CLARKE, Katie Marie
Katie Marie Clarke was baptised at Dulverton, Somerset on 13 December 1853, daughter of Isaac Clarke (c1826-18 December 1915), a substantial draper at 15 High Street, Dulverton, Somerset, and his wife Elizabeth née Giles (13 March 1825-1888), Kate was an older sister to Edith Annie Clarke. In 1861, Katie was a 7-year-old, living at 13 Market Place, Penzance, Cornwall with her parents, 35-year-old Isaac, a draper employing fifteen assistants, and his 36-year-old wife Elizabeth, both born at Dulverton, together with her four siblings Edith Annie, Margaret Elizabeth 9, Frederick Giles 2 and newly born Frank, and they retained a governess and three indoor servants. In 1883 she was living with her brother Frederick Giles Clarke, a soda & cordial manufacturer of Talbot & Co., and his wife Bessie at 62 London Road, Ipswich, when Katie exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Club three items 'China Vase', 'Motto Plate' and another. Katie Marie Clarke died in 1885, aged 32 and buried at Homersfield, Suffolk on 14 September 1885.