of Maryport which is located to the north of Cleator.
When he was in his teens Adam found work as a farm laborer on a farm in Flimby Parish and there he met and fell in love and married Ann Clarke, a girl who was also helping at the same farm. He was 18 at this time and they were married 6 Feb 1832.
Ann Clark was the daughter of Samuel and Catherine Smith Clark, and she had been born at Newton, Newton-on-Ayr Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland, October 3. 1812. She was the oldest child in her family also, and as her father enlisted shortly after her birth in the 27th Innskilling Regiment at Ayr, and her mother spent a great deal of the time with him while he was in the service, Ann lived with an uncle during much of the first five years of her life. She later had three sisters, Sarah, Mary Hannah, and Charlotte, and a brother, Samuel, and the family went to live at Standingstone in Great Broughton, which is also near Maryport.
Adam and Ann Clark Fletcher were the parents of nine children; Catherine and Isaac whose birthplace was Moorside, Dearham Parish, in Cumberland and Adam (who died at the age of two months), Samuel, and a second Adam, John, Jane, Margaret and Mary Ann, who were born at Harker Lodge, Bridekirk Parish, Cumberland.
Around the year 1836, Adam inherited some money and with it bought some land on which he built a six-room house. This is the home mentioned above, Harker Lodge. It was located about three miles from Maryport. This was their home for about sixteen years.
After Adam and Ann’s marriage, they left the farm and Adam was able to secure employment at a mine as an engineer. He worked for this company for twenty years. Later some of the boys also worked in the mine.
As the children became older, there was little for them to do at Bridekirk, and the possibility of them becoming scattered greatly increased. Therefore, it was decided they would sell Harker Lodge and immigrate to America. There they intended to go west, take up land, build a home, and keep the children together.
In the spring of 1854, they sold Harker Lodge and on May 31, set sail from Liverpool, landing at Quebec, Canada, July 7, 1854. Traveling by way of Montreal and Buffalo, they left for Mount Nebo, Ohio, arriving there a week later.
The family stayed at Mount Nebo until the fall of 1855 when they moved to Mason City, Mason County, Virginia. There the older boys found work in the mines and a temporary home was established.
Seven children, three boys and four girls, survived childhood and accompanied their parents to America.
In 1859, five years after the death of his father Samuel joined the LDS Church and came to Utah driving a team of oxen and bringing a load of merchandise in the Church Wagon Train. He married (1) Jeanette Johnston and (2) Elizabeth Shaw. Many of his descendants live in and about the Utah area. However, some others are scattered about the west in Montana, California, Arizona, etc.
Another son of Adam, Isaac Fletcher, became a coal miner at New Haven, West Virginia and married Eleanor Robson. They later moved to Kewanee, Illinois, and later to Brimfield, Illinois, where Isaac died of typhoid fever in 1871. Ellen (Eleanor) Fletcher then moved her family back to Kewanee and later to Nebraska.
After Isaac and Ellen’s (Eleanor’s) children grew up and married, they became a much-scattered family. Many of the family lived at various places in the east but Robert Robson Fletcher came west and lived at Park City, Utah. The descendants of that family may be found living in Utah and other scattered places.
Ann Clarke Fletcher, Adam’s widow, married again to a man by the name of James Robinson and had a daughter, Elizabeth, by him. However, in 1863, Ann came west, bringing her daughters Jane, Margaret, Mary Ann and Elizabeth with her. Her daughter Catherine remarried after the death of her husband—a Mr. Jones—but I have no further information about.
There was one other of Adam and Ann’s children, Adam. I have no further information on him except to say that he married Mary Reese and that he was the father of seven children. I do not know where his descendants live.
Ann Clark passed away on July 27, 1882, at the age of 70 and is buried in the Coalville Cemetery at Coalville, Summit County, Utah on the old Fletcher lot.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1863; Age at Departure: 51
Married Adam Fletcher, 6 February 1832, Flimby, Cumberland, England. He died 20 July 1854, Nebo, Mahoning, Ohio.
Children - Catharine Fletcher, Isaac Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, Samuel Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, John Fletcher, Jane Fletcher, Margaret A. Fletcher, Mary Ann Fletcher
Sketch - Cumberland County, located in northern England’s beautiful Lake District, has been the home and birthplace of many of our ancestors. Midway between Saint Bee’s on the Cumberland coast and Ennerdall Lake which lies amid the most westerly summits of the Cumbrian hills is Cleator Parish. From either of these beautiful and popular resorts Cleator can be reached by a pedestrian in about an hour. In the Cleator Parish church records of 1814 we find this entry regarding a baptism: “October 22: Adam, son of Isaac and Jane Fletcher, Jacktrees, Cartwright.” Jacktrees was a very small farm. It was described in July 1782, as follows:
“To be let—a small, compact estate, situated at Jacktrees, in the Parish of Cleator, consisting of about ten acres of arable meadow and pasture ground, also a neat and convenient dwelling house, and suitable out-offices.”
Apparently Isaac and Jane Fletcher didn’t stay at Jacktrees very long as two years later an entry regarding the birth of their daughter Margaret appears in the St. James Parish register in Whitehaven and their place of residence is given as Scotch Street.
The next entry we find in the records is at Cleator, November 19, 1816: “Burial: Isaac Fletcher of Whitehaven, age 25.” So we see that Adam and Margaret lost their father at a very young age.
Soon afterwards their mother, Jane Williamson Fletcher married again to a man by the name of John Simpson. Some time later the family left Cleator and moved somewhere in the neighborhood of Maryport which is located to the north of Cleator.
When he was in his teens Adam found work as a farm laborer on a farm in Flimby Parish and there he met and fell in love and married Ann Clarke, a girl who was also helping at the same farm. He was 18 at this time and they were married 6 Feb 1832.
Ann Clark was the daughter of Samuel and Catherine Smith Clark, and she had been born at Newton, Newton-on-Ayr Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland, October 3. 1812. She was the oldest child in her family also, and as her father enlisted shortly after her birth in the 27th Innskilling Regiment at Ayr, and her mother spent a great deal of the time with him while he was in the service, Ann lived with an uncle during much of the first five years of her life. She later had three sisters, Sarah, Mary Hannah, and Charlotte, and a brother, Samuel, and the family went to live at Standingstone in Great Broughton, which is also near Maryport.
Adam and Ann Clark Fletcher were the parents of nine children; Catherine and Isaac whose birthplace was Moorside, Dearham Parish, in Cumberland and Adam (who died at the age of two months), Samuel, and a second Adam, John, Jane, Margaret and Mary Ann, who were born at Harker Lodge, Bridekirk Parish, Cumberland.
Around the year 1836, Adam inherited some money and with it bought some land on which he built a six-room house. This is the home mentioned above, Harker Lodge. It was located about three miles from Maryport. This was their home for about sixteen years.
After Adam and Ann’s marriage, they left the farm and Adam was able to secure employment at a mine as an engineer. He worked for this company for twenty years. Later some of the boys also worked in the mine.
As the children became older, there was little for them to do at Bridekirk, and the possibility of them becoming scattered greatly increased. Therefore, it was decided they would sell Harker Lodge and immigrate to America. There they intended to go west, take up land, build a home, and keep the children together.
In the spring of 1854, they sold Harker Lodge and on May 31, set sail from Liverpool, landing at Quebec, Canada, July 7, 1854. Traveling by way of Montreal and Buffalo, they left for Mount Nebo, Ohio, arriving there a week later.
The family stayed at Mount Nebo until the fall of 1855 when they moved to Mason City, Mason County, Virginia. There the older boys found work in the mines and a temporary home was established.
Seven children, three boys and four girls, survived childhood and accompanied their parents to America.
In 1859, five years after the death of his father Samuel joined the LDS Church and came to Utah driving a team of oxen and bringing a load of merchandise in the Church Wagon Train. He married (1) Jeanette Johnston and (2) Elizabeth Shaw. Many of his descendants live in and about the Utah area. However, some others are scattered about the west in Montana, California, Arizona, etc.
Another son of Adam, Isaac Fletcher, became a coal miner at New Haven, West Virginia and married Eleanor Robson. They later moved to Kewanee, Illinois, and later to Brimfield, Illinois, where Isaac died of typhoid fever in 1871. Ellen (Eleanor) Fletcher then moved her family back to Kewanee and later to Nebraska.
After Isaac and Ellen’s (Eleanor’s) children grew up and married, they became a much-scattered family. Many of the family lived at various places in the east but Robert Robson Fletcher came west and lived at Park City, Utah. The descendants of that family may be found living in Utah and other scattered places.
Ann Clarke Fletcher, Adam’s widow, married again to a man by the name of James Robinson and had a daughter, Elizabeth, by him. However, in 1863, Ann came west, bringing her daughters Jane, Margaret, Mary Ann and Elizabeth with her. Her daughter Catherine remarried after the death of her husband—a Mr. Jones—but I have no further information about.
There was one other of Adam and Ann’s children, Adam. I have no further information on him except to say that he married Mary Reese and that he was the father of seven children. I do not know where his descendants live.
Ann Clark passed away on July 27, 1882, at the age of 70 and is buried in the Coalville Cemetery at Coalville, Summit County, Utah on the old Fletcher lot.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1863; Age at Departure: 51
Daughter of Samuel Clarke and Catharine Smith
Married Adam Fletcher, 6 February 1832, Flimby, Cumberland, England. He died 20 July 1854, Nebo, Mahoning, Ohio.
Children - Catharine Fletcher, Isaac Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, Samuel Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, John Fletcher, Jane Fletcher, Margaret A. Fletcher, Mary Ann Fletcher
Sketch - Cumberland County, located in northern England’s beautiful Lake District, has been the home and birthplace of many of our ancestors. Midway between Saint Bee’s on the Cumberland coast and Ennerdall Lake which lies amid the most westerly summits of the Cumbrian hills is Cleator Parish. From either of these beautiful and popular resorts Cleator can be reached by a pedestrian in about an hour. In the Cleator Parish church records of 1814 we find this entry regarding a baptism: “October 22: Adam, son of Isaac and Jane Fletcher, Jacktrees, Cartwright.” Jacktrees was a very small farm. It was described in July 1782, as follows:
“To be let—a small, compact estate, situated at Jacktrees, in the Parish of Cleator, consisting of about ten acres of arable meadow and pasture ground, also a neat and convenient dwelling house, and suitable out-offices.”
Apparently Isaac and Jane Fletcher didn’t stay at Jacktrees very long as two years later an entry regarding the birth of their daughter Margaret appears in the St. James Parish register in Whitehaven and their place of residence is given as Scotch Street.
The next entry we find in the records is at Cleator, November 19, 1816: “Burial: Isaac Fletcher of Whitehaven, age 25.” So we see that Adam and Margaret lost their father at a very young age.
Soon afterwards their mother, Jane Williamson Fletcher married again to a man by the name of John Simpson. Some time later the family left Cleator and moved somewhere in the neighborhood of Maryport which is located to the north of Cleator.
When he was in his teens Adam found work as a farm laborer on a farm in Flimby Parish and there he met and fell in love and married Ann Clarke, a girl who was also helping at the same farm. He was 18 at this time and they were married 6 Feb 1832.
Ann Clark was the daughter of Samuel and Catherine Smith Clark, and she had been born at Newton, Newton-on-Ayr Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland, October 3. 1812. She was the oldest child in her family also, and as her father enlisted shortly after her birth in the 27th Innskilling Regiment at Ayr, and her mother spent a great deal of the time with him while he was in the service, Ann lived with an uncle during much of the first five years of her life. She later had three sisters, Sarah, Mary Hannah, and Charlotte, and a brother, Samuel, and the family went to live at Standingstone in Great Broughton, which is also near Maryport.
Adam and Ann Clark Fletcher were the parents of nine children; Catherine and Isaac whose birthplace was Moorside, Dearham Parish, in Cumberland and Adam (who died at the age of two months), Samuel, and a second Adam, John, Jane, Margaret and Mary Ann, who were born at Harker Lodge, Bridekirk Parish, Cumberland.
Around the year 1836, Adam inherited some money and with it bought some land on which he built a six-room house. This is the home mentioned above, Harker Lodge. It was located about three miles from Maryport. This was their home for about sixteen years.
After Adam and Ann’s marriage, they left the farm and Adam was able to secure employment at a mine as an engineer. He worked for this company for twenty years. Later some of the boys also worked in the mine.
As the children became older, there was little for them to do at Bridekirk, and the possibility of them becoming scattered greatly increased. Therefore, it was decided they would sell Harker Lodge and immigrate to America. There they intended to go west, take up land, build a home, and keep the children together.
In the spring of 1854, they sold Harker Lodge and on May 31, set sail from Liverpool, landing at Quebec, Canada, July 7, 1854. Traveling by way of Montreal and Buffalo, they left for Mount Nebo, Ohio, arriving there a week later.
The family stayed at Mount Nebo until the fall of 1855 when they moved to Mason City, Mason County, Virginia. There the older boys found work in the mines and a temporary home was established.
Seven children, three boys and four girls, survived childhood and accompanied their parents to America.
In 1859, five years after the death of his father Samuel joined the LDS Church and came to Utah driving a team of oxen and bringing a load of merchandise in the Church Wagon Train. He married (1) Jeanette Johnston and (2) Elizabeth Shaw. Many of his descendants live in and about the Utah area. However, some others are scattered about the west in Montana, California, Arizona, etc.
Another son of Adam, Isaac Fletcher, became a coal miner at New Haven, West Virginia and married Eleanor Robson. They later moved to Kewanee, Illinois, and later to Brimfield, Illinois, where Isaac died of typhoid fever in 1871. Ellen (Eleanor) Fletcher then moved her family back to Kewanee and later to Nebraska.
After Isaac and Ellen’s (Eleanor’s) children grew up and married, they became a much-scattered family. Many of the family lived at various places in the east but Robert Robson Fletcher came west and lived at Park City, Utah. The descendants of that family may be found living in Utah and other scattered places.
Ann Clarke Fletcher, Adam’s widow, married again to a man by the name of James Robinson and had a daughter, Elizabeth, by him. However, in 1863, Ann came west, bringing her daughters Jane, Margaret, Mary Ann and Elizabeth with her. Her daughter Catherine remarried after the death of her husband—a Mr. Jones—but I have no further information about.
There was one other of Adam and Ann’s children, Adam. I have no further information on him except to say that he married Mary Reese and that he was the father of seven children. I do not know where his descendants live.
Ann Clark passed away on July 27, 1882, at the age of 70 and is buried in the Coalville Cemetery at Coalville, Summit County, Utah on the old Fletcher lot.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1863; Age at Departure: 51
Married Adam Fletcher, 6 February 1832, Flimby, Cumberland, England. He died 20 July 1854, Nebo, Mahoning, Ohio.
Children - Catharine Fletcher, Isaac Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, Samuel Fletcher, Adam Fletcher, John Fletcher, Jane Fletcher, Margaret A. Fletcher, Mary Ann Fletcher
Sketch - Cumberland County, located in northern England’s beautiful Lake District, has been the home and birthplace of many of our ancestors. Midway between Saint Bee’s on the Cumberland coast and Ennerdall Lake which lies amid the most westerly summits of the Cumbrian hills is Cleator Parish. From either of these beautiful and popular resorts Cleator can be reached by a pedestrian in about an hour. In the Cleator Parish church records of 1814 we find this entry regarding a baptism: “October 22: Adam, son of Isaac and Jane Fletcher, Jacktrees, Cartwright.” Jacktrees was a very small farm. It was described in July 1782, as follows:
“To be let—a small, compact estate, situated at Jacktrees, in the Parish of Cleator, consisting of about ten acres of arable meadow and pasture ground, also a neat and convenient dwelling house, and suitable out-offices.”
Apparently Isaac and Jane Fletcher didn’t stay at Jacktrees very long as two years later an entry regarding the birth of their daughter Margaret appears in the St. James Parish register in Whitehaven and their place of residence is given as Scotch Street.
The next entry we find in the records is at Cleator, November 19, 1816: “Burial: Isaac Fletcher of Whitehaven, age 25.” So we see that Adam and Margaret lost their father at a very young age.
Soon afterwards their mother, Jane Williamson Fletcher married again to a man by the name of John Simpson. Some time later the family left Cleator and moved somewhere in the neighborhood of Maryport which is located to the north of Cleator.
When he was in his teens Adam found work as a farm laborer on a farm in Flimby Parish and there he met and fell in love and married Ann Clarke, a girl who was also helping at the same farm. He was 18 at this time and they were married 6 Feb 1832.
Ann Clark was the daughter of Samuel and Catherine Smith Clark, and she had been born at Newton, Newton-on-Ayr Parish in Ayrshire, Scotland, October 3. 1812. She was the oldest child in her family also, and as her father enlisted shortly after her birth in the 27th Innskilling Regiment at Ayr, and her mother spent a great deal of the time with him while he was in the service, Ann lived with an uncle during much of the first five years of her life. She later had three sisters, Sarah, Mary Hannah, and Charlotte, and a brother, Samuel, and the family went to live at Standingstone in Great Broughton, which is also near Maryport.
Adam and Ann Clark Fletcher were the parents of nine children; Catherine and Isaac whose birthplace was Moorside, Dearham Parish, in Cumberland and Adam (who died at the age of two months), Samuel, and a second Adam, John, Jane, Margaret and Mary Ann, who were born at Harker Lodge, Bridekirk Parish, Cumberland.
Around the year 1836, Adam inherited some money and with it bought some land on which he built a six-room house. This is the home mentioned above, Harker Lodge. It was located about three miles from Maryport. This was their home for about sixteen years.
After Adam and Ann’s marriage, they left the farm and Adam was able to secure employment at a mine as an engineer. He worked for this company for twenty years. Later some of the boys also worked in the mine.
As the children became older, there was little for them to do at Bridekirk, and the possibility of them becoming scattered greatly increased. Therefore, it was decided they would sell Harker Lodge and immigrate to America. There they intended to go west, take up land, build a home, and keep the children together.
In the spring of 1854, they sold Harker Lodge and on May 31, set sail from Liverpool, landing at Quebec, Canada, July 7, 1854. Traveling by way of Montreal and Buffalo, they left for Mount Nebo, Ohio, arriving there a week later.
The family stayed at Mount Nebo until the fall of 1855 when they moved to Mason City, Mason County, Virginia. There the older boys found work in the mines and a temporary home was established.
Seven children, three boys and four girls, survived childhood and accompanied their parents to America.
In 1859, five years after the death of his father Samuel joined the LDS Church and came to Utah driving a team of oxen and bringing a load of merchandise in the Church Wagon Train. He married (1) Jeanette Johnston and (2) Elizabeth Shaw. Many of his descendants live in and about the Utah area. However, some others are scattered about the west in Montana, California, Arizona, etc.
Another son of Adam, Isaac Fletcher, became a coal miner at New Haven, West Virginia and married Eleanor Robson. They later moved to Kewanee, Illinois, and later to Brimfield, Illinois, where Isaac died of typhoid fever in 1871. Ellen (Eleanor) Fletcher then moved her family back to Kewanee and later to Nebraska.
After Isaac and Ellen’s (Eleanor’s) children grew up and married, they became a much-scattered family. Many of the family lived at various places in the east but Robert Robson Fletcher came west and lived at Park City, Utah. The descendants of that family may be found living in Utah and other scattered places.
Ann Clarke Fletcher, Adam’s widow, married again to a man by the name of James Robinson and had a daughter, Elizabeth, by him. However, in 1863, Ann came west, bringing her daughters Jane, Margaret, Mary Ann and Elizabeth with her. Her daughter Catherine remarried after the death of her husband—a Mr. Jones—but I have no further information about.
There was one other of Adam and Ann’s children, Adam. I have no further information on him except to say that he married Mary Reese and that he was the father of seven children. I do not know where his descendants live.
Ann Clark passed away on July 27, 1882, at the age of 70 and is buried in the Coalville Cemetery at Coalville, Summit County, Utah on the old Fletcher lot.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1863; Age at Departure: 51
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