CLARKE, Welham
Welham Clarke was born around 1764, eldest son of John Clarke and his wife Elizabeth née Welham of Henstead, Suffolk. Like his younger brother Charles (1767-1835), a merchant seaman and, as a bachelor, he married at St Andrew's Church, Gorleston with Southtown, then in Suffolk on 27 December 1804, Susanna Plowman (1770-1829), a spinster of Bungay, Suffolk, daughter of John Bellamy Plowman, they at least one son Robert Welham Clarke (1 May 1807-24 September 1867). Welham's wife Susanna died at Ipswich on 26 October 1829 and in 1841 Welham was living in St Clement's, Fore Street, Ipswich with a 35-year-old Hannah Clarke. Prominent in local and maritime affairs and 'when not at sea a painter in watercolour'. Welham Clarke died at St Clement's Parish, Ipswich on 13 January 1848 and was buried at St Mary's Church, Henstead, Suffolk on 20 January 1848, aged 84.